NPD - General

The Principles of Lean Innovation

Submitted by Geovanny Romero on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 11:20pm
James P. ...
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Categories: Global Product Development, Metrics, NPD - General, Process Innovation, Strategy, Sustainable Innovation
 Tags: Innovation, New Product Development, Industry, Lean Innovation

Kobayashi Maru Thinking: Closing an Innovation Gap

Submitted by Mark Hart on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 5:59pm
Perhaps you have heard the following riddle.  
 If it takes one woman nine months to produce a baby, can nine women produce a baby in one month? ...
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Categories: NPD - General
 Tags: Kobayashi Maru, Kobayashi Maru Thinking, Brooks' Law, Brooks's Law, No-win scenario

Who’s Your Crowd? The Use of Virtual Private Expert Networks

Submitted by Amy Kenly on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 10:31am
This week I’m attending the PDMA Conference on Social Product Development and Co-Creation. ...
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Categories: Creativity, Global Product Development, NPD - General, Open Innovation, Process Innovation, Product Design, Social Media, Strategy, Sustainable Innovation
 Tags: co-creation, Crowdsourcing, social product development, Social Product Innovation

How Will You Create a Social Innovation Culture?

Submitted by Amy Kenly on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 10:18am
Like any new business initiative, incorporating social product innovation strategy and technology into existing innovation and product development processes is likely to encounter resistance and lack ...
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Categories: Co-Development & Alliances, Consumer Products, Creativity, Global Product Development, NPD - General, Open Innovation, People, Teams and Culture, Process Innovation, Social Media, Strategy, Sustainable Innovation, Technology
Tags: New Product Development, Social Media, co-creation, social product development

Embarking on a Co-Creation Journey: With or Without Your Employees?

Submitted by Gaurav Bhalla on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 12:50pm
New management ideas and practices, especially those on a hot upward trajectory, are like drugs. They produce unwanted side effects.  As their adoption and usage becomes more widespread, so do th...
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Categories: Marketing, NPD - General, People, Teams and Culture, Strategy
 Tags: Innovation, R&D, co-creation, cocreation, Employees, Mastercard, Hallmark

The Brave New World of Open Innovation

Submitted by Paul Sloane on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 8:00am
Many leading companies are now adopting open innovation (OI) as a way to drive their new product development.  Companies such as Proctor and Gamble, IBM, LG Electronics, Kraft Foods, Reckitt Benc...
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Categories: NPD - General, Open Innovation, Strategy
 Tags: Open Innovation, culture, Crowdsourcing, OI, Processes

The changing face of product development: Thinking social

Submitted by Catherine Constantinides on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 11:29am
The social web has dramatically transformed the customer relationship and is changing the rules of how products are created. Customers are no longer passive providers of static feedback- they are acti...
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Categories: Events, NPD - General, Social Media, Strategy, Technology
Tags: social product development, Social, social innovation, social tools

Think FaceBook is Your Company's Best Social Software Approach? Think Again.

Submitted by Jeanne Bradford on Mon, 05/16/2011 - 5:42pm
I recently heard John Hagel, Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, speak about the effective application of social software in organizations.  Contrary to the knee jerk reaction by man...
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Categories: Co-Development & Alliances, Global Product Development, High Tech / Software Development, NPD - General, Open Innovation, Process Innovation, Social Media, Technology
Tags: social innovation, TCGen, Inc, social software

The State of Open Innovation

Submitted by on Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:51pm
How successful is Open Innovation as an innovation method? For leaders like Proctor and Gamble the answer is obvious but the same can’t be said for the vast majority of enterprises taking this r...
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Categories: NPD - General, Open Innovation, Technology
Tags: Innovation, Open Innovation, Ideas, co-creation, Growth
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