TY - BOOK AU - Robertson,David C AU - Breen,Bill TI - Brick by brick: how LEGO rewrote the rules of innovation and conquered the global toy industry SN - 9781847941176 AV - HD9993.T694 L447 2013 U1 - 338.7/688725 23 PY - 2013///] CY - London PB - Random House Business KW - LEGO koncernen (Denmark) KW - Toy industry KW - Denmark KW - Management KW - LEGO toys KW - History KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: When the bricks click -- The seven truths of innovation and the LEGO Group's decline -- Mastering the seven truths of innovation and transforming LEGO N2 - In the 1990s, LEGO failed to keep pace with the revolutionary changes in kids' lives and began sliding into irrelevance. It took a new LEGO management team, faced with the growing rage for electronic toys, few barriers to entry, and ultra-demanding consumers, to reinvent the innovation rule book and transform LEGO into one of the world's most profitable, fastest-growing companies. Robertson reveals how LEGO looked beyond products and learned to leverage a full-spectrum approach to innovation ER -