3 examples of innovation flops from which you can learn
Between 75 and 90 percent of all product interventions do not prevail on the market. These three examples of innovation flops that have one thing in common show just how difficult it is to actually place innovations: All had the potential for a real breakthrough innovation. Read in this article why Google's data goggles, the parallel parking fitting for windows and the Segway one-perso...
Of clouds and clouds, birds and robots
While cloud computing is provoking wild controversy under the impression of intercontinental spying, more and more hardware is getting ready to take off and technically conquer the airspace. First the data goes up to the sky, then the robots follow. Clouds are "fascinating phenomena between earth and infinity," Tobias Natter, Director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna, diagnosed on the occ...
The dilemma of innovators: The fight against power
Ulrich Klotz looks back on his career as an innovator - at a conference of the Daimler and Benz Foundation he told about his fight against the innovation killer Power. "People with a new idea are considered wackos until the matter has prevailed", Ulrich Klotz opened his lecture with this quote by Mark Twain. In 1968 he came to West Berlin to the Technical University and joined a group ...
LEAD User Portrait: Karl Huber
A real LEAD user is a sewing needle in a haystack. How do you find someone who has his own experience as a product user, is in his nature a technical hobbyist and tinkerer, which is why he has become an engineer and finally a product developer, not least in an area that has strong analogies to the technology of our respective customer? Eleven years of building a LEAD user database and ...
