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The Mission of GGI’s Blog

I would like to welcome readers to GGI’s innovation-centric blog. After twenty-five years as a corporation with a few hundred published articles and citations in trade press and media, and a recognized...

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The Revolution in Innovation-Enabling Tools

GGI has selectively released results of our 2008 research on innovation-enabling tools these past few years.  With the global recession, the rate of development and change in innovation-enablers slowed...

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The Maker Movement Spurs Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The Revolution In Innovation-Enabling Tools, April 18, 2012, discussed the emerging market in innovation tools and software.  The collective demand for “innovation” from corporations has lead to many...

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Organic R&D-Product Development, Open Innovation, Intellectual Property & CXO...

The name of this post is the title of a primary research project that GGI has been quietly, or maybe not so quietly, conducting. There are 31 questions. It takes 30-35 minutes according to our beta...

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Innovation-Enabling Tools and Software for Individuals and Product Pipelines

The Makers Movement Spurs Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, July 18, 2013, discusses a competitive landscape that might induce some established companies to redouble their efforts regarding...

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Innovation is Changing Pre-Product Development R&D

Innovation-Enabling Tools & Software for Individuals and Product Pipelines, August 15, 2013, discusses the decade-long growth of the innovation body of knowledge that has lead to new software and...

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More R&D or just more processes?

Innovation is Changing Pre-Product Development R&D [Machine Design – September 5, 2013], discusses the some of the changes that are occurring in advanced research and development stemming from...

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Lead Users Generate Innovative Ideas & Great Returns!

Innovation-Enabling Tools & Software for Individuals and Product Pipelines, August 15, 2013, discusses the decade-long growth of the innovation body of knowledge that has lead to new software and...

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R U an Open Innovator?

Organic Innovation, Open Innovation, Intellectual Property, & CXO Corporate Metrics Practices, July 23, 2013, describes primary research that GGI was conducting in 2013.  We have now concluded the...

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Corporate Innovation Practices Align With Business Results

NEEDHAM, Mass. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — March 13, 2014 — Goldense Group, Inc. [GGI] announced the completion of its sixth primary research initiative on the strategies, processes, practices, and metrics...

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Trade Secret Practices Changing Due To First-To-File Legislation

Organic Innovation, Open Innovation, Intellectual Property, & CXO Corporate Metrics Practices, July 23, 2013, described primary research that GGI conducted in 2013. The results were announced March...

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12th R&D-Product Development Innovation Summit – April 7-9, 2015

This Summit will provide participants with a comprehensive look at the Innovation Body of Knowledge for product strategy, marketing, R&D, development, and commercialization functions.  There will...

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Corporate Practices and KPIs In Organic, Open, and IP Innovation – Research...

The era of corporate innovation began roughly fifteen years ago, started by industry leaders in the mid-1990s with successful targeted disruptive innovations and chasm crossings.  Today, most companies...

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Making Product Development Processes More Innovative

Applied Research & Advanced Development Come Of Age [Machine Design – July 17, 2014] discusses corporate efforts to beef-up pre-product development processes and management infrastructure. Making...

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What’s The Difference Between Research and Development?

With many more companies allocating a small part of their R&D budget to take on riskier projects, and the growth in corporate infrastructure to manage these riskier activities [Machine Design –...

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Podcast: Is ‘Open Innovation’ Just Another Word For Outsourcing?

In this ten minute podcast, Brad Goldense discusses the progress that organizations are making in the area of ‘Open Innovation.’ Lee Teschler, Executive Editor at Design World, leads the conversation....

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Which Comes First: Invention or Innovation?

Does one attempt innovation, and then one invents something?  Or, does one invent something and innovation on the invention occurs subsequently?  Both perhaps? Surely this question has been discussed...

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Why The Innovation Revolution?

Just about every company, since the Industrial Revolution began in the late 1800s, has wished to improve its level of innovation.  How to be a better innovator has been a subject of study for decades....

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The Difference Between Research and Development

The already unclear lines separating research from development are getting even blurrier as more companies allocate some part of their R&D budget to take on riskier projects, and invest in the...

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Press Release: 12th Summit To Focus On Advances In Corporate R&D Innovation &...

NEEDHAM, Mass. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — February 23, 2015 — Corporate demand for specific strategies, tactics, techniques, tools, and software to bolster Corporate Innovation have steadily increased for...

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Measuring Product Development Vitality

One of the things that satisfy engineers and product developers the most is to see their newly released products sell like hotcakes.  It goes right to the core of why they pursued careers in science...

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Planning For Intellectual Property Revenues

Not too many years from now, business and program planners will have a new challenge when preparing a product or business plan.  Since the dawn of the Industrial Age, the state of practice has been to...

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TRIZ: A Best-In-Class Innovation Tool

TRIZ, a systematic innovation technique developed in Russia, whose acronym is loosely translated as “Theory of Inventive Problem Solving,” is based on an analysis of the inventive attributes of several...

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Physical vs. Virtual Colocation, and the Effects of Interruption

Officially, “colocation” is the proper spelling, but “co-location” and “collocation” are also recognized spellings. Regardless of how you spell it, it boils down to the science of communication...

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The Journey to Mastering Innovation

Let’s consider for a moment the corporate journey to improve innovation that has taken place, and where we are now. Productivity improvement was driven into logistics in the ’70s and ’80s, into...

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The 53rd Annual R&D 100 Awards Report-Out: November 13, 2015

When a company’s innovation levels are high, or a company’s innovation levels are low and not recognized as being low, GGI has suggested that our clients and customers enter into an award contest.  In...

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TRIZCON2016: An Opportunity To Further Innovation

TRIZ is an innovation tool and methodology that is based on an analysis of the inventive attributes of patents.  It is unique when compared to the some 350 innovation tools and enablers that are...

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Innovation For VUCA Times: 14th Summit

While the VUCA global economy still presents challenges on a regular basis, North America and Europe are becoming more predictable and hence stable.  This past year, companies have regained some moxie...

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South Korea & China Will Dominate TRIZ Practices

TRIZ is an innovation technique that professionals systematically apply according to a defined set of principles. Originally developed in Russia by Genrich Altshuller in the 1940s, TRIZ took a number...

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Breakthrough Innovation: 9 Techniques

Last year, 2015, marked the twentieth anniversary of disruptive innovation – introduced to the world by Clayton Christensen in 1995.  Over the past two decades, many companies and makers have targeted...

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Impact of Breakthrough Innovations on Design for Manufacturing and Assembly

The first systematic breakthrough innovation technique was introduced to the world in the 1970s, but it was not until the 1990s that the body of knowledge began to take off.  Last year, 2015, marked...

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Innovation & Impact

“Innovation & Impact” is new scientific and business journal being launched by De Gruyter that focuses on “exciting high profile case studies concerning the process of innovation and its impact on...

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54th R&D 100 Awards & Technology Conference 2016

The 54th R&D 100 Awards & Technology Conference is coming right up, November 2-4.  The conference, now in its second year, will open at noon on Wednesday and continue through noon on Friday....

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The 54th R&D 100 Awards & 2nd Annual Technology Conference

The 54th R&D 100 Awards & 2nd Annual Technology Conference was held on November 2-4, 2016 at the Gaylord National Convention Center, just south of Washington, DC, in Oxon, Maryland.   R&D...

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The 5 Risks of Product Development

The number of risks associated with setting an R&D and product development strategy and budget are large.  Choosing the projects, and the balancing of the resultant company product portfolio, has...

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DFI: Design for IIoT & IoT

When major new industry trends come along that affect product design and development, many companies jump quickly to create an impression of being current and with the trend.  Marketing literature,...

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TRLs, MRLs, IRLs, SRLs, PRLs: An Ecosystem of Readiness-Level Indicators

The technology boom of the late 1990s, the accumulated annual doubling of computing processing power and storage, and the rapid growth of the internet achieved a critical mass shortly after the...

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The Six Departments of Innovation

When this “Six Departments of Innovation” article was posted to the Disruptive Innovation Group on LinkedIn, it created quite a stir.  This is a great group!!  It is actively moderated and many people...

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55th R&D 100 Awards & 3rd Annual R&D 100 Conference

The Finalists for the 55th R&D 100 Awards were announced in August. The finalists include a number of the premier research laboratories and known inventive companies from around the globe, along...

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