Powerful structures for product-driven organisations
Yes, I know, it's been a year since lesson 01. We have still been learning. Most of that time was spent working very hard on mkblv02, which unfortunately I can't yet talk about in detail here: we are working for a large company and they're still very much testing and tweaking before going live. That's… Continue reading Lesson 02
Of course innovation has been going on since there were people, sticks and fire. But, in terms of the literature, it really started for me in 1990 with Elko J. Kleinschmidt & Robert Cooper’s New Products, Key Factors in Success (with its quite marvellous cover, above. Can you imagine the brainstorm?: 'how ARE we going… Continue reading A tale of two tales
Here's the first update from an experiment we're doing at Make. Believe. We started on our first project (mkblv01, in homage to Factory Records) towards the end of June. It's a start up called 'YumTuc'. And I know the founder George Thwaites because he's an old friend from Bristol University (and I mean old, that… Continue reading Lesson 01
Yes, the customer wants it, but do they want it from you?
It used to be that everyone spent their time talking about design. In the early years of the web, that was enough 'new' for most of us: digital, social, mobile. They all meant new ways of making things. And so design could change the world. It was the silver bullet. User-centred thinking was new -… Continue reading What’s so new about innovation?
Leading product 