2nd Edition

Digital Media and Innovation Management and Design Strategies in Communication

By Richard A. Gershon Copyright 2024
    300 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    300 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This fully updated second edition explores the importance of innovation and innovative thinking for the long-term success of today’s leading media, telecommunications, and information technology companies.

    The book takes an in-depth look at how smart, creative companies have transformed today's digital economy by introducing unique and highly differentiated products and services. This edition provides a detailed overview of intelligent networks and analyzes disruptive business models and processes from companies involved in social media, artificial intelligence, the metaverse, smart cities, and robotics among other emerging areas. From Apple to Zoom, this book considers some of the key people, companies, and strategies that have transformed the communication industries. Exploring the power of good ideas, this book goes inside the creative edge and looks at what makes such companies successful over time.

    Digital Media and Innovation is suited to advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in media management, media industries, communication technology, and business management and innovation, and provides up-to-date research for media and business professionals.

    About the Author

    Preface

    Acknowledgements

     

    1. Innovation and the Power of a Good Idea

    2. Business Model Innovation

    3. Product Innovation and Design

    4. Business Process Innovation

    5. The Digital Economy I. Information Search, Exchange and Interactivity

    6. The Digital Economy II. Personalization, Mobility, Virtual Communication and Convergence

    7. Artificial Intelligence

    8. Social Media and Digital Opinion Leadership

    9. The Diffusion of Innovation and Product Launch Strategy

    10 .Business and Innovation Failure: The Challenges of Reinvention

    11. Smart Cities - Smart Homes

    12. Digital News Reporting and the New Journalism              

    13. Creating a Culture of Innovation

     

    Index

    Biography

    Richard A. Gershon is Professor Emeritus in the School of Communication at Western Michigan University, USA.