From the monthly archives:

May 2010

Are you a target for disruption?

Have you seen the commercials yet for Sharp’s new four color TV’s. You know, the ones with George Takei, Star Trek’s Mr. Sulu, dressed up like some kind of  TV scientist while delivering his campy trademark “Oh My!” Wondering what it has to do with development of new products? It’s just one of many recent [...]

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Can your innovation be too flexible?

A frustrated business executive recently asked me to help diagnose his company’s new product development processes. They had taken several new products most of the way through design only to have to go back and revise the design, and he felt  like they were starting to go in circles. When I asked what had caused [...]

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BP’s Big Spill: Lesson for your new products?

Yesterday I heard BP’s COO, Doug Suttles, admit that it could take months to get the Deepwater Horizon disaster under control. The journalist interviewing him jumped on that by asking why BP didn’t have a back-up plan in place before the spill. Of course, there’s a political and legal tsunami coming for BP, so Suttles [...]

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