Idea to Value

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Partners and team. Tip: Develop mock-ups or prototypes early and use them for validating your assumptions and the market need. Starting to develop an invention without having an intellectual property strategy in place is just as dangerous as starting a business without a business plan. Partners and team. Not starting.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

To survive and thrive, it’s critical that you recognize the signs of disruption and understand the necessity of adapting to these changes. For insights on staying ahead of the curve, consider exploring creating business strategy in a world of AI-driven rapid change.

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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2023

Whether you’re plotting the course for your product development or managing a portfolio of initiatives , you’re bound to face the daunting challenges of accurately predicting project milestones and costs and steering projects toward valuable, cost-effective conclusions.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

The question management teams are asking and answering is: how can we manage our near term costs to keep the investors happy in the short run? Note that this is NOT a bad question to ask, because investors are constantly watching the effectiveness of the management team and want to see companies hitting their numbers.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 17, 2021

I'm a fan of military history, and it is always striking to me to see how much new product development and innovation can learn from the military and vice versa. Too often, executives and military leaders don't want to hear the "bad news" and that leads them to double down on poor strategies. Communicate.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Training Disruption 144

Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Once attainable and proven useful, those tools change the way we live and work. Thus, the tools we created and shaped will eventually change and shape the way we live and work. What was an incredible innovation is now changing how we work and live. If you doubt this is true, look no further than the iPhone.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Applying Design Thinking to Personal Growth and Innovation In today’s rapidly changing world, the ability to adapt and innovate is more crucial than ever, not just in the realm of product development but also in our personal and professional lives. It involves five key stages: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Corporations assign teams without skills or experience, rapidly conduct "brainstorming" exercises based primarily on current opinion or past experience and move as quickly as possible to present a small handful of ideas to a wary executive team. This crowds the product development process and eliminates room for new concepts to enter.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

Given the pace of change and the number of factors that are changing in the environment, taking some time to understand what may happen and, more importantly, what may happen in response, is very important. No matter how good your ideas are today, most firms cannot hope to realize them as new products or services for months or years.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 24, 2018

With all of this insight, we must ask: how can a business win as the explore:exploit model continues to change? How might we win as the explore:exploit model changes? Product development cycle times are now longer than shelf lives. Be ready to change your revenue and business models. Change incentive models.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Whitepaper called “ Product Complexity, Digital Transformation, and the Innovation Imperative- The race to reinvent how complex products are developed is here “ This made me a little jealous and a little wishing that ‘we’, across the whole of innovation management , could not have one of these platforms available today.

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Adam Hartung

MARCH 30, 2016

It is not shy about seeking action at the Board level to change the direction of a company – by changing the CEO, seeking downsizings and reogranizations, changing dividend policy, seeking share buybacks, recommending asset sales, or changing other resource allocations. Activists have been around a long time.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This process is widely adopted by managers, executives, and consultants to drive new product development, service innovation, and business model refinement. At the core of design thinking lies a commitment to putting users’ experiences and feedback at the forefront of product and service design.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 10, 2021

Companies that create strong listening programs that interact with customers and consumers to understand their needs and present real market and product opportunities to their business will be rewarded. The resistance to an outside-in innovation and new product development process has got to change. Is it allowed to?

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How can design thinking help with product development? This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. Prototype: In this step, the team creates a rough model of the solution to test and evaluate. What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies?

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 15, 2016

Durant was a merchandiser and understood the potential of product families and brands. There's an innovation analogy today Currently, many innovation teams are shaping up a lot like Henry Ford's company. And you can have any innovation you like, incremental or disruptive, as long as it results in a tangible product.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

So if you know that the CEO’s greatest pain is the fact that the sales team isn’t communicating with marketing or manufacturing, resulting in lower sales and poor customer experiences, then you have to look at what you’re proposing and figure out how it can ease that pain or even solve that problem. As you do this, state it clearly.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

By now, “almost everybody building products” has at least heard the term and has been exposed to the big ideas. Yet, when we look around we don’t find the corresponding adoption across teams. often part of a mandated checklist imposed upon teams. This is just the nature of behavior change. mvp, experiment, a/b test, etc.)

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Here you can see how the top 10 countries’ positions have changed over the past 4 years, and how Switzerland has remained steady at the top. And one thing I cannot argue against is that the wealth of data enables the team to provide some very interesting assessments of innovation. Top 10 Most Innovative Countries 2016, GII 2016.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

By now, “almost everybody building products” has at least heard the term and has been exposed to the big ideas. Yet, when we look around we don’t find the corresponding adoption across teams. often part of a mandated checklist imposed upon teams. This is just the nature of behavior change. mvp, experiment, a/b test, etc.)

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Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Tools Product Development 45

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The unprecedented shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many organizations to change ways they do business. Almost every business operation has been affected: from the manner firms talk to their customers to the logistics of product delivery to maintaining channels of communication between employees.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The unprecedented shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many organizations to change ways they do business. Almost every business operation has been affected: from the manner firms talk to their customers to the logistics of product delivery to maintaining channels of communication between employees.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When it comes to the development and commercialization of new products , no one holds more accountability for the product’s ultimate success than the Product Manager. Product Manager” isn’t exactly a title that fits neatly into a box.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 22, 2022

People tend to resist change when change means altering or replacing existing norms of doing things. I think we can all agree that user adoption is the primary objective for all products. User adoption is not something that evolves at a particular point of a product development life cycle.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I had the chance to sit in and listen as Jim Carroll , the futurist, talked about a number of trends that will force changes in the way we make and sell products. He also talked about the increasing pace of change. That is, the vast majority of the life cycle of some of the products could be measured in a handful of months.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Together, they reduce the risk of failure, improve the success rate of new ideas and can help build an organisation which is more resilient to change and able to grow. What it is: One of the most challenging aspects of innovation for most companies is not the generating of ideas, or the development of new innovations.

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Acuvate

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When businesses have worked for long on traditional systems, they face calcified practices, legacy processes, and resistance to change from within the organization. Systems integration is a sophisticated undertaking and an opportunity to make real change within a business. Integration as a Means to Digital Transformation.

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 6, 2022

What’s next for consumer products Innovating for new moments in consumer journeys. Every step on the consumer journey has changed and is continuing to change, and consumer products need to change as well to keep up. Discovery is now mostly digital, so packaging should be developed digital-first as well.

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Underperforming Technical Team Video Design System 52

Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

If you want to create a successful, hyper-growth company, you've got to focus on empowering your teams to rapidly experiment.” When data-driven experiments are run (like market surveys), they often take too long, cost too much or deliver little new insight to develop the idea. Encourage bold/crazy ideas 2.

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Innovation in Practice

MAY 23, 2016

For most companies, the top marketer, usually called the chief marketing officer, is part of the senior leadership team and sits on the executive committee or management board. If you let things slip in terms of your team’s skills and effectiveness, you’re going to lose that seat. Product development goes to R&D.

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InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Here are 10 essential questions to discuss with your team when pricing your latest innovation. How might our approach impact how we change prices in future? How could you change the monetization model in future? How could you differentiate the product itself to justify a more sophisticated monetisation model in future?

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Design Groups 63

Moves the Needle

JANUARY 22, 2016

In lean startup, before beginning to test solution ideas, one focuses on developing empathy through customer development interviews. Market Research and Product Silos vs. Cross-Functional Teams For starters, product and market research are usually two separate activities. They require two separate teams.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 9, 2020

In this blog post we talk about receptivity to change in Financial Services and some thoughts on how to move forward. Going forward, our customers and other stakeholders will be more receptive to change in how we engage with them and what we offer. This can be problematic in a time that demands change. Readiness for Change?

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

It’s about the culture needed to win in an ever changing marketplace, especially after Covid 19. Would that be so bad? I was recently with a founder of a small Swiss tech startup, and he was all over the ‘how’ they are squeezing value out of a step-change technology, to generate as many user cases as possible, whichever they are.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 29, 2015

In the previous article we talked about why site optimization is important and presented a few important goals and philosophies to impart on your team. In this case, plan how to communicate and launch the change permanently to production. shopping cart checkout pages, detail pages of your most expensive products, etc…).

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etventure

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In this article, etventure’s Head of Product Gregor Ilg will take a closer look at the buzzword “Agile” – and de-mystify Agile in a business context. If it is not applied properly, agile development can easily turn into chaos! Commence development – which might take many months to complete. What is Agile?

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