“All the businesses from the beginning of history have struggled with product development (assuming there is a market, doing the market testing and so on). But now they start with customer development. Get the customer who says, "Yes. I want that. I need it. I wanna use it. I'll pay for it." And then you go back and work with your engineers. It is changing the world!” WorldWantNeedsUsePayProductsDevelopmentAssumingCustomersChanging The WorldEngineersTestingProduct Development Author:Brian Tracy
“A lot of players are slow to change, you're playing good,( you think) why do I want to mess with that ? It takes a lot of testing, a lot of practice and observation of the ball, especially under competitive circumstances, to realize this is a better product and I need to start using it.” ThinkingWantNeedsChangeRealizingPracticePlayerProductsCircumstancesBallsObservationMessTesting Author:David Duval
“Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.” NeedsLooksCountryHardTodayProductsDrugBenefitsSafetyTestingGmos Author:Bill Gates
“Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.” ShouldNumbersProductsMonthsMessagesShould HaveCrashTestingIdiosyncrasiesAbbreviations Book:The Macintosh Way Source: The Macintosh Way
“The only useful information about the market will be what I create through expeditions into the market, through testing and probing, trial and error, by selling real products to real people who pay real money.” PeopleRealPayInformationProductsErrorsTrialsSellingTestingTrial And ErrorExpeditionsProbingUseful Information Book:Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books) Source: Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)
“I love to help women cut through all the labeling loopholes to find the best personal and oral care products on the market. This includes, of course, ingredients, but also recyclable packaging, products with expiration dates, examining company values (which includes no animal testing), and more.” HelpingCareValuesCoursesAnimalCompanyCuttingProductsIngredientsTestingExaminingLabelingLoopholesAnimal TestingPackaging Author:Sophie Heyman Uliano
“Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.” Has BeensRealizingAnimalProductsIndustryExposedUnnecessaryTestingAnimal Testing Author:Kesha
“If the Health Impact Fund were to be instituted, a single company would be in charge of a medical product all the way from its conception to the health improvements realized by actual patients. The company would be paid for health impact, and it would have to arrange the entire pipeline in between - all the steps of invention, of clinical testing, of getting marketing approval in many different countries, of wholesalers and retailers and prescriptions and so on - in a holistically optimal way.” IfsWayDifferentCountryWould BeCompanyStepsProductsPaidImpactPatientMarketingMedicalImprovementInventionFundConceptionApprovalTestingPrescriptionsClinicalsDifferent CountriesPipelineOptimalRetailers Author:Thomas Pogge