Saturday, 22 April 2006

The softer side of Innovaton - Corporate Cultures

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Corporate Culture and Commitment: Impact on Performance of InternationalNew Product Development Programs a must read for managers of new p...
Sunday, 12 March 2006

“Disrupting” disruptive design to produce even wilder innovations.

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There are alternative models to disruption if that kind of mentality is just too far for your organizations philosophy to go and Disruptive ...
Monday, 13 February 2006

Want international product success? Product standardization isn’t going to cut it in a global marketplace. But there is a way….

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New product development is not a national sprint it is an international marathon and with firms operating in disperse geographic areas and w...
Tuesday, 17 January 2006

Want Knowledge? Want Innovation? You’re going to have to manage for it.

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What is the rule of managing knowledge gathered for the purposes of innovation exchange and the ROI that comes from these efforts? Role of K...
Monday, 5 December 2005

Fuzzy innovations are not just loveable they are ROI’able

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What is the point of a fuzz NPD efforts and how do you mitigate them when the outcomes are fuzzy and the focus is process improvement, conce...
Tuesday, 22 November 2005

Ambidexterous Organizations don’t just use both hands, they use all of them.

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How many hands does Shiva have? How many arms does your organization have? How can you coordinate them all for continuous innovation? In Org...
Thursday, 13 October 2005

Embracing Innovation as Strategy = direct ROI

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Innovation and corporate venturing is usually a function of existing product lines and sometimes can even be considered disruptive increment...
Friday, 23 September 2005

Creativity and the Exploitation of R&D – how to get your ROI straight out of design

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How can you extract short-term R&D output and longterm R&D exploration of new technological goals? Focus on technological change, an...
Saturday, 20 August 2005

Internal and External coordination in NPD – Making it work for your Firm

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How is it that the links between external and internal NPD efforts can drastically effect the way your firm makes innovations? Breakthroughs...
Tuesday, 12 July 2005

There are rules to innovation? Yes. At least 4.

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Clay Christensen has set of rules. Emperically validated and checked, and all related to the way that new technologies are able to enter int...
Wednesday, 22 June 2005

It’s not just innovation it’s innovation People

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It’s not easy to deal with Managing People to Promote Innovation inside an organization because the reality is that the management is often...
Monday, 9 May 2005

older products + older users + new rules = big ROI

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What is it about the way different generations perceive different functional capabilities ? Why is it that a young person wants to have thei...
Tuesday, 19 April 2005

Disruptive Incrementalism? Disruptive Innovation? Anything but the status quo is not disruptive.

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It’s been argued that anything outside of the norm is considered disruptive. In actualoity that is called business, competition, and essenti...