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Innovation Quotes of the Week – May 18, 2013
This week we continue a featured series of some of our favorite innovation-related quotes. Click on author name to link to their article. And, please contribute your favorite innovation quotes in the comments and we'll feature the best submissions in ...Read More | No Comments
Are B2B Companies Slower Adaptors of Open Innovation?
As I am about to do an open innovation session for a B2B company, I got to think about this question once again and since it works well for a good discussion, let me start out with a couple of remarks:
• B2B companies are actually just as good as consum ...Read More | No Comments
Product Thinking
Product costs, without product thinking, drop 2% per year. With product thinking, product costs fall by 50%, and while your competitors’ profit margins drift downward, yours are too high to track by conventional methods. And your company is known for unend ...Read More | No Comments
Improving Returns on your Innovation Investment
I highly value the studies that are undertaken by the larger consulting firms. They have the C-level access and geographical reach to give us some critical insights into the progress of innovation.
Recently Arthur D Little provided their latest innovation ...Read More | No Comments
Barbie and the Curse of Knowledge
Innovation doesn't always come from experts: Beware of the "curse of knowledge"
It's the early 1950s.
Ruth Handler watched her daughter Barbara play with paper dolls, and noticed that she often enjoyed giving them adult roles. At the time, most childre ...Read More | No Comments
Three Innovation Clockspeeds
The pervasive lack of enthusiasm or even awareness of time in regards to innovation is a constant source of amazement for me. In organizations transfixed by time, speed and efficiency, innovation and product development are often the slowest out of the gate, ...Read More | No Comments
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