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Trustworthy Innovation (Building Solutions Humans Can Believe In and Count On)
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Product Details
Author:
Kathryn Guarini
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
316
Publisher:
Ideapress Publishing (March 9, 2027)
Imprint:
Ideapress Publishing
Release Date:
March 9, 2027
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781646873326
ISBN-10:
1646873327
Weight:
16.82oz
Dimensions:
9" x 6"
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Eloquence-SimonSchuster_09302026_P10693599_onix30-20260930.xml
Folder:
Eloquence
List Price:
$28.95
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65
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10
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Overview
How great innovators earn trust from the start.
Every day, you depend on innovations without knowing whether they deserve your trust. You hand them your data and your money, and you rely on them for decisions about your health and safety. When they do deserve it, innovation takes off. When trust breaks, the damage spreads fast, and the blast radius is wide. A faulty software update grounds flights and shuts down hospitals. A medical device maker recalls millions of breathing machines. A genetic testing company goes from data breach to bankruptcy.
In Trustworthy Innovation, Kathryn Guarini offers a field-tested playbook for earning trust from the start. Guarini led global AI and cloud adoption as IBM’s Chief Information Officer, oversees technology from corporate boardrooms, and teaches innovation at Yale and Cornell Tech. She brings all three vantage points to a question that matters to anyone who builds, approves, or depends on technology: what makes a solution worthy of the trust it asks for?
Her answer rests on two findings that may surprise you. First, trust failures are predictable: they trace back to specific choices made early in design and development, long before launch. Second, the teams that build trust in early move faster, because they spend less time on firefighting, rework, recalls, and regulatory fallout.
At the center of the book is the TRUST Framework, five pillars every solution needs:
Every pillar matters, and strength in some can’t make up for the absence of another.
Each pillar comes with specific strategies and actions. You’ll learn from high-profile failures such as the Theranos fraud, the Boeing 737 MAX crashes, and the CrowdStrike IT outage, and from proven practices such as Netflix’s chaos engineering, Apple’s built-in encryption, and Siemens’s self-healing manufacturing. Each chapter ends with steps you can take this week, this month, and this quarter, and 55 original figures make the ideas easy to grasp, share, and apply.
The book then moves from product design to leadership: how to build a trust-first culture, measure trust before it's too late to act, lead through crises so your organization comes out stronger, and make the business case, backed by original research showing that companies with higher trust scores tend to deliver stronger shareholder returns.
Whether you build technology, decide what gets funded and approved, or choose which products to let into your life, Trustworthy Innovation gives you a shared language and a practical playbook for innovation you can trust
Every day, you depend on innovations without knowing whether they deserve your trust. You hand them your data and your money, and you rely on them for decisions about your health and safety. When they do deserve it, innovation takes off. When trust breaks, the damage spreads fast, and the blast radius is wide. A faulty software update grounds flights and shuts down hospitals. A medical device maker recalls millions of breathing machines. A genetic testing company goes from data breach to bankruptcy.
In Trustworthy Innovation, Kathryn Guarini offers a field-tested playbook for earning trust from the start. Guarini led global AI and cloud adoption as IBM’s Chief Information Officer, oversees technology from corporate boardrooms, and teaches innovation at Yale and Cornell Tech. She brings all three vantage points to a question that matters to anyone who builds, approves, or depends on technology: what makes a solution worthy of the trust it asks for?
Her answer rests on two findings that may surprise you. First, trust failures are predictable: they trace back to specific choices made early in design and development, long before launch. Second, the teams that build trust in early move faster, because they spend less time on firefighting, rework, recalls, and regulatory fallout.
At the center of the book is the TRUST Framework, five pillars every solution needs:
- Transparent: explains solutions and surfaces risks
- Robust: performs reliably and recovers gracefully
- User-Centered: expands access and removes friction
- Sustainable: endures without wasting resources
- Threat-Resistant: protects data and digital systems
Every pillar matters, and strength in some can’t make up for the absence of another.
Each pillar comes with specific strategies and actions. You’ll learn from high-profile failures such as the Theranos fraud, the Boeing 737 MAX crashes, and the CrowdStrike IT outage, and from proven practices such as Netflix’s chaos engineering, Apple’s built-in encryption, and Siemens’s self-healing manufacturing. Each chapter ends with steps you can take this week, this month, and this quarter, and 55 original figures make the ideas easy to grasp, share, and apply.
The book then moves from product design to leadership: how to build a trust-first culture, measure trust before it's too late to act, lead through crises so your organization comes out stronger, and make the business case, backed by original research showing that companies with higher trust scores tend to deliver stronger shareholder returns.
Whether you build technology, decide what gets funded and approved, or choose which products to let into your life, Trustworthy Innovation gives you a shared language and a practical playbook for innovation you can trust









