Innovation
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Muji
Engaging Customers to Help with Product Design
by Patricia SeyboldMuji—a well-known retail brand in Japan—has integrated customer input and suggestions into its core business operations. Muji encourages customers to submit product design ideas and to comment and vote on each others' ideas. -
Staples
Customers Help Bring a Customer Experience Promise to Life
by Patricia SeyboldStaples, the office supplies retailer, has outpaced its competition by deeply understanding what its target customers—small business office supplies buyers—really care about. -
Making Outside Innovation the “Path of Least Resistance” in Your Organization
A Blueprint for Harnessing Customer-Led Innovation
by Patricia SeyboldOrganizations that are doing a great job of harnessing their customers’ creativity to fuel innovation have five practices in common. You can leapfrog your competition by taking these five steps. -
Mozilla Firefox
Supporting Innovation and Choice by Moving Software to Open Source
by Patricia SeyboldFor anyone interested in understanding how to engage customers in co-designing a new product of any kind, the story of Mozilla Firefox provides some great best practices. -
Koko Fitness
Discovering Baby Boomers’ Health and Fitness Issues
by Patricia SeyboldKoko Fitness is a new start-up company that was designed from the outside in—starting with customers’ desired outcomes. -
National Instruments
A 30-Year History of Enabling Customer Innovation
by Patricia SeyboldNational Instruments fosters customer-driven innovation in many ways. -
Introduction to Outside Innovation
The Outside Innovation Imperative
by Patricia SeyboldThe outside innovation process involves engaging with lead users and lead customers in a variety of roles to create new products, processes, and business models. There are 7 ways in which outside innovation differs from traditional innovation processes. -
Customer Scenario® Design: An Approach for Outside Innovation
Co-Designing Your Business with Your Customers
by Patricia SeyboldHere are the fundamentals of Customer Scenario Mapping, our methodology for outside-in co-design. -
Lego Mindstorms NXT
Powered by Customers’ Inventiveness
by Patricia SeyboldLEGO® MINDSTORMS™ has been Lego’s highest revenue producing product. It was developed (and enhanced) by Lego’s customers. -
Zopa Case Study: How Zopa Is Creating a New Financial Services Exchange
Peer-to-Peer Lending and Borrowing for “Freeformers”
by Patricia SeyboldHere’s a description of what the Zopa team did to meet their target audiences’ key scenarios and to design their business once they clearly understood those scenarios. -
Open Source Considerations
Evaluation Criteria for Open Source Solutions
by Brenda MichelsonThe inevitable has happened. Open source has moved all the way up the enterprise stack. No longer are enterprises contemplating if they should use open source, but rather, where to use it. This report offers considerations for your adoption decisions. -
Democratizing Innovation
Von Hippel’s New Book Stresses the Importance of Innovation by Lead Users
by Patricia SeyboldEric von Hippel’s book, Democratizing Innovation, describes how to harness the inventiveness of your lead users to create breakthrough products. -
Let Customers Co-Design Your Customer-Critical Initiatives
How and When to Use Customer Scenario® Mapping
by Patricia SeyboldWhat’s the best way to gather customer requirements? Invite customers to co-design their ideal processes with your cross-functional team. Design your requirements to meet your customers’ future requirements. -
Apple’s Lessons for the Rest of Us
Customer-Led Innovation
by Patricia SeyboldApple’s iPod strategy is paying off brilliantly. The popular iPod, with its iTunes legal music library, has created a halo effect for the rest of Apple’s computer business. -
Netflix.com Wins Patent on Business Methods
Turning Customers' Moments of Truth into a Sustainable Business Advantage
by Patricia SeyboldWe think that Netflix deserved to receive a patent for its innovative approach to renting DVDs (or videogames, or music). Why? The company has demonstrated that it understands its customers’ critical “moments of truth,” and has designed a business model -
Gathering Customers' Real Requirements
Uncovering Customers' Moments of Truth
by Patricia SeyboldGathering customer requirements can be tough. Particularly if customers can't envision the possibilities of how they might reach their outcomes in a dramatically different way. -
What Comes After CRM?
Customer-Led Business Transformation
by Patricia SeyboldInvesting in a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategy and system won’t give you sustainable profitability. Instead, you need to redesign your company’s business processes from your customers’ point of view. -
Saving Customers’ Time: Master Customer Scenario® Design
How National Semiconductor, Tesco, and Buzzsaw.com Use Customer Scenarios to Improve Customer Experience
by Patricia SeyboldCustomer Scenario® Design is a technique that, when used well, will ultimately save your customers time and foster customer loyalty. -
The Customer Revolution
How to Thrive When Customers Are in Control
by Patricia SeyboldIn The Customer Revolution, the essential truths of business today are identified: “The Internet economy is the customer economy, and the fundamental source of value in the new customer economy is customers.” In the customer economy, the depth of your customer relationships is directly proportional to the value of your business. Attracting and retaining customers will be the core competencies of successful firms. Companies will be increasingly valued based on how they build relationships with their customers and on those customers' long-term value to the company. -
Doug Engelbart’s Design for Knowledge-Based Organizations—Part 2
Co-Evolution of Organizations and Technology
by Patricia SeyboldThis companion to my 90-minute interview of Doug Engelbart, Together We Can Get There, focuses on his implementation of Bootstrapping: He describes how to unleash innovation and continuous improvement in your organization.
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