PUBLICATIONS


ARTICLES BY ANTHONY ULWICK PUBLISHED BY
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING


“Turn Customer Input into Innovation,”
Harvard Business Review, January 2002

“A Prescription for Health Care Cost Reform,”
Strategy & Innovation, March 2003

“Do You Really Know What Your Customers Are Trying to Get Done?”
Strategy & Innovation, March 2003

“Lost in Translation,”
Strategy & Innovation, May 2004

"The Customer-Centered Innovation Map"
Anthony W. Ulwick, Lance Bettencourt, Harvard Business Review, May 2008

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AND PUBLISHED BY MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW

"Giving Customers a Fair Hearing"
(Co-written with Dr. Lance Bettencourt)
Sloan Management Review, April 2008

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RECENT WHITE PAPERS

NEW! Fill the Pipeline with Breakthrough Products
Sandy Bates, Anthony W. Ulwick
Many companies find it hard to generate enough high-value ideas for their new product development process. Fortunately, a unique method for generating and filtering ideas makes it possible for companies to dramatically boost their product development success rate– and to deliver products their customers want.

“What Is Outcome-Driven Innovation,” March 2007
Abstract: The innovation process is broken, and companies will continue to struggle until the foundational elements of innovation are understood and outdated practices are stopped. By adopting eight strategic principles, companies can transform innovation from an unstructured, hit-or-miss process into a predictable, rules-based discipline.

“Retiring the House of Quality,”
April 2007
(Co-written with Richard E. Zultner, national director of the QFD Institute, and Richard Norman, Strategyn global team member)
Abstract: With the advent of outcome-driven thinking and modern QFD methods, innovation and product development have been transformed. It is time to retire obsolete tools and adopt new Design for Six Sigma practices for the execution of these critical business processes. This landmark article, written by the leaders of outcome-driven innovation and QFD practices, redirects the future of innovation.

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BOOKS & MEDIA

"What Customers Want," a best-selling book by Strategyn CEO Anthony Ulwick, details the theory and practice of Outcome-Driven Innovation®.

Addressing the Issues of Innovation, Vol. 1
A DVD interview with Anthony Ulwick discussing the questions surrounding innovation and Outcome-Driven Innovation®.
 


INTERVIEWS

What Customers Really Want from New Products
John Caddell, founder and principal of Caddell Insight Group, a consulting firm focused on launching new products and businesses, and negotiating alliances, is a recognized expert in telecommunications, outsourcing and enterprise software. He is a marketing and innovation blogger, who posted this insightful podcast interview with Strategyn CEO, Tony Ulwick on his blog Shop Talk.

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Innovation Through Precision, Part I
Too often, technology organizations take needs definition at face value. One method advocates a more disciplined approach to defining needs as a way to inspire innovation. In this insightful two-part interview, veteran journalist Paul Gillin addressed the idea of innovation through precision with Strategyn CEO, Tony Ulwick and Strategyn senior consultant Dr. Lance Bettencourt in his column with Innovations weekly. Go to the Interview.

NEW! Start Thinking Solutions; Start Thinking Needs
Two experts say innovation starts with discarding assumptions about answers and talking about unmet needs. In part 2 of this interesting interview, Paul Gillin addresses the idea of innovation through precision with Strategyn founder, and innovation thought leader Tony Ulwick and Strategyn senior consultant Dr. Lance Bettencourt in his column with Innovations weekly. Go to the Interview.
 


What Customers Want, a best-selling book by Strategyn CEO Tony Ulwick, details the theory and practice of outcome-driven innovation.

 

Addressing the Issues of Innovation, Vol. 1.
This in-depth forty minute interview with Tony Ulwick offers unique insights into many aspects of innovation.
 

 

 

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© 2007 ANTHONY ULWICK