Process Innovation

The Principles of Lean Innovation

James P. ...

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...

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...

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

This week I’m attending the PDMA Conference on Social Product Development and Co-Creation. ...

The Need for Portfolio Management in the Co-Creation Process

I think Michael Norton, Jack Nickell, and Zach Smith said it best when they collectively claimed that co-creation is "opesociacollaberaticreatinnovatcrowdsourccommunitengagementifaction". ...

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 ...

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

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...

Product Innovation: A Moment of Genius or A Collision of Hunches?

In Steven Johnson’s recently published book, Where Good Ideas Come From, he offers a keen historical insight that the most significant driver of technological innovation and creativity came from inc...

Lean Product Development - Derailed?

It is difficult to pin down exactly when Lean Product Development was born. Certainly Womack and Jones touched on the subject on a number of occasions in Lean Thinking in 1996. A year later in Manag...
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