Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.” If we start looking through these archetypes as lenses we might begin to ‘flesh out’ the needs to think through when we look at a whole system design for innovation.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Most people still think of China as a technology copycat, stealing intellectual property and designs from western companies and producing inferior but cheaper knock-offs. By 2012, this had grown to about 66% of the population. This huge market means there is ample room for large numbers of new entrants every year to offer new services.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Each year businesses spend an aggregate of $40B on market research. B2B co-creation labs work best when similar peers are able to engage with one another, such as Designers with Designers or Engineers with Engineers, as shown in this example with HP. Customer Co-Creation: A Deeper Path to Empathic Understanding.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 6, 2018

What is a UX designer? Some excerpts: Work with the development team to follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems. But it seemed that they really wanted a visual designer who could prototype. Sounds great!

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 27, 2016

The Kansas City American Marketing Association monthly lunch addressed that question. While the two team approach was designed to keep the longer-term team from getting pulled into today’s fires, it presented challenges. On a market segmentation chart, Pat was making the point that there are multiple ways to grow from innovation.

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KindlingApp

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Startup swami Eric Ries’ essential book The Lean Startup defines a startup as “a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty”, which implies an essential element of innovation. These complementary strengths allow extended market penetration for both sides.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 30, 2020

Even before the pandemic, entrepreneurs already had a difficult time remaining relevant in an increasingly competitive market. In this context, designing a strategy that keeps your business healthy and sustainable on an ongoing basis – a crisis resilient one – can be the difference between success and failure.

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hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

It was close to bankruptcy in the late 1990s with rivals BM, Dell and HP eating up the market. The company had a paltry 4 percent market share and losses of over $1 billion. Market expansion was what Apple needed, not a sizable chunk of the PC market. The climb has been quite an uphill task for the iconic toy designer.

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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 9, 2017

In 2012 SpaceX made history when it became the first commercial company to send a rocket into space carrying a payload to the ISS. In 2004 Musk had helped fund the start-up Tesla Motors in order to produce mass market electric cars. In 2008 NASA chose SpaceX to transport cargo to the International Space Station (ISS).

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Today, the business world recognizes that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term sustainability and success. Design Thinking is NOT a New Concept. With all the hype around design thinking, one would think that it is a new concept. What is Design Thinking? Stages of Design Thinking.

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Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

And for that reason it has become an integral criteria in many prescriptive regulations for (higher) education and in increasing numbers also explicitly and implicitly part of curricula (Saavedra & Opfer, 2012). Practice of Creativity: can be taught using creative techniques and methods such as design thinking (Neck et al.,

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

The manufacturing industry is becoming increasingly capable of creating small batches (or even single units) of personalized products at very competitive prices. Smart assistants like Alexa (Amazon), Google Assistant (Google) or Siri (Apple) are the first mass-market examples of how voice interfaces could look like in the future.

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Adam Hartung

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

The PC market has been steadily shrinking since 2012. The big market shift to mobile devices started back in 2007 when the iPhone began challenging Blackberry. But by October, 2012 it was clear the design had so many trade-offs that it was destined to be an Edsel-like flop – a compromised product unable to please anyone.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 26, 2018

“Ever since renewables became a part of the German mass market, investment has been dominated by private households and farmers who owned 46% of the 73GW renewable electricity supply in Germany in 2012, while all incumbent utilities (such as Vattenfall, EnBW, E.on, and RWE) owned only 12%.”

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