Innovation Toolkits for the First Stage New Service Development

New Services and New Products occupy the same domain of innovation but often very dissimilar interactions. This is the basis for the use of Toolkits for the First Stages of New Service Development

 

Via timely questions of users interactions and opinions of functions a series of additional entry points can be defined and enumerated allowing for factors and functions to be understood and codified thus making the final functional map of the new user experience possible. In combination with several other innovation techniques and measurement tools, the Service Card model allows for an ease of creation to take place.

                               

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The Governance of Design – How the Europeans Make Design Happen

In the world of design, it is often the many forms of interaction between manufacturers and designers that foster the complete model for pushing the boundries of new product development. But how? 

In today’s world of rapid progress and technological change, it is exactly as described in Brunelleschi's Dome: The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence and more specifically the models described in The Governance Of Design Alliances as, the Italian’s have the model and just as the French, Portuguese, Spanish and most of Europe have had since the beginning of the Renaissance.

                               

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When Do Firms Undertake R&D By Investing In New Ventures?

When design plus R&D really get moving, it’s risk that firms are faced with: risk to show validity, risk to prove efficacy, and of course risk to scale with the latter being the largest concern of investor confidence. Is there a way to mitigate this?

Referred to in When Do Firms Undertake R&D By Investing In New Ventures? with the most success coming from areas where weak intellectual property protection and where complementary distribution capability creates the capability for design success. The data and statistical sampling of industries and functional capabilities indicate even further correlations between design functions and R&D success.

                               

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What is the Key to Innovation Disruption: Design Arbitrage – Here’s How

It’s quite clear in Jumpstarting Innovation - Using Disruption to Your Advantage the mechanisms that are used in the conversion of understanding in R&D to utilization in specific functional areas: Design Arbitrage. 

  Within the community of Jazz musicians the idea of interpretative resonance and as specified in Creativity and the Agile Mind: A Multi-Disciplinary Study we see the underpinnings of the disruptive model in action. More specifically through multiple examples in articles written in newspapers such as the Financial Times: Generating a Disruptive Idea: Unexpected Ideas Have Fewer Competitors and well seen in the ideas of Orbital Resonance or more than likely, industry conferences.   

                               

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Cross-Boundary Disruptors Are The Agents Of Change

How did Gordon E. Moore, Robert Noyce and Andy Grove create Intel with limited users yet highly advanced products? They were disruptors. Here’s how.

As detailed in Cross-Boundary Disruptors Are The Agents Of Change we see the basis for all R&D and advanced design efforts within a 4 step process of engagement of the XBD process and the 4 necessary steps for utilizing Gorve’s original model for the finialization of R&D and design thinking capabilities allowing new R&D and design products to make their ways into the hands of users. This is just one way advanced design creates advanced users and further R&D benefit.

                               

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How Creatives Influence Industrial Innovation

With over 2000 participants, the question is simple: how do creatives influence innovation? The Answer: Technological Demand via Artisanal Value 

It’s not often that studies of such large size become the basis for specific industrial focus where the intensity of specific output is so clearly articulated. In the case of How Creatives Influence Industrial Innovation we see the basis for how R&D, design, engineering and innovation take place and produce specific outputs that allow for specific breakthroughs to make it to the real world and something to be fully appreciated.  

                               

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What Do Consumers Think of Technological Innovation in New Services Across Multiple Countires? Here’s What.

Often consumer perception drives adoption, and it’s that adoption that is the basis for technological advancement as well as artistic efforts. But how? 

In A Cross-Country Study Of Consumer Innovativeness And Technological Service Innovation we see the basis and toolset for creating a formalized process for the use and value of design, design thinking, R&D and innovation for the benefit of bringing advanced and unproven technologies and service offerings to end users. It is these tools that create the path for firms to move R&D breakthroughs through to the end user. 

                               

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Creative Competency Portfolios – How They Define R&D Success

R&D, Design and Innovation firms are constantly evolving. But how can the right employee mix be identified and constantly motivated? Here’s How. 

  The Competency Portfolio as defined in Creative Competency Portfolios – How They Define an Entire R&D Model outlines the techniques and mechanisms for utilizing the balanced score card approach as well as the innovators dilemma model for innovation and new product development. Through these 2 and several other models defined, we see a full model of how to execute this.  

                               

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Designers Making Tools? How R&D Deals With it.

It’s often assumed that engineers are the ones that make the tools that designers use to apply art to create innovation. But what is the case when this is not the case? Here what.

The prevailing notion is that designers are those who apply art to the science of tools thus producing the value that engineers cannot normally deliver due to their distance from the emotional contortions of complex interactions. There are those that make the car run and those that drive the car to a win in LeMan. But what of the case when the designer is the engineer and the tools that are created are utilized and created in the same capacity?

In Can Experienced Designers Learn From New Tools? A Case Study OfIdea Generation In A Professional Engineering Team we see exactly the mechanisms for utilizing these capabilities and the models that can be utilized to further develop the renaissance persons capabilities thus increasing the value to the efforts put in to such endeavors/ It is these individuals and capabilities defined here that push the boundries of engineering, design and business thus allowing breakthroughs to occur. 

                               

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