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Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

Therefore, corporate R & D programs need targets to ensure that the product development portfolio includes growth projects that carry more risk and have a longer payback. I believe that every person who touches product development has the ability – and the responsibility – to deliver innovative products to the market.

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Guest Blog – Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

Therefore, corporate R & D programs need targets to ensure that the product development portfolio includes growth projects that carry more risk and have a longer payback. I believe that every person who touches product development has the ability – and the responsibility – to deliver innovative products to the market.

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Management Innovation:  Busting Bureaucracy

Strategos

While most of the client work that Strategos does is aimed at business model innovation, in recent years we have developed a principle-based approach to Management Innovation (see Mercy Salaz’s blog, Scope Creep ) and used this approach on several internal processes and practices such as product development. Engaging Employees.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Web Site Optimization—Part 2

Boxes and Arrows

The creation of a new optimization test may follow a process that is similar to your overall product development lifecycle. At a high level, it is used to plan, communicate, and document the history of the experiment, but more importantly, it fosters learning by forcing the team to clearly formulate goals and analyze results.

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

Many of its outside-the-box experiments—LEGO theme parks, TV shows, clothing, accessories, electronic toys, learning centers, and Harry Potter- and Star Wars-based toys—failed. That is the lesson learned at Lego — just in time,” says David Robertson, Professor of Practice teaching Innovation and Product Development at Wharton.

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Get Real About Your Company’s Future

The Inovo Group

Fast-forward to 2012, five years after the introduction of the iPhone — and three years after release of Android and Samsung’s first smartphone – RIM, Nokia and others, using the best business tools available, were still projecting future growth based on past performance. Would it have a new product development or innovation process?

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Emotional Design with A.C.T. – Part 2

Boxes and Arrows

Back in Part 1 , we looked at how the emotions expressed by people and products communicate personality traits over time. We also learned that customers are attracted to things that have an aesthetic personality that’s similar to their own, 1 but they prefer products that take on a complementary role during interaction.

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