Category Archives: NSD Process

Innovation in Higher Ed: Who is the customer?

Innovation in education is difficult due to the divisions that make cross-discipline cooperation rare as well as a lack of focus on the user. Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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CEO as chief storyteller

More on the importance of storytelling for innovation: RT: @GuyKawasaki Chief Storytelling Officer: why CEOs need to be great storytellers. http://trkk.us/?bSG This is a followup on an earlier post: http://servicecocreation.com/2009/06/08/storytime/

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Weird Al Update

The Internet Changes Everything The internet changes the song parody business. Through digital release of a song or video an entertainer can parody a song that is still on top of the charts… Weird Al’s first release on iTunes sold … Continue reading

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Why do users collaborate??

Every firm has an IP unit that is looking to protect and harvest the ideas generated within the organization. Patent Trolls are infamous in software and other high tech areas. Why then are users willing to collaborate with firms and … Continue reading

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All NPD is Service Innovation

I have thought since I first read the Vargo and Lusch argument for a “new dominant logic of marketing” (JM 2004) that an obvious corollary to their declaration that “all marketing is service marketing” is that: All New Product Development is Service Innovation. A posting … Continue reading

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PDMA thoughts: Service and Innovation

I have delayed my summary of the PDMA Research Conference, but hopefully the delay helps with perspective… (sound like an ad-hoc rationalization?) The two major themes that still resonate with me a couple weeks later are the call by Gerald … Continue reading

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“Fuzzy Rear-End of Service Development”

In today’s post I review some thoughts from the service innovation section of the PDMA Annual Research Conference this past weekend. As noted in Monday’s post, a highlight was an insight provided by Dr. Susan Hart: unlike standard models of … Continue reading

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