Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry

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Family values have always been at the heart of the LEGO Group, which is still headquartered in Billund, Denmark, where Ole started making his first toys. To this day, it is still owned by Ole’s family with grandson Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen recently passing the helm to his own son, Thomas Kirk Kristiansen. The tight link between autonomy and accountability reduces the need for motivation-sapping interventions from upper management." This book is about the history of Lego and how they first became famous and successful, but it mostly is about the business decisions that lead to their near-collapse, and what the company did to turn itself around. This means this book has a lot of interesting parts about the company itself and the philosophy that drives it. It also has some long and astute observations about business decisions that are analyzed in how they can affect a company, and how they actually worked out for the company in question. Talks about Lego, which emerged from Billund Denmark as one of the most loved toy companies in the world. Lego is still a privately held company(according to me a remarkable achievement till now)

Putting a survival plan ahead of a growth plan was challenging given that people were clamoring for the strategy - a road map for reviving profits and returning LEGO to the top of the toy industry. ... Right now, our mission is just to survive." People tell us they love this course, with over 60% saying their expectations were exceeded and 100% saying their expectations of the course were met. It goes through the main products that were launched and some details about their launch. Like Lego City, Lego Star Wars. LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group which does not sponsor, authorise, endorse or otherwise support this exhibition or related events. The LEGO Group does not accept responsibility for any unforeseen outcomes linked to this exhibition or related events. Unfortunately this is also where the book loses its impact. Maybe it is the fact that I am not an economist, but some of the analysis seems long-winded, overly-laudatory, and oddly contradictory in places. Some of the elements seem to come out of the blue with no explanation (e.g the first time we hear about the success of Bionicle is in the chapter about Bionicle). Sometimes economic jargon is used with no explanation whatsoever. This doesn't make the book unreadable, but it lost my interest about 3/4s in, when nothing really seemed to happen anymore, and I had to force myself to go on reading. I think the main problem is that while the topic of the book could be framed as an interesting story, after about the half-way point the author just seems to fill it with descriptions of how all those new and awesome product lines were developed.The exhibition comes with a set of gallery interactives which include: a LEGO® wall, two build tables at different heights and stools, two quizzes on magnetic boards, a set of three magnetic jigsaws, a LEGO Memories activity on a magnetic board, a set of LEGO books for a reading area, two LEGO maze tilt tables and a mini-figure safari. 48kg of loose LEGO is also provided for the LEGO wall and build tables. It can also be used for LEGO workshops and activities organised by the hiring venue. There is also a large scale LEGO mosaic activity available to hire for the duration of the exhibition and there may also be the possibility of borrowing two LEGO character costumes. You get to learn with our very own Dr. Gina Gomez de la Cuesta, Clinical Psychologist and author of the LEGO therapy manual and several research articles. Recreating iconic LEGO models to provide hours of fun and nostalgia for the family with the LEGO Classic 90 Years of Play with another celebratory set still to be revealed,

James Ame, who goes by the street name of Ame 72, is an English street and graffiti artist, now based in Israel. AME 72 is exhibiting 2 large scale canvases created especially for the exhibition, alongside six prints and an installation of his ‘Pop Cubes’. Agabag Discovered uncontested, "blue ocean" markets, even as it thrived in brutally competitive red oceans

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In the late 1980s LEGO introduced a system so that designers could work out the Full Cost of Manufacturing or FCM and thus work out how much each kit would cost but during the late 1990s designers were allowed to untether themselves from this metric and by 2003 this problem became so serious that it threatened the autonomy of the company.