Assess Design Alternatives With Axiomatic Design
Axiomatic design provides a rational and scientific way to develop and assess design alternatives, and preemptively addresses and resolves design issues that traditionally are discovered so late that only suboptimal compromises are possible.

Axiomatic Design: Achieve the Right Design
The axiomatic design process provides a functionally-driven, solution-neutral way to develop design alternatives and and clear objective methods for choosing between those alternatives.

Be Innovative: By Design, Accident Or Both?
An IBM ad suggests that businesses only invest in what customers want – not what they need. This either/or has to stop; both are needed in an effective innovation effort.

Begin a Systematic Innovation Practice – Step Five
Any company should begin its innovation journey with the end in mind; in this case, an effort to sustain innovation must be carefully planned and practiced to perpetuate the culture of accelerated introduction of new products or solutions.

Design Profitable Products Using QFD and Kano Model
Quality function deployment (QFD) offers a customer-oriented approach, supporting design teams in developing new products based on customer needs. Customer needs are translated into design attributes, which are then deployed in product requirements.

Facilitating Systematic Innovation – Innovation Contests
When a company or group advertises a bright ideas contest for the public, it lends the appearance of innovation. What could be better than opening the door to any and all creative ideas? The more hands in the pot the better, right?

Four Steps to Grow a Company’s Innovation Practice
Innovation (which is of the utmost importance to companies across the globe) is difficult although there are dozens of methodologies and tools to achieve it. A series of four steps should be followed to successfully innovate.

How to Think What No One Else Thinks
How can an individual think of things that no one else thinks of? The answer is to take a different approach on the issue. The innovative thinker challenges dominant ideas in order to conceive new possibilities.

Ideality Drives Innovation for Kraft’s Lunchables
Ideality is a means of identifying the path to perfection. As compromises in a system are resolved, the implemented solutions should eliminate the contradictions that have been targeted. Also, the solutions should evolve the system toward idealness.

Improving the Fuzzy Front End of Product Development
A study of several famous companies that have stumbled in innovation reveals that it is not just one activity, but a multitude, that are not d well. The federal government has tried to measure innovation and has found it very difficult.

Improving the Fuzzy Front End Part 2
The following definitions will clarify further how the elements (problem solving/problem identification, business analysis, business planning and environment) act and should help prioritize activity in a fuzzy front end improvement plan.

Improving the Fuzzy Front End Part 3
Part three introduces the multifamily product and development plan along with the last element known as environment and offers a conclusion for the fuzzy front end and the innovation process model.

Innovation Evaluation Framework: Use Compatability
Compatibility provides a choice – align to existing standards and improve other factors of the product or service, or disrupt and improve or eliminate the existing standards to provide a completely new product or service.

Lean and Six Sigma for Innovation
Value-added solution selling can lead to customer-centric innovation when the customer needs assessment process is integrated into a value stream map.

Moving the House of Quality to Systematic Innovation
Today, with innovation and product development emerging as the keys to company growth, increasing numbers of companies are attempting to use the house of quality and QFD programs to bring rigor, discipline, and quality to these complex processes.

Patterns of Evolution and Methodologies
Determining the life-cycle of a product or service is important; the next generations should be identified in advance so that they may be planned for at design conception. Modular design helps prepare the system for the incremental step improvements.

Reverse Engineer a Product to Create Innovations
Reverse engineering takes a product function or effect and tries to find new applications for it. The 6-C method leads a product development team to both incremental and breakthrough innovations.

Robust Engineering Methodology: Part One
This three part series explores the relationships of methodology for robust engineering and the possible effects of that method in order to accelerate the evolution of systems. The following is Part One.

Robust Engineering Methodology: Part Three
This three part series explores the relationships of methodology for robust engineering and the possible effects of that method in order to accelerate the evolution of systems. The following is Part Three.

Select an Innovation Approach for Problem Solving
You want to be innovative. You want to be methodical. But where do you start? Right here. This article profiles the prominent methods for innovation and by using a simple flowchart leads you to the best innovation method for your situation.

Strategic Project Management in GSD Scenarios Part 1
Increasing globalization indicates that the world will see an increase in global software development. Studying the global software development landscape, this article identifies six different global software development scenarios.

Strategic Project Management in GSD Scenarios Part 2
Increasing globalization indicates that the world will see an increase in global software development. Studying the global software development landscape, this article identifies six different global software development scenarios.

Strategic Project Management in GSD Scenarios Part 3
Increasing globalization indicates that the world will see an increase in global software development. Studying the global software development landscape, this article identifies six different global software development scenarios.

Use QFD to Avoid Product Failure
The product team should own the strategy for addressing customer needs, applying technical knowledge, expertise and resources, and assuring a shared vision to evaluate and select the best solutions.

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