Creating Breakthrough Products: Revealing the Secrets that Drive Global Innovation - Hardcover

Cagan, Jonathan M.; Vogel, Craig M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0133011429 ISBN 13: 9780133011425

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2012

Synopsis

For years, Jonathan Cagan’s and Craig M. Vogel’s Creating Breakthrough Products has offered an indispensable roadmap for uncovering new opportunities, identifying what customers really value, and building products and services that redefine markets ― or create entirely new markets. Now, the authors have thoroughly updated their classic book, adding new chapters on service design and global innovation, plus new insights, best practices, and case studies from both U.S. and global companies. Their new Second Edition compares revolutionary (Apple-style) and evolutionary (Disney-style) approaches to innovation, helping decision-makers choose between them, and make either one work. Cagan and Vogel provide more coverage of Value Opportunity Analysis and ethnography, as well as new case studies ranging from Navistar’s latest long-haul truck to P&G’s reinvention of Herbal Essence. Throughout, readers will find up-to-date insights into identifying Product Opportunity Gaps that can lead to enormous success; navigating the "Fuzzy Front End" of product development; and leveraging contributions from diverse product teams ― while staying relentlessly focused on customers’ values and lifestyles, from strategy through execution. Using additional visual maps and illustrations, they’ve made their best-selling book even more intuitive and accessible to both industry and academic audiences.

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From the Back Cover

“Cagan and Vogel offer examples, case studies, and inspiration to guide a new generation of  open-minded, actionable innovation drivers.”

–Jeff Weedman, Vice President Global Business Development, Procter & Gamble

 

“To create profitable, breakthrough products that transform markets, you need real global innovation skills. Cagan and Vogel reveal how world-class companies leverage both to create impact through design.”

–David Kelley, Founder of IDEO and the Stanford d.school

 

“This new edition retains all the basic wisdom of the first, but brings it up-to-date with fresh case studies that reflect the changing world of global innovation.”

–Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic, Professor of Civil Engineering; author of To Engineer Is Human and To Forgive Design

 

“This book has been the most influential integrated design book in China for 10 years.”

–He Renke, Dean and Professor of School of Design, Hunan University, China

 

“In Cagan and Vogel’s widely referenced, landmark first book, they reached across disciplines to create a common understanding of useful, usable, and desirable products. This second edition adds a global view, services, and a look into healthcare, further establishing them as the grandmasters of the recipe for empathic innovation.”

–Robert T. Schwartz, General Manager, Global Design & User Experience, GE Healthcare

 

“The second edition is a brilliant book that will move your company to success with less wear and tear and lower risk for all involved in creating and managing products.”

–Lorraine Justice, Dean, CIAS, Rochester Institute of Technology; author, China’s Design Revolution

 

“I wouldn’t dream of commercializing a new product or service without infusing the  Creating Breakthrough Products design culture into my company and development teams.”

–Eric Close, President and CEO, RedZone Robotics, Inc.(

 

“This book has helped greatly to expand the innovative use of design in many areas of industry.”

–Yrjö Sotamaa, Advisory Dean and Professor, College of Design and Art, Tongji University, Shanghai;Executive Vice Director, Sino-Finnish Centre at Tongji University; President Emeritus, University of Art and Design Helsinki

 

“The authors’ approach to product development unleashed the collective creative genius of our designers and engineers, and helped us move beyond a typical competitive benchmarking approach, to create something unique, appealing and functional for our customers.” 

–Paul Prichard, Innovation Ventures Engineering, Kennametal, Inc.

 

“Navistar has made strides in learning the iNPD techniques from this book and applying them to our everyday development process.”

–David Allendorph, Director of Design, Navistar International Truck Group

 

For years, Creating Breakthrough Products has offered an indispensable roadmap for uncovering new opportunities, identifying what customers really value, and building products and services that redefine or  create markets. Now, Jonathan Cagan and Craig M. Vogel have thoroughly updated their classic book,  adding brand-new chapters on service design and global innovation, plus new insights, best practices, and a new selection of case studies that highlight the current state-of-the-art in product and service design.

 

This Second Edition shows how companies like  Apple and Disney manage evolutionary and  revolutionary innovation, helping you choose  between them and make your best strategy work in your organization. You’ll find important new insights into identifying Product Opportunity Gaps that can lead to enormous success; effectively navigating the “Fuzzy Front End” of product development; and  leveraging contributions from diverse product teams. Cagan and Vogel present powerful new case studies ranging from Navistar’s latest long-haul truck to P&G’s reinvention of Herbal Essences, and offer insightful updates to the First Edition’s pioneering cases.

 

More than ever, Creating Breakthrough Products  will help you deliver the right innovations and  products: offerings that succeed powerfully because they are laser-focused on your customers’ values  and lifestyles.

 

Moving to the “value quadrant” in product/service development

Understand the seven key attributes of value and focus R&D on maximizing some or all of them

 

Uncovering huge Product Opportunity Gaps nobody else has exploited

Find immense opportunities in the hidden connections among social change, economic trends, and  technical innovation

 

Crafting tomorrow’s dominant  product-service ecosystems

Integrate products, interaction, and service to  drive value competitors can’t match

 

Winning innovation everywhere: new cases, remarkable lessons across the globe

From metal cutting to packaging, elementary school classrooms to the Dallas Cowboys Stadium

About the Author

Jonathan Cagan is the George Tallman and Florence Barrett Ladd Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Co-Director of  the Master of Product Development at Carnegie Mellon University. Globally known for his rigorous and effective approach to product  innovation, Cagan works extensively in research on innovation processes and tools, and teaching and leading innovation teams in both university and corporate settings. Cagan has worked with a variety of companies ranging from Fortune 100 to entrepreneurial start-ups such as Apple, Navistar, GlaxoSmithKline, and Philips Respironics. www.JonathanCagan.com.

 

Craig M. Vogel is Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the  University of Cincinnati. He is also a professor in the School of Design with an appointment  in Industrial Design. He is a Fellow, Past  President Elect, and Chair of the Board of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). He is a cofounder and president of the Live Well Collaborative, a nonprofit company working with corporations to address the challenges and opportunities of a globally  aging world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0133011429
• ISBN 13: 9780133011425
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 416