by Adam Malofsky | Sep 20, 2017 | Innovation |
A 2014 Forbes article on innovation metrics strongly implies that measuring activities is critical to success. Maybe. Maybe not so much. At least for the big stuff. Innovation activities simply for the sake of doing something without context and insight from the...
by Adam Malofsky | Sep 20, 2017 | Consumer, Innovation, Invention, Technology |
Eric Ries has done some seminal work with innovation and product development – a simplification and clarity sorely needed today. His work is powerful for a simplified process and approach that while the steps are minimal they are meant to be highly iterative versus...
by Adam Malofsky | Sep 20, 2017 | Innovation |
Open Innovation. It’s one thing that the word innovation has been bludgeoned to death. It’s another when extra words are added as if a new wonder drug has been found to cure all of new product blues. Just do this and all is cured. Open Innovation is a...
by Adam Malofsky | Sep 19, 2017 | Consumer, Industrial, Innovation |
This is the second in our series of the how to of Adaptive Innovation – moving from insights and product abstractions to transformative commercial platforms and their specific products. As we’ve noted before, context is king. No context – and the insights that...
by Adam Malofsky | Sep 19, 2017 | Consumer, Innovation, Invention |
Big ideas – where do they come from? How can we generate them? How can develop impactful ideas – the ones that translate in winning products and services? How can we do that persistently, repeatedly…even predictably… In our view, historically...
by Adam Malofsky | Sep 19, 2017 | Consumer, Innovation |
We just don’t tell great stories anymore. We don’t teach how to. We don’t understand their importance. We tell our friends great stories, or at least we like to think that we do. We regale them of our college exploits, the crazed fun of youth, those first momentarily...