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Jim Jacobs
Product Design Expert
Jim Jacobs is the founder and leads the Savvy Consortium, which helps product developers learn and integrate elements of the lean Toyota Product Innovation, Design & Development System in their product development organizations.
Jim's experience includes 14 new product launches in 15 years working for large and small manufacturing corporations. Jim worked for several famous inventors and engineering leaders from which he learned to live and breathe innovation. Jim and I met when I was addressing the Product Development Management Association and I knew I had to ask him to share his experiences with you.
Click the tabs above to listen to the separate episodes corresponding to the four catalysts of Personal Brilliance - Awareness, Curiosity, Focus, and Initiative or listen to the complete interview if you prefer.
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In this episode of Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical, Jim Canterucci interviews Product Design expert Jim Jacobs, exploring how he uses the Personal Brilliance catalyst Awareness in his successful life. Jim Canterucci will share some tips on Awareness with you as well.
Some of this episode's highlights:
- An overview of the Toyota design system
- Success defined for the designer
- How identifying multiple solutions to a problem benefits the process
- The concept of Go See - Going to the source
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In this episode of Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical, Jim Canterucci interviews Product Design expert Jim Jacobs, exploring how he uses the Personal Brilliance catalyst Curiosity in his successful life. Jim Canterucci will share some tips on Curiosity with you as well.
Some of this episode's highlights:
- The key questions to ask in the design process
- LAMDA - Look, Ask, Model, Discuss, Act
- The most important question
- Learning as part of the design process
- The paradox of wonder and doubt
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In this episode of Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical, Jim Canterucci interviews Product Design expert Jim Jacobs, exploring how he uses the Personal Brilliance catalyst Focus in his successful life. Jim Canterucci will share some tips on Focus with you as well.
Some of this episode's highlights:
- How laser focus can cause us to miss opportunities
- The basis for focus in the product design community
- How going slower can get a faster result
- How the result can explain and justify the process
- How a designer spends their time contrasted with a better way
- LAMDA relationship to focus and setting scope
Listen here or subscribe via iTunes.
In this episode of Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical, Jim Canterucci interviews Product Design expert Jim Jacobs, exploring how he uses the Personal Brilliance catalyst Initiative in his successful life. Jim Canterucci will share some tips on Initiative with you as well.
Some of this episode's highlights:
- Making ourselves smarter before initiative
- The best approach to begin using the Toyota System
- Top down is not necessarily always the best way
- The 4 / 2 / 1 model
- Why the procedure is just as important as the result
This is the complete Jim Jacobs Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical interview with Jim Canterucci.
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