And they participate in user-driven development for products at forward-thinking companies like Nike Design and Lego Factory.
Our strong opinion is that CITOs need to take up the mantle of user-driven innovation, using a different paradigm.
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It has to be user-driven and it has to be useful and relevant.
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This disconnect from the tools and systems eliminates the aspect of Von Hippel-like user-driven innovation that characterized Analyst 1.0.
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Both will need to embrace heterogeneity and support consumer (or employee) choice, providing brokered, easily-remixed services that encourage productivity and user-driven innovation.
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The form of leadership that holds most potential is a twist on the pattern described by Eric Von Hippel in his research on User-driven Innovation.
Implementing a process that reconstructs user-driven innovation, but manages the results in an orderly way, will result in measurable outcomes that will validate and constitute real IT leadership.
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Analyst 2.0 will have arrived when vendors and IT make analysis easy enough that a typical business user can conduct analysis entirely by themselves, returning them to a state of user-driven innovation, Oh says.
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The theory of user-driven innovation comes from MIT professor Eric von Hippel, who proposed that when tools are placed directly in the hands of people who have the most pressing needs for answers, innovation happens, because there is no longer a need to transmit requirements from one person (or group) to another.
Whereas the largest players on the web are seeing heavy downloads based on name recognition and a shift in user behavior to more mobile-driven experiences, it appears that those same players have not yet figured out how to mine the field in terms of revenue.
According to ABI Research (Dec. 20, 2010) mobile 3D devices will be driven by three key applications: creation of user-generated 3D content by integrated video and still cameras, playback of 3Dcontent and 3D gaming.
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It provides performance, audio visual and graphic capabilities to enable Internet-driven applications, video, personal media, advanced user interfaces and electronic program guides.
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"Mistress-driven anticorruption is a good thing, " wrote one anonymous Sina Weibo user.
The basic idea is both technology-driven, as you would expect from a company with a strong engineering tradition, and user-centric.
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