People, Teams and Culture

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Let's just not hire them

In my previous post 9 Essential Characteristics of an Innovation Candidate I attempted to break-in my new PDMA blog with a practical guide to what I have seen make up a great Innovation or Product Ma...

The Currency of Social Change

"Focus on how you can drive value to a community - think of them first. @skaw #CoCreatePDMA" posted on July 27, 2011 on Twitter by Nina Miller ...

Disrupting Ourselves with Open Innovation

Yesterday at the PDMA Conference on Social Product Development and Co-Creation, we heard from David Ritter, CEO of InnoCentive.  David talked about using challenge-driven product development in a...

Make more makers

I come from a maker family. I learned to sew and draw at the same time, and I was given a hammer, nails and scrap wood to play with at a very young age. This environment made me confident that I could...

How Will You Create a Social Innovation Culture?

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 ...

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

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...

Organizing for Innovation and Product Development

As increasing regulations, management systems, business processes and efficiency initiatives become less flexible, new organized spaces need to be created in order facilitate product, service, and exp...

The increasing role of community in Product Development

In my ongoing research about customer-integrated product development practices, I am increasingly seeing the role of community in shaping better products. Startups that start with a community oriented...

Good Ideas Aren't Enough

2010 OCI Award Winner @Kennametal_Inc featured in @IndustryWeek. Thanks @JillJusko for the mention.  Read the intro below and to read the full article, click here.  Let us know what you thin...

Project to Fight Poverty

PDMA members with expertise in areas including innovation, product development, business processes, and marketing, help a social cause. Robin Karol, Katherine Rosenberg, and Luke Hohmann discuss PDMA'...
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