{"id":88,"date":"2015-07-22T20:14:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T20:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rivcons.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2015-07-22T20:30:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T20:30:38","slug":"the-practice-of-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rivcons.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"The Practice of Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"column\">\n<p>James Euchner, Austin Henderson<\/p>\n<p>Research-Technology Management, March-April, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Successful innovation requires the man\u00adagement of multiple contexts: those of the customer, the offering itself, the business model for the offering, and the strategic aims of the hosting corporation. An ap\u00adproach to managing these contexts and the constraints they impose was developed and implemented at Pitney Bowes. Although it is designed to manage multiple constraints, the approach is based on a deep and con\u00adtinuing reliance on the customer for direction. In this paper, the constraint-driven process is discussed and examples of innovation based on the approach are reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>KEY CONCEPTS: Innovation, Customer-centered innovation, Participatory design<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivcons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/The Practice of Innovation.pdf\">(full text)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Euchner, Austin Henderson Research-Technology Management, March-April, 2011 Successful innovation requires the man\u00adagement of multiple contexts: those of the customer, the offering itself, the business model for the offering, and the strategic aims of the hosting corporation. An ap\u00adproach to managing these contexts and the constraints they impose was developed and implemented at Pitney Bowes. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rivcons.com\/?p=88\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Practice of Innovation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rivcons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rivcons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rivcons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rivcons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rivcons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rivcons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"http:\/\/rivcons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rivcons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rivcons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rivcons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}