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Product Innovation the Easy Way: 3 Real World Examples

IdeaScale

The innovation platform was a springboard not just for customers, but for other initiatives like hackathons and student engineering programs that introduced even more new ideas and approaches to parts. To learn more about crowdsourcing and open innovation, request a demo !

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Five Product Innovations that Evolved Over Time

IdeaScale

The product innovations that generate the most excitement and public interest are the disruptive innovations. However, these innovations aren’t that common. The most successful, innovative companies strike a balance between core, adjacent, and transformational initiatives.

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Innovation Insights from the Founder of Sony

Destination Innovation

While in the Japanese Navy he met an electrical engineer, Masru Ibuka, and in 1946 the two men decided to form a business together. They founded Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, Corporation and their first product was an automatic rice cooker which failed to sell well. Akio Morita was not only a brilliant engineer.

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Calling All Engineers: Beyond Form, Fit and Function for Formulated Products

Innovation Excellence

Like most engineers, I learned about rules of interchangeability back in school. These rules help companies decide whether a product change should require a new item number or simply a revision of the same item number. But what about formulated products?

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A PM's Guide to Building a Culture of Product Innovation

Speaker: Bob Webber, VP Product Flow Optimization, Construx

There's a lot of innovation advice out there, but very few companies are recognized for their innovation. Despite the importance of new product development, more than half of all product launches and innovations fail. Innovation advice will not work if your company's culture does not encourage it.

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Innovation needs the power of completing the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

Then innovation can finally play its true part in discovering, leveraging and delivering new value and impact. We have to recognize the days of simple product innovation are dwindling. Innovation is benefitting from the 4 th Industrial Revolution. We can shift our often-linear thinking as Industry 4.0

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Top Jobs for Innovation Professionals in 2019

IdeaScale

Chief Innovation Officers can expect to earn around $180,000 annually in base salary. Innovation Engineer. An innovation engineer is trained in advanced methods and tools for creating innovative ideas, accelerating projects, and solving problems that inevitably arise during innovation adoption.