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Improve Product Innovation with Internal and External Feedback

IdeaScale

Customers are integral to the product innovation process.?. Product innovation is all about new ideas from both your employees and your customers. Trying to develop a new product without input from your customers is akin to shooting arrows in the dark. Why and How to Get Employees Involved in Product Innovation.

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Digital transformation marks the demise of product innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm going to stipulate that the business cycle and innovation are at a tipping point. For close to 20 years (dating approximately from when Jobs returned to Apple) we've been living in the product innovation era. Innovation hasn't delivered on its promises in many cases. First is corporate, especially executive cynicism.

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Exploring the Role of the C-Suite in Product Innovation

IdeaScale

One of the many problems with the “lone genius in the garage” view of innovation is that too often, the C-suite is stylized as the people who say “no” to a brilliant idea, only to regret it later. Innovation is really a team effort, and the c-suite is a valuable part of that team. A little outside-the-box thinking goes a long way.

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Product Innovation the Easy Way: 3 Real World Examples

IdeaScale

Innovation is often presented as a mighty struggle between a lone inventor and a seemingly intractable problem. While this does occasionally happen, more often than not any great innovation is the result of people drawing from those around them for ideas and inspiration. The lone innovator can sometimes be useful.

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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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Learning to innovate in the IoT Age

Jeffrey Phillips

These commentators are correct in the sense that we are entering a time where the Internet of Things (IoT) and the data generated by billions of IoT devices will create radically new opportunities for innovation. In one sense that fact is a good thing - it means innovation takes on an entirely new life. Today innovation is easy.

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Is Social Media Part of Your Product Innovation Strategy?

IdeaScale

Social media can connect you to innovators of all stripes. That creates a truly powerful resource of creativity on which to draw for your innovation strategy. Here’s how, and when, to use social media as part of your innovation strategy. Here’s how, and when, to use social media as part of your innovation strategy.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.