This blog is all about making product developers, managers, and innovators more successful and their organizations successful with them. As I do each week, below is a roundup of articles around the web with insightful product development, management, and innovation practices, tips, and examples – and sometimes controversial ideas.

Around the Web

3 practices for harnessing innovation in the workplace. “An innovative workplace requires a leader who can provide the right combination of people, processes and focus. Leadership experts offered their tips for finding and harnessing innovation in any company or industry.” Read more from Business News Daily http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/6535-workplace-innovation.html

Interesting engineering and design examples to spur innovation. Several products highlighted in the Bluelarix Design e-Magazine, May issue. “In this issue: Bionics – Next Generation Limbs, Bird Photo Booth, Shady Lamp, Magne Hinge, SSSSSpeaker and more.” Read more from Bluelarix http://www.bluelarix.com/newsletters/1405/int_newsletter.html

Reconsidering “what it is” as a starting point for innovation – insights from designing a bicycle. “At the end of a two-week churn we had five complete, but very different bike concepts.” Read more from Fast Company http://www.fastcoexist.com/3031140/the-ultimate-urban-utility-bike/discovering-the-universal-truths-of-a-bicycle

Christensen and Porter take different positions on disruptive innovation at universities. “The question: Should Harvard Business School enter the business of online education, and, if so, how? ….For Clayton Christensen, whose 1997 book, ‘The Innovator’s Dilemma,’ propelled him to academic stardom, the only way that market leaders like Harvard Business School survive ‘disruptive innovation’ is by disrupting their existing businesses themselves.” Read more from the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/business/business-school-disrupted.html

10 marketing communication best practices for launching a product. “To ensure the successful rollout of a new product—and to prove to upper management that you’re their shining star—you need an unbeatable line of attack. Here are 10 best practices to keep top of mind…” Read more from Business2Community http://www.business2community.com/product-management/10-best-practices-launching-product-0903648

Disruptive innovation lessons from Uber. “I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential.” Read more from http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/whats-holding-uber-back/

What innovators need to understand about creating vision. “So what is the root cause for this tendency to resist creativity and not implement change? I suggest there is one primary root cause: the design of organizations. Read more from B2C http://www.business2community.com/strategy/vision-declaration-just-0896596

Innovation strategy for big companies that play to their advantages. “The point here is that breakthrough innovation need not be random: How you innovate determines what you innovate. Luck plays a role, but it favors the prepared mind.” Read more from Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-05/the-innovation-strategy-big-companies-should-pursue.html

 

From this Blog – The Everyday Innovator™, official blog of Product Mastery Now

3 Tips for Innovation Inspiration: Product Development and Innovation Lesson from the News.  “Innovation relies on inspiration. Keeping yourself motivated to find new sources of inspiration and creativity management is integral in your formula to success. Enjoy these tips to finding new inspiration.” Read more from my blog http://www.productmasterynow.com/blog/3-tips-for-innovation-inspiration-product-development-and-innovation-lesson-from-the-news/