Act on Ideas

Projects and product enhancements at Google start as ideas and gather momentum through actions that influence and garner support. ...

... "Many products and product improvements at Google start with one person having an idea, sketching it out, showing a prototype to others, getting feedback, and soliciting support from others. " ...

Via Poyner: Google projects

Project Demo Don'ts

The project prototype is ready. You're scheduled to provide a demo tommorrow. What do you do? What shouldn't you do? Here's some don't do's. Don't reuse a single use case for all audiences. Do an audience analysis ahead of time, have your audience segmented, deploy use cases by segment. For more dont's continue here ...

... "Don’t ignore that the VPs who are potential customers only want a top-level overview and that the customer managers are interested only in their portion of the process. " ...

Via Guy Kawasaki, American Express OPEN Forum Idea Hub: Five Things Not To Do in a Demo

Customer Sat Projects

Automotive service company involves customers in IT project that achieves measurable impact on satisfaction rates. ...

... "Carbrey cemented support for the project among clients by showing them prototypes during the development phase. They gave him more specific, targeted feedback than he ever expected ... " ...

Via Network World: CIO Focus