Product Development

Lessons from Apple on Why Aesthetic Innovation is Important

It’s pretty much impossible to argue with Apple’s success. It’s one of the most valuable companies in the world, and has maintained dominance for its reputation as an innovative company that produces top-of-the-line hardware. Because of its products and brand reputation, Apple has gained a cult following that will buy nearly every new product that emerges, year after year. So why, even with the high price tag, are so many consumers willing to shell out for every new gadget that comes along?

Ideascale2021-12-14T08:13:17-08:00June 22nd, 2017|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: aesthetic innovation, apple, bitcoin, brand driven innovation, branding, case study, Collaboration, demographics, design, independence, innovative companies, Product Development|

Critical Steps to Validate Your Startup’s Business Model

A business plan is at the heart of every business. But instead of just writing down your business plan, your startup’s business model will require proper validation before you start doing business. If you don’t validate it, the investor simply won’t invest. You can validate your business model through three core assumptions: delivering, creating and capturing value.

Ideascale2021-12-14T08:12:15-08:00June 20th, 2017|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Best Practices, business canvas model, business model, business plan, churn, customer engagement, feedback, in-depth article, market research, minimum viable product, Product Development, revenue, startup, validation, value, value creation, value proposition|

Why Your Business Transformations Fail

Ambitious and impractical business schemes can often lack the fundamental elements needed to make them a reality, leaving huge expense and casualties of the blame game in their wake. The business world is littered with the remnants of unrealised programs and unsuccessful plans for development, several of them so high profile as to have attracted national notoriety.

Ideascale2021-12-14T08:07:10-08:00June 6th, 2017|Categories: Enabling Factors, Leadership|Tags: business model, Business Model Innovation, business practice, Communication, Failure, Ideation, lessons learned, planning, Product Development, program management, project management, research, scaling|

How to Get Your Innovative Idea off the Ground in the Current Economic Climate

Incredibly, business confidence in the UK is continuing to rise, despite the spectre of Brexit and its potential implications on citizens. Many experts have attribute this to the growth of the manufacturing sector, which recorded a Credit Manager's Index (CMI) score of 62.7 during the first quarter of 2017 and a 1.5% increase from the previous quarter. This hints at significant growth potential for product-oriented firms, which are currently able to increase exports due to a more competitively priced (and fundamentally weaker) pound.

Ideascale2021-12-14T08:06:33-08:00June 1st, 2017|Categories: Trend Alert|Tags: brexit, Collaboration, collaborative innovation, Communication, economy, financial strategy, front end of innovation, fundraising, innovation process, Innovation Strategy, innovation success, partnership, Product Development, product pricing|

How Does your Business Stand to Benefit from Big Data?

Big data is becoming increasingly vital to business scaling and competition. In this article, we’ll introduce you to the three V’s of big data - volume, velocity, and variety - and discuss the many ways your company can benefit from incorporating big data into decision making, product development, audience analysis, and much more.

Ideascale2021-12-14T07:42:20-08:00March 22nd, 2017|Categories: Strategies|Tags: analytics, big data, business development, business intelligence, Competition, data analysis, data architecture, data security, decision making, decision making product development, Product Development, risk analysis, scaling|

How to Make Your Design Thinking Program Turn Into Something Real

Why do a large part of the design thinking projects in the corporate world never pass through the prototype phase? In recent years I’ve been involved with many design thinking initiatives. Many of them related to the development of new products inside large companies in industries such as finance, health, education and consumer goods.

Ideascale2021-12-14T06:36:32-08:00February 14th, 2017|Categories: Life Cycle Processes, Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: Creativity, design, design thinking, front end of innovation, Ideation, IDEO, Innovation Culture, innovation method, Innovation Strategy, methodology, Product Development, prototype, prototyping, rapid design processes|

Rebuild Personas According to Your Next Product Innovation

Using personas in your design thinking framework is important, but are the results satisfying and clear? In this article, Product Innovation Manager Alex Igor Sanghikian discusses the Adjacent Possibilities framework for product management. By exclusively focusing on your persona’s one main need and trying hard to fulfill that need with your product, you can build the next feature with a more focused vision.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:16:45-08:00January 5th, 2017|Categories: Enabling Factors, Strategies|Tags: adjacent possibilities, brainstorm, buyer personas, customer engagement, customer need, design sprint, design thinking, empathy, hidden needs, personas, Product Development, product innovation, product management, prototyping, unmet needs, voice of customer|

Involving Citizens in Government Product Development

The election of 2016 will certainly be one for the history books. Regardless of your political leanings, there was one sure thing to celebrate during this election cycle. The Innovate Your State Fix California Challenge—a crowdsourcing campaign aimed at promoting public participation in order to determine ways to improve government—had an initiative on the ballot in California!

Rob Hoehn2021-12-07T16:14:46-08:00December 19th, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, News, Strategies|Tags: california, challenge driven innovation, citizen engagement, Crowdsourcing, government product development, open government, Product Development, proposition 54, public sector, public sector innovation, smart cities, transparency, USA|

Disruption Planning 2- Creating Options and Pathways

In this in-depth article Haydn Shaughnessy discusses why traditional ROI decision making is becoming irrelevant and how options planning is a key element of competitiveness. In these uncertain times firms need to recognise and analyse their options thoroughly in order to be ready for inevitable change.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:14:26-08:00December 6th, 2016|Categories: In-Depth Article, Strategies|Tags: apple, blue ocean strategy, Business Model Innovation, business plan, case study, Change Management, decision making, digital era, digital platform, disruption, disruptive innovation, google, horizontal innovators, idea management, in-depth article, Innovation Culture, innovation planning, innovation skills, Innovation Strategy, IoT, opportunity, options planning, platform, Platform Disruption, platform transformation, process innovation, Product Development, product pipeline, ROI, service innovation, steve jobs, transformation|

Leap Innovation: a Strategy to Get Ahead and Stay Relevant

The importance of innovation for organizations to remain competitive is widely discussed and well accepted by scholars and practicing managers. However, failures in innovation attempts are quite common and raise many questions. Why do firms with innovative products fail? Does market acceptance of innovations alone guarantee continuous success? Is it innovation strategy that can ensure long-term prosperity? One can argue that it is not only how to innovate that matters, but also where, what and when to innovate that make the difference.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:10:34-08:00November 29th, 2016|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Business Model Innovation, Competition, Failure, first-mover, focus, incremental innovation, innovation success, leap innovation, process innovation, Product Development, sustainable growth, value, value proposition|

How is Crowdsourcing Uniquely Beneficial to Technologists

Innovation proves vital for companies across industries, but carries key importance in the technology field. Mainstream perception of the tech industry conjures illustrations of cutting edge, never-before-seen products poised to disrupt and revolutionize daily lives.

Rob Hoehn2021-12-07T16:06:48-08:00November 7th, 2016|Categories: Strategies|Tags: business development, Crowdsourcing, idea management, Ideation, industry innovation, Product Development, product management, social innovation, speed to market, Technology, time-to-market, voice of customer, white paper|

Getting Connected Products Right

Why do so many companies seem to be sitting on the sidelines when it comes to creating connected products and designing services that tie into them? The cost of adding wireless connectivity to a device is plummeting toward $1. Projections about how many Internet of Things (IoT) objects will be part of our lives, at work or at home, range from 12 billion by 2020 (Cisco) to 50 billion (Ericsson and Intel).

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:23:26-07:00October 11th, 2016|Categories: Report, Strategies|Tags: case study, download, enterprise innovation, in-depth article, Internet of things, IoT, Product Development, report, research, Technology|

Product Innovation of a Trolley: A 3-step Journey

Consider the world’s most ingeniously designed products. Whether it’s your smartphone, your favorite racing bike or a nifty robotic lawn mower – they all have a one thing in common: rather than being conceived overnight, they were shaped by a series of consecutive, systematic innovations. But how does such a structured product innovation approach look? This CREAX project illustrates the ins and outs.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:03:46-08:00September 27th, 2016|Categories: Strategies|Tags: brainstorm, idea management, innovation roadmap, Innovation Strategy, Problem Solving, Product Development, product innovation, product line roadmapping, prototyping|

A Roadmap for Building Corporate Innovation Capabilities

What should a roadmap that helps you develop corporate innovation capabilities look like? How do you bring new thoughts and approaches together with current and past initiatives (both successes and failures) and turn this into a single framework? How do you keep pushing and developing your organization to become more flexible and agile without losing out on the current overall efforts and expected results?

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:01:13-08:00September 22nd, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, Leadership, Strategies|Tags: capabilities, Communication, corporate innovation, enterprise innovation, goal setting, innovation governance, innovation roadmap, Innovation Strategy, leadership, Product Development, R&D, resources, roadmap, Success, talent management|

The Next Level of Open Innovation: Is Your Organization Ready?

Getting started with open innovation and developing the right foundation for open innovation has been a key challenge at many companies in the last three to five years. Now, internal as well as external forces are moving these companies towards the next level of open innovation in which we go beyond just products and technology and start to explore how a more open and collaborative mindset can be applied to all more business units and functions. Think procurement and engineering as examples.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:01:07-08:00September 13th, 2016|Categories: Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Change Management, culture change, executive sponsor, industry innovation, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, innovation training, leadership, Open Innovation, Product Development, transparency|