Innovation

  • Zopa Case Study: How Zopa Is Creating a New Financial Services Exchange

    Peer-to-Peer Lending and Borrowing for “Freeformers”

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    Here’s a description of what the Zopa team did to meet their target audiences’ key scenarios and to design their business once they clearly understood those scenarios.
    Feb. 23, 2006
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  • Democratizing Innovation

    Von Hippel’s New Book Stresses the Importance of Innovation by Lead Users

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    Eric von Hippel’s book, Democratizing Innovation, describes how to harness the inventiveness of your lead users to create breakthrough products.
    Aug. 18, 2005
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  • Let Customers Co-Design Your Customer-Critical Initiatives

    How and When to Use Customer Scenario® Mapping

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    What’s the best way to gather customer requirements? Invite customers to co-design their ideal processes with your cross-functional team. Design your requirements to meet your customers’ future requirements.
    May. 26, 2005
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  • What Is the Future for Collaboration in the Knowledge Economy?

    A Report from the NSF/OECD Cosponsored Conference, “Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy”

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    “Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy,” a conference held in Washington, DC, in early January 2005, focused on how public and private organizations can now benefit from the Internet and the Web.
    Feb. 11, 2005
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  • Project Avalanche

    Corporate IT Executives Band Together to Evolve Shared IP

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    The Avalanche Corporate Technology Cooperative, also known as "Project: Avalanche" is a brand new corporate customer-led initiative to enable corporate IT executives to extract more value out of their IT investments. Avalanche Cooperative members can now
    Apr. 15, 2004
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  • Why Skype’s Peer-to-Peer Voice over IP Is Revolutionary

    The Customer Revolution Continues: End Users' Adoption of Skype Could Challenge the Global Telecommunications Industry

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    Skype offers a compelling combination of voice over IP telephone service and presence awareness, leveraging peer-to-peer networking. The result is a killer app--an application that makes it advantageous for households and businesses around the world to u
    Feb. 5, 2004
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  • Netflix.com Wins Patent on Business Methods

    Turning Customers' Moments of Truth into a Sustainable Business Advantage

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    We think that Netflix deserved to receive a patent for its innovative approach to renting DVDs (or videogames, or music). Why? The company has demonstrated that it understands its customers’ critical “moments of truth,” and has designed a business model
    Jul. 10, 2003
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  • On the Front Lines of the Customer Revolution: Part 3

    The Potential of Broadband Wireless

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    An interesting “Customer Revolution” skirmish is underway this Spring as the feud between broadbased wire-less service providers and satellite radio providers heats up.
    Apr. 25, 2002
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  • On the Front Lines of the Customer Revolution: Part 2

    The Internet Radio Royalties Battlefield

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    An interesting “Customer Revolution” skirmish is underway this Spring as Internet radio providers are struggling to survive the status quo in the music-royalty arena.
    Apr. 18, 2002
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  • On the Front Lines of the Customer Revolution: Part 1

    The Phone Number Portability Skirmish

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    An interesting “Customer Revolution” skirmish is underway this Spring, as customers are demanding the right to own their cell phone numbers across carriers.
    Apr. 11, 2002
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  • The Customer Revolution

    How to Thrive When Customers Are in Control

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    In The Customer Revolution, the essential truths of business today are identified: “The Internet economy is the customer economy, and the fundamental source of value in the new customer economy is customers.” In the customer economy, the depth of your customer relationships is directly proportional to the value of your business. Attracting and retaining customers will be the core competencies of successful firms. Companies will be increasingly valued based on how they build relationships with their customers and on those customers' long-term value to the company.
    Jun. 1, 2001
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  • Doug Engelbart’s Design for Knowledge-Based Organizations—Part 2

    Co-Evolution of Organizations and Technology

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    This companion to my 90-minute interview of Doug Engelbart, Together We Can Get There, focuses on his implementation of Bootstrapping: He describes how to unleash innovation and continuous improvement in your organization.
    Mar. 25, 1992
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  • Doug Engelbart’s Design for Knowledge-Based Organizations—Part 1

    Required Technology: Open Hyperdocument Systems

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    An overview of Doug Engelbart’s design principles for an Open Hyperdocument System. Why a new form of collaborative knowledge sharing is needed and what its characteristics should be.
    Feb. 12, 1992
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