In either case, such products amaze us--which is as good a test as any of product innovation.
Our innovation focus, however, is not technology development, rather a marriage of proven technologies and end-user focused product management as a driver for product development innovation for underserved individuals and communities.
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The Bangladesh business also function as a testing ground for product innovation.
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But some hardware manufacturers are hailing it as good for future sales and product innovation.
More importantly, he worried about management culture as the path to product culture, where innovation means never-ending creativity, not tossing the dice and getting lucky on a good roll.
Consumer electronics has been muddling through a product-innovation slump, as the big purchases of the past few years, such as flat screen TVs, have tapered off, just as new features like 3-D TVs never took off.
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However a company can succeed by focusing narrow and deep, as Microsoft has done in consumer experience and product innovation.
We prefer stories with product innovation rather than sales force expansion as a catalyst, but acknowledge its power in relatively under-penetrated markets.
Later still, as the industry matured, the skills that counted moved back somewhat from science (where they had rested for a time) to engineering, as growth and profits came to depend less on product innovation and more on process ingenuity.
As an inventor, entrepreneur and currently the director of Product Innovation for SolidWorks, Chin has been a pioneer of 3 Dimensional printing, digital modeling software and, more recently, sustainable design practices.
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The next product release will be critical in maintaining their position as innovation leaders, Juniper researchers said today.
As competition increases, so does the need for resources to invest in product innovation and clever marketing in expensive glossy magazines.
As a result of shifting responsibility for retirement planning onto workers and financial product innovation, virtually all Americans (and foreign investors for that matter) that had accumulated any degree of wealth turned to financial services firms for expert, independent investment advice and investment products.
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With this level of insight across information silos, channels and departments, organizations can better serve customers and increase product innovation and quality and support decisions made across the enterprise, as well as provide more dynamic, contextual customer interactions for one-to-one marketing.
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Social innovation brings to the surface thousands of small but important product improvements as well as disruptive innovations that can bring meaningful change the business or an entire industry.
As tech changes fast, one new innovation is often all it takes to sideline a previous hot product.
Our view is that this type of software should not only be used by product development teams, as it is now, but also should be used by IT to spark or manage the innovation process.
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