Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. Say no to those startups that don’t meet your requirements. Rapid production and MVP.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Embracing the Evolution: AI Meets Design Thinking The intersection of artificial intelligence and design thinking is poised to redefine the landscape of innovation and strategy. This process is widely adopted by managers, executives, and consultants to drive new product development, service innovation, and business model refinement.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 15, 2016

Durant understood the breadth of customer expectation and worked hard to meet it. 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. Of course we both knew the answer.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

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. Besides, less information is known to be shared in online communication, increasing the likelihood of poor decision-making.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

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. How can you occasionally “bump” into someone in a hallway when all your meetings are scheduled in advance on Zoom? Crowdsourcing to the Rescue?

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Innovation 360 Group

AUGUST 25, 2019

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME’s) play an important role in economies across the world, creating jobs, driving growth and meeting critical needs. The EU funded-development project was launched in 2016 with 8.2 The Situation. They lack a structured process and a baseline for measurement and improvement. million Swedish crowns.

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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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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

I was the “interviewee” for an “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence about how to plan team building exercises that create impact for work teams. As described in the article, I’ve been on the good and bad side of various team building exercises during my career.

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Huub Rutten

MARCH 9, 2021

Business people: I mean the Sales teams and their leaders. It is my job to meet with our customers far before the seasonal sales periods. In these meetings we present our new Sales Catalog and help them to understand our new products. It takes years to recover from a bad launch in my business.

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Huub Rutten

MARCH 9, 2021

Business people: I mean the Sales teams and their leaders. It is my job to meet with our customers far before the seasonal sales periods. In these meetings we present our new Sales Catalog and help them to understand our new products. It takes years to recover from a bad launch in my business.

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Huub Rutten

MARCH 9, 2021

Business people: I mean the Sales teams and their leaders. It is my job to meet with our customers far before the seasonal sales periods. In these meetings we present our new Sales Catalog and help them to understand our new products. It takes years to recover from a bad launch in my business.

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Be-novative

MAY 13, 2021

Or even more, what if you are part of the minority group as a consultant or as team lead? Walking into the all-male meeting room at your client’s office or checking in to the meeting online as a young female entrepreneur has some chances to create feelings of inequity, being treated as not an equal partner. EXPERTIZE FIRST.

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Mike Shipulski

OCTOBER 3, 2018

When the team is accountable to deliver on a project but are constrained to a fixed scope, a fixed launch date and resources, they will be afraid. Keep the team small and keep them dedicated to a single innovation project. Innovation is about solving new problems, yet fear blocks teams from trying new things. Here’s one way.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Today I am leading a panel at the Sports and Fitness Industry Association leadership meeting in New Orleans. 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. There's a sports analogy that's applicable here.

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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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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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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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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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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

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. They can cite a number of seemingly valid reasons for this, including: My team hasn’t got the time to resources or time to take ownership of this new thing.

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 6, 2022

In this post, we’ll highlight some of the key moments in the rapidly evolving consumer journey, and what we see as the key questions and implications for the role and development of consumer products with packaging. Discovery is now mostly digital, so packaging should be developed digital-first as well.

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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. As a workshop, we are open to all and exist simultaneously as an open place, to stimulate debates and meetings, and as a playground for companies, to imagine and create, together.

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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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Planview

APRIL 4, 2018

From developing digital technology solutions for our medical devices to utilizing a digital supply chain to better deliver our pharmaceutical products to our customers, I’m really interested to see what comes up from Fast Track Ideas (Johnson & Johnson’s idea management system – more on this later) along those lines.

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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. It’s a Tuesday morning and Steve is in line waiting to order his morning coffee before heading to a client site for a meeting. Hire 3 developers. A minimum viable product.” “Is

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The first article discussed the pros and cons of different UX team structures. For companies that depend on user experience for business success, a strong internal team is essential. Take the time to meet with people across the firm to explain the services you offer and how you can help them. But how do you get there from here?

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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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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

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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. As a workshop, we are open to all and exist simultaneously as an open place, to stimulate debates and meetings, and as a playground for companies, to imagine and create, together.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

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 the second stage, it moves into Investing, Inventing, Incubating and Acquiring technologies and companies, and in the third stage building product(s). How do you staff it?

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

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 the second stage, it moves into Investing, Inventing, Incubating and Acquiring technologies and companies, and in the third stage building product(s). How do you staff it?

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Finally, we need to test and validate these assumptions so we can correct any misconceptions and continue to improve the product. An organization may have many channels of communication with the end-users, but the messages spoken by the business unit can be very different than those of the product development team or customer support team.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 22, 2016

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. Once it is complete, analyze the results in a team and think of ways how to apply them to your service or product.

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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. Let's talk.

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Leanstack

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

A year later, Steve is still building his product. He has no product revenue and relies on part-time freelancing work to fund his product development. On the other hand, Larry has a growing customer base, revenue, and team. Steve felt proud to have been part of the core team. And he works alone.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 1, 2012

There is no argument that we live in a world of staggering speed, where competitors race to meet customer needs and time to market matters. I have often heard the mantra from development teams: “Better, Faster, Cheaper—we can give you any two and a half.” ” Believe me, I understand trade-offs.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

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 the second stage, it moves into Investing, Inventing, Incubating and Acquiring technologies and companies, and in the third stage building product(s). How do you staff it?

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