Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 22, 2016

In the next step, comparing the current product development with the newfound perceptions of the future allows for improvement. Creating Breakthrough Product Through Collaborative Play , Addison-Wesley 2007, 56-61. For more details consult “Remember the Future. A day in the life.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Eric Yuan, the founder of Zoom, was one of the first 20 employees of WebEx that was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007. While the leaders clearly see new product development as the best market entry strategy, that sentiment is clearly not shared by a large majority of others within the organization. The idea was rejected.

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IdeaSpies

AUGUST 31, 2018

They were inventors of the 20th Century; many of which gave rise to the said products. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Now, how about these? They were also inventors, but of the 21st Century.

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

They were inventors of the 20th Century; many of which gave rise to the said products. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Now, how about these? They were also inventors, but of the 21st Century.

Software Review 57

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 57

IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

They were inventors of the 20th Century; many of which gave rise to the said products. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Now, how about these? They were also inventors, but of the 21st Century.

Software Review 57

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 57

Values Centered Innovation

MARCH 17, 2017

In a 2007 McKinsey Quarterly article on “Leadership and Innovation,” the authors made it quite clear that “Innovation is a core driver of growth, performance and valuation.” The leaders in Product Development? Organization Development? Part 1 of 3: Innovation is the core driver to meet critical business needs. Operations?

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etventure

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Digitization requires a change of perspective – away from engineering-based perfectionism and toward rapid, agile product development that uses startup methods. When Apple presented the iPhone in 2007, “digitization found its most visible expression yet,” writes the paper’s editor, Guido Bohsem.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A 2007 study by M. Most corporate business functions – new product development (NPD), quality, sales, R&D, marketing, etc. Many companies succumb and invest in showy innovation activities (see this article for some humorous examples). But the CEO’s words to the shareholders often reveal a deeper truth. Prabhu, & R.

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Matthew Griffin

MAY 26, 2015

Over the next ten years Apple sold over 320 million iPods and as they introduced more products such as the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2009 which, at the time of publishing this article, have both respectively sold 421 million and 170 million units their annual revenues grew from $5 Billion to an eye watering $171 Billion.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, Research in Motion (RIM) was a major player in a worldwide market that sold about one billion cell phones annually (the term “smartphone” was new). Would it have a new product development or innovation process? Would that company invest in R&D? Conduct market research?

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Gijs Van Wulfen

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The start of innovation is described by Wikipedia as the messy getting started period of a new product development process. It is in the front end where the organization formulates a concept of the product or service to be developed and decides whether or not to invest resources in the further development of an idea [i].

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