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What is inconvenient about assembling your product?
When you think of “ease of assembly”, you normally don’t think of furniture. The first challenge in trying to figure out how to get the pieces home before you can event start. Then you have to decipher the instructions only to end up with something that doesn’t look like what you saw in the store an
Could I offer my product at 5 times the cost? FedEx Did!
Killer Question #17: Could I offer my product at 5 times the cost if it had greater feature/function?
What do people not like about the process of purchasing my product?
I’m a firm believer that better questions result in better ideas which lead to better innovations. So what are some of these killer questions? Over the years, I’ve collected a list of +75 questions that breakthrough the fog and help individuals and teams come up with killer ideas. One such question
What drives that fear that kills innovation?
Innovations are rejected for how they make make people feel long before they are reviewed on their merits. Why is it? Any new idea solicits a reaction from the people who are in decision path to approve and fund the development. The most common of emotions is fear. Fear is an interesting emotion.
Small Businesses Will Be Key For The Economic Recovery
I’m an eternal optimist when it comes to the ability of people to create innovations – especially when we find ourselves at our greatest need. This drive to solve problems is a prime catalyst for entrepreneurs who are the ones behind small businesses. So are entrepreneurs better at innovating than
A different outlook on the economic downturn ….
With the recent economic downturn, the world is changing. More and more people are waking up to the new reality that they don’t understand the fundamentals of the new economy. What drives share price? What has changed? What makes up share price? Over the last twenty years, we have seen the decrea
In the news: HP’S ‘chief seer’
Over the years, there have been more interviews than I can count with a wide range of media. In some cases, the press give you a nickname such as the ‘chief seer’. The following is a collection of questions from an interview with the San Jose Mercury News. So here are the answers to the […]
Here Is The Metric That Can Predict Future Innovation Value
How do you measure the productivity of your innovation investment? The goal of any R&D organization is to conceive, develop and deliver product and/or services that customers will highly value and therefore be willing to pay a margin premium. The challenge is that the standard metric for innovation
Showing the future at the Disneyland Dream Home
How do you show what’s possible in the future? You could always write a report or create a PowerPoint. I’m a big believer in making the future seem real … How? By putting the users into the future today by creating an immersive experience. Let them see, touch, smell, taste the future today. A fe
The Interns Are Back!!
Yes … I’m doing the “experiment” again by having two of my summer interns stay with me. Based on last summers experience (Start, End, Intern Post), I decided to repeat it again … So far, we have one intern already in the house (Senior from Virginia Tech) with the second one arrive in the next […]
