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Tasks
Priorities - A: high, B: medium, C: low; Status - _: unfinished, X: finished, C: cancelled, P: pending, o: in progress, >: delegated.
| A | X | Print usability test data |
| A | _ | Upcoming trips: look for a small way to raise cash |
| A | _ | Work on thesis: Results |
| A | X | @1830-2200 Jane's BBQ |
| A | X | Job search: follow up on technical sales |
| A | _ | Mail thank-you letters |
| B | _ | Check out events in Ottawa |
| C | _ | Copy thumbnails to my computer |
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Notes
1. Raw book notes: Outside INnovation by Patricia B. Seybold: 15:56
I borrowed this book from the library and finished it the same day. It's a great read for customer evangelists and other people who talk to customers to get awesome ideas for innovation. I'll post a better book summary sometime, but for now, here are my raw book notes.
| 4 | The "outside in" approach is to flip the innovation process around and assume that customers have outcomes they want to achieve, they have deep knowledge about their own circumstances and contexts, and they are not happy with the way they have to do things today. |
| 7 | You win by finding the lead users in your industry and commercializing their inventions. |
| 7 | You win by engaging with your most visionary customers to co-design new products and new processes |
| 7 | You win by enabling customers to troubleshoot each others' problems, hack your solutions, and modify and extend your product to meet their needs. |
| 8 | Winning formula: customers/users who are passionate about something they're trying to accomplish or something they want; a deep understanding and appreciation by those customers/users of their current reality: their context, their situation, their constraints, how things are currently doing.; A clear vision by those customers of their ideal outcome |
| 9 | Lead users - not necessarily customers, but have explored innovative ways to get things done and are usually willing to share |
| 10 | What are the characteristics of lead customers/lead users?
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| 38 | For example, in one rapid exchange that lasted two days, two members of this community of innovative hackers designed a version of the brick that was four times as fast as the original. |
| 39 | Lego: "What if customers say bad things about our products?" the executives wondered. "We knew from prior experience that if one customer bad-mouths your product, another customer will usually defend it," Soren recalls. (Soren Lund, now director of Mindstorms product line) |
| 39 | Hosting your own online forums seems to be a critical ingredient to success in supporting customer-led innovation. |
| 66 | Formal lead user program at National Instruments. Hall Martin, product strategist: "Technologists help us to define new products; early adopters help with marketing, positioning and in providing beachhead applications; existing customers help us define and prioritize what should be in the next version of a product; and pragmatists keep us from going too far afield." |
| 132 | Many freeformers aren't employed full-time & don't pass credit tests, even if they have assets and the ability to repay. |
| 133 | "But now there are also young people coming into the workforce who don't want to follow in their parents' footsteps and join a firm with the idea of working their way up from the bottom to the top. They realize that there probably won't be a 'top' for them. They prefer to design their own lifestyles and incomes around the things they care about." |
| 231 | 1. Industry-specific solutions, 2. Support services, 3. Custom development - smartest guys in the room, 4. Software as a service |
| 239 | Designing the right mix of open source business models: identify a market, certify an open source software for specialized market, add value, identify customer-critical scenario and offer as a service |
| 312 | Deck of cards with goals and concerns - priorities |
| 313 | want to / have to, now / later |
There's a blog at http://outsideinnovation.blogs.com .
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