April 21, 2009
Sopheon inKNOWvations - April 2009
Welcome to inKNOWvations, Sopheon's monthly e-newsletter containing the latest information on business trends, benchmark data, events, and other resources to help you improve your organization's return on its investments in product innovation.
Quotable Quotes...
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
- John Dewey (1859-1952), American philosopher, psychologist, educator, social critic, political activist
Innovation Takes Planning, Not Genius
by George Stalk, Jr., Senior Adviser, The Boston Consulting Group of Canada Ltd. and Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto
Behind every successful innovation is an unexpected insight. When it finds expression as a new business breakthrough, markets take off and competitors don't know what hit them. And yet, even at the best companies, most attempts at innovation fail. Lacking a systematic process for developing new ideas, organizations rely too much on the random inspiration of individuals.
Practical Innovation is About Creating Business Value, Not More Stuff
by John Rondy, Freelance Writer, WTN News
Most people tend to think of innovation as invention. That is, invention is typically the creation of a revolutionary new material object that can do something useful, says Tom Koulopoulus, a Boston-based consultant and author of the new book "The Innovation Zone."
Predicting Radical Innovation Success: Why companies that focus on pioneering rather than incremental innovations are more likely to be successful
by Doug Hall, Author and Founder, Eureka! Ranch
Now's the time to be bold. And by that, I mean that it's time to be a radical innovator of products, services, and business models.
WEBINAR: Aligning People, Process, and Technology to Drive Product and Technology Innovation Performance
Presented by Wally Slone, Vice President Business Solutions, Fresenius Medical Care
During this free webinar you'll learn how Fresenius, the world's largest integrated provider of products and services for dialysis treatment, modeled and leveraged a powerful combination of people, process, and technology to raise the level of new-product innovation results. For more information or to register, click here.
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