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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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Innovation fundamentals: using time effectively

Jeffrey Phillips

There is first elapsed time - the time from the first recognition of an opportunity or need until the product comes to market. We have an artificially imposed time constraint on innovation activities, forced upon us by the financial reporting mechanisms of the stock market. There's another time that is also important.

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Interview with Design Thinking Leader Steven Forth on What Makes Business Model Innovation So Challenging

IdeaScale

Ibbaka is a consulting and technology development company focused on helping companies bring innovations to market and to help them to scale. We try to understand how people develop skills, how they apply them, how they combine with other people. This means we work with companies on their skill and competency models.

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Implementing Open Innovation: Insights from Ariana Smetana of AccelIQ Digital

Qmarkets

Ariana Smetana, founder and CEO of AccelIQ Digital Could you tell us about your career journey and how you became involved in innovation? Also, I have always had a knack for assessing market trends and seeing which solutions will stick to deliver a transformative effect in moving companies forward.

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Non-Profit Innovation: NCARB Brings New Product to Market

Moves the Needle

Moves the Needle facilitated a five-day Lean Innovation Sprint to help staff tackle current challenges in a new way, and a five-month Accelerator to help one team make dramatic progress on a promising product idea from the Sprint. Today we’re not afraid to be wrong – and that helps us move quickly. ”

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Open-Source Innovation: Insights from Ariana Smetana of AccelIQ Digital

Qmarkets

Ariana Smetana, founder and CEO of AccelIQ Digital Could you tell us about your career journey and how you became involved in innovation? Also, I have always had a knack for assessing market trends and seeing which solutions will stick to deliver a transformative effect in moving companies forward.

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Can Crowdsourcing Help to Break Down the Biggest Obstacle in Market Research?

Qmarkets

So market research was invented. While no method is perfect and companies continued to miss key shifts in customer wants and needs, it’s undeniable that well-executed market research has been very effective at letting companies see over the wall that separates them from their customers and develop innovative new products and services.