3 Behaviors of Everyday Innovators: Product Development and Innovation Training from the News
In this week’s example of product development and innovation training from the news we applaud a recent article…
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Patterns of Innovation: Product Development and Innovation Training Lessons from the News
What if the 1968 “Peter Principle” was right? Does it matter in this century? Laurence J. Peter’s “Principle”…
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How Apple and Others Wisely apply the What-How-Why Pattern to their Value Proposition: Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle Concept
For product developers and innovators, a value proposition is a tool that fundamentally addresses: What are you building…
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The Fundamentals Really Work: Product Development and Innovation Training Lessons from the News
I was intrigued to see a Chicago Tribune’s Blue Sky Innovation column that has pulled together lessons I…
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What Job was your Product Hired to Do?
As a product developer, manager, and innovator, your objective is to uncover the jobs or tasks customers want…
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Need Good Ideas? Hang Out at a Coffee Shop
I was putting the finishing touches on “Turning Ideas into Market-Winning Products” and decided to include a reference…
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How Nike Ran Ahead in Innovation: Product Development and Innovation Training Lessons from the News
When we think of Nike, we think running. We think swoosh. We think shoes. We think digital sports…
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Design Thinking in Inefficient Markets: Product Development and Innovation Lessons from the News
An article in The New York Times managed to pull together and reinforce lessons from two of our…
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How ‘Less’ Becomes New and Better: Product Innovation Training Lessons from the News
Everyone knows the story by now: 3M invented Post-It Notes because a chemical engineer was looking for a…
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The 2014 CES & Innovation: Product Development and Management Training Lessons from the News
The excitement is building for the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show that takes place in Las Vegas January…
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Corporate Culture is Key to Successful Product Development and Innovation: Product Development and Management Training Lessons from the News
As 2013 came to a close, we looked at news items that seem to tie together the idea…
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Meet Bo and Yana: This Week’s Product Development and Innovation Training News
This week’s innovative product development was a delightful surprise: robots developed by Play-i that can teach 5-to-12 year-olds…
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HR 3309–The “Innovation Act” and Patents: Product Development and Innovation Lessons from the News
Innovators beware. There is news this week that bears attention concerning innovators and patents. The Fox Business Small…
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Identifying Emerging Patterns: Product Development and Innovation Lessons from the News
This week’s product development and innovation news features an online video of Harvard’s Clayton Christensen, author of The…
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Ask the Right Question & Design Thinking: Product Development and Innovation Lessons from the News
Since innovations seem to be coming at us at an increasing pace – from the trailblazing iPod-iPhone-iPad products,…
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A Portfolio Management & Leadership Lesson from the World Business Forum, 2013: CEOs for Campbell and Frontier Communications
Each year I look forward to the World Business Forum held in NYC. The collection of business and…
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PIPELINE 2013 “Innovation that Works” No-Cost Online Conference
I hope you are registered for PIPELINE 2013 – the no-cost online innovation conference occurring Thursday, May 16th,…
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Valuable Innovation Lessons from Tim Ferriss’ Recap of 2012 Shopify Build-a-Business Competition: 8 Great Questions
Would companies that went from nothing to grossing more than $300,000 a month catch your attention? If caught…
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10 Experts on How Leaders should Spur Innovation
The Wall Street Journal asked a group of thought leaders “what’s the most important thing leaders can do…
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10 Key Customer Questions
Both the CIL and NPDP certification exams ask about market research principles. The topic of market research can…
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Innovators and Business People
Recently I reread a 2011 article on the “top 20” tech start ups and reflected on how each…
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Making Innovation Work: How to Manage it, Measure it and Profit from it
I just skimmed the latest edition (is being released) of Davila, Epstein, and Shelton’s Making innovation work: How…
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New Product Development: Nordstrom’s Innovation Example
How does innovation happen? Some form of this question is frequently asked. Sometimes I respond with describing the…
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Relax and be More Innovative?
Several years ago I read “Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency” by expert…
