Invention Workshops, The Cross Product of Technology Push with Customer Pull

The third in a series of articles concerning invention conception and patent filing/prosecution strategy for small to large organizations from an inventor, engineer and product developer’s perspective.

In the second article I talked about opportunity mapping as the seedbed for future products or services. The goal is to have a map of benefit delivery taregts to grow with, each delivering increasing benefit/coverage to the market. However, creating customer value takes more than just concepts. Bringing concepts to a workable solution state takes problem solving skills.