Ken Miller, Managing Director of laga and Founder of One80 Design, Departs to Form Ken Miller Group, Focusing on Insight for Innovation
Ken Miller has left laga, where he was Managing Director, to form Ken Miller Group in New York City. Ken was a founder and Managing Partner of One80 Design, a product and package innovation and design firm that was acquired last year by laga.
(PRWEB) May 20, 2007 -- Ken Miller has left laga, where he was Managing Director, to form Ken Miller Group in New York City. Ken was a founder and Managing Partner of One80 Design, a product and package innovation and design firm that was acquired last year by laga.
Ken Miller Group will work with brand, innovation and research managers to focus, inspire and guide new service, product and package design efforts. At KMG, fresh Consumer insight is integrated with input from other stakeholders such as Colleagues, Customers and Competitors to help drive on-strategy, compelling and successful new product solutions. KMG projects deliver insight for innovation, and may include:
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- Cross-functional interaction on consumer needs, product strategy and design
- Qualitative consumer research for need definition or product concept screening
- White space product opportunity assessment
- Competitive assessment and gap analysis
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Ken is leading a successful 20-plus year career in product innovation, development and design. He was a founder and Managing Partner of One80 Design, a product innovation and design consulting firm, until its acquisition by laga in early 2006. At that time, he became Managing Director, laga | One80 Design.
At One80 Design, Ken led the strategic design direction effort for client projects, grounded in the firm's patent pending innovation methodology that he spearheaded. That included work in design research, product strategy, platform identification and concept evaluation to guide creative design development. Clients for whom he planned and executed this work include 3M, Kraft Foods, PepsiCo, Miller Brewing, Unilever, Huffy Sports, Dial, Nestle and many others.
Prior to founding One80 Design, Ken held strategy and project leadership roles with other innovation consulting firms. And before that, he was a senior level Vice President of New Product Development for American Express. In between, he found time to start up an office products company based on utility patents that resulted in products designed for and now sold in Crate&Barrel and Target.
Ken speaks and writes frequently on topics such as effective innovation processes, consumer lifestyle trends and design research techniques. He holds a BA in psychology from Lafayette College, has completed graduate work in industrial psychology at Georgia Tech, and received an MBA from New York University.
Contact:
Ken Miller
212.721.0666
ken(at)kenmillergroup.com
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