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Category: Product Design & Development

Taking Innovation Initiatives a Step Further

May 25, 2016 By Cory Hixson

Today’s post touches on one of the more popular startup education approaches, Lean LaunchPad, which has proven effective in a wide range of contexts across the country (i.e., universities, large and small business development settings, the NSF I-Corps program), and for good reason. Lean LaunchPad presents a systematic process for customer discovery and product-market fit. […]

Filed Under: Innovation, Product Design & Development Tagged With: Delivering Innovation, Discover Value, Strategy, Value Creation

Realizing Innovation: It Takes a Village!

May 10, 2016 By Tim Bruemmer

When executive management looks to improve a company’s innovation capability, their gaze typically settles on the group of technical folks; engineers, scientists and/or programmers collectively called something like R&D, Development or Engineering.  I suppose this is a reasonable place to start, but true improvement needs to extend beyond the technical team as can be seen […]

Filed Under: Innovation, Large Organization Innovation, Product Design & Development Tagged With: Corporate Culture, Delivering Innovation, Organizational Competency

Does It Deserve to Be Called Innovation? Does It Really Matter?

May 2, 2016 By Tim Bruemmer

Innovation means different things to different people.  The definitions range from simply a new idea or invention to bringing that idea to life in a market or even restricting the definition to include only those things that achieve significant change in the world.  We often think of innovations as things we couldn’t have imagined before […]

Filed Under: Innovation, Large Organization Innovation, Product Design & Development Tagged With: Delivering Innovation, Measuring Performance, Organizational Competency

Focusing on Features to Achieve Product-Market Fit

April 20, 2016 By Bill Kline

Achieving ‘product-market fit’ – the alignment of the features of the product or service with the demands of a target market – is a priority for all organizations. New development efforts often pack a large number of features into the offering, increasing cost and complexity while all of the features may not provide benefit or […]

Filed Under: Innovation, Product Design & Development Tagged With: Delivering Innovation, Portfolio Management, Strategy

Originality and Value

April 6, 2016 By Cory Hixson

Is anything ever completely new or original? I recently listened to a podcast from the TED Radio Hour on this topic and it encouraged me to think deeply about this idea of originality, newness and innovation. Let’s look at two popular examples: the iPhone and lean manufacturing. Was the iPhone new or original? Strong arguments […]

Filed Under: Innovation, Product Design & Development Tagged With: Delivering Innovation, Discover Value, Value Creation

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