The document outlines a 4-step process for product innovation: 1) Define your brand, 2) Define your target customer, 3) Understand your target's current needs and behaviors, 4) Look for ways to improve your target's life. Some key strategies discussed include visiting new markets for inspiration, brainstorming with experts, looking at niche customer segments or unrelated categories for new ideas. The goal is to develop products and services that create real value for the customer.
2. Four Steps
1. What is your brand?
2. Who is your target?
3. What is your targets current state?
4. How can you better the life of your target?
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5. Nike Improve the performance
of serious athletes
Football Soccer Baseball
Track & Field Yoga
Tennis Hockey Golf
Cycling Running
Cross-Training Skateboard
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6. Who is your target?
Current
Size of
User Opportunity
Non-
User, Category
User
Non-Category User
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15. 3. What is your targets current
state?
Walk in their shoes.
Question the paradigms.
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16. Walk in their shoes 3M
Masking tape was invented when a
3M lab technician (Charles Drew)
observed an auto-body shop
worker struggling.
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17. Walk in their shoes - Intuit
Intuit noticed that small business
were using their personal financial
software for their business.
QuickBooks has 85% of the
market.
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18. Walk In Their Shoes Dutch Boy
Dutch Boy Twist and Pour increased paint sales by 35%.
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19. Question the Paradigm
Oral Care Customer
Cosmetic Therapeutic
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Whitening Cavity Protection
Breath Freshening Tartar Control
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20. Question the Paradigm
Oral Care Customer
Less Involved More Involved
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Less-----------------------------------------------------------------More Whitening
Less---------------------------------------------------------More Breath Freshening
Less----------------------------------------------------------More Cavity Protection
Less-------------------------------------------------------------More Tartar Control
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21. 4. How can you better the life of
your target?
People dont want to buy a quarter-
inch drill. They want a quarter
inch hole.
Theodore Levitt
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22. Generating Ideas
1. Visit New Markets
2. Brainstorming with Experts
3. Look Around at Niche Segments
or Other Categories
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23. Visit New Markets - Listerine
Listerine Oral
Care Strips in
Asia 10 years
before introduced
into the US
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24. Visit New Markets - Starbucks
Starbucks started in
1971.
The third place idea
based on a trip to
Milan in 1983.
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25. Visit New Markets Procter &
Gamble
Product found in Japanese
convenience store in Jan.
2001.
Introduced in US in 2003.
Attitude change from
Not-Invented-Here to
Proudly-Found-Elsewhere.
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26. Brainstorming with Experts
Dont ask the average consumer to
tell you what they want in the
future.
If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they
would have said a faster horse
Henry Ford
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27. Look Around
Godiva looks to dessert categories to gain
inspiration for pie-flavored chocolates:
Apple Crumb
Strawberry
Key Lime
Lemon Meringue
Banana Cream
Chocolate Cream
Pecan
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28. Look Around
In 2000, a Disney executive went to check out a
Disney on Ice show and found himself
surrounded by little girls in princess costumes.
Princess costumes that were
horrors!- homemade.
Princess Products 2009 sales: $4 billion.
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29. Look Around
Products using cocktail hour as inspiration:
Avon Sheer Sangria nail polish
Malin + Goetz rum and mojito candles
Victoria Secret Appletini Beauty Rush
Lip Gloss
Demeter White Russian perfume
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30. Niche Segments Gluten Free
1999 1 in 10,000 in the US had celiac
disease. (medical textbook)
Gluten-free products $6.3 Billion (Spins) and
up 33% since 2009 (Nielsen).
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32. Niche Segments Gluten Free
1999 1 in 10,000 in the US had celiac
disease. (medical textbook)
Gluten-free products $6.3 Billion (Spins) and
up 33% since 2009 (Nielsen).
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33. Four Steps to Product Innovation
1. Define your brand.
2. Define your target.
3. Know your targets current state.
4. Look to better the life of your
target.
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