Customer/Outside Innovation
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Is User-Centered Design the Missing Link?
Bridging the Gaps Between Customer Experience and Product Development
by Patricia Seybold, Ronni MarshakEmpower UX professionals and embed them within your business units to help product managers and developers identify customer needs and develop products that are easy to use and to adopt, easy to support, and on target to meet a critical end-user need. -
How to Transform the Quality of Life in African Rural Communities
Educate Young People to Be Entrepreneurs and Leaders
by Patricia SeyboldIn western Uganda, URDT’s Vocational Institute addresses unemployment by training young people to be job creators—not job seekers—in their local communities. -
Why the Huffington Post Is Successful
Engaging Your Audience as Active Contributors and Promoters Was Baked into Its DNA
by Patricia SeyboldThe Huffington Post became a successful, profitable online media property for seven good reasons. Most of these best practices are applicable for anyone providing online content. -
Turning Innovation into Reality
From Ideation to Implementation—Lessons Learned from Our Visionaries
by Ronni MarshakHow can you take all the great ideas that come from customers, partners, and employees and make them actually happen? Let’s look at the different aspects of outside innovation generation and what you need to do to actually turn ideation into innovation. -
Pandora: Delivering Personalized Internet Radio
How Pandora Internet Radio Combines Taxonomy, Crowdsourcing, and Personalization to Improve Music Playlists
by Patricia SeyboldAs is the case with many electronic publishing efforts, Pandora has merged the best of both worlds: a professional taxonomy with the wisdom of the crowds. Professional musicians categorize music, but people can vote on whether certain songs really belong. -
What Happened in the Music Industry Will Happen To You
by Patricia SeyboldBy 2000, the music industry was under siege by renegade customers. Here’s how new businesses and new business models emerged in response to customers' behaviors. -
Five Steps to Success in Designing a Customer-Centric Business
Chapter 1 – Customers.com 2.0
by Patricia SeyboldA 5-step prescription for customer-centric executives to design new businesses or re-focus existing organizations and win customers for life. -
How Custom Product Design Can Spawn Customer-Centric Ecosystems
How National Semiconductor, CustoMax, and Zazzle Built Vibrant Ecosystems
by Patricia SeyboldThree companies in different industries—CustoMax, National Semiconductor, and Zazzle—have built vibrant customer-centric ecosystems to let customers design their own products. -
Innovation in Education: School Children Improve Their Families' Livelihoods
At URDT, It Takes a Child to Raise a Village
by Patricia SeyboldWhy not educate children to become masterful in envisioning and creating a better life for themselves and their families? That’s the innovative approach to education that URDT has been practicing for almost a decade. -
Local Motors
Reinventing the Car Industry from the Outside In
by Patricia SeyboldLocal Motors is a new American car company with an innovative approach: get customers to design cars, manufacture them locally, and let customers help assemble their own cars Build-A-Bear style! -
Want Customer-Contributed Content?
Make It Easy for Your Customers to Multi-Post
by Patricia SeyboldDo you want customers to contribute content to your Web site? Customers are more likely to post or curate content in an environment that will "automagically" syndicate that comment or posting out to several other sites. -
How Citrix Evolved Its Online Community of Customer Advisors
How to Recruit and Manage a Private Customer Community—Patty’s Visionaries' Interviews' Series
by Patricia SeyboldAndrea Davidowitz tells the story of how and why she launched a private B2B online community of advisors in 2007 and what she has learned about running and managing a private customer community. Andrea manages strategic customer programs at Citrix. -
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! -
Google Wave
It’s “My” Design, but Will I Use It?
by Patricia SeyboldDid Google design Google Wave by watching customer behavior? If so, did they get it right? -
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. -
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.
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