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Why Less is More: Product Strategy

Innovation Excellence

Anxiety floods the boardroom, the conference rooms, every decision. Costs are rising. Returns are flat. Margins are thinning. Now, private label competitors are beating us in every area: technology, price, placement, design and sales. Worse, they have turned the category that we invented into a commoditized war zone and keep us in a rigid box.

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Mastering the Art of Virtual Team Communication: Strategies for Success

Leapfrogging

Importance of Effective Communication in Virtual Teams Effective communication in virtual teams is the linchpin of productivity, innovation, and a cohesive work environment. By acknowledging the challenges and implementing strategic measures, you can navigate these waters successfully to uphold a productive and innovative virtual team.

Strategy 100
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Mastering the Art of Virtual Team Communication: Strategies for Success

Leapfrogging

Importance of Effective Communication in Virtual Teams Effective communication in virtual teams is the linchpin of productivity, innovation, and a cohesive work environment. By acknowledging the challenges and implementing strategic measures, you can navigate these waters successfully to uphold a productive and innovative virtual team.

Strategy 100
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How to Manage Early Stage Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Flowing through your company’s system, like blood through the veins of a human body, new product concepts are the future of your company’s health and the source of its growth. Unfortunately, many companies lack a strategic planning process for innovation, or they manage it poorly. Too many.

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Bring Startup Speed to your Innovation Team with Personas

Your Ideas are Terrible

Ever been in a product strategy meeting and unable to answer this simple question: So who is our customer? You can use the same tool bring speed and efficiency to your corporate innovation team. All personas serve the same purpose: to help innovation teams empathize with customers and create solutions to solve their problems.

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Gartner Research Insights: 5 Innovation Hacks to Boost your Digital Return

Qmarkets

Hackathons, internal innovation programs, open innovation, technology acquisitions…these days it seems like everyone is jumping onto the innovation bandwagon. How is innovation best performed? Can guidelines for innovation be created? Once upon a time innovation was a technique practiced by lone inventors.

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Innovation Roadmaps: What Are They Good For, Anyway?

Innovation Excellence

At the heart, product roadmaps show the major milestones of a project’s lifecycle. Maintaining Product Roadmaps is a useful discipline in just about any organization that has more than one product. But aside from capturing product timelines, what good are they?

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