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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower Innovation

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. Background Questions Let’s start with some background questions about the business and product. What problem is your product trying to solve? A Product Manager? A year from now?

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Webinar to Highlight Best Practices from NASA’s Internal Crowdsourcing Journey

IdeaScale

There’s no need to travel or schedule virtual meetings in different time zones. It leads to employee empowerment, which makes for a happier, more productive, more creative, and more useful staff. Solutions to problems are discovered more quickly. A Role Model for Internal Crowdsourcing.

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20 Ways to Make Your Meetings More Effective and More Fun.

Destination Innovation

Get a reputation as someone who runs punctual and speedy meetings. There are many great brainstorm methods which displace people out of their comfort zones and get them thinking creatively. I particularly like SCAMPER for product ideas and the Random Word for lateral thinking. Keep the pace of the meeting brisk. Turn off Phones.

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Crowdsourcing vs. Focus Groups: A Comparative Review

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing is a favored method of gathering data for product innovation. Companies use crowdsourcing for product innovation and focus groups for market research to gather the most relevant and useful data. Both can be invaluable in various decision-making stages of product development. We live in the information age.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.

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Be Innovative if You Want to Drive Innovation

IdeaScale

We work with clients to materialize their Design Thinking processes like we did with our customers at SAP , achieve their Agile product development and research operations, and implement business viability assessments based on COSTAR or Business Model Canvas. Limits in applicability or scope. Methodology agnostic” you might say.

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Welcome to the Mid Zone of Innovation

Legacy Innovation Group

Welcome to the Mid Zone of Innovation. In 1991, Don Reinertsen and Preston Smith introduced the world to the "Fuzzy Front End" of product development. In both cases, the work being described was work that preceded the formal product development process. Instead, we must introduce the Mid Zone of Innovation.