Value Creation: How to Measure

Deepam Mishra | AI-inside Innovation Series Profit Potential = Value Creation Any new product or profit potential is as business worthy as its profit potential. Innovative products pricing is almost always value-driven, not based on cost (hopefully it is much higher than cost, though!). I am sure you’d have heard all this before. However what […]

New Product Dev: Top-5 Mistakes and AI solutions

Using AI to Avoid New Product Mistakes Deepam Mishra | AI-inside series This is a continuation of the previous discussions on the 5-P AI-Inside-Innovation Framework. This article dives deeper into the 2nd stage of the process (new product development), after having built a solid hypothesis of customer need. As shown below, there are 4 steps of […]

AI: a Tool, not Technology

AI-ML : a Tool, not Technology Deepam Mishra AI will be a ‘simple calculator’ for future generations Not another AI forum! This is different. This is a platform to focus 2 things AI-ML as a tool, not technology… With a focus on User-Innovators (not AI-Innovators) Who This Forum Is For: For 99% of the future […]

Is US Innovation Dying?

Is US Innovation dying? Deepam Mishra, Aug 2022 American Dream Under Threat The American dream has someways been synonymous with entrepreneurship. Historically the number of Startups per person in the US, has been the highest. Public policy and tax laws in the US have supported entrepreneurs like nowhere before. When I first migrated to the […]

Why Tesla Matters

Why Tesla Fairytale Matters to Innovators Deepam Mishra Tesla stands out like a Lonely Cyprus for Innovators. And I am not referring to its technology or marketing or leadership charisma; I’m thankful for its contribution towards keeping the Innovators Dream alive. Many startup founders I advise, bemoan the “squeezing” of the innovation space, by big-money […]

AI-Driven Problem Discovery

AI-driven Problem Discovery Deepam Mishra | AI-Inside Innovation Series “We’ve Done Customer Surveys and Focus Groups So We Know The Problem” Most of you would have heard that the “customers decide what problem to solve”. However no one probably told you that this only applies to incremental improvements and not breakthrough innovation. If you’ve ever […]

Why Customer Needs Hard To Find

Why Customer Needs Are Hard To Find Deepam Mishra | AI-inside This is imho the single biggest point of innovation failure. Worse, it is highly under-rated as a challenge by many practitioners. Identifying a problem worth solving, is perhaps the easiest to describe and hardest to understand, challenge of breakthrough innovation. See the chart below. […]