Product Innovation

SPI and Shiloh Technologies combine to provide POS analytics from retailers to suppliers.

Many of the consumer goods industrys most innovative thinkers met last week to deepen their understanding of driving true innovation both on the disruptive and incremental fronts. Here is a recap of the insights shared between industry heavyweights and entrepreneurial startups.

BISSELL uses a solution from PTC to enable digital collaboration and product development across its entire engineering organization worldwide.

Walmart launches getontheshelf.walmart.com, asking the public to decide which new products from American entrepreneurs will appear on its shelves this fall.

Successful innovation requires a balance between incremental and disruptive innovation, and while new product introductions are still elusive, they are not impossible. Therefore, CGT is proud to recognize deserving consumer goods companies for excellence in bringing new products to market.

The newly created position gives the candidate responsibility for energizing the company's innovation funnel.

With all the current obsessions over massive amounts of social, mobile, local and search data coming over the horizon, its not unusual for brand marketers to lose focus on the present analytic opportunities already emerging from more conventional data sources.

Seth Kaufman becomes the new head of marketing most recently from the Starbucks Joint Venture.