With 3-D Printing, the Shoe Really Fits
New Balance leads the way toward using 3-D printing to make custom shoes.
Consumer-Driven Innovation
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Innovation Strategy
Innovation Lessons From 3-D Printing
How should companies respond to game-changing open-source innovations from online user communities?
Innovation Strategy
Collaborating With Customer Communities: Lessons From the Lego Group
For the Lego Group, a close bond with user communities is not a pipe dream but a reality.
Innovation Strategy
Is There a Tweaker Driving Innovation On Your Team?
Innovation often comes from tweakers who take existing ideas and turn them into something better.
Innovation Strategy
How to Network Your Way to New Product Ideas
What if traditional views of the innovation process are flawed? Thoughts from MIT’s Eric von Hippel.
Innovation Strategy
Five Steps for Embracing Consumer Innovation
Companies can work with consumer innovators, or “casual entrepreneurs,” by understanding their lead users.
Innovation Strategy
The Age of the Consumer-Innovator
Consumers generate massive amounts of product innovation — which has significant implications for new product development.
Innovation Strategy
The User Innovation Revolution
According to von Hippel, users are often the first source of new products.
Business Models
What to Do Against Disruptive Business Models (When and How to Play Two Games at Once)
When two business models, and two business units, make sense.
Innovation Strategy
Customers and service innovation
A new working paper looks at customers’ role in innovation in a service industry: banking.
Global Strategy
Innovation From the Inside Out
Grameen Bank and others know that you get the best answers by burying yourself in the questions.
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