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Working together to shape innovation for meaningful change

Paul Hobcraft

To support you in building out your innovation competencies, capabilities and capacity that requires a deeper investment in skill development in a culture of continual learning. Use tools like brainstorming sessions or interdisciplinary teams to encourage diverse insights.

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Ten pitfalls inventors face and tips for avoiding them

Idea to Value

Many studies have been carried out by different groups coming to different top 10 or top 20 reasons why startups fail, which are, without any doubt worth reading and learning from. Partners and team. Tip: Develop mock-ups or prototypes early and use them for validating your assumptions and the market need. Partners and team.

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Can We Have One of These? A Product Innovation Platform

Paul Hobcraft

Recently I was exploring the world of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and read an excellent Whitepaper from Aras Corp , one of the leading PLM solution providers. I have argued we do need to change the way we undertake innovation and its development. Some claim that they do this already but seriously they do not.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

In these early stages of product development, it can sometimes seem like all of the good ideas have already been taken. When you apply this train of thought to innovation, it becomes apparent that some of the most successful products and services in human history were developed by recycling existing ideas.

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Case study of agile and UCD working together

Boxes and Arrows

Large scale websites require groups of specialists to design and develop a product that will be a commercial success. To develop a completely new site requires several teams to collaborate and this can be difficult. Particularly as different teams may be working with different methods.

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Why Companies are Turning to Innovation Centres

Destination Innovation

These are some of the reasons why senior corporate executives are increasingly turning to separate innovation labs to spearhead their new product development. A recent study by Capgemini Consulting, entitled The Innovation Game , charts the rise of corporate innovation centers (or centres as we would say in Europe).

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Start With Mindset

Leanstack

By now, “almost everybody building products” has at least heard the term and has been exposed to the big ideas. Yet, when we look around we don’t find the corresponding adoption across teams. often part of a mandated checklist imposed upon teams. Adopting a fundamentally new product development process is no different.