Flipped: How Bottom-Up Co-Creation is Replacing Top-Down Innovation

Branding is done—in today's business and marketing world, it's all about bottom-up co-creation to ensure real marketing effectiveness and product success. John Winsor makes a powerful case that instead of focusing on traditional branding efforts, companies must learn to use co-creation tools to work from the bottom up to create new products, services, and marketing strategies in collaboration with their customers. Winsor takes readers deep into this new kind of customer-company relationship, providing useful case studies as well as practical step-by-step methods to engage these key voices in dialogues that fuel real innovation.

Branding is done — in today's business and marketing world, it's all about bottom-up co-creation to ensure real marketing effectiveness and product success. Marketing expert John Winsor makes a powerful case that instead of focusing on traditional branding efforts, companies must learn to use "co-creation" tools to work from the bottom up to create new products, services, and marketing strategies in collaboration with their customers. Today, it's all about getting out in the streets and spending time with the right customers, in their worlds, to create the essential foundations for breakthrough innovation. He takes readers deep into this new kind of customer-company relationship, providing useful case studies as well as practical step-by-step methods to engage these key voices in dialogues that fuel real innovation. Readers will learn how to develop a true bottom-up co-creation strategy and hone the intuition and inspiration that drive innovation.