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Innovation Ideas, Web 2.0-Style

In an earlier post, I described some online contests being run to generate new product ideas. In an article published in the Chicago Tribune on August 26th, several more that I did not know about wer...

“Everyday Edisons” on PBS

In an early post in this blog, I mentioned a "reality TV" program called American Inventor, on ABC. I just received an email from Daniel Cordero, producer and senior editor of a PBS show called Ever...

YouTube Video on “Design Thinking”

George Castellion, former PDMA president, has alerted me to another interesting and fun video from some Stanford class members, on "Design Thinking". It shows their definition of a customer need, the...

An Oven for Half-Baked Ideas

Everyone in new product development is trying to find new ideas. The Internet is a great potential source for them... as well as for a lot of wacky ideas. But often, even when you look at wacky idea...

Wharton Study of Idea Advancement in Companies

We recently received a note from an assistant professor at the Wharton School, Jennifer Mueller, asking for readers of our web site to take some minutes to take part in an interesting survey they are ...

US Dept of Commerce - Measuring Innovation

Reader Chris Farrell of Technology Matters has sent us an interesting note about an initiative underway at the US Department of Commerce, called "Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economy". Fr...

NPD: The Musical

Former PDMA president George Castellion recently sent me a link to a YouTube video, of a student in a Stanford innovation class named Gus Bitdinger, singing a song called "Back to Orbit" and accompany...
Categories: NPD - General

Low-Cost IT Industry Reports

I became aware today of a resource for product managers who work in the IT field, which provides industry information on a range of IT product areas... the sort of basic market information which every...

Online Itinerant Ideators For Hire

Somehow, I've recently got myself signed up to receive emails from a company called "The Big Idea Group". They post ideation projects of various kinds, and then accept product idea submissions from p...

To Fail Is Human…

In a previous post here, I have talked about the value of learning from new product failures, just as it's highly instructive to learn from successful launches. I'll even admit to having a certain ki...
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