Qmarkets

JULY 11, 2024

The concept of crowdsourcing, coined by Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson in a 2006 Wired article , has revolutionized how businesses and organizations solve problems and innovate. The platform encouraged participants to propose ideas across various areas, including product development, marketing, and sustainability.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

To describe EC, I’ll borrow its “classic” 2006 definition by Jeff Howe as an act of taking a job traditionally performed inside the firm and outsourcing it to a large (and usually undefined) group of people in the form of an open call. When speaking about crowdsourcing, I’ll be talking about two forms of it: External crowdsourcing (EC).

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Innovation 360 Group

APRIL 1, 2016

The 16 overall aspects grouping the 67 core capabilities driving innovation (the 16 aspects is based upon the 12 way of innovating by Sawhney, Wolcott and Arroniz, 2006 ). Examples are all the companies with a structured new product development (NPD) process.

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Innovation 360

APRIL 1, 2016

The 16 overall aspects grouping the 67 core capabilities driving innovation (the 16 aspects is based upon the 12 way of innovating by Sawhney, Wolcott and Arroniz, 2006 ). Examples are all the companies with a structured new product development (NPD) process.

Learning 40

Learning Company Artificial Inteligence Innovation 40

New Markets Advisors

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Shopify launched its eCommerce platform in 2006 to help businesses build an online presence and avoid becoming overly dependent on Amazon. Forcing people to change the way they behave can be hard. Instead of trying to swim against the tide, it’s easier to unveil solutions that fit with what people are already doing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A decade ago, the Mach 3 razor was Gillette’s premium offering for men, until the Fusion line was launched in 2006 at a 40% price increase, followed by the Fusion ProGlide in 2010 and the Fusion Proshield Flexball in 2016—to name a few of the brand’s major releases.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

In IBM's 2006 jam, the company assembled 150,000 people from 104 countries and 67 client companies. Ford reengineered its global product development process so that an engineering plan designed in Detroit can drive the shop floor in a European factory.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

B&Q (winner of the 2006 “Age Positive Retailer of the Year” Award) says that it hires for soft skills , such as conscientiousness, enthusiasm and customer rapport, which senior workers also seem to show in abundance, while Home Depot famously looks to older store clerks for the experience-based know-how that customers demand.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 7, 2008

Video games have become sophisticated creations that can take years to develop, weeks to play, and days to go platinum. billion dollar market (NPD Group 2006) continues to grow as game franchises have extended into books, graphic novels, films, merchandise, and communities of devotees.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

We term these product launches “minivations” and they are the result of product developers who don’t realize just how much value their offerings would provide to customers. Another noteworthy minivation was Audi’s Q7 luxury SUV, launched in 2006 for €55,000. How do you so?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects. In 2006 alone, Nokia introduced 39 new mobile-device models.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Our findings are similar to those of a 2006 survey of HR leaders on training of virtual teams, suggesting that while technology and virtual work itself has advanced dramatically in recent years, our preparation to work virtually has not.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

The crazy solution: Brandeau asked Disney Animation (Disney bought Pixar in 2006) if the studio could borrow 250 computers, an idea someone initially called “insane.” How to Brand a Next-Generation Product. Developing the Global Leader. Read more from Harvard Business School Executive Education: How to Spot a Liar.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

MasterCard IPO’d in 2006, and Visa followed two years later. By the mid 2000s MasterCard and Visa were handling trillions of dollars of transactions between consumers and merchants around the world. Then the banks decided to turn the associations into for-profit companies, IPO them, and cash out.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

It was a problem regardless of brand, formula, or product — until Atis set her sights on solving it once and for all. In 2006, when the company launched a new line of foundations intended to address a wider variety of skin tones, Atis saw that they still didn’t measure up. It lit a fire under her.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The crazy solution: Brandeau asked Disney Animation (Disney bought Pixar in 2006) if the studio could borrow 250 computers, an idea someone initially called “insane.” How to Brand a Next-Generation Product. Developing the Global Leader. Read more from Harvard Business School Executive Education: How to Spot a Liar.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

It wasn''t until 2006 that Bill Ford (Henry''s great grandson) and the board of directors found a leader that understood the Ford narrative and knew how to act Ford-like again. And it is about working with people throughout the enterprise to apply the story to their area of specialization: product development, HR, sales, and, yes, marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

Back in 2006, McDonald’s saw its growth stall. Justin Case/Getty Images. The fast-food chain decided that the problem was its limited menu, so it tried out a great many new items and ended up doubling the offerings. But sales hardly budged. Finally, in 2016, it took a new tack.

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hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

That is the lesson learned at Lego — just in time,” says David Robertson, Professor of Practice teaching Innovation and Product Development at Wharton. Nintendo’s simple and intuitive Wii (released in 2006) was hugely successful. Controlled innovation has clearly worked. His book Brick by Brick is a must read.).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2011

There is absolutely no reason why the contractors shouldn't be able to give us rapid product development and flawless products — speed and quality both," David MacDonagle said as he tried to light a cigarette. Since 2006, she'd been managing the two contractors the CAA had commissioned to build the $1.2

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

With the acquisition of Pixar by Walt Disney in 2006, Catmull became president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar. Collaboration Creativity Leadership Managing people Product development' In his new book Creativity, Inc.

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