Improving Innovation

Erik Almenberg is Product Planner/Design Planner on the Product Discovery Group, a part of Motorola focused on exploring opportunities for new products and services three to five years out.

He brings nine years of professional experience with the end-to-end development of new systems of successful products and compelling user experiences for a wide range of consumer and professional brands.

Key capabilities and core interests:

Generating organic growth through leveraging design thinking in innovation
Combining research and design methods into a process making innovation more predictable, repeatable and scalable.
Building brand equity by employing design in differentiating offerings
Combining principles from psychology, usability, ergonomics and economics into a practice where design becomes the brand.
Building the design organization
Leading design teams to success through optimizing the combination of timing, talent and decision making.

Most recently before joining Motorola, Erik was Design Strategist on the Design Methods and Practice team at Yahoo.

In 2005 Erik received a Master of Design Methods (MDM) degree from the Institute of Design in Chicago. The school is lauded by Business Week as the emerging choice for innovation leaders.
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