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The Principles of Lean Innovation

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

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

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

Tony Hsieh: Culture is King at Zappos

Submitted by Chris Dolan on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:33am
Culture is king at Zappos.  At the World Innovation Forum, Tony Hsieh told the audience that there are five things Zappos does to build and cultivate their unique company culture focused on cus...
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Categories: Strategy
 Tags: culture, Zappos

Clayton Christensen: Two Surprising Reasons Good Companies Fail

Submitted by Chris Dolan on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 3:32pm
Clayton Christensen is an inspiring guy. Not only has he disrupted the business world throughout his career as one of the foremost innovation academics, he has also overcome a bout with cancer and a...
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Categories: Strategy

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
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