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The Role of Innovation in New Product Development: Three Approaches for Success

Qmarkets

Innovation is essential throughout the entire new product development (NPD) process, but nowhere is it more key than it is in the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) stage. FFE is the starting point of NPD and is where new product ideas are generated before entering the formal development process.

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6 Lessons from Our 2018 Innovation Management Award Winners

IdeaScale

Covia provides high-performance crystalline silica sand to the petroleum and other industries, and they used IdeaScale to gather employee ideas at all organizational levels. The company’s old idea generation process was manual and organized according to department. Workflows Can Help Tremendously when Prioritizing Ideas.

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Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources

Board of Innovation

Product ideas crowdsourcing BMW Customer Innovation Lab – in german InnovationJam* – IBM’s idea generation project Dell IdeaStorm – external idea sourcing My Startbucks Idea – shaping the future of Starbucks Connect + Develop – Innovation platform by P&G 02.

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AI-Powered Design Thinking: Accelerating Innovation and Insights

Leapfrogging

Below are some examples that illustrate how AI is being incorporated: Idea Generation : AI-powered tools can suggest design options based on previous successful projects and current design trends. Examples of AI in the Design Process AI’s application within the Design Thinking process is multifaceted.

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Fractional Chief Innovation Officer (CINO)

Gregg Fraley

Prototyping — including: design, graphic arts, and concept writing are skills that go beyond engineering. New ideas need to integrate product development with marketing and sales as well. It’s almost impossible for an insider, with other duties and biases, to do this well.

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Brainstorming with an expert, Matt Nelson

Betterific

He’s also extremely involved in the community – focusing his efforts on paving a path for Black Engineers as the National Chairperson for the National Society of Black Engineers. In the interview below, you’ll get a tremendous window into the world of innovation and product development. Idea Generation.

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Turn Ideas Into Outcomes: A Framework for Maturing Your Innovation Portfolio

Innov8rs

How do you move from idea generation to rigorous idea development the right way? A portfolio maturation framework can make it easier to reorient from ideas to outcomes. It can be hard to know where to start and whether you’re on track. A thriving innovation portfolio discipline takes time.