James Heskett is a Baker Foundation Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. He asks in his newest article → What Is Customer Opinion Good For?

With this provocative question he starts an interesting discussion among his readers about the topics innovation, and customer intimacy. In addition can you find in these answers a large amount of supplemental information

Google is known as a very innovative company. In particular their innovation friday is famous. Here in my blog, I have written several articles, in which I discuss the usefulness of this approach.

In his article in the Harvard Business Review → Google and the Myth of Free Time, Chris Trimble writes about this strategy as well. In contrast to me and others, he basically does not think very positive about Google’a approach to foster innovation.

Using my experiences with both, a similar approach, and the development of innovative products, I would like to comment on his article.

Recently the Mc Kinsey Quarterly published an article about several technologically enabled business-trends to watch. I have already written here about several of these trends, and now want to highlight some of them

Heute morgen habe ich in der New York Times einen Bericht gelesen, der sowohl zu sommerlichem Wetter passt, als auch zu der Frage, wie Produktinnovationen funktionieren, und ob sie finanziellen Sinn machen. Ok, Sie müssen sich ein wenig anstrengen, aber diese Studie läßt sich schliesslich doch gut auf High Tech Produkte übertragen

Heute habe ich in der Washington Post einen Artikel von John Hagel, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison des Deloitte Center for the Edge gelesen, der sich um Creation Spaces dreht.

Nachdem ich neulich über Creation Spaces generell geschrieben habe, möchte ich hier ein paar Hinweise zur Einrichtung und zum Betrieb solcher Creation Spaces geben