Product Design

The Ultimate Soft Requirement

Submitted by Larry Marturano on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 8:20am
A funny thing happened in product development circles after the iPhone’s launch. Oh, it had been simmering along for a while in some circles, but when the Phone From Cupertino hit the shelves my com...
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Categories: Product Design
 Tags: Experience Design, NPD, Product Design, cool

9 Essential Characteristics of an Innovation Candidate

Submitted by Michael Koppelmann on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 2:09pm
As the idea of innovation grows within corporate culture, both as a true practice and just as often as a term to be sprinkled about like so much PowerPoint seasoning, many companies are getting seriou...
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Categories: Creativity, Global Product Development, Inventors / Invention, Open Innovation, Product Design

Disrupting Ourselves with Open Innovation

Submitted by Amy Kenly on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 12:55pm
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...
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Categories: Global Product Development, Open Innovation, People, Teams and Culture, Process Innovation, Product Design, Social Media, Strategy, Sustainable Innovation
 Tags: co-creation, Crowdsourcing, social product development, Social Product Innovation

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

The Need for Portfolio Management in the Co-Creation Process

Submitted by Zach Friedman on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 10:23am
I think Michael Norton, Jack Nickell, and Zach Smith said it best when they collectively claimed that co-creation is "opesociacollaberaticreatinnovatcrowdsourccommunitengagementifaction". ...
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Categories: Co-Development & Alliances, Open Innovation, Portfolio Management, Process Innovation, Product Design, Strategy

Why is Listening to the Voice of Your Customer Harder than You Think?

Submitted by Larry Marturano on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 12:54pm
It seems like nothing stirs a good debate in product development and innovation circles better than what role customers should play in figuring out what to ship. ...
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Categories: Customer and Market Research, Global Product Development, NPD - General, Product Design
 Tags: Innovation, Product Design, Product Requirements, VOC, voice of the customer, Customer and Market Research, Global Product Development, Product Development High Tech

The increasing role of community in Product Development

Submitted by Saranyan Vigraham on Tue, 11/30/2010 - 10:32am
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...
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Categories: Co-Development & Alliances, Global Product Development, People, Teams and Culture, Product Design
 Tags: Co-development, customer feedback, Best Practices, community

Good Ideas Aren't Enough

Submitted by on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 9:40am
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...
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Categories: Launch, NPD - General, People, Teams and Culture, Product Design, Product Failures, Strategy
 Tags: Innovation, OCI, Kennemetal, Idea Generation, Ideas, Product Lifecycle, lifecycle, Industry Week

Sustainable product design

Submitted by Saranyan Vigraham on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 8:37am
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Categories: Consumer Products, Global Product Development, People, Teams and Culture, Product Design, Product Failures, Sustainable Innovation
 Tags: Product Design, sustainable

Ill-structured nature of product design

Submitted by Saranyan Vigraham on Wed, 11/10/2010 - 7:40am
When a company starts getting past the startup stage, what happens to customer identification? As the number of customers increase, it becomes challenging to base the product on exactly what the custo...
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Categories: Metrics, People, Teams and Culture, Product Design
 Tags: sustainable, culture
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