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The Last Mile Dilip Soman

The Last Mile By Dilip Soman

The Last Mile by Dilip Soman


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The Last Mile helps lay readers not only to understand behavioral science, but to apply its lessons to their own organizations' last mile problems, whether they work in business, government, or the nonprofit sector.

The Last Mile Summary

The Last Mile: Creating Social and Economic Value from Behavioral Insights by Dilip Soman

Most organizations spend much of their effort on the start of the value creation process: namely, creating a strategy, developing new products or services, and analyzing the market. They pay a lot less attention to the end: the crucial last mile where consumers come to their website, store, or sales representatives and make a choice. In The Last Mile, Dilip Soman shows how to use insights from behavioral science in order to close that gap. Beginning with an introduction to the last mile problem and the concept of choice architecture, the book takes a deep dive into the psychology of choice, money, and time. It explains how to construct behavioral experiments and understand the data on preferences that they provide. Finally, it provides a range of practical tools with which to overcome common last mile difficulties. The Last Mile helps lay readers not only to understand behavioral science, but to apply its lessons to their own organizations' last mile problems, whether they work in business, government, or the nonprofit sector. Appealing to anyone who was fascinated by Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's Nudge, or Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow but was not sure how those insights could be practically applied, The Last Mile is full of solid, concrete advice on how to put the lessons of behavioral science to work.

About Dilip Soman

Dilip Soman is a professor and the Corus Chair in Communications Strategy at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. A behavioral scientist with a PhD from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, he is director of the University of Toronto's India Innovation Institute and the coordinator of the Behavioural Economics in Action research cluster.

Table of Contents

Introduction: At the Last Mile Part One. The Theory of the Last Mile: Principles and Ideas from the Behavioural Sciences 1. The Last Mile 2. Choice Architecture and Nudging 3. Choice 4. Money 5. Time 6. A Theory of Decision Points Part Two. The Methods of the Behavioural Scientist 7. Experiments and Trials 8. Understanding Preferences and Judgements Part Three. At the Last Mile: Engineering Behaviour Change 9. Choice Repair 10. Choice Architecture: A Process Approach 11. Decision Crutches 12. Disclosures 13. Retailing 14. The Last Mile of the Last Mile Appendix 1: A Glossary of Behavioural Phenomena and Nudging Concepts Appendix 2: Tools for the Choice Architect

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NLS9781487521820
9781487521820
1487521820
The Last Mile: Creating Social and Economic Value from Behavioral Insights by Dilip Soman
New
Paperback
University of Toronto Press
2017-07-14
296
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