by lisafernow | May 10, 2017 | Consumer Insights, Customer Experience, General Posts, Innovation
Conventional qualitative and quantitative research provides an excellent foundation for understanding consumer needs, but it’s also important to more viscerally understand what’s going on in consumers’ lives, how your products or services could work to help them live...
by lisafernow | Mar 21, 2017 | General Posts, Innovation, Macro Trends
In my last post, I talked about three “Periscopes” to help marketers rise above the day to day work to innovate more successfully. This time I thought it would be useful to talk about a best practice you can use when you do have a chance to step away from your daily...
by lisafernow | Feb 12, 2017 | Consumer Insights, General Posts, Innovation
Anyone leading a well established business faces the challenge of needing to innovate within a large organization while still getting the day to day business done. It’s not easy. Innovation is risky. It involves change. And in the heat of battle it’s tempting to put...
by lisafernow | Jan 22, 2016 | Entrepreneurial Marketing, General Posts, Marketing Strategy, Value Proposition
Earlier this week I led an innovation workshop session on value propositions for CoMotion at the University of Washington. CoMotion (in their words) collaboratively moves innovations to impact by helping to create and promote entrepreneurial thinking, innovation...