The Malco Design & Deliver Group eNewsletter
July 2011

Innovate With Companion Products

Imagine this scenario. You’ve spent years developing the perfect product. It’s designed to be the most durable, powerful and attractive of its kind. It will ensure your success. There’s only one problem. Days before launch while doing online research, you discover that your competition has also designed “the most durable, powerful and attractive product of its kind”.

They’ve beat you to it. So, what do you do when your market is saturated and your competition seems to anticipate your every move? Or worse yet, they reverse engineer your design and introduce a cheaper knock off only months after your introduction. Read on.

 


New School is Old School
by Stephen Shapiro

There is no single definition or meaning when it comes to innovation in new product development. True, it’s exciting to come up with a never-before-seen-or-heard-of product, but is it not possible to get the same excitement from breathing new, and dare I say innovative, life in to an already existing thing? Read on.


The Brave New World of Open Innovation
by Paul Sloane

Many leading companies are now adopting open innovation (OI) as a way to drive their new product development. Companies such as Proctor and Gamble, IBM, LG Electronics, Kraft Foods, Reckitt Benckiser, Unilever and Kimberly-Clark are all enthusiastic advocates of this approach. So what does it entail? Read on.


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