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    This content about Ambient Intelligence is from a project in 2005 dealing with investigating opportunities for embedding intellgience in office and room surrondings.
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    This information is from a project focused on evaluating the state and future opportunities for personal assistive technologies.
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    We provide services in various categories describe below.    

    • Our executive consulting services include interim placement of executive staff on a full or part time basis for an extended period of time to augment a clients internal capabilities.   
    • Our project services provide shorter term support for specific projects and defined deliverables.
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    Product Acuity was founded as the private consulting practice of Daniel E. Lewis, Ph.D. and has expanded to include an extensive network of associates, providing clients with direct access to an broad base of collective experience and knowledge in creating successful new growth initiatives. Dr. Lewis still serves as our primary consultant. Additional information about him can be found below.
    
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    • D.E.Lewis (9)
      Daniel E. Lewis, P.E., Ph.D. provides expertise in technology comercialization and emerging markets with over 25 years of success in creating solutions that have changed the very way we work and live. These innovations have ranged from tangible products to intangible services across a wide diversity of vertical market applications including: retail operations, logistics, transportation, warehousing, manufacturing, financial services, health care, mobile data, and the Internet. This unique diversity of experience provides tremendous wisdom and insight into not only "what is" and but also the subtle alternatives of what can be, which are often not obvious to those experienced in a particular industry. Dr. Lewis leverages this insight with broad knowledge of best practices to help clients harness their collective knowledge capital and unleash their hidden creative capabilities. The result is often new product innovations that create new opportunities, disrupt established markets,and drive exceptional growth.
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  • Measuring Innovation (5)
    How to measure innovation is a complex issue.  This section provides some resources on the subject from OECD. 
    
    The OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) is a group of 30 member countries that share a common commitment to democratic government and the market economy. With active relationships with some 70 other countries, it has a global reach. Best known for its publications and statistics, its work covers economic and social issues from macroeconomics, to trade, education, development and science and innovation. By deciphering emerging issues and identifying policies that work, it helps policy-makers adopt strategic orientations. It is well known for its individual country surveys and reviews.
    
    The OECD has developed and maintains numerous publications and guidelines for comparative examination and measurement of innovation. These documents provide a excellent overview of innovation process and measurements issue, and are listed in this section for reference.  (See OECD.)
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    Market growth is not dirven by innovation, but enabled by it.  The actual market growth is driven by the diffusion of the innovation, which is the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among members of a specific segment.  This diffusion process has main elements:

    • The innovation.
    • The channels of communication.
    • Time
    • The segment or social system through which the innovation diffuses.

     

  • New Product Capability Maturity (0)

    Research and benchmarketing has identified six primary organizational attributes that influence the level of success in new product development: strategy, process, people, market research, portfolio management, and the use of formal metrics.  The level of sophistication within each attribute characterizes an organizations overall product development capability.  

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