Innovation Management:

New Product Development

New Product Design

Driving Growth through via Product/Service Innovation

"People don't pay for technology. They pay for the solution to their problems or for something they enjoy."

– Dean Kamen 

The Secret Formula: Building Innovation Into Your Organization

Success depends on both what you do and how you do it. There are specific elements that help you and your company to be more innovative.

But it's not a matter of simply following directions. The 'secret formula' is actually not very formulaic. It's  blend of culture, methodologies, infrastructure, and work practices.¹

Steve Jobs' 12 Rules of Success

8. Pay attention to design. We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them. Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.... More

Customers Will Usually Come Back If...

• All the physical aspects of your product or service give a favorable impression... More

Observing People

Observation-fueled insight that makes innovation possible. Uncovering what comes naturally to people. And having the strengths to change the rules... More

Brainstorming

Brainstorming is not just a valuable creative tool at the fuzzy front end of projects. It's also "a pervasive cultural influence for making sure that individuals don't waste too much energy spinning their wheels on a tough problem when the collective wisdom of the team can get them "unstuck" in less than an hour."⁴... More

Prototyping

"Quick prototyping is about acting before you've got the answers, about taking chances, stumbling a little, but then making it right. Living, moving prototypes can help shape your ideas. When you're creating something new to the world, you can't look over your shoulder to see what your competitors are doing; you have to find another source of inspiration," says Tom Kelly¹ from IDEO... More

Design for Environment (DfE)

Design for Environment (DfE), also known as eco-design of green design, recognizes that environmental impacts must be considered during the design process, along with all of the usual design criteria. The purpose of green design is to evaluate and identify ways to minimize the environmental burden resulting from products... More

 Case in Point  Harley-Davidson

At Harley-Davidson, a manufacturer of heavy-weight motorcycles, management commitment to new product design via cross-functional teams is clear. Representatives from engineering, purchasing, manufacturing, and marketing have always had influence on the future direction of new products. In addition, management is implementing self-managed work teams to help meet the challenges of manufacturing its products in a timely fashion. Harley-Davidson's self-management work teams are on the way to becoming the standard for the industry.⁵... More

 Case in Point  Radius Product Development Inc.

Radius Product Development, Inc. is an award winning industrial design and product engineering firm. Radius redefines innovation by integrating all stakeholder needs and unrestrained creativity with its global engineering and implementation power to deliver real-world, success-ready products to its clients. Since its inception in 1992, Radius has successfully developed innovative products with their clients in the medical, consumer, and industrial markets. With an emphasis on designing emotionally appealing products that are efficient to manufacture, the Radius team excels in all phases of the product development process. As a full service company, Radius provides industrial design, development and engineering of a client's product opportunity. Radius is able to offer their clients the advantage of product designs that lend themselves to efficient manufacturing through their joint venture partner Nypro, the eighth-largest plastics injection molder in the United States.