Japan’s Quality from Borrowed Ideas—Deming and Lean Six Sigma Good Enough?
The impression that Japan’s quality from borrowed ideas out of the practice of quality lesson of Dr. Deming and Lean Six Sigma appears to be misleading. The reality is far…
Design & Redesign Thinking
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Sustaining Innovation Failure of Walkman
Both successes and failures of innovations are not magical. Innovations are like spaceships. They need bursts of thrusts around innovative features to remain on course–to keep getting deeper into the…
Incremental Innovation of Smartphone Camera—grown as sustaining and disruptive innovation
The challenge for winning with innovation is not about generating a flow of ideas and engaging in random experimentation. Instead, the challenge is systematically ferreting out value from the market…
Design Thinking for Innovation
Design thinking for innovation is more than innovating completely new products and experimenting with them in the market. Instead, it is about systematically generating ideas from strategic areas for nurturing,…
Walkman to iPod—revealing pattern
Magical emergence and evolution of Walkman to iPod is the outcome of applying clear thinking in generating ideas and profiting from them. There are underlying patterns beneath the magical success…
Systematically Generating Innovative Ideas
Despite the immense importance, innovation productivity has been a growing concern. Firms need to have higher productivity, and also predictability in innovation performance–making products better and also cheaper. The challenge…
Questioning Subtraction Practice in Innovation
Subtracting features for making products simpler does not appear to be a smart innovation practice. It runs the risk of failing to compete and sustain in the market. Hence, there…
Entering into Innovation Economy through Redesign—A prescription for aspiring developing countries
Often we perceive innovation as the magical outcome of creative minds. For entering into an innovation economy, should we wait for the emergence of creative genius? If it is an…
Innovation Magic through Ideas of Redesign
Neither Apple nor Nichia invented a smartphone or a light bulb. But how have they created tremendous innovation success stories in these products? How to create such a remarkable opportunity…