von godehardg | Dez 1, 2015 | Allgemein, Blog, Innovation, Product Management
Trade magazines and blogs are chock full of “5 Ways to Improve Innovation…” articles. We couldn’t help but make up a list of our own. Here it is: 1. Focus on Customers Instead of Technology 2. Align Business and Innovation Strategies 3. Set up X-Functional Innovation...
von godehardg | Nov 26, 2015 | Allgemein, Blog, Innovation, Product Management
I could not help but think of the (in)famous European Song Contest, when I – spurred by a recent conversation during one of my Design Thinking Workshops – plotted the worldwide interest in recent innovation methods using Google Trends. As you can tell from...
von godehardg | Jul 6, 2015 | Allgemein, Blog, Innovation, Product Management
There is a common belief, that innovation is largely driven by creativity and – as an outcome – ideas. While ideas are undoubtedly important, we would contend that in most companies there is no shortage of them. The far bigger challenge seems to be to...
von godehardg | Jun 16, 2015 | Allgemein, Blog, Innovation, Product Management
This morning’s “Handelsblatt” – in an article commenting on the dismal market performance of electric cars – concludes: “Innovations can’t be prescribed.” Quite to the contrary: Innovations have to be desired by and provide benefits to users to become...
von godehardg | Jun 12, 2015 | Allgemein, Blog, Innovation, Product Management
In my role as advisor and coach to a number of early stage companies, I see quite a few great ideas and technologies being developed. Many of them feel exciting even to a tech veteran like me. And they look like perfectly plausible solutions to a perceived or assumed...
