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Enlightened Experimentation: The New Imperative for Innovation (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Stefan Thomke

Harvard Business Review, 2001

The high cost of experimentation has long put a damper on companies' attempts to create great new products. But new technologies are making it easier than ever to conduct complex experiments quickly and cheaply. Companies can now take innovation to a whole new level, contends Stefan Thomke, if they're willing to rethink their R&D from the ground up. Thomke argues that new technologies affect everything, from the development process ...

Experimentation Matters: Unlocking the Potential of New Technologies for Innovation

9 reviews
Stefan H. Thomke

Harvard Business School Press, 2003

This book matters!
The way to succeed is to double your failure rate. That comment by Thomas Watson, Sr. is not among the innovators' words of wisdom in Stefan Thomke's densely informative exploration of technologies and processes of experimentation but it perfectly fits the message. Central to Thomke's message in this book is the idea that iterated experimentation through the use of models, prototypes, and ...

Tango um Mitternacht.
Stefan H. Thomke

Harvard Business Review on Innovation

9 reviews
Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Overdorf, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 2001

Innovation Expression that cannot be matched.
I was pleasantly surprised at the ease of reading this book. Each patr is beautifully orientated with outstanding diagrams and notes. The ideas expressed within are quick to collect and rapidly absorbed and understood. A great 3-4 hour read that will set your innovation engines on fire!

Managing Product and Service Development: Text and Cases

1 review
Stefan Thomke

McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2006

Corporate Innovation Paradigm
Since the book *Managing Product & Service Development: Text & Cases* by Stefan H. Thomke has become available for academic purposes it may be of interest to think about how this material on the veritably "hot topic" of corporate innovation can be used. To briefly summarize the book's contents, it is based on the author's academic and case research and consists of three modules. Each of ...

Customers as Innovators: A New Way to Create Value (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

1 review
Stefan Thomke, Eric von Hippel

Harvard Business Review, 2002

Good document to stimulate strategic thinking
This 9-page article from the Harvard Business Review is a very useful document that can be used within a company to stimulate strategic thinking - specifically, how a company can best address its customers needs. Not by creating a new product, but by creating a toolkit that allows the customers to design the product themselves. One example in the article was a flavoring manufacturer who had ...

R&D Comes to Services: Bank of America's Pathbreaking Experiments (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Stefan Thomke

Harvard Business Review, 2003

At the heart of business today lies a dilemma: Our economy is increasingly dependent on services, yet our innovation processes remain oriented toward products. In this article, Harvard Business School professor Stefan Thomke points out the challenges of applying the discipline of formal R&D processes to services. Most service companies have not established rigorous, ongoing R&D processes, Thomke says. But the author provides an in-depth look at ...

Creating Breakthroughs at 3M (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Eric von Hippel, Stefan Thomke, ...

Harvard Business Review, 2001

Most senior managers want their product development teams to create new products that will allow their companies to grow rapidly and maintain high margins. But more often they get incremental improvements to existing products. That's partly because companies must compete in the short term. In addition, developers simply don't know how to achieve breakthroughs, and there is usually no system in place to guide them. By the mid-1990s, the lack of ...