Thursday, 8 November 2012

In Which Industries are Startups Blossoming?


Gardening allegory: What industries are better for startups blossoming?
High-tech industries are not equally friendly for establishing startups. Red Herrings Top 100 Lists provide good evidence for such notion. Rough analysis of the lists compiled for 2012 shows that 9 out of 27 featured industries were accountable for 80% of mentioned startups. Computers, software, internet, SaaS, and mobile are at the top.

Below see the table with the detailed results.

Saturday, 3 November 2012

Top Trends in New High-Tech Product Design and Development Practices


High-Tech Product Development Trends

Agile innovation, trend watch, customer collaboration – those are some of the widely discussed approaches that are believed to boost high-tech product development. To get higher rates of idea generation and idea conversion into successful products high-tech companies experiment with their new product development (NPD) processes. Here is a brief look at some currently emerging and maturing NPD trends screened by twitter hash-tags. 

Twitter tags to discover what's happening in this field on the general level are: #prodmgmt #npd #newproduct #innovation #RandD

More precise understanding of what’s hot in high-tech product development practices can be achieved by the narrow watch of the discussions in five trendy areas that are listed below.