Category Archives: Co-creation or User collaboration

Using your Social Media Community to innovate

Was Mark Schaefer’s wonderful SocialSlam really eight years ago? I still use my talk about using your social media community to crowdsource innovation in my social media marketing class.  

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2015 Top Downloaded Innovation Articles in JPIM

Gloria Barczak, editor of the leading journal on innovation, JPIM has provided a list of the top downloaded articles from their website. You can download the list as a PDF here: Top 10 2015 JPIM Downloaded Articles (2). These are the … Continue reading

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#Service #Innovation: The Book

I was THRILLED when these five glossy paperbacks were delivered to my home a few weeks ago! Service Innovation, An eighteen month collaboration with three professors from the CTF Service Research Center at Karlstad University, Sweden, was now tangible. What was it like to collaborate on a book with researchers 6,691 km away? Continue reading

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Should you involve customers? How radical and hedonic are you trying to be?

When does a firm benefit from customer co-creation? The leading journal of product innovation, JPIM, has a cool YouTube channel to view short summaries of selected articles on innovation. I strongly recommend checking it every couple months for new posted … Continue reading

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The Essence of Service – In a Cartoon

In the middle of final editing for recently published Service Innovation we decided that we needed an illustration in Chapter 1, for our discussion of what service is. I sent a Facebook message to my talented daughter, Kiki Schirr, and asked her if she could send an illustration within 90 minutes. Continue reading

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Innovation books – what do we NEED?

The process of coming up with a long list of 16 favorite innovation books got me to thinking about What is missing – What is the Blue Ocean space in popular innovation reading?

I think I found two blue patches – Do you spot others?? Or do you think I missed a great book in those patches? Continue reading

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Just Do It!

Just Do It seems the theme of product development: effectuation, agile development, probe and learn, or organic. Continue reading

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Is “Lean Startups” a misnomer?

Lean startups as Probe and Learn entrepreneurship! Continue reading

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Before “Lean Startups” there was “Probe and Learn”

The innovation process underlying lean startups, as described by Eric Ries, seems eerily similar to the Probe and Learn process described by Gary Lynn and colleagues 15 years ago. Continue reading

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Social Media and User Research Methods

An engagement/deep knowledge framework to categorize user research methods indicates some likely innovations as social media is employed in innovation. Continue reading

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