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		<title>Where to Start?  Always Start With Customers!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently taught a short introduction to Predictive Innovation&#174; class for a group of design students at Eastern Michigan University (EMU). One of the students listed his biggest problem as, &#8220;not knowing where to start.&#8221; He had a product idea and hundreds of ways to approach it but he didn&#8217;t know how to begin to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compact Fluorescent Bulb Recycling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I volunteer at AllExperts.com. One of the questions I received makes an interesting example. This is not a complete OutCompete analysis, just a very fast list of suggestions. Question: Retailers have implemented programs for the safe disposal of compact fluorescent bulbs. However the current process requires the involvement of an store employee. I would like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revealing Emerging Expectations, the most important step of innovation.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emerging expectations are the things customers will start to demand next. These are features, benefits, and values current products are missing but customers haven&#8217;t started demanding yet. When customers realize these desires can be met they will demand it from all future products. It&#8217;s essential to have something ready when that happens or you will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Predict Future Innovation</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2006/12/11/how-to-predict-future-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first started writing this I titled it &#8220;How to Predict Future Inventions.&#8221; I changed that because inventions don&#8217;t really change the world. People have invented thousands of silly things that didn&#8217;t and shouldn&#8217;t have caught on. Innovation is more than invention. Innovation is satisfying a need or want. Innovation has a human element [...]]]></description>
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