These ideas are still fresh (which is another way of saying that they are unfinished), so take with a grain of salt.
Apparently there’s gold rush over there in India and China. They want stuff, lots of stuff, and we only just have to sell it to them. Well not so fast there Tex. […]

I have for a long time believed in the integrated new product development (iNPD) model Jonathan Cagan and Craig Vogel present in “Creating Breakthrough Products.” This model shatters traditional functional silos in favour of a balanced integration between the design, engineering and marketing disciplines. This integration results in products of higher value, and […]

In my effort to ripoff myself, I thought I’d start by outlining what i mean by innovation and other related terms.
My working definition of innovation refers to a capitalization on new business opportunities through new products, services, processes or experiences (collectively referred to simply as product hereafter). New ideas that cannot be tied to […]

My last post got me thinking about the question of getting to market first versus getting to market right. The oft parroted common wisdom is that to succeed you need to get your thing to market first. I generally skeptical of anything oft parroted. Sure the early bird gets the worm, but […]

A while back on cph127 Adam Richardson of frog raised the issue of wicked problems. I’m really glad he brought it up because I’ve always felt they are central to design as a professional practice. Curiously though there isn’t much talk in design circles about them.
In “Making Use,” John Carroll offers […]

Part 1: Definitions (10/23)
Part 2: iNPD model (11/06)
Part 3: Innovation Matrix - Categories of Innovation (11/24)
Part 4: Innovation Matrix - Areas of Innovation
Part 5: Innovation Matrix - Overall
Part 6: Process
I see 9 distinct areas companies can innovate in. These 9 areas organize into 2 broad groups I call Customer Experience and Organization Capacity (please […]

Part 1: Definitions (10/23)
Part 2: iNPD model (11/06)
Part 3: Innovation Matrix - Categories of Innovation
Part 4: Innovation Matrix - Areas of Innovation (01/05)
Part 5: Innovation Matrix - Overall
Part 6: Process
Not all innovations are created equal. And likewise not all innovations should be treated equally. So in order to succeed different kinds of innovations […]

This is the first part of what I think will be a 5 part series to build a crude theory of innovation. Ironically, there is nothing terribly novel about any of the individual ideas in I’m presenting here—and perhaps I’m even misusing the word innovation. I do hope however that my integration of […]