TEI 009: How a non-profit used idea management to create life-saving product

Global Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you another
episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad
McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved
in developing and managing products become more successful, grow
their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. Our Guest:
 Geoff Peters is one of the nicest and most professional
product managers you could meet. I met him at a product management
meeting where he described how a faith-based nonprofit, Compassion
International, created their first new product in several decades,
called Water of Life. To begin creating an innovation capability,
Compassion did three things: Implement a phase-gate methodology for
managing new product development.Train key employees on the
principles of new product development using the NPDP
certification process.Create an ideation event that started
with a 2-day innovation retreat. Geoff developed the concept of
providing safe drinking water, resulting in the Water of
Life product, a simple and effective way equipping
impoverished families to have clean water.