Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Low-Cost versus Innovation. Can you outsource design innovation? Yes.

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Design and particularly innovation is expensive. In 2016, a typical industrial designed product costs minimum $250K to launch. Can this be m...
Tuesday, 23 August 2016

Snowboarding to Innovation – Designing Breakthroughs When None Existed Before

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How many times did your grandparents see snowboards when they were children? Never. How about your parents? Possibly never. Design is how th...
Tuesday, 16 August 2016

Creativity + Exploiting R&D – How to Get ROI Straight Out of Design

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How can you extract short-term R&D output and long term R&D exploration of new technological goals? Focus on technological change, a...
Tuesday, 9 August 2016

Design in the Boardroom? Yes, and Here's How

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Today an interesting article became available regarding design and the boardroom. From the perspective of "newness" it is the ...
Tuesday, 2 August 2016

What Makes a Design Leader: Social Intelligence + Creative Performance

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But that’s not all. It’s the synergy that glues it all togerher. The challenge however is in fact empathy. In measuring almost 300 peopl...
Tuesday, 26 July 2016

Too Many Cooks Spoil The Broth: Roles in Inter-Organizational Innovation

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Size, Shape, and Attitude Define Success. But what is the optimal number of inter organizational members when it comes to breaking the mo...
Tuesday, 19 July 2016

But What of Service Engineers – How Does Design Effect Success?

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The factors overlooked are not complicated and here we breakdown the outcomes of 14 case studies for success in service engineering...
Tuesday, 12 July 2016

What 4 Factors Drive the Entire Innovation Process? Limiters. Here’s How To Break Them.

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Designers focus on creativity but there is more. Limiting factors and risk are what stop good ideas from becoming great ideas. But there...
Tuesday, 5 July 2016

Look where Innovation Would Disappear: That’s Where They Can Live

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Looking for breakthroughs is often the place where you are sure that they can’t be any slower or glacier. The US Navy. But that was befo...