Sopheon’s own, Michel Delifer, shares an exclusive article with inKNOWvations on how to have a successful journey to automating your new product process and portfolio.

The journey to automating reporting for your new product process and portfolio may be compared to a backpacking journey up a mountain.  The first applicable business principle is: Remove any and all unnecessary baggage, packing only what is necessary for the journey.  Sounds simple, doesn’t it?

When we discuss innovation, we tend to talk to talk about Bell Labs and Google. But a new paper challenges that notion, arguing that British consumers actually outspend companies on innovation.

When they adapt, change, hack and remake products they buy into better things, it's not a trivial thing. They are actually innovating, and in a first-of-its-kind paper, MIT researcher Eric Von Hippel has actually quantified the R&D power of the people.

This year's Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting (CGI) has been all about commitments that will make a positive difference around the world. Yesterday, during the Market-Based Solutions for Protecting the Environment session at CGI, the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute (formerly the Green Products Innovation Institute) joined industry and NGOs on stage to contribute its own global commitment to train at least 100 assessors and certify 1,000 products by 2015. This is part of the Institute's effort to jumpstart a market for new product development that will protect human health and the environment while growing the economy.