Creating Breakthrough Products: Revealing the Secrets that Drive Global Innovation - Hardcover

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For years, Jonathan Cagan's and Craig M. Vogel's Creating Breakthrough Products has offered an indispensable roadmap for uncovering new opportunities, identifying what customers really value, and building products and services that redefine markets - or create entirely new markets. Now, the authors have thoroughly updated their classic book, adding new chapters on service design and global innovation, plus new insights, best practices, and case studies from both U.S. and global companies. Their new Second Edition compares revolutionary (Apple-style) and evolutionary (Disney-style) approaches to innovation, helping decision-makers choose between them, and make either one work. Cagan and Vogel provide more coverage of Value Opportunity Analysis and ethnography, as well as new case studies ranging from Navistar's latest long-haul truck to P&G's reinvention of Herbal Essence. Throughout, readers will find up-to-date insights into identifying Product Opportunity Gaps that can lead to enormous success; navigating the "Fuzzy Front End" of product development; and leveraging contributions from diverse product teams - while staying relentlessly focused on customers' values and lifestyles, from strategy through execution. Using additional visual maps and illustrations, they've made their best-selling book even more intuitive and accessible to both industry and academic audiences.

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“Cagan and Vogel offer examples, case studies, and inspiration to guide a new generation of open-minded, actionable innovation drivers.”

–Jeff Weedman, Vice President Global Business Development, Procter & Gamble

“To create profitable, breakthrough products that transform markets, you need real global innovation skills. Cagan and Vogel reveal how world-class companies leverage both to create impact through design.”

–David Kelley, Founder of IDEO and the Stanford d.school

“This new edition retains all the basic wisdom of the first, but brings it up-to-date with fresh case studies that reflect the changing world of global innovation.”

–Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic, Professor of Civil Engineering; author of To Engineer Is Human and To Forgive Design

“This book has been the most influential integrated design book in China for 10 years.”

–He Renke, Dean and Professor of School of Design, Hunan University, China

“In Cagan and Vogel’s widely referenced, landmark first book, they reached across disciplines to create a common understanding of useful, usable, and desirable products. This second edition adds a global view, services, and a look into healthcare, further establishing them as the grandmasters of the recipe for empathic innovation.”

–Robert T. Schwartz, General Manager, Global Design & User Experience, GE Healthcare

“The second edition is a brilliant book that will move your company to success with less wear and tear and lower risk for all involved in creating and managing products.”

–Lorraine Justice, Dean, CIAS, Rochester Institute of Technology; author, China’s Design Revolution

“I wouldn’t dream of commercializing a new product or service without infusing the Creating Breakthrough Products design culture into my company and development teams.”

–Eric Close, President and CEO, RedZone Robotics, Inc.(

“This book has helped greatly to expand the innovative use of design in many areas of industry.”

–Yrjö Sotamaa, Advisory Dean and Professor, College of Design and Art, Tongji University, Shanghai;Executive Vice Director, Sino-Finnish Centre at Tongji University; President Emeritus, University of Art and Design Helsinki

“The authors’ approach to product development unleashed the collective creative genius of our designers and engineers, and helped us move beyond a typical competitive benchmarking approach, to create something unique, appealing and functional for our customers.”

–Paul Prichard, Innovation Ventures Engineering, Kennametal, Inc.

“Navistar has made strides in learning the iNPD techniques from this book and applying them to our everyday development process.”

–David Allendorph, Director of Design, Navistar International Truck Group

For years, Creating Breakthrough Products has offered an indispensable roadmap for uncovering new opportunities, identifying what customers really value, and building products and services that redefine or create markets. Now, Jonathan Cagan and Craig M. Vogel have thoroughly updated their classic book, adding brand-new chapters on service design and global innovation, plus new insights, best practices, and a new selection of case s