Comments on: User driven product development http://www.appoulsen.dk/2007/03/31/user-driven-product-development/ It takes 2.0 to tango! Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:00:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: appoulsen http://www.appoulsen.dk/2007/03/31/user-driven-product-development/comment-page-1/#comment-3615 appoulsen Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:21:30 +0000 http://www.appoulsen.dk/2007/03/31/user-driven-product-development/#comment-3615 Thanks for the comments, guys. @Trine-Maria - this was just the kinda site I was looking for. I've looked at it before, but had forgotten about it again (probably seeing as I live as far away from 'Region Midtjylland' as I do. @Bruce - Good points. When I wrote my post I considered going into a debate on HOW openly and unstructured you should really involve customers, but I decided to tackle that issue later - thanks to your comment and links, I won't have to ;) Thanks for the comments, guys.

@Trine-Maria – this was just the kinda site I was looking for. I’ve looked at it before, but had forgotten about it again (probably seeing as I live as far away from ‘Region Midtjylland’ as I do.

@Bruce – Good points. When I wrote my post I considered going into a debate on HOW openly and unstructured you should really involve customers, but I decided to tackle that issue later – thanks to your comment and links, I won’t have to ;)

]]> By: Bruce McCarthy http://www.appoulsen.dk/2007/03/31/user-driven-product-development/comment-page-1/#comment-3589 Bruce McCarthy Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:17:46 +0000 http://www.appoulsen.dk/2007/03/31/user-driven-product-development/#comment-3589 Dell IdeaStorm is well-intentioned, but already proving to have been ill-conceived. Just putting a big suggestion box on the web (even with the voting aspect) is not going to result in innovation. I've written more about this here: http://www.userdriven.org/blog/2007/3/2/ideadrizzle.html As has Paul Young at Product Beautiful: http://www.productbeautiful.com/2007/02/26/dell-outsourcing-product-management-to-its-customers/ One company that's done it sensibly is Staples. They asked a properly narrow question (how to categorize products in their store) and asked people individually rather than in an open forum. I've written about this, too, here: http://www.userdriven.org/blog/2006/5/14/eating-my-own-dog-food.html Dell IdeaStorm is well-intentioned, but already proving to have been ill-conceived. Just putting a big suggestion box on the web (even with the voting aspect) is not going to result in innovation. I’ve written more about this here: http://www.userdriven.org/blog/2007/3/2/ideadrizzle.html

As has Paul Young at Product Beautiful: http://www.productbeautiful.com/2007/02/26/dell-outsourcing-product-management-to-its-customers/

One company that’s done it sensibly is Staples. They asked a properly narrow question (how to categorize products in their store) and asked people individually rather than in an open forum. I’ve written about this, too, here: http://www.userdriven.org/blog/2006/5/14/eating-my-own-dog-food.html

]]> By: Trine-Maria http://www.appoulsen.dk/2007/03/31/user-driven-product-development/comment-page-1/#comment-3524 Trine-Maria Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:36:10 +0000 http://www.appoulsen.dk/2007/03/31/user-driven-product-development/#comment-3524 I am involved in a Danish project where the users involved are the citizens of a region (in Jytland). They are invited to join in with their ideas for regional development (the project is also an IRL project where 25 women are housing ap. 100 meetings in their local areas to get the conversations going). The project is called Anna Amalia (after a german dutches who hosted salons in Weimar 200 years ago) More (in Danish) here: www.annaamalia.dk I am involved in a Danish project where the users involved are the citizens of a region (in Jytland). They are invited to join in with their ideas for regional development (the project is also an IRL project where 25 women are housing ap. 100 meetings in their local areas to get the conversations going). The project is called Anna Amalia (after a german dutches who hosted salons in Weimar 200 years ago)

More (in Danish) here: http://www.annaamalia.dk

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