Inventables customers are excited about our innovation tools. Below we share some of their enthusiasm to give you a taste of what its like working with Inventables.
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"We work with Inventables to merge discovery of science with sensitive design to develop products that express as well as they perform." Steve Beno, Director Product Technology and Development, Visual Communications, ACCO Brands |
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"Each week, one person from our group will pick a technology from the Inventables Innovation Center and present the details to the whole team. We then spend some time to brainstorm how we can apply the technology to our products." Tom Schlegel, V.P., Product Development, Radio Flyer |
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"At Avon we strive to keep re-inventing our creative thinking process to deliver innovative products. Inventables provides novel, high tech stimuli to push everyone to think differently about their projects." Janice Teal, Group Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Avon Products, Inc. |
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"Inventables allowed us to think beyond a normal brainstorm because we actually had innovative and relevant technologies on hand to take the concepts to the next step. Homerun!" Philip Durocher, World Wide Director, Global Oral CareColgate Palmolive Company |
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"Inventables is a great tool to stimulate thinking; an excellent catalyst to the process of design synthesis. It helps you recognize how elements of an object you experienced in the past, may enhance the development of the concept you are working on now." Tom Berend, Advance Innovation at Nike |
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"We have been including Inventables in our brainstorms just because having the items there (not specific ones, just generally) draws peoples interest and they concentrate less on being nervous and seem to talk more/become engaged. Having novel materials and ideas around is less about identifying a specific idea for Palm and more about a philosophy on process." Peter Skillman, Director of New Product Development at Palm |
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"Inventables broadens our set of starting points for innovation without committing our own time to do that." Tom Foth, Innovator at Pitney Bowes |
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"We are always looking for innovative materials that trigger our minds to go in new directions." Leslie Noone, Design Manager at General Motors |
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"When you can show new materials, new concepts, and what possibilities are out there, it loosens people up to think about other ways of doing things and other approaches to solving problems Inventables brings some of the latest and greatest materials and technologies to light, pointing out who we might talk with further." David Baarman, Head Advanced Technologies at Access Business Group |