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Appetite for Innovation: Creativity and Change at elBulli - M. Pilar Opazo
Appetite for Innovation: Creativity and Change at elBulli
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The name elBulli is synonymous with creativity and innovation. Located in Catalonia, Spain, the three-star Michelin restaurant led the world to "molecular" or "techno-emotional" cooking and made creations, such as pine-nut marshmallows, rose-scented mozzarella, liquid olives, and melon caviar,... show more
The name elBulli is synonymous with creativity and innovation. Located in Catalonia, Spain, the three-star Michelin restaurant led the world to "molecular" or "techno-emotional" cooking and made creations, such as pine-nut marshmallows, rose-scented mozzarella, liquid olives, and melon caviar, into sensational reality. People traveled from all over the world―if they could secure a reservation during its six months of operation―to experience the wonder that chef Ferran Adrià and his team concocted in their test kitchen, never offering the same dish twice. Yet elBulli's business model proved unsustainable. The restaurant converted to a foundation in 2011, and is working hard on its next revolution. Will elBulli continue to innovate? What must an organization do to create something new?Appetite for Innovation is an organizational analysis of elBulli and the nature of innovation. Pilar Opazo joined elBulli's inner circle as the restaurant transitioned from a for-profit business to its new organizational model. In this book, she compares this moment to the culture of change that first made elBulli famous, and then describes the novel forms of communication, idea mobilization, and embeddedness that continue to encourage the staff to focus and invent as a whole. She finds that the successful strategies employed by elBulli are similar to those required for innovation in art, music, business, and technology, proving the value of the elBulli model across organizations and industries.
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780231176781 (0231176783)
ASIN: 0231176783
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
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3.0 Appetite For Innovation
This definitely was an interesting read into the world of Elbulli, critically acclaimed to be the best/most original restaurant in the world. While I still have to eat these kind of experimental dishes myself, I really liked reading about it. I'm sure the book was well researched, but sometimes I ha...
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