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My innovation journey (so far)

Jeffrey Phillips

Market evidence will tell you that most of new product innovations fail in the first year. To end, I'll just note that the revered management thinker Peter Drucker said that businesses really only have two important functions - marketing and innovation. I have to admit, I was skeptical at first. I think we'll need to watch carefully.

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Analytics: The Business Value Beyond New Ideas

Imaginatik

What can be a complementary business case to idea production during fallow seasons? As an example, Imaginatik has several footwear manufacturers who have embraced IoT and are pursuing possible secondary markets, such as healthcare, for the behavioural data harvested from shoes during use (a.k.a. telemetry).

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Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources

Board of Innovation

Table of contents A marker and a sheet of paper PowerPoint / Keynote Smartphone sketch templates Explainer video generators POP-app by Marvel Proto.io Research & development platforms Innocentive – open innovation problem solving IdeaConnection – idea marketplace and problem-solving Yet2.com