Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 23, 2023

Additionally, fractional CxOs are often more flexible in terms of their availability and can be brought on for specific projects or initiatives as needed, giving portfolio companies the ability to scale their executive team as their business grows. This could include areas such as sales and marketing, product development, or human resources.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With AI’s predictive analytics, machine learning algorithms, and natural language processing, leaders and innovators are unlocking new potentials in understanding user needs and market trends. 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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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Traditional health benefits administrators have bad networks. In the increasingly remote work landscape, how can corporate leaders leverage online collaboration tools to foster a more inclusive and positive work environment? How do you achieve effective collaboration across time zones?

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Or maybe sales are down or they just lost the head of marketing to a competitor. For example, you could say, “I know you’re dealing with… [lagging sales, poor internal communications, customer complaints, etc.]. Obviously, you want to show how your idea or concept can accelerate the plan and the results of the plan.

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IM Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

Elijah Eilert speaks to Paul Orlando about his book Growth Units to discover how to best calculate Customer Acquisition Cost and Lifetime Value. Paul tells us how to significantly improve common calculation methods and how to use those to make critical business decisions. 23:30) How to calculate Customer Acquisition Cost.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 10, 2021

What we've been told to do is to build a product or service based on our capabilities and convince people that they need it. Well, when it was difficult to compare products and services, and when people had less information, it was easier to market a product that didn't fit, or only partially fit, a consumer need.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 22, 2016

Market research often falls short when it comes to innovation. Here’s why: Modern market research methods, like Lean Startup, do a great job of focusing on customer-centric discovery. In our post, How to Innovate: What Innovation Really Is , we discussed how focusing on learning before executing is vital to innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 24, 2018

Product development cycle times are now longer than shelf lives. You simply cannot crank enough efficiency in the development, launch and marketing phases to win back enough revenue to account for a poorly constructed exploration phase. Decide how to gain more revenue and profit from the insights and ideas you discover.

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Betterific

AUGUST 2, 2016

Welcome to the second part of our new “Brainstorming with…” series, where we interview two sets of people – the innovation challenge winners and the product developers and innovation experts that sponsor the challenges. And most importantly I’ve learned about the end-to-end cycle of product development.

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InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It’s easy to acknowledge that effective monetisation underpins any successful enterprise but it’s far harder to know how to price effectively. Here are 10 essential questions to discuss with your team when pricing your latest innovation. How might we use pricing to encourage the right customers behaviours?

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It is what will drive an enterprise’s creative engine that is the source of long-term, future growth Most of today’s large corporate enterprises treat strategy, R&D, and innovation as separate and distinct functions – worthy of specialized teams, segmented funding, reporting structures and operational charters. This is starting to change.

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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. Difficulties with speed to market. It drives innovation to a transactional level and leads organizations to seek the perceived lower risk of acquiring new ideas vs developing them in house.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Here’s why adaptation is crucial: Sustained Relevance: Staying in tune with market changes ensures that your business remains relevant to your customers’ evolving needs. Competitive Advantage: By embracing innovation, you can differentiate your business from competitors and potentially capture a larger market share.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

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. Do you even need formal titles and classes of employees, which divide more than unite teams?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The integration of AI technologies has led to the emergence of new business models and has disrupted established market dynamics. This impact is evident across various facets of business, from operational efficiency and customer experience to product development and market analysis.

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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. I’d like to switch gears now and talk about more tactical stuff, namely, process.

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Adam Hartung

DECEMBER 13, 2015

From humble beginnings, DuPont became well known as a leader in Research & Development, a consistent leader in patent applications, and the inventor of products that proliferate in our lives from nylon to Teflon pans plastic bottles to Kevlar vests. And it is too bad the leadership wasn’t in place to save it.

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company). The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. The question is “Why?” Leadership Insights 1.

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

I’m going to talk about how, in the 21st Century, we need ‘Goodness’ more than ‘Greatness’ when it comes to innovation. Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. The title of this piece is ‘Great to Good’. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. The question is “Why?”.

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Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 57

Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

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IdeaSpies

AUGUST 31, 2018

I’m going to talk about how, in the 21st Century, we need ‘Goodness’ more than ‘Greatness’ when it comes to innovation. Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. The title of this piece is ‘Great to Good’. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. The question is “Why?”

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Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 57

Mike Shipulski

AUGUST 3, 2016

For startup companies, when times are good, it’s the right time to try something new – the resources are there and so is the motivation; and when times are tough it’s also the right time to try something new – the motivation is there and breathing room is a sign of weakness. But this is not a binary world. But it’s more complicated than that.

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Leanstack

MARCH 29, 2018

Even though, his savings ran out 6 months ago, he has hit a comfortable groove using freelance consulting to keep his product development going. Maybe now he can get the support of his developer friends who failed to see his vision earlier? Hire 3 developers. By then, they would have cornered the entire market!”

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

The Marketing Stakeholder Interview. Note that it’s as important for in-house teams to ask most of these questions as it is for consultants; you may know one answer, but do you know this particular stakeholder’s answer? What’s your role with respect to this product? Many thanks to Ms. Understanding the Business.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Let our team of non-conformists help you build your innovative company culture. A conformist company culture stifles innovation and breeds weakness. While middle management can keep the company strong in the near-term, the stifling of innovation makes the organization weak in the long-run. Contact Us. Challenge the status-quo!

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

The lens through which this profession – the "MBA crowd" if you will – sees the world is generally one of how to build a sustainable competitive advantage, something that can come from any corner of the business. Business Management. We begin with Business Management. Thank you, Business Management. Entrepreneurialism.

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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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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 15, 2009

Integrating Effective Prototyping into Your Design Process – Fred Beecher Senior User Experience Consultant Fred Beecher shows his audience how to determine what, for your particular situation, is the most effective way to use prototyping to improve the user experience of your site or software. Listening more than you speak.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. When should it be used: Any organisation that wants to enable their staff who have an idea to “try it out” or do an initial market experiment.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Now that your company had decided to set up an Innovation Outpost, how do you do it? How do you staff it? What should the team in the Outpost be doing day-to-day? Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Now that your company had decided to set up an Innovation Outpost, how do you do it? How do you staff it? What should the team in the Outpost be doing day-to-day? Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams.

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 56

Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Methods are needed that focus on the customer experience, allow us to adapt to new information, and help us make decisions based on market-based evidence. When designing something, (ie: a technology, a product, a marketing material…) it is paramount to keep the needs of the end user in mind.

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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. There wasn't any point to them.

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IdeaConnection

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The discovery saved Exxon millions of dollars, and made Harold rich enough to retire at age 40, using his money to start a company called Antares, developing audio processing software. There are countless examples of people like Harold Hildebrand who develop fantastic ideas and enjoy great success.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Now that your company had decided to set up an Innovation Outpost, how do you do it? How do you staff it? What should the team in the Outpost be doing day-to-day? Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

She naturally joined Louis Zero’s team as Shake my Firm project manager and then took on the development of Louis Zero workshop as a whole. 1) Can you introduce us to Louis Zero , where it comes from, what is its value proposition, and how the singular branding Louis Zero was picked up ? Con gusto !

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

. ——– Now that your company had decided to set up an Innovation Outpost, how do you do it? How do you staff it? What should the team in the Outpost be doing day-to-day? Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. In what order?

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