Solving customer challenges should always be the North Star of any innovation plan. Bill Beane understands this concept better than anyone. As the Senior Director of Parker Technology Center and Innovation Systems at Parker Hannifin, Bill is responsible for helping to guide innovation to maintain... Read More

Almost every company uses roadmaps, but are they using them to their full potential? In my experience, not always. Read More

One of the most frustrating new product development (NPD) scenarios is when a great idea on paper doesn’t quite translate in practice. Very often this situation emerges from challenges in one of these buckets (if not both): Read More

At its core, a start-up is a small company trying to scale. Early on, innovation is the result of continuous ideation and quickly pivoting to market changes. But as start-ups grow into large companies, flexibility is replaced by stringent product management processes that account for every detail.... Read More

In a recent blog post, I began this theme with a brief discussion of how text mining can help find white spaces for discovery and business intelligence. This post is about how with help of text mining techniques you can transform masses of “unstructured” data (texts, documents, etc.) into a very... Read More