“Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!” EndsProcessCompanyDesignFemaleInnovationConsumersEmployeeTargetUsersEmpoweredMarketplaceLikelihoodUtilizing Author:Indra Nooyi
“I want to preserve the free and open Internet - the experience that most users and entrepreneurs have come to expect and enjoy today and that has unleashed impressive innovation, job creation, and investment.” WantTodayJobsEnjoyCreationInternetInnovationEntrepreneurInvestmentPreservesUsersImpressiveUnleashedJob CreationEnjoy Today Author:Julius Genachowski
“Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.” EndsFocusInnovationImpactCustomersPerceiveUsersInnovators Author:Thomas A. Edison
“The very ability to empathize with a user requires that I have an understanding of that user's value and needs. This is what leads to many product fails. The individuals developing the innovation don't actually use it.” NeedsUseValuesIndividualUnderstandingAbilityFailingProductsInnovationDevelopingUsers Author:David Livermore
“The better you work to find the pain point and problem facing a diversity of users, the more clearly you can DEFINE the goal when you implement the process for culturally intelligent innovation.” ProblemPainProcessGoalDiversityIntelligentInnovationUsers Author:David Livermore
“The school at which you studied - design school, disruptive school, TRIZ school, user-centered innovation school, etc - determines the specific words you use.” UseSchoolDesignInnovationDetermineEtcUsersDisruptive Author:Scott D. Anthony
“If you have a strong business idea, then it is comparatively easy now to get capital. It is a positive thing that increasingly more people want to join the startup bandwagon. However, to build a successful business, focus on creating more value through the product, and direct your efforts on solving real issues. If you manage to build a sustainable product, revenue will follow. A lot of startups fail because they concentrate on incremental innovations, increasing user base, and monetisation before strengthening the core of their business.” PeopleRealValuesStrongEasyEffortSuccessfulFocusFailingDirectInnovationManageUsersStrengtheningSuccessful Business Author:Bhavin Turakhia
“Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.” WayIdeasSocialInterestDesignInnovationExperimentsThriveCollaborationUsersNew WaysInvolvingSocial Innovation Author:Geoff Mulgan
“The companies that get innovation right, again and again, are the ones that feel what their customers feel. That is true user-centered innovation” FeelsCompanyDesignInnovationCustomersUsersAgain And Again Author:Sohrab Vossoughi
“The usability tests we have conducted during the last year have shown an increasing reluctance among users to accept innovations in Web design. The prevailing attitude is to request designs that are similar to everything else people see on the Web.” PeopleYearsLastsAttitudeAcceptingDesignTestsInnovationUsersLast YearRequestPrevailingReluctanceUsabilityWeb Design Author:Jakob Nielsen
“History repeats itself again, I guess. The rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don't innovate at that speed you can be replaced pretty quickly. The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about, is now five years old.” IfsYearsFiveIndustryInnovationRateDuesSpeedInventionRepeatsFive YearsUsersReplacedIphoneFive Year OldsInterfacesRepeating HistoryHistory Repeats ItselfUser Interface Author:Thorsten Heins