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Beyond Design Thinking: How Emerging Technologies Propel Product Innovation

Design thinking has been widely celebrated for helping innovators design products that resonate with consumers’ needs. It gives the impression that Innovation is about art. Anyone with empathy and creativity…

Diminishing smartphone design trade-offs challenges innovators to meet latent consumer preferences in getting all conceivable jobs to be sone with seamless experience

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Diminishing Smartphone Design Trade-offs: Unlimited Possibilities in Meeting Latent Preferences

In recent years, the rapid evolution of technology has led to diminishing smartphone design trade-offs. Traditionally, design trade-offs were an inevitable part of the smartphone purchasing decision. For instance, if…

For evolving innovations, design thinking should leverage modular designs, software updates, third-party plugins, and reconfigurable hardware options

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Evolving Innovation: Enhancing Products to Meet Unfolding Consumer Needs

In a recent Harvard Business Review Article, Vijay Govindarajan, Tojin T. Eapen, and Daniel J. Finkenstadt challenge design thinking—”Design Products That Won’t Become Obsolete.” As technology advances, consumer expectations evolve with a…

Design Thinking Skills should be augmented with winning strategy and a flow of scientific knowledge for creating innovation success in the competitive market

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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…

Steve Jobs' innovation secret has been reinvention

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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 through quality management practice out of the lesson of Deming and Six Sigma is an oversimplification of the reality

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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…

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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 has grown as the core area for sustaining smartphones in competition, and to cause disruption

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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…

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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 evolution reveals a pattern of systematic thinking of Apple's design team in generating ideas for showing innovation magic

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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…

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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…

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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,…

Design & Redesign Thinking

Beyond Design Thinking: How Emerging Technologies Propel Product Innovation

Diminishing Smartphone Design Trade-offs: Unlimited Possibilities in Meeting Latent Preferences

Evolving Innovation: Enhancing Products to Meet Unfolding Consumer Needs

Design Thinking Skills – for winning innovation race

Steve Jobs’ Innovation Secret: Reinvention from Refinement of Borrowed Ideas

Japan’s Quality from Borrowed Ideas—Deming and Lean Six Sigma Good Enough?

Sustaining Innovation Failure of Walkman

Incremental Innovation of Smartphone Camera—grown as sustaining and disruptive innovation

Design Thinking for Innovation

Walkman to iPod—revealing pattern

Systematically Generating Innovative Ideas

Questioning Subtraction Practice in Innovation

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