... more likely to innovate than public limited companies. ... Kishore, I was thinking about your comment and it may be true, though I don't know how one could...
Are you looking for the right business opportunity? Are you looking for something new and interesting? There is a Hungarian invention to purification the most...
The basic idea was as follows: You can get a product that needs not to be sold because everybody use it. You simply produce this product in a sufficiently big...
Hi, I'd like to welcome all the new members to the group over the past few days. There has been quite an influx over the last 6 or 7 days. Please feel free to...
I have got a new idea for an invention. It is a cyclical gravity greenhouse liquid capillary action energy generator. The idea is that the device uses the same...
Hi, If anyone, who "owns" the innovation process in a company? i.e. how should a company be staffed or structured to become an innovator or to maintain an...
This may be old hat to many of the members here, but I've been thinking about the "long tail" <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail> over the last week,...
Reg, I hadn't heard of the term "long tail" before, but I do have to say I see the value of offering the long tail beyond simply incremental sales of less...
... Hash: SHA1 Apple's iTMS makes a lot of its money off of the long tail. eBay is another obvious example. NetFlix is yet another example of a company ...
... the Long Tail in one ... The long tail is a cool observation and I think the author of that Wired article should go back to business school because he's...
I agree that Web-based companies often try to compete by adding more and more features -- until access to the area of their core competency is hidden by...
In french they call it "l'esprit d'escalier" - when you think of a witty retort too long after the fact... so more ramblings follow. Further to the long tail,...
Hello, Many people on this list are product managers or have held that role. What is the role of product managers in driving product innovation in companies? ...
Hi Saeed, You have raised very good topic for discussion. This is what I think the role of PM is: * While a PM is objective and analytic in nature, nothing...
I think it might also be worth dissecting the elements of innovation as well. For many products, the innovation is in the implementation, such as flat screens...
Hi Everyone, I wanted to have your views on the issue of Breadth of a product Vs the depth of functionalities present. In my view, managing a product's growth...
Hi DJ, Thanks for the post. Was wondering, when you refer to a product, are you talking about any types of products in general, or a specific class of product...
Hi Saeed You are right. Maybe I should have categorised it further. I am talking about software products specifically. Ideally they should be enterprise class...
This is a classic product management dilema, and the task falls directly in the lap of the product manager. Initially, one sells a product with a certain set...
I¹m not really sure if the question can be answered generally. I think it really comes down to what the business goals are of the product. When you say...
Hello, I came across this interesting article which addresses the issue of low rates of success in product innovation. In the past, product launch decisions...
Hi, I think Phil makes some good points. Another factor in the breadth vs. depth discussion is market maturity. Generally in young markets, customers identify...
Clarification...omitted a key word in my response. Perhaps I haven't been looking in the right places, but one thing I have *NOT* seen much written about is...
Clayton Christiansen actually wrote an interesting article about this topic a few years ago. I'm not aware of anywhere you can get it for free, but it's ...
Kishore, Thanks for posting. I think that the article has some good points, particularly around getting customers more involved in the innovation process, but...
Saeed, I think the point the article is making is that companies face tremendous uncertainties when they try to implement their concepts which in all...
Any company can be an Apple. The choice is at the individual level. Being innovative involves changes in logic and that involves changes in personality. ... ...
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