Incremental, radical and meaning-based innovation / Roberto Verganti & Donald Norman (S2/E1)
Description
In this first episode of the second season of the Innovation Book Club, Alex and Wais discuss ‘Incremental and Radical Innovation: Design Research vs. Technology and Meaning Change’, an article by two giants of the design industry, Roberto Verganti and Donald Norman.
The authors were both interested in exploring why successive incremental innovations implemented over time never lead to radical breakthroughs. In fact, the opposite is often true. The key to unlocking this conundrum lies in the importance of meaning-based innovation that changes our understanding of what a product means for customers which then opens up new conceptual opportunities for product development because we are freed from our current paradigm of thinking.
You can read the article here: shorturl.at/lAIL8
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