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GENERATING BREAKTHROUGH NEW PRODUCT IDEAS, FEEDING THE INNOVATION FUNNEL

 

"Generating Breakthrough New Product Ideas" offers solutions and techniques to develop new ideas to feed a dry innovation pipeline and help make your company an innovation machine."

How will your company find its next big ideas? “Generating Breakthrough New Product Ideas” written by Dr. Robert G. Cooper and Dr. Scott J. Edgett, the world’s foremost experts in the ever-important field of product innovation, concentrates on the front end of innovation. This ideation book outlines how your company can take a strategic approach to feeding its idea-to-launch process and the actual methods that leading companies such as Motorola, Procter & Gamble and Toyota are using to generate blockbuster new product ideas.

Price: U.S. $34.95


This comprehensive book addresses strategy as well as techniques that your company can employ to leverage its internal and external idea sources. Some key topics include:

  • Establishing a Strategic Discovery Stage, strategic product roadmaps and technology roadmaps that help you to realize your Product Innovation and Technology Strategy.
  • How your company can improve its peripheral vision to dodge potential technical and environmental threats and turn them into innovation opportunities.
  • Concrete and actionable ways to encourage creative thinking from employees as a source of future new project ideas.
  • How to leverage Voice-of-Customer (VoC) and Open Innovation methods to capture ideas from traditional and unexpected external idea sources.
  • How to apply Stage-Gate principles to manage and foster technology development and fundamental research projects to help feed your company’s innovation funnel.
  • Idea scoring techniques that will help your company make the difficult investment decisions at the front end of your Stage-Gate process.
 

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