Kintsugi: Fostering Innovation in Business through Creative Integration
Publisher,PRH SEA
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Format, Paperback
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No. of Pages, 316
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What if the future isn't built by tearing down, but by mending what already exists?
In Kintsugi: Fostering Innovation in Business Through Creative Integration, the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold becomes a powerful lens for rethinking growth. Instead of hiding cracks, Kintsugi highlights them by transforming fractures into strength. This book argues that the most enduring innovations today follow the same logic: not replacement, but reintegration.
Across Asia and beyond, companies like Grab, Gojek, Taobao Villages, CARSOME, and Tata 1mg are creatively stitching legacy systems together. By connecting fragmented ecosystems—drivers, merchants, communities, the digital platforms—they reveal a new model of value creation rooted in community, trust, and context.
The future will not belong to those who destroy the past faster. It will belong to those who know how to mend it.
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About the Author
Kohki Sakata is a strategy consultant, author, and business executive. He is a Partner at IGPI Group and Chief Executive Officer of IGPI Singapore, where he advises companies across Asia on strategy, innovation, transformation, and international expansion. Before joining IGPI, he worked at Capgemini, Coca-Cola, and Revamp Corporation. He is the author of several books on strategy, innovation, and management, including Architectural Thinking, Agile Work Techniques, Digital Frontier, Functional Expansion, Managerial Thinking Techniques to Avoid the Pitfalls of Management, and Designing Strategy. Sakata holds a bachelor's degree from Waseda University and an MBA from IE Business School.
Shivaji Das is a Singaporean author and business executive. He is the author of The Visible Invisibles, Rebels, Traitors, Peacemakers, The Great Lockdown, and The Other Shangri-La. He is the founder and director of the Global Migrant Festival and has organized migrant worker and refugee poetry contests across Asia and Africa. His writing has appeared in publications including the South China Morning Post, Think China, The Diplomat, and The Jakarta Post. Das is the Managing Director of IGPI Singapore and previously served as Managing Director, APAC, at Frost & Sullivan. He is a graduate of IIT Delhi and holds an MBA from IIM Calcutta.
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