Creating Breakthrough Products by Jonathan M Cagan

Creating Breakthrough Products by Jonathan M Cagan

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.

Jonathan Cagan is the George Tallman and Florence Barrett Ladd Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Co-Director of  the Master of Product Development at Carnegie Mellon University. Globally known for his rigorous and effective approach to product  innovation, Cagan works extensively in research on innovation processes and tools, and teaching and leading innovation teams in both university and corporate settings. Cagan has worked with a variety of companies ranging from Fortune 100 to entrepreneurial start-ups such as Apple, Navistar, GlaxoSmithKline, and Philips Respironics. www.JonathanCagan.com.

Craig M. Vogel is Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the  University of Cincinnati. He is also a professor in the School of Design with an appointment  in Industrial Design. He is a Fellow, Past  President Elect, and Chair of the Board of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). He is a cofounder and president of the Live Well Collaborative, a nonprofit company working with corporations to address the challenges and opportunities of a globally  aging world.