von godehardg | Dez 8, 2015 | Allgemein, Blog, Innovation, Product Management
Observing my student’s innovation project presentations yesterday, I was once again suprised how powerful Design Thinking actually is in spawning innovative solutions. Even if it’s only applied to such seemingly mundane problems as the “improvements to brewing tea...
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...