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Innovation Insights from WEF Latin America 2012

Submitted by Geovanny Romero on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 6:33pm
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Categories: Networking, People, Teams and Culture, Process Innovation, Social Media, Sustainable Innovation
 Tags: Innovation, SME, leadership, Latin America, Entrepreneurship, WEF

Join us May 10th for PIPELINE 2012

Submitted by on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 10:59am
Join us May 10th for PIPELINE 2012 - The Online Conference for Innovative Product Development Are you ready to start great things -- for yourself and for your company? PIPELINE 2012 is the place to ge...
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Categories: Events, NPD - General

Prototypes, Hypotheses, and Bookies

Submitted by Larry Marturano on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 5:23pm
In a previous post, I talked about the parallels between the scientific method and user centered design, and described how the first step in the scientific method – characterization – is just like...
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Categories: Inventors / Invention
 Tags: Design Thinking, Innovation, VOC

Tycho Brahe, Your Third-Grade English Teacher and Innovation

Submitted by Larry Marturano on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 3:57pm
I hear all the time from engineers and developers who disdain user-centered innovation practices. Inside jokes about the black turtleneck crowd abound, Steve Jobs notwithstanding. Conventional technic...
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Categories: Inventors / Invention
 Tags: Design Thinking, Innovation, VOC

Book Review: Relentless Innovation by Jeffrey Phillips

Submitted by on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 2:14pm
  Innovation:  Nature or Nurture? Psychologists have a long running debate about what shapes human behavior.  A leading theory suggests that two significant influences dictate how we ac...
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Categories: Process Innovation
 Tags: Book Reviews, Product Innovation, Relentless Innovation, Jeffrey Phillips

Product development/management difference

Submitted by john falco on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 6:19pm
What's the difference between a product/project manager/director? ...
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What's the path to product management? -Advice to a grad student with PM aspirations

Submitted by Clay Hopes on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 7:07pm
Hello experienced product managers, What advice would you have for a graduate student wanting to be a product manager?  Is there a typical 'path'? ...
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The Principles of Lean Innovation

Submitted by Geovanny Romero on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 12:20am
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Categories: Global Product Development, Metrics, NPD - General, Process Innovation, Strategy, Sustainable Innovation
 Tags: Innovation, New Product Development, Industry, Lean Innovation

3 Stories That Stick : Firearms, Fat Suits and Failing Forward

Submitted by on Sun, 12/04/2011 - 8:00pm
By Phillippe De Ridder, ...
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Categories: Co-Development & Alliances, Customer and Market Research, Product Failures
 Tags: Product design; Innovation; cocreation;

My Take-aways from PIM 2011 conference in Phoenix: Hell Yeah!

Submitted by on Tue, 11/22/2011 - 5:18pm
By Phillippe De Ridder, ...
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Tags: Business Model Innovation

General Motors takes a CUE from customers and takes a leap with NPD

Submitted by Larry Marturano on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 4:03pm
As design consultant and a tech geek, it’s always exciting for me to see practical innovation in action—companies leveraging existing and emerging technologies with their own unique skills and cap...
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Categories: Customer and Market Research
 Tags: Design Thinking, Innovation, NPD, VOC

Insights from the PDMA's 2011 Business Model Innovation Lab

Submitted by Chris Dolan on Fri, 11/04/2011 - 3:25pm
Business Model Innovation is becoming a hot topic these days as business leaders increasingly recognize that disruptive innovation requires not only innovative products, but also fundamentally new bu...
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Tags: Innovation, Annual PDMA Conference, Annual Global Conference, Business Model Innovation, Chris Dolan

Innovation at LEGO – What do you think?

Submitted by Smith Bucklin on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 11:38am
In the October edition of Visions, we published a different kind of article.  In comic-book style, Dr. David Robertson of Penn’s Wharton Business School laid out a brief history of The LEGO Gro...
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Is an NPDP Certification Worth It?

Submitted by on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 3:28pm
I was recently asked if pursuing NPDP Certification through the PDMA is worth the effort.  In the interest of full disclosure, I am the Executive Director of the PDMA, so before you think to your...
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Innovation at Ground Zero

Submitted by Chris Dolan on Sat, 08/27/2011 - 12:53pm
Last night I watched the amazing Discovery Channel documentary Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero chronicling the reconstruction of the World Trade Center after the tragedy of 9/11. The show is an awe ins...
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Tags: Design, Innovation, management, culture

The Ultimate Soft Requirement

Submitted by Larry Marturano on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 9:20am
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

Kobayashi Maru Thinking: Closing an Innovation Gap

Submitted by Mark Hart on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 6:59pm
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

Innovation, Power, and "The Decision" of Lebron James

Submitted by Chris Dolan on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 10:33am
We all like to believe that we are pretty good judges of ideas. We think we can objectively evaluate an idea based on its merits and recognize a creative solution, an innovative breakthrough, or a s...
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Tags: culture, Communication, Decision-making

Let's just not hire them

Submitted by Michael Koppelmann on Mon, 07/25/2011 - 8:32pm
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...
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Categories: Global Product Development, People, Teams and Culture, Process Innovation

9 Essential Characteristics of an Innovation Candidate

Submitted by Michael Koppelmann on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 3:09pm
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

The Currency of Social Change

Submitted by Nina Miller on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 4:59pm
"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 ...
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Categories: Open Innovation, People, Teams and Culture
 Tags: co-creation, social product development, cocreation, CoCreatePDMA

Disrupting Ourselves with Open Innovation

Submitted by Amy Kenly on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 1:55pm
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

Your Company’s REAL Social Software

Submitted by Larry Marturano on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 1:49pm
Browsing the programs at Enterprise 2.0 and the PDMA’s own Conference on Social Product Development and Co-Creation, it’s obvious that the collective opinion on enterprise social media is pretty b...
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Categories: Social Media
 Tags: Social Media, NPD - General, Co-Development and Alliances, People, Teams and Culture

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

Submitted by Amy Kenly on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 11:31am
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 - 11:23am
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

Make more makers

Submitted by Nina Miller on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 12:41am
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...
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Categories: Creativity, People, Teams and Culture, Sustainable Innovation
 Tags: Innovation education, CoCreatePDMA

How Will You Create a Social Innovation Culture?

Submitted by Amy Kenly on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 11:18am
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 - 12:33pm
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 - 4:32pm
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 - 1:50pm
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

Join PDMA at PIPELINE 2011 – The Online Conference for Product Development

Submitted by Ken Krause on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 3:46pm
Innovation is the spark of the product-driven organization. If you want to gain smart strategies for speeding time to market, strengthening brand position and growing market share, then please join us...
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Categories: Events, Portfolio Management
 Tags: Portfolio Management, product development, Product Portfolio Management, PIPELINE 2011

The Brave New World of Open Innovation

Submitted by Paul Sloane on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 9:00am
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

5 Personalities That Ruin the Social Media Party

Submitted by Chris Dolan on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 4:00pm
Social media is a giant cocktail party. ...
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Categories: Social Media

The changing face of product development: Thinking social

Submitted by Catherine Constantinides on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 12:29pm
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 - 6:42pm
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

Creative Problem Solving Lessons from "Old School"

Submitted by Chris Dolan on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 10:47am
Flipping through the channels over the weekend, I came across one of my favorite movies of all time: Old School. ...
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Categories: Creativity

The State of Open Innovation

Submitted by on Mon, 05/02/2011 - 1:51pm
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

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

Submitted by Larry Marturano on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 1:54pm
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

Weekend Reading: Neuroscience, Time, and Innovation

Submitted by Chris Dolan on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 11:47am
In The Possibilian, a riveting New Yorker profile of the neuroscientist and Reanaissance man Dr. David Eagleman, Burkhard Bilger explores our understanding of time. ...
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Categories: Creativity
 Tags: Innovation, Neursocience

Social Media and Product Development – What’s Stopping Us?

Submitted by Amy Kenly on Mon, 04/18/2011 - 1:34pm
Many of us have seen those “Did You Know?” videos on YouTube. With millions of views, these compelling videos give facts and stats on globalization in the information age, demonstrating the pervas...
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Categories: Co-Development & Alliances, Creativity, NPD - General, Open Innovation, Social Media, Strategy, Technology
Tags: Conference, Innovation, Social Media, co-creation, social product development, CoCreatePDMA, Social Product Innovation, kalypso

Social Product Innovation: It’s More Than Facebook

Submitted by Amy Kenly on Mon, 04/11/2011 - 2:35pm
If you think social media equals Facebook, watch this video from our Conference on Social Product Development & Co-Creation partner, Kalypso.  How are you using social media for product devel...
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Categories: Global Product Development, Marketing, NPD - General, Social Media, Strategy, Technology
Tags: Innovation, Social Media, co-creation, social product development, cocreation, CoCreatePDMA, Social, Social Product Innovation, kalypso

How to Harness the Value of Outsourcing-led Innovation

Submitted by Innovation Management on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 2:46pm
Companies who are engaged in developing innovation processes are also likely to be involved in outsourcing significant aspects of their operations. So how do you innovate when you’ve also outsourced...
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Categories: Co-Development & Alliances, Global Product Development, NPD - General, Open Innovation, Strategy
 Tags: Innovation, Strategy, Outsourcing, Business

Play the (April) Fool for Innovation!

Submitted by Chris Dolan on Fri, 04/01/2011 - 10:24am
Here's a quote we would like to share with you on this one day of the year when we are all allowed to have some fun and be a little "foolish:" "If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing i...
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Categories: Creativity

Nokia Crowdsources Ideas for Mobile Apps

Submitted by David Bratvold on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 1:34pm
This post comes from The Conference on Social Product Development & Co-Creation partner, The Daily Crowdsource Nokia has launched a worldwide brainstorming campaign to tap into new ideas for devel...
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Categories: High Tech / Software Development, NPD - General, Strategy, Technology
Tags: Crowdsourcing, Nokia, Mobile

Thoughts from the Co-Dev 2011 Conference on Open Innovation

Submitted by on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 12:33pm
Doug Berger, Managing Director, INNOVATE recently participated in the Co-Dev 2011 Conference.   After speaking with many attendees, his take on the state of Open Innovation: ”Lots of en...
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Categories: Co-Development & Alliances, Events, NPD - General, Open Innovation, Past Conferences, Strategy
 Tags: Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing, Supplier Relationships

Book on Product Management

Submitted by Jann Curtis on Sat, 03/19/2011 - 5:41pm
Hi all, I am a brand new product manager at a company that has never had product management before. (I moved from a role as a business analyst at the same company). Anyway I was hoping someone could r...
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[Crowd Leader] David Simoes-Brown: Crowdsourcing’s Tipping Point?

Submitted by David Bratvold on Fri, 03/18/2011 - 10:12am
Post by David Simoes-Brown,Co-Founder of 100%Open Is crowdsourcing on the verge of a tipping point? In future years those brands that don’t open up their needs to the crowd are more likely to be...
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Categories: Co-Development & Alliances, NPD - General, Social Media, Strategy
 Tags: co-creation, Crowdsourcing, cocreation

Let the Crowd Rise Up to Help Japan’s Earthquake & Tsunami Relief Efforts

Submitted by David Bratvold on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 3:18pm
 Post by The Daily Crowdsource ...
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Categories: NPD - General, Social Media, Strategy
 Tags: co-creation, Crowdsourcing, cocreation, Japan, The Red Cross, Crowdrise, Crowdfunding

What do you think of using co-creative approaches for product development and innovation?

Submitted by Kim Karagosian on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 11:32am
In partnership with co-creation pioneer, Local Motors, the PDMA officially announced today its new event, The Conference on Social Product Development and Co-Creation, June 27-28, 2011 in Phoenix, A...
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Categories: Co-Development & Alliances, Events, Global Product Development, Marketing, Networking, NPD - General, Open Innovation, Social Media, Strategy, Technology
Tags: Conference, event, NPD, PDMA, product development, Social Media, Social Networking, Local Motors, co-creation, social product development, cocreation, Professional event

Stop! in the name of Innovation

Submitted by Chris Dolan on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 11:17am
A client recently impressed me with their willingness to use a powerful word that is rarely allowed to enter into the pursuit of innovation: the word "STOP."  So often, innovation efforts are...
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Categories: Metrics
 Tags: Resource Allocation, Stop Innovation