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...a review of three "great innovations" from the world of the everyday -- the Weed-Eater, Swiffer Wet-Jets, and Greenies. Also recommended is a longer paper by Pollard -- A Prescription for Business Innovation: Creating Technologies that Solve Basic Human Needs -- that goes into more detail on the above diagram. Great thoughts on figuring out "what to change" and "to what to change to" in a product content context. Armed with such ideas, it's then a matter of creating an effective multi-project delivery machine to set up a rolling ringing of cash registers.
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