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Category Archives: Ideation
Pioneers get arrows in their backs…
Pioneers don’t always win: in fact they don’t usually win! The keys to success are luck, persistence, and continual innovation. Continue reading
Social Media and User Research Methods
An engagement/deep knowledge framework to categorize user research methods indicates some likely innovations as social media is employed in innovation. Continue reading
Catch the Wave
How do you catch the wave of technology? Why is Apple so good at it? Ideas from effectuation, Lead Users, probe and learn are considered. Continue reading
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
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: October 2, 2010
Weekly innovation review: does six sigma stop innovation; innovation and constraints; ideas from small fry; and more. 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
Social Media Marketing will Drive Product Innovation
How social media can advance innovation by facilitating customer and user cocreation. Continue reading
Global Innovation Tournament at RU
The entrepreneurship area at Stanford sponsors the GIT annually. Radford decided to participate this year. I was on the committee to run the event and it was the best “service” function I am involved in — beats the daylights out … Continue reading
UIC Innovation Center: NPD Education
A cross-discipline approach to innovation education A week ago Friday the UIC Innovation center held an open house and reception for academics attending the AMA Summer conference in Chicago. Al Page, professor of Marketing at the University of Illinois at … Continue reading
