Even better than the personal recommendations we receive from our fans are their new product ideas.
Companies today have innovation portfolios that run into hundreds of new product ideas or improvements.
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Since then the company has a new strategy for feeding new product ideas to McDonald's headquarters.
Staples found its luminaries by holding a competition among customers to come up with new product ideas.
They entice their social customers to interact and get involved and can accelerate innovation by tapping their social customers for new product ideas.
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Part of the meet-up is designed to foster new product ideas.
At one time the technique was widely used within corporations to help come up with new product ideas or to devise radically new manufacturing processes.
The Reinvent Payphones Demo Day occurred last night at Quirky, a social product development company that brings new product ideas to life through its online collaborative platform.
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If company engineers and marketers who develop new product ideas can sense that their jobs will eventually be farmed out, why should they be loyal to the company?
But industry engineers will continue to make the pilgrimage to dB Drag events because they are to car audio what Nascar is to Detroit: fertile ground for new product ideas developed by obsessive customers in pursuit of perfection.
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They give you constructive feedback on new product or service ideas, helping you fine tune them and increase their odds of marketplace success.
In an exciting twist, our new app is already influencing our print pages and digital templates, setting off a whole new round of product ideas.
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Peter Shea, an attorney at Katten Muchin Rosenman who specializes in these funds, reports that despite regulatory uncertainty, sponsors continue to float new exchange-traded product ideas.
They take their time to think about new-fangled ideas, so the wait to launch a new financial product can be interminable.
Having product development close to the manufacturing capability can help to accelerate new ideas to market through active collaborations that develop simultaneously the product and manufacturing process.
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But you should always be able to draw out new and creative ideas to improve your product.
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Her customers have come up with new ideas, inspired by her product, and such collaborations have resulted in additional products, including Rooibos tea with Blyss cocoa beans and bath essences with Blyss cocoa extract.
If nothing else, it's going to inject some new life into a product niche that until very recently had just started to look boring and short on new ideas.
Startup America, he says, was "on the same track" as Startup Weekend, which was launched four years ago and has since organized thousands of 54-hour networking events, where software developers, engineers, product managers and others share ideas for new ventures.
Pepsi has small product-development teams that come up with new ideas and perform consumer testing, independent of brand managers overseeing established products.
The cloud provides a low-cost way for engineers, product developers and even marketing folks to experiment with new ideas and test their feasibility within a short timeframe so that they can quickly move forward with successful ones.
Google put out a call today for people who have creative ideas about how to use its new augmented reality Glass product and want to get one around their heads before the general public.
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Throughout his long and storied career, Neil Young has been a virtual factory of songs, musical innovation, ideas, inventions and a near-constant stream of new product.
Mr Gross argues that a normal company structure, in which each of his ideas would be represented by a product line, not a new company, is inappropriate for an environment as fast-changing as the Internet.
Several of the most promising ideas are being chosen for the students to now take into a new product development course this month.
If this applies to your new position, be sure to offer your boss or colleagues ideas for how to enhance the product or company.
Changes are made quickly and in small increments, allowing new ideas to be tested and quickly vetted, and ensuring that, over time, the product is moving in a user-validated direction.
Under pressure to shrink overhead and telescope the new-product cycle, big companies are more likely to turn to universities or small companies to help develop ideas.
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