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Category Archives: experiential innovation
Innovation Week 2/19/2011: Users in innovation?
Do users have a role to play in really innovative new product development? A disccussion of pros and cons that draws on the ideas of von Hippel, Sarasvathy and others. Also discussions on the clout of Klout, and social media marketing. Continue reading
It’s hard to be a Cannibal!
Cannibalism and innovation: Disruptive innovation may require a firm to harm existing products. This may explain why Apple, not Sony introduced the iPod. Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, cannibalize, Clayton Christensen, David Aaker, disruptive innovation, iPod, Sony, Walkman
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Contextual Knowledge and Sticky Information
For innovation the contextual knowledge and sticky information of users may be the most important data: data that can only be accessed with invasive research techniques such as probe and learn, ethnograhic, experimentation, and effectuation. Continue reading
The Servant as Innovator?
Servant leadership may help an organization reach its innovative potential. Continue reading
Innovation Week in Review – Oct 30, 2010
Review of innovation: effectuation, creativity, small companies, and privacy. Continue reading
Effectuation and Innovation I: avoid market research
Efffectuation is a prescription for innovating when the risk is unknown and unknowable. When outcomes and probabilities are unknowable an entrepreneur: enters a market based on his/her knowledge, experience and networks; keeps investments small to retain future options; and plans to shape the development of the nascent market with the help of customers and stakeholders. Continue reading
Innovation Week in Review – Oct 23, 2010
Friday research issue: Real-time market data not market research! Most of my twitter community seemed to approve of these themes. A couple sharp readers noted The Gap as perhaps a counter-example I attended the annual PDMA conference last week and … Continue reading
Innovation: Week in Review Sept 18, 2010
Interesting articles, blogs and tweets on innovation that came to my attention this week: Innovation in Education I focused my Friday tweets on issues in education. Many twitter friends seemed to agree that innovation is especially hard in education because … Continue reading
Limited Wisdom of Crowds?
Nicholas G. Carr wrote an excellent article, “The Ignorance of Crowds,” about the limitation of crowd-sourcing or open source software. He focuses on the experience of Linux and Wikipedia. The masses primarily serve as bug-fixers for Linux, whose development is closely managed … Continue reading
Cola Co-creation
Coca-cola has developed new dispensing machines that contain up to thirty flavors that can produce up to 100 different types of soda. The machines can be reset realtime and communicate so that coke can introduce a new soft drink and … Continue reading
