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Book Review - Built to Innovate by Ben Bensaou

Jeffrey Phillips

Since I am an innovation consultant, working with Fortune 500 companies to build innovation capacity, and I regularly blog on this site about innovation topics, I often have the opportunity to review new books about innovation. In this blog, I am going to be reviewing the book Built to Innovate by Ben Bensaou.

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How Amazon Execs use a 4-Step Innovation Process Template to Create Breakthrough Products

Leapfrogging

This means envisioning customer problems as well as ideal solutions to those problems before actually developing a product or service–and this is exactly how Amazon innovates. As noted in the book, Amazon’s “working backwards” process includes four steps: Step 1: Define the customer problem or pain point.

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New Innovation Books for 2021 & Beyond

InnovationTraining.org

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation?

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How Amazon Execs use a 4-Step Innovation Process Template to Create Breakthrough Products

Leapfrogging

This means envisioning customer problems as well as ideal solutions to those problems before actually developing a product or service–and this is exactly how Amazon innovates. As noted in the book, Amazon’s “working backwards” process includes four steps: Step 1: Define the customer problem or pain point.

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Pirates in the Navy Book Excerpt

InnovationTraining.org

This InnovationTraining.org guest article from Tendayi Viki is a selection from his latest book, Pirates In The Navy. On Understanding Your Company Before You Start Innovating. A lot of innovators that I have met are impatient people. By the time we start working together, they are already fed up with their company.

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Podcast S7E151: Jim Euchner – Lean Startup in Large Organisations

Idea to Value

He was previously Vice President of Global Innovation at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, where he led the development of new businesses and helped launch five businesses on three continents. 00:05:00 – The importance of Innovation accounting. 00:05:00 – The importance of Innovation accounting.

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Innovation Process: Develop…Then Design Later?

Beyond the Obvious

In the traditional R&D process, the product is developed and then handed off to the design team to “wrap” it and make it look pretty. The drawback is that this approach is out of date; in the last ten years consumers have become much more design-savvy. Consumers want functional, usable design that highlights ease of […].

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