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How Visionary Customer-Centric Execs Keep Innovation Alive
Take-Aways from Patty’s Visionaries' Spring 2009 Meeting
by Patricia SeyboldHow do Visionary Customer-centric Execs deal with the recession? By continuing to innovate! -
How Keds Uses Zazzle's Customization
Best Practices from the MIT Smart Customization Seminar 2008
by Patricia SeyboldKeds is giving customers the ability to put their own designs on their sneakers by taking advantage of Zazzle.com. Zazzle is a customer-centric ecosystem that lets customers create their own designs to products and then buy or resell their creations. -
Smart Customization Comes of Age
Best Practices from the MIT Smart Customization Seminar 2008
by Patricia SeyboldSmart Customization, a profitable and sustainable implementation of mass customization, is gaining traction. The MIT Smart Customization Seminar, held November 2008, provided glimpses of what international practitioners have done and learned. -
Mars Direct: Customized Candy Combats Commoditization
Best Practices from the MIT Smart Customization Seminar 2008
by Patricia SeyboldLearn how personalized M&Ms have led to a profitable new business model. Discover how Mars Direct became an innovative “personalized expressions” company within Mars. Mars Direct’s R&D Director, Dan Michael describes the journey to-date. -
How Adidas Moved to Smart Customization & Personalized Coaching
A Journey from Mass-Produced to Smart Customization
by Patricia SeyboldAdidas pioneered in custom footwear and was an early leader in mass-customization. This brief case study describes the history of customization at Adidas from removable studs to just-in-time personalized coaching. -
CustoMax: Platform & Ecosystem for Custom-Tailored Apparel
A Journey from Mass-Produced to Smart Customization
by Patricia SeyboldCustoMax is a customer-centric ecosystem for made-to-fit mass-customized suits, apparel, and shoes. -
Spreadshirt: Customers Want to Create Their Own Brands and Amplify Your Brand
Best Practices from the MIT Smart Customization Seminar 2008
by Patricia SeyboldWhy do customers love to create their own T-Shirts? “If it’s not on a shirt, it didn’t happen,” says Jana Eggers, Spreadshirt’s CEO. Customers value the ability to create their own brands. They also love to personalize well-known brands. -
What Are Visionary Customer-Centric Execs Thinking About?
Engaging with Customers to Innovate, Solve Problems, and Keep their Brands Focused on Customers' Goals
by Patricia SeyboldPatty’s Visionaries are the leading customer-centric executives who are transforming their companies (and their industries) from the outside in. This is an overview of some of the topics they discussed in their Spring 2008 meeting. -
Making Team Innovation Work
Learning from FIRST How to Inspire Inventors and Build an Innovative Culture
by Patricia SeyboldFIRST’s annual world robotics championship inspires kids to work together while competing, and to come up with innovative solutions to difficult challenges. There are lessons to be learned on how to inspire adults to innovate and cooperate. -
CohesiveFT Makes It Easy to “Roll Your Own” Virtual Servers
Customer-Led Innovation in Virtualization, Service-Oriented Infrastructure and Cloud Computing
by Patricia SeyboldCohesive Flexible Technologies is a software start-up whose story to-date provides six best practices in customer-led innovation. -
Customer Innovation Guide: Core Competency 4
Mastering the Fourth Core Competency: Opening Up Product Development
by Patricia SeyboldHow far along are you in the Open Development Continuum? Do you empower, encourage, and reward customers for extending your products, coming up with new products, and sharing their solutions with others? See how you’re doing in this self-assessment guide. -
Customer Innovation Guide: Core Competency 3
Mastering the Third Core Competency: Customer Co-Design
by Patricia SeyboldCo-designing your company’s future with your customers is imperative to ensuring continuing innovation. See how far along your company is in taking advantage of customer co-design in this self-assessment guide. -
Customer Innovation Guide: Core Competency 2
Mastering the Second Core Competency: Effective Community Building
by Patricia SeyboldCustomer communities are a bountiful source of innovative ideas and an excellent opportunity to create lasting relationships with your most loyal customers. But you have to do more than just set up a community and say “go.” -
Publishing 2.0/Libraries 2.0: Students are Shaping the Future of Academic Publishing
How Graduate Students Want to Interact with Information
by Patricia SeyboldHow do professionals and students consume information in the Web 2.0 era? Three graduate students provide great insights into how digital information should be presented, organized, consumed and shared among professionals. -
Digital Natives in the Classroom Are Propelling Us to School 2.0
A Few of David Warlick’s Thoughts on How Kids and Web 2.0 Are Reshaping Education and Publishing
by Patricia SeyboldYou’ve heard of “Web 2.0.” Now we have School 2.0. What can we learn about the future of education and educational publishing from long-time tech-educator, David Warlick? -
Customer Innovation Guide: Taking the Fifth Step
Open Up Your Products and Engage Customers in Peer Production
by Patricia SeyboldA key to innovation is to assume that customers will want to roll up their sleeves and customize your products and services to meet their needs. Make it easy for them to do so. Provide customization and configuration tools. -
A Coordinated Game Plan for Business and IT Execs to Spur Outside Innovation
Five Initiatives to Support Customer Innovation
by Patricia SeyboldTo make rapid progress in enabling and empowering your customers to lead you toward new innovations, you need to coordinate your business strategy and your IT efforts. -
Customer Innovation Guide: Taking the Fourth Step
Empower Customers to Strut Their Stuff
by Patricia SeyboldThis guide provides a self assessment to see how far along your company is in empowering your customers to strut their stuff. -
Customer Innovation Guide: Taking the Third Step
Nurturing Customer Communities: The Key Third Step to Outside Innovation
by Patricia SeyboldCustomer communities are key to fostering outside innovation. This guide provides a self-assessment to help you determine what your next steps in nurturing your customer communities should be. -
Customer Innovation Guide: Taking the Second Step
Provide Customers with Tools to Use to Reach Their Outcomes
by Patricia SeyboldThis guide provides a self-assessment to see how far along your company is in making these tools available to your lead customers.
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