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DEWALT: Gathering invention submissions for new products

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DEWALT: Gathering invention submissions for new products

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DEWALT is a leading manufacturer of high-quality power tools. Millions of professionals rely on the company to produce the latest durable products that solve new challenges on the worksite. To understand the direction technology and innovation need to go, DEWALT has an award-winning insight community of more than 10,000 end users.

The company uses its community to get to know customers and their needs while gathering product, packaging and marketing feedback. DEWALT also has an invention submission where professional tradesmen and loyal customers submit ideas for entirely new product lines.

“Competition is fierce,” says Ward Smith, the group product manager at DEWALT, “everyone’s trying to launch more tools, faster. You need a fast and accurate assessment tool to be more reactive in the marketplace.”

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LEGO has long seen the value in co-creating products with customers (both young and old). For example, LEGO Ideas is an online community where members can discover cool creations by other fans and submit their own designs for new sets. Fans can vote on submissions and give feedback. If a project gets 10,000 votes, LEGO reviews the idea and picks a winner for an official LEGO Ideas set to be created and sold worldwide. The creator gives final product approval, earns a percentage of the sales and is recognized as the creator on all packaging and marketing. This concept celebrates loyal customers and rewards them for innovation, creativity and entrepreneurialism.

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Hello and welcome to my next project.
Lego Observatory - Mountain View
Just because I love the Stars and you like my NASA Lunar Rover and also my
first Lego Observatory I spend the last two month with my new Observatory.
I created a complete new design including a new slide for the dome.
The Observatory would have one telescope within the dome
and one very small one on the viewing platform

The dome would be openable and turnable.

The building would be also openable.

Within the building there you can find:
- an Office / Desk
- a Library with books and goodies
- a small lecture room with large windows and a beamer
- and so on (search the details ;o) )

Within the dome:
- computers
- a telescope
- IMPORTANT: a coffee machine

Outside the Observatory I placed some plants and stones.

The Observatory would also contain some minifigures
Male and Female Observers
Visitors (a Family and some friends)
So now its up to you and help me and this project.
Hope you like it too.

I also had never seen a Observatory like this before.

Please leave a comment what you like are not.
Help to improve this project.

Thank you so much

If you like this please also visit my other projects like:

Lego Observatory
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/113629

Lunar Roving Vehicle (including a Baseplate)
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/103736

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Hello and welcome to my next project. Lego Observatory - Mountain View Just because I love the Stars and you like my NASA Lunar Rover and also my first Lego Observatory I spend the last two month with my new Observatory. I created a complete new design including a new slide for the dome.

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Projects selected in the LEGO Review go into production. You give input to our professional LEGO designers, whose job it is to create the final set based on your project. Once complete, it goes to the factory, then it's shipped around the world and released for sale.

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DHL, the world’s largest mail and logistics services company, knows the importance of innovating with the customer in mind. To tackle the challenge of improving supply chains and logistics, the company hosts hands-on workshops with customers in Germany and Singapore. Loyal DHL customers have participated in more than 6,000 engagements, including the workshops, to co-create solutions that improve the experience for everyone.

One of the many inventions that originated from a workshop is the Parcelcopter, a test drone delivery service project based in Germany that could change DHL’s services forever. While standard mail-delivery vehicles typically take half hour to deliver, the Parcelcopter only needs eight minutes. Community members co-created the idea and tested out the potential service, bringing their packages to what DHL is calling a “Parcelcopter Skyport.”

The business results for DHL has been phenomenal. According to Forbes, DHL’s co-creation efforts resulted in customer satisfaction scores rising to over 80 percent, on-time delivery performance increasing to 97 percent or higher and customer churn to decrease. It’s also a cool idea.

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Making deliveries with the DHL Parcelcopter 3.0

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In the Bavarian town of Reit im Winkl, DHL's Parcelcopter 3.0 is delivering packages to a remote part of the Bavarian Alps. Deliveries and pick-ups are fully-automatic with the help of DHL's innovative Skyport loading and unloading system. Check out the video to see how it works!

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Look for alternatives and don't look for the correct answer!

How to assess a new idea?

Match of our idea and our original objective. Maybe our idea can help others.

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Creative thinking - how to get out of the box and generate ideas: Giovanni Corazza at TEDxRoma

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How can you - together with your customer - bring brilliant new products and services onto the market? By deploying co-creation, crowdsourcing, communities and platforms. Vlerick Business School's Professor Marion Debruyne explains how every company can innovate in this way.

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Moodle
Slack
Microsoft Teams
Padlet
Ziteboard
Twitter
Facebook
Whatsapp
OneNote
CSILE Project

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What do customers want?

What do customers need?

Common characteristics among customers

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Co-creation and cross-cultural communication: Angelo Vermeulen at TEDxUHasseltSalon

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Angelo Vermeulen is an artist, biologist, space systems researcher, and a TED Senior Fellow. His work ties together technological, ecological, and social systems through group engagement and collaboration. Vermeulen will share with us some insights he acquired while working with communities in different corners of the world.