Last week I had an opportunity to attend a session here in San Diego on cloud computing hosted by the San Diego Chapter of AITP. If I had...

Being a guitar player and music lover, I have been a big fan of Les Paul ever sense I became aware of him in my youth. Like most people,...

I love playing around with word groupings to describe NPD and business frameworks. They are almost as fun as TLA’s and FLA’s (i.e. three...

“Profits can only be earned by providing something the market accesses value and is willing to pay for such.” Drucker In my blog posted...

From our previous blog, we talked about coming up with lots of ideas using brainstorming and ideation processes. Best practice companies...

I have worked with many companies and teams and have found that sometimes companies have lots of ideas, but no idea on what to do with...

In previous blogs, I described iNPD’s Seven D’s of an integrated product planning process. As with any good process, improvements are...

I suppose we all have stories of products from hell, where you scratch your head and wonder just who in the world designs these products....

In my previous blog I described “insight” of the market and technology capabilities as one of the “i’s” of iNPD and being necessary for a...

I am glad you should ask that! O.K. I know you didn’t but I’ll answer it anyway. Drum roll please: The “i” stands for “idea” (or “ideas”)...

In my last blog I defined the 3 top level activities of product planning: 1) Defining the Right Products to Develop (product portfolio,...

Like many of the management terms used in the lingo of new product development, the definition of product planning varies widely...

The final model I am presenting to describe technology adoption is from Clayton Christensen called the Innovators Dilemma. He also has a...

A few noteworthy gems from Diffusion theory worth exploring before we move onto Christensen’ Disruption model. First is the Bass...

O.K. so the Technology Adoption Lifecycle model predicts how the innovation moves from left to right through the five groups until its...

For the purposes of my discussion, I use the work of Everett Rogers as the starting point in the codification of the study of innovation...