Why are there so few truly remarkable products? | Design Sojourn

My followed up thought to the blog post by Brian Ling at his Design Sojourn Blog on why there are few remarkable products in the market , after reading their comments that products are made so because of how things are made. Though true in its own right, it also does set limitations to finding value-added traits for the product that would set it apart from the generic. In my earlier post to the same blog topic at Design Sojourn, I had mentioned about hiring the right minds. I think that is one of the most major reasons why products are so ordinary and not extraordinary. It's often true that a company's innovative success is dependent largely on the quality of employees. The examples are many, and I would not want to pin point which ones are the failing or failed establishments. But looking at the successful ones, one could easily identify brilliant minds to remarkable success. Human resource could either make or break the establishment apart from getting the right leader to strategise and lead the production team. This isn't really new, but I am often surprised that this is not often the cited reasons. At least not in a direct way. I often focus on human resouce as I do not like any kind of politics to run the show - simply because once you've got a rat in the team; your chances of getting above the mediocre line is really small. You may well be threading on a fine line that could break anytime. Nevermind a brilliant product of any kind.

Henceforth, despite product forms and function are done so because of a certain product / service culture; latent needs that are yet to be founded via a keen mind is very much the main creative source. Thus making products differently and making it an added value which spells 'remarkable'.