Innovation
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Bootstrapping Innovation
Leveraging the Collective IQ to Achieve Powerful Results
by Ronni MarshakThe Doug Engelbart Institute's Bootstrapping Innovation system provides a structure for empowering people to solve complex problems together. -
Moving along the Time-(Team) Space Continuum
Collaboration Is Both Real-Time and Persistent, and Often Unanticipated
by Ronni MarshakA PSG Classic: collaboration isn’t about real-time vs. persistence, nor is it about the software tools you use. It is about getting your work done in the context of the overall project. It’s about achieving the outcomes of scenarios. -
How Custom Product Design Can Spawn Customer-Centric Ecosystems
How National Semiconductor, CustoMax, and Zazzle Built Vibrant Ecosystems
by Patricia SeyboldThree companies in different industries—CustoMax, National Semiconductor, and Zazzle—have built vibrant customer-centric ecosystems to let customers design their own products. -
Innovation in Education: School Children Improve Their Families' Livelihoods
At URDT, It Takes a Child to Raise a Village
by Patricia SeyboldWhy not educate children to become masterful in envisioning and creating a better life for themselves and their families? That’s the innovative approach to education that URDT has been practicing for almost a decade. -
Local Motors
Reinventing the Car Industry from the Outside In
by Patricia SeyboldLocal Motors is a new American car company with an innovative approach: get customers to design cars, manufacture them locally, and let customers help assemble their own cars Build-A-Bear style! -
Nature Reinvents Textbooks
Scitable: A NextGen Ecosystem for Learning & Teaching Science
by Patricia SeyboldNature Education has an innovative replacement for college textbooks. It’s an online resource and classroom with a network of subject matter experts. And it’s free to students and faculty. -
Want Customer-Contributed Content?
Make It Easy for Your Customers to Multi-Post
by Patricia SeyboldDo you want customers to contribute content to your Web site? Customers are more likely to post or curate content in an environment that will "automagically" syndicate that comment or posting out to several other sites. -
How Visionary Customer-Centric Execs Keep Innovation Alive
Take-Aways from Patty’s Visionaries' Spring 2009 Meeting
by Patricia SeyboldHow do Visionary Customer-centric Execs deal with the recession? By continuing to innovate! -
Google Wave
It’s “My” Design, but Will I Use It?
by Patricia SeyboldDid Google design Google Wave by watching customer behavior? If so, did they get it right? -
Green Engineering: Cutting Energy Consumption in the Tropics
Create a Holistic Model; Monitor and Manage Inputs and Outputs in Real Time; Provide Visualization Tools
by Patricia SeyboldWhat are the current best practices in green engineering? Travel with us to Malaysia to learn how to cut energy costs by 60% when cooling buildings in the tropics. -
Green Infrastructure
If We Build It, Will They Use It?
by Patricia SeyboldWhere is urban transportation going? Mobility on demand using green approaches is the next wave. -
Smart Transportation: Mobility-on-Demand
A Vision for CityCars and Smart Cities from MIT Media Lab's Smart Cities' Group
by Patricia SeyboldMIT Media Labs' Smart Cities' program is working on projects to reduce traffic congestion and greenhouse gases by offering "mobility-on-demand" through a combination of mass transit and electric vehicle-sharing. -
CustoMax: Platform & Ecosystem for Custom-Tailored Apparel
A Journey from Mass-Produced to Smart Customization
by Patricia SeyboldCustoMax is a customer-centric ecosystem for made-to-fit mass-customized suits, apparel, and shoes. -
Mars Direct: Customized Candy Combats Commoditization
Best Practices from the MIT Smart Customization Seminar 2008
by Patricia SeyboldLearn how personalized M&Ms have led to a profitable new business model. Discover how Mars Direct became an innovative “personalized expressions” company within Mars. Mars Direct’s R&D Director, Dan Michael describes the journey to-date. -
Spreadshirt: Customers Want to Create Their Own Brands and Amplify Your Brand
Best Practices from the MIT Smart Customization Seminar 2008
by Patricia SeyboldWhy do customers love to create their own T-Shirts? “If it’s not on a shirt, it didn’t happen,” says Jana Eggers, Spreadshirt’s CEO. Customers value the ability to create their own brands. They also love to personalize well-known brands. -
How Adidas Moved to Smart Customization & Personalized Coaching
A Journey from Mass-Produced to Smart Customization
by Patricia SeyboldAdidas pioneered in custom footwear and was an early leader in mass-customization. This brief case study describes the history of customization at Adidas from removable studs to just-in-time personalized coaching. -
How Keds Uses Zazzle's Customization
Best Practices from the MIT Smart Customization Seminar 2008
by Patricia SeyboldKeds is giving customers the ability to put their own designs on their sneakers by taking advantage of Zazzle.com. Zazzle is a customer-centric ecosystem that lets customers create their own designs to products and then buy or resell their creations. -
Smart Customization Comes of Age
Best Practices from the MIT Smart Customization Seminar 2008
by Patricia SeyboldSmart Customization, a profitable and sustainable implementation of mass customization, is gaining traction. The MIT Smart Customization Seminar, held November 2008, provided glimpses of what international practitioners have done and learned. -
Using Lakes to Monitor the Health of the Planet
Using Sensors and Cross-Disciplinary Teams to Understand Complex Ecosystems Quickly
by Patricia SeyboldThe PASEO project follows 24 biologists, engineers, and computer scientists as they model and monitor a chain of lakes in Argentina. This case study highlights best practices in green engineering, useful to forward-thinking business strategists. -
Making Team Innovation Work
Learning from FIRST How to Inspire Inventors and Build an Innovative Culture
by Patricia SeyboldFIRST’s annual world robotics championship inspires kids to work together while competing, and to come up with innovative solutions to difficult challenges. There are lessons to be learned on how to inspire adults to innovate and cooperate.
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