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Is it novel?

Mike Shipulski

But when an up-start outsider enters the market back-to-front, the wheels fall off. When they develop useful newness before you and sell it to your customers (new customers for them), that’s not good. Create a block diagram of your business model, your most successful product and the service that defines your brand.

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Overcome resistance and capture growth in the Financial Services Industry

Innovation 360 Group

Over the past few months, we have learned a lot about ourselves in the way we’ve been able to respond to external unplanned events. Difficulties with speed to market. It drives innovation to a transactional level and leads organizations to seek the perceived lower risk of acquiring new ideas vs developing them in house.

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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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Creating a brand that lasts.

Mike Shipulski

One of the best ways to improve your brand is to improve your products. Usually it’s a straightforward battle between market leaders, where one claims quantifiable benefit over the other – Ours gets 40 mpg and theirs doesn’t. But there’s a more powerful way to improve your brand, and that’s to map your products to reliability.

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6 Steps to Getting Executive Buy-In for a Crowdsourced Innovation Program

Planview

To uncover opportunities for new products, services, or improvements, it’s in the business’s best interest to harness this knowledge, not to mention the learning and boundary-spanning that helps keep the organization smart and aligned. They include: Company-wide collaboration, learning and sharing (breaking down silos).

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Using Wikis to Document UI Specifications

Boxes and Arrows

The documentation needs are often based on the size of the project, launch date, team dynamics, audience, technology, and the product development process. Description of the Problem There are many product development processes and one that has garnered much attention is agile.

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Your New Excuse to Get an Xbox

Boxes and Arrows

Video games have become sophisticated creations that can take years to develop, weeks to play, and days to go platinum. billion dollar market (NPD Group 2006) continues to grow as game franchises have extended into books, graphic novels, films, merchandise, and communities of devotees. Many websites aim to be intuitive.

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