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The Role of Innovation in New Product Development: Three Approaches for Success

Qmarkets

Innovation is essential throughout the entire new product development (NPD) process, but nowhere is it more key than it is in the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) stage. FFE is the starting point of NPD and is where new product ideas are generated before entering the formal development process.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

From 2003 to 2007, I have been in charge of the R&D project portfolio management line of business at a solution provider. This often resulted in over engineered solutions that practitioners had a hard time to use. Merging Theory and Practice. Pitfalls to Avoid.

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Good Ideas Often go Nowhere: Here’s What You Can Do About It

The Inovo Group

Eric Yuan, the founder of Zoom, was one of the first 20 employees of WebEx that was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007. Using Collaborative Concept Evaluation Not all input aggregators and crowd voting systems focus on both the idea and the crowd. A collaborative concept evaluation tool like Rationalize is one of the exceptions.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

From 2003 to 2007, I have been in charge of the R&D project portfolio management line of business at a solution provider. This often resulted in over engineered solutions that practitioners had a hard time to use. Merging Theory and Practice. Pitfalls to Avoid.

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Method Mondays: Never stop learning

Boxes and Arrows

At the SAP Design & Co-Innovation Center (DCC), we frequently organize the so-called “Method Mondays,” a regular one-hour meeting series in which the team members share, practice, and test different methods. In the next step, comparing the current product development with the newfound perceptions of the future allows for improvement.

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Part 1: Accelerating the impact of Innovation Campaigns

Values Centered Innovation

In a 2007 McKinsey Quarterly article on “Leadership and Innovation,” the authors made it quite clear that “Innovation is a core driver of growth, performance and valuation.” Collaborative growth through partnerships or other “open innovation” relationships. Revitalizing the organization design in terms of networked teams, not silos.

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The Importance of Persistence: Building an Innovation System for the Long-term

The Inovo Group

A 2007 study by M. A system designed, over the long run, to produce more blockbusters than bombs. Most corporate business functions – new product development (NPD), quality, sales, R&D, marketing, etc. For some companies this can be up to 10% of their ‘creative’ budget (R&D, NPD, design, etc.).

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