Innovation Basics
Verganti & Product Meaning
Disruptive Innovation
Product Development
100

Improving an existing product little by little is called what type of innovation?

Incremental innovation

100

According to Verganti, products have functional value and ________ value.

Meaning / symbolic

100

AirAsia is an example of what type of disruption?

Low-end disruption

100

Replacing outdated products is called what type of project?

Revision of existing products

200

What is the term for a product design that becomes the industry standard for many years?

Dominant design

200

Starbucks customers are paying for coffee and also for what kind of experience?

Lifestyle / atmosphere / identity

200

Canva attracted non-designers into graphic design. This is what type of disruption?

New-market disruption

200

What is the most difficult type of product development project?

New-to-the-world product

300

Which company disrupted the typewriter market with the Selectric Model?

IBM

300

What type of innovation changes the meaning of a product rather than only its technology?

Design-driven innovation

300

What phenomenon happens when products become too complex for average users?

Overshooting

300

A sneaker company entering the work-shoe market is an example of what strategy?

Repositioning products in new markets

400

Why do companies in dominant design markets often compete heavily on price?

Because products become too similar

400

Verganti argues companies should ask: “How can we redefine what this product ________?”

Means to people

400

Honda SuperCub targeted people who were previously not motorcycle users. What disruption strategy is this?

New-market disruption

400

Why did the Qube interactive cable TV system fail in the 1970s?

Technology was immature / unproven

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