Design Thinking Skills – for winning innovation race
Besides the good acceptance of design thinking skills for human-centric Innovation, why is a record number of Startups failing? Why are innovators suffering from the burn of the failure of…
Design & Redesign Thinking
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Steve Jobs’ Innovation Secret: Reinvention from Refinement of Borrowed Ideas
Steve Jobs magical innovation success has roots in reinvention of existing products out of refinement of borrowed ideas.
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…
Sustaining Innovation Failure of Walkman
Upon the sale of 400 million Walkman music players, what happened to it? Why did the Walkman become obsolete? Both successes and failures of innovations are not magical. Innovations are…
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
The 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…
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 itself in the market. Hence,…
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 the light bulb. But how have they created tremendous Innovation success stories in these products? How to create such a remarkable opportunity…