David A. Fields, consultant, speaker, and best-selling author, shares his customer-centric viewpoint which makes for unique insights into how your products and services can consistently deliver value.
More about our guest:
Consultant, speaker, and best-selling author David A. Fields helps in building consulting practices that are lucrative and lifestyle-friendly. He’s the author of Amazon’s highest-rated book on the business of consulting and has guided consultancies ranging from hundreds of millions of dollars down to one-person startups.
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Episode Guide:
1:03 - What Is Innovation
1:33 - Innovation as an improvement vs Innovation as breakthrough
4:56 - Different kinds of innovation
5:34 - Four Box Worldview and Consulting Business
8:20 - Innovation as a portfolio
10:20 - Innovation application on product-service industry
13:16 - Evolutionary vs Revolutionary
14:32 - Portfolio vs Product Distinction
15:16 - What isn't innovation
15:57 - Working with Kodak
17:10 - Looking out the window vs Listening inside the walls
17:51 - Patent Offices
20:46 - Developing frameworks and models
23:33 - Stepping back and recalibration
29:27 - Advice to future innovators
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