taking sensory information from the environment (e.g. what you hear, see, feel, taste, smell)
Common misconception of the Sources of Innovation
Producers should innovate, and not customers --> wrong e.g., the majority of sports was created by users
name examples of products where users innovated
Botox, surgery, etc --> 40% of users innovate
Define where users "can be"
customers of company (B2C) not yet customers of the company Companies (B2B)
users in "analogous" markets
Characteristics of lead users:
High expected benefit of innovation
ahead of trend
functional fixedness
pragmatic
they have a test environment
Define the "diffusion shortfall"
User innovators without commercial objectives only rarely undertake substantial efforts to actively diffuse their innovation
What can be done against the "diffusion shortfall"?
Increase awareness of importance of user innovation
simplify access to resources
promote cooperation between producers & users
more user entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurial opportunities result from..
not yet commercialized user innovations, change, economic disparities, information asymetries
Name 3 forms of opportunities
Market Pull
Technology push
Need-solution pair
Name 7 ways to find opportunities
1. The Unexpected 2. Incongruities 3. Process needs 4. Industry & Market Structure Change 5. Demographic Changes 6. Changes in Perception 7. New knowledge & technologies
Established companies should...
exploit the opportunities
Explain the process of the Lead User Method
Start of lead user project --> Identification of needs & trends --> Identification of lead users & their ideas --> Development of solution concepts (workshop)
Define Screening
filtering out lead users from a sample of users
Define Pyramiding
sequentially working through the network (usually via personal interviews)
Name advantages of Screening
all members questioned
representative analyses possible
identification of local optima also possible in unrelated populations
time efficiency
Name advantages of Pyramiding
outside of pre-defined populations
effort efficiency
learning opportunity
more efficient than screening
What is the "small world effect"?
it indicates that any two people in the world are linked through only a few steps --> also know as the "six degrees of separation"
analogous markets...
often provide better search areas than the usual target markets
Advantages of users from analogous markets
out-of-the-box-thinking
transfer of existing solutions
The Lead User Method is the most successful, if...
the company's innovations become more incremental and less frequent, and there is a strong technology orientation
Definition of toolkits
They empower users to become product designers
Name reasons for a value growth from self-designing
better fit to individual preferences
psychological benefits (pride/identification, uniqueness, enjoyment of process)
Crowdsourcing
"if a large crowd of people participates in problem solving, some will have the necessary skills to solve it easily"
worst case of crowdsourcing
crowdslapping
Design Thinking is..
a set of established methods that focus on learning and user experience
name the process of design thinking
Emphathize --> Define --> Ideate --> Prototype-test --> result
Define Effectuation
means focusing on the resources that are available to discover and capture new business opportunities Contrast: Causation
Define Intelligent Scouting
IT-advancements such as Machine Learning can be used to identify innivations semi-automatically in a big data pool
What is strategy
The definition of an organization's long-term goals and a plan on how to achieve them
Name the 4 theoretical approaches to strategy
Market-based view
resource-based view
relationship-based view
opportunity-based view
Conditions for an agile approach
unclear + quickly changing
Lean Start-Up
fast and iterative testing; shorten product development sequences
Principle of the Lean Start-Up
Accept that you only have the 3 hypotheses speed, flexibility & learning
Lean Start-Up Cylce
1. Idea 2. Develop 3. Build "MVP" 4. Measurement 5. Data 6. Learn
Name 3 factors on which technology attractiveness depends on:
1. Factors resulting from the corporate environment 2. (Changing) customer needs 3. Further development potential of the technology
Define the Dunning-Kruger effect
bias where people with low cognitive ability or skill tend to overestimate their abilities
Define the sailing-ship effect
Increased effort for old technology --> result: old technology gets beaten by new one anyway, it just delays it
Define the Delphi Method
the knowledge from as many experts as possible is gathered in an iterative process
Define Scenario Planning
It describes alternative futures (doesnt accurately predict the future) --> but understands logical paths & developes more comprehensive strategies
Name the 6 Phases of Scenario Planning
1. Definition of scope 2. Perception analysis 3. Trend & uncertainty analysis 4. Scenario building 5. Strategy definition 6. Monitoring
Kano model question
Which product attributes generate customer satisfaction?
Kano model goal
Identidfication of attributes "that make a difference"
Kano model 4 types of attributes
Performance attributes
Basic attributes
Indifference attributes
Excitement attributes
Process of generating a Kano model
1. Collection of relevant product attributes 2. Classification into the 4 types of attributes 3. Combination with additional data
What is a Conjoint Analysis?
a method for better understanding of customer preferences
What does a Conjoint Analysis show?
importance of attributes & trade-offs between them
attractiveness of different product variants
Name the 4 process steps of the Conjoint analysis
1. Selection of product attributes & attribute levels 2. Data generation design 3. Data collection 4. Calculation of part-worth utilities & interpretation
What is laddering?
a qualitative method that helps analyzing the customer's cognitive & affective structure with regard to a (new) product
Name the Principal idea of Segmentation
"to get the best of 2 worlds" --> mass production & individualization
Name the rationale of Quantitative Cluster Analysis (4 Steps)
1. Measure similarities 2. Cluster the most similar objects 3. Calculate similarities again 4. Cluster the most similar objects
Positioning - Multiattributive model: Name all 5 Steps
1. Determination of relevant product attributes in a pilot study 2. Quantitative study with (representative) sample 3. Depiction of positioning in the multiattributive model 4. Creation of Perceptual Map 5. Creation of positioning model: perceptual map
2 main research objectives/types
Exploration
Testing
Value judgements
subjective evaluations that a behavior, object, person etc. is somehow good or bad
Definitions...
attach a word to a subject
Alternative explanation
Other reasons for observed outcomes than the correctness of the hypothesis
Qualitative Methods are...
primarily an exploratory reasearch
Disadvantages of Qualitative Methods
Single case only
impossible on a larger scale
Subjectivity & biases appear
Expert interview requirement
the research problem has to fit the specific expertise of the expert
Advantages of a research interview
quick access to research field
much information in a short period of time
good for exploring a phenomenon
Disadvantages of a research interview
needs preparation
the processing takes much time
experts assessment is not necessarily true & objective
A might complain that product doesn't fully meet expectations
A demands price reduction & threatens to end business relation
B can hardly defend - investment is made
Problematic implication --> if B anticipates the hold-up problem, it will not invest
Trends of Globalization
increase in export volume
change from seller's to buyer's market
shorter product & innovation cycles
international networking
Examples of changed working conditions
home office
mobile working
international travel
"bring your own device"
digital-visual collaboration
Cooperation makes sense when...
win-win advantages are possible for all parties involved
strategies are congruent or competences are complementary
bilateral cooperation is possible
Cooperation can be problematic if...
situation involves "zero-sum games"
goals, strategies, etc are incompatible
one-sided dominance & dependencies exist
multilaterall cooperation is necessary
3 reasons for cooperation
1. Know-how 2. increase of sales & profits
3 types of formal cooperation
backward/forward cooperation (vertical)
competitive cooperation (horizontal)
complementary cooperation (diagonal)
Informal cooperation
passing on information without contract
Informal cooperation makes sense if...
not direct competitors
low cost of information transfer
information is not easily available & we gain valuable information in return
Prisoner's dilemma
Always more sense to not cooperate with the other prisoner
Nash equilibrium
maximization of individual benefits results in the collectively worst outcome
Tit for tat strategy
always chose the action that the other has chosen in the previous round in a cooperation --> e.g. reward cooperation w/ cooperation, aggressiveness with aggressiveness
Tragedy of the Commons
for the indivual, exploitation brings a higher individual utility because gains are private and losses are shared
Network effects
number of users of a good influences value for each user
indirect network effects
more users mean more complementary goods
negative network effects
diffusion of network effects is strongly influenced by expectations
bandwagon effect
refers to demand for a good because many others have it
Porter's generic strategies (market-related)
Cost leadership
Differiation
focus strategy
Blue Ocean strategy (market-related)
create uncontested market space
make competition irrelevant
create & capture new demand
break value/cost trade-off
align whole company system on differentiation % low cost
4 words of the Blue Ocean strategy
Eliminate
Reduce
Create
Raise
Timing-related strategies
First Mover
Fast Follower
Diffusion-related strategies
Beachhead strategy
Whole Product strategy
Beachhead strategy
land in a smartly defined niche, build stronghold, expand & conquer
Whole Product strategy
consider entire product from the customer perspective e.g. Apple focuses on system integration
Internal function of a business plan
coordination & integration of the many different business functions
identification & consensus building of the team
starting point for scenario planning
etc...
External function of a business plan
convincing & informing external stakeholders
"proof" that business concept makes sense
basis for estimating risk
etc...
Explain the principal-agent relationship between investor & entrepreneur
principal needs agent for realization; agent wants contact w/ principal