Innovation and Design Concepts

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brainstorming

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generation of ideas in an environment free of judgment or dissension with the goal of creating solutions

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creativity

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development of original ideas

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design thinking

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method to focus the design and development decisions of a product on the needs of the customer, typically involving an empathy-driven process to define complex problems and create solutions that address those problems

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diffusion chasm

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most critical point of adoption, which often occurs at the end of the early adoption phase, before the early majority steps in and truly confirms (or not) the diffusion of an invention

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disruptive innovation

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process that significantly impacts the market by making a product or service more affordable and/or accessible often by smaller companies in an industry

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empathy

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human ability to feel what other humans are feeling, which in the context of creativity, innovation, and invention is essential to beginning a process of human-centric design

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ideation

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purposeful process of opening up one’s mind to new trains of thought that branch out in many directions from a stated purpose or problem

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incremental innovation

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innovation that modifies an existing product or service

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innovation

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new idea, process, or product, or a change to an existing product or process

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invention

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truly novel product, service, or process that, though based on ideas and products that have come before, represents a leap, a creation truly novel and different