IdeaScale

JANUARY 31, 2017

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. To illustrate how this can happen, it’s helpful to look at innovations that evolved over time. Some product innovations aren’t created by the company at all.

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Exago

OCTOBER 26, 2018

One of the most common myths when leading idea management in medium enterprises is that you should strongly focus efforts on product innovation, as the ultimate goal is to have the next big thing. The post How to look beyond product innovation in medium enterprises appeared first on Exago. Blog Insights initiative-success innovation management medium enterprises product innovation

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

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.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

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. There’s even a small cottage industry of articles about the series Shark Tank, sometimes analyzing and sometimes mocking how business geniuses didn’t get in on the ground floor of hit products like Ring or Chef Big Shake. Best Practice product innovation

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InnovationManagement

MAY 18, 2021

IdeaScale Crowd is hosting a webinar for first-time crowdsourcing innovators who want to engage a large group of collaborators in solving their problems. The post How to Ensure Crowdsourcing Works for Product Innovation appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2019

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. Here are a few examples of companies that set the “lone inventor on a hill” myth aside in favor of real innovation with the help of IdeaScale. The lone innovator can sometimes be useful.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 7, 2019

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. Several converging forces There are several reasons why we'll see at least a slow decline in product innovation, if not a collapse. Innovation hasn't delivered on its promises in many cases. Most companies don't innovate entirely new products.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 2, 2016

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 9, 2016

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Innovation and change destroy complacent, unchanging business structures and models. Product life cycles are collapsing - I was recently in a conference where a camera manufacturer estimated the average shelf life for a new camera was between 3 and 6 months, or less than half the product development cycle time! Instead they offer single solutions or products that are equal to or better than what the banks offer, in areas that are more profitable.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 30, 2019

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. If you do these things, these communities can be a powerful source of innovation. Want to learn more about social media and innovation strategy? The post Is Social Media Part of Your Product Innovation Strategy?

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Viima

JUNE 16, 2021

People talk about product innovation every day without even realizing it. Whether they refer to their smartwatch and its latest features, the top performing cars or the latest app that helps them unwind, they bring up product innovation. Innovation Types of Innovation

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Exago

MAY 15, 2019

The process of developing a new product - whether it is a tangible, physical good or intangible, like a service, experience or belief - requires a systematic method to launch and commercialise it. The post The 7 stages of NPD and how to effectively manage product innovation appeared first on Exago. Blog Insights business transformation collective intelligence idea management software innovation management innovation-journey innovation-priority new product development

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 3, 2018

Materials can elevate a product, to be sure, but using them incorrectly or ineffectively has the opposite effect. And because it's hard to know how a finished product will actually look and feel in the hands of consumers, it's easy to make mistakes in development. Here are some time-tested strategies for creating products that are better, not just different. Innovation

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

MAY 11, 2021

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APRIL 22, 2021

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 3, 2017

I love hearing how companies are creating successful products that provide customers value, which is the topic of this episode. Gordon Stannis, the Director of Design and Strategy at Twisthink shares their approach to developing innovative solutions for their Fortune 500 clients. Gordon started his work as an industrial designer and then moved into product. Case Study Design Digital Innovation Design Thinking innovation process Product Management product managers

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InnovationManagement

JANUARY 5, 2017

In this article, Product Innovation Manager Alex Igor Sanghikian discusses the Adjacent Possibilities framework for product management. By exclusively focusing on your persona’s one main need and trying hard to fulfill that need with your product, you can build the next feature with a more focused vision. Enabling Factors Strategies adjacent possibilities brainstorm design thinking hidden needs personas product development prototyping unmet needs voice of customer

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Acuvate

APRIL 10, 2020

How Different CPG Companies Are Leveraging Big Data & Analytics for Marketing and Product Innovation Compared to businesses in other industries, the ones in the Consumer Goods (CG) industry spend a colossal amount of money on marketing and advertising.

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Innovation Leader

MARCH 15, 2017

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Board of Innovation

JANUARY 21, 2021

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InnovationManagement

MAY 24, 2021

We often hear about the concept of innovation and its importance in enhancing the competitiveness of an organization however, the excessive use of this term has distorted its true meaning and content.

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InnovationManagement

JULY 2, 2020

The post Four Ways to Innovate Right Now appeared first on InnovationManagement. While the pandemic has been difficult for all us economically, as business owners, we never run out of opportunities.

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InnovationManagement

JUNE 7, 2021

Is ‘innovation’ everyone’s job – as so many claim it is? Dive in as we examine the three cases of significance here – two in which innovation is everyone’s job, and one in which it isn’t. Or is it not everyone’s job – as the counterargument goes? The reality is not quite so simple.

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InnovationManagement

MAY 3, 2021

Innovation is on everyone's lips as a solution to post-COVID economic recovery. The world of innovation has a very broad definition: It’s often referred to as an information technology innovation. How you select your best innovation project is undoubtedly a starting point!

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Design Experience Innovation Innovation Product Innovation jobs-to-be-done product innovation“I want a pair of flippers for my birthday,” my 7-year-old announced today. “But, I am not actually into flippers.” ” This baffling statement came after a day at a friend’s backyard swimming pool where my daughter had her first-ever encounter with a pair of flippers.

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Destination Innovation

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

They founded Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, Corporation and their first product was an automatic rice cooker which failed to sell well. At that time Japanese companies had a reputation for producing cheap, low-quality products which were often copies of Western merchandise. Morita and his partner wanted to break away from this approach and offer high-quality innovative electronic goods. Morita came up with an innovative marketing idea. Insights for Innovators.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 20, 2017

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2020

Through our hands-on work with clients, we have developed a lean product development process. However, we have incorporated selected practices from the agile toolkit to enhance innovation and speed products to market.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 27, 2019

Every innovative product begins as a concept in the mind of someone or some group of people. How do companies manage this asset, the portfolio of product concepts, even before they enter the pipeline? In our experience, product. Innovation Processes & Tools Product Innovation R&D Lean Product Development New Product Development (NPD) Product Development

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 31, 2018

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Product concepts are the lifeblood of your company. Flowing through your company’s system, like blood through the veins of a human body, new product concepts are the future of your company’s health and the source of its growth. Unfortunately, many companies lack a strategic planning process for innovation, or they manage it poorly. Innovation Management Product Innovation R&D Product Portfolio Management product strategy Product vision

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

According to AcuPoll more than 95-percent of new products fail each year. This harrowing statistic should sound an alarm, one that says the way we approach the conceptualization and launch of new products does not work. Every year, billions of dollars shrivel down to zero. Careers and jobs lost. So much talent and energy gets.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 29, 2019

At the heart, product roadmaps show the major milestones of a project’s lifecycle. Maintaining Product Roadmaps is a useful discipline in just about any organization that has more than one product. But aside from capturing product timelines, what good are they? Innovation Management Product Innovation R&D Strategy Product Development Product Roadmap product strategy

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 29, 2017

As retailers strive to reinvent their customer experience and drive loyalty, many are opening innovation labs or centers that are focused exclusively on digital efforts or product innovation. Innovation Product Innovation Strategy Product Development product innovation retail Retail Innovation Retailers

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 13, 2019

Real world product and service design brings together form and function in ways that emphasise product/service features so that they convert to real and perceived customer benefits. Creativity Innovation Product Innovation Fender StratocasterThere is often a great deal of redundancy in the design process. For example, one of the key weaknesses of early electric guitars was the fact that the.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 21, 2019

Innovation Product Innovation new product launches NPD product positioning sleep categoryThe sleep category is growing rapidly. Sleep, or more pertinently, the lack thereof, is increasingly an issue for more and more people. Levels of anxiety, stress and insomnia are on the rise. Consumers are looking for solutions, and willing to spend money on them. 30% of the UK and US population report symptoms of.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 2, 2018

Innovation Product Innovation Science Sustainability #plastic #environment #sustainabilityWhy should brands care? Plastics is one of the biggest challenges the world is facing right now. Thanks to David Attenborough’s Blue Planet, consumers are suddenly aware of the thousands of tonnes of plastic filling the ocean. As plastic is so prolifically used, especially in packaging, brands are going to need to act quick to.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The two most common product development metrics are R&D spending as a percent of sales and revenues from new products over time. There’s no linear relationship between R&D spending and new product success. Innovation Management Processes & Tools Product Innovation R&D Product development MetricsThese metrics, although necessary to track, do not predict a result.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Innovative cross-functional teams in technology companies often depend on individuals with highly technical, specialized skills. collaboration Creativity Innovation Leadership Management Product Innovation R&DThey’re on the edge, extending their disciplines where they haven’t been before. Teams like this require upper management support that enables their success. It does not need micromanagement – or its opposite, chaotic management that is no better than neglect.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Nevertheless, this downtick should not distract from the reality that Amazon has emerged as the new model of innovation effectiveness. Business Models Creativity Data Growth Innovation Innovation Perspectives Innovation Teaching Story Leadership Product Innovation Technology Amazon business modelWith Amazon edging towards becoming the world’s first trillion-dollar company, fresh attention is being paid to the factors that could derail its growth.

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