Sleepless Over Innovation

What keeps you up at night? Personally I’m troubled by what I read in the news these days – and not just about Iran, North Korea, or even Madoff. I'm worried about product development and innovation.(read more)

Posted by Jackie Cooper on July 2, 2009 at 7:00am
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Announcing CoDev2010

Register by July 17th for CoDev and Open Innovation and save $500.

Deadlines Approaching for Valuable Early Bird Discounts

Register by July 13th  for Product and Technology Roadmapping: Charting the Right Course to Future Growth and Productivity and save $500.

Register by July 31, 2009 for Product Development and R&D Metrics conference and save $500

Five Easy Pieces for Product Developers

User Generated Metrics for Technology Scouting

An April 2009 Technology Scouting (TS) workshop, including representatives from such companies as Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Frito-Lay, Eastman Chemical, Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., brainstormed a list of metrics for Technology Scouting. The exercise supported the observation that metrics are emerging as an increasingly important part of corporate venturing (or open innovation) programs in general and scouting programs in particular. In addition to listing input, output and throughput measures for corporate venturing, the article also compares these metrics to an approach to metrics presented by Nokia at another conference. To read more click here. [requires brief site registration or FastTrack Membership]

Are You Actively Monitoring More than 5 Metrics?

Jump Start Your Technology Scouting Efforts

Are you starting on a Technology Scouting project? Save yourself time and money, get yourself a copy of the Technology Scouting Starter Kit (just $39). Or get it FREE by registering for the top-rated course by Dr. Jay Paap on Technology Scouting before July 1, 2009.

Free Open Innovation Trends Email Newsletter

Management Roundtable and the PDMA will be publishing a free, monthly Open Innovation Trends Newsletter starting in May 2009. You’ll hear the latest thinking in the open innovation community via interviews with top open innovation leaders and leading open innovation experts as well as reviews on current (and past) literature on the topic.  For more information and to subscribe for free, click here.

Get out of the box and into the CUBE!

Demystify and uncomplicate even the toughest product development challenges with the InnovationCUBE.  The InnovationCUBE is a simple, yet deep system of tools and references that help you and your team solve just about any product development challenge and guide difficult decision making. Whether you are trying to improve the customer value of your products and services or looking for a game changing business approach, the InnovationCUBE can help you focus your team to discover the best solutions. Comprised of time tested approaches used by teams from around the world, the CUBE can be used in any phase of your development cycle to reduce wastes and costs, guide project course corrections, uncover new profitable opportunities and address just about any issue in product development. To purchase the InnovationCUBE or for more information, click here.

Nokia's Approach to Technology Scouting

Nokia's "venture capital-like approach" to scouting innovations for new business opportunities includes scanning for opportunities, screening and consolidating the best possibilities, and then validating each of them on both the technology and business sides. Read more here. [requires FastTrack Membership].