Ability Quote by David Livermore

“users of products and services-both firms and individual consumers-are increasingly able to innovate for themselves. User-centered innovation processes offer great advantages over the manufacturer-centric…

— Eric von Hippel

“individual users do not have to develop everything they need on their own: they can benefit from innovations developed”

— Eric von Hippel

“The user-centered innovation process just illustrated is in sharp contrast to the traditional model, in which products and services are developed by manufacturers in…

— Eric von Hippel

“The user-centered innovation process just illustrated is in sharp contrast to the traditional model, in which products and services are developed by manufacturers in…

— Eric von Hippel

“great advantages over the manufacturer-centric innovation development systems that have been the mainstay of commerce for hundreds of years. Users that innovate can develop…

— Eric von Hippel

Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product, you must truly get to know your customers and build something…

— Marc Benioff

Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.

— Thomas A. Edison

“Chapter 4 concludes by pointing out that an additional incentive can drive individual user-innovators to innovate rather than buy: they may value the process…

— Eric von Hippel

First, you must have entrepreneurs who fully grasp their customers. They understand their product so well because they themselves are customers. The second thing…

— Craig Sherman

The companies that get innovation right, again and again, are the ones that feel what their customers feel. That is true user-centered innovation

— Sohrab Vossoughi

“and services-both firms and individual consumers-are increasingly able to innovate for themselves. User-centered innovation processes offer great advantages over the manufacturer-centric innovation development systems…

— Eric von Hippel

I think whenever you have a product you are always trying to improve it. Whether it is a commercial project out on the market…

— Brenda Strong