Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

To support you in building out your innovation competencies, capabilities and capacity that requires a deeper investment in skill development in a culture of continual learning. My value proposition is to work together to create something that shapes innovation for a meaningful change.

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Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Agile 173

Kainexus

JANUARY 27, 2022

Unfortunately, often internal pressures, external commenters, and poor product management practices hinder managers' ability to deliver products that customers truly value. Another sad reality is that it is common for organizations to make product decisions without really understanding what matters most to the customer.

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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. Lead from the front.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Training Disruption 144

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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Artificial Inteligence Design Thinking Design Analysis 113

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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Design Thinking Design Underperforming Technical Team Ideation 62

Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Traditional health benefits administrators have bad networks. Many software development companies have what’s called distributed teams, which means people working around the globe on products. What types of benefits and rewards are employees seeking today? How do you achieve effective collaboration across time zones?

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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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Software Review Company Underperforming Technical Team Design Thinking 116

The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The tight integration of Strategy, R&D and Innovation – and other related growth functions – is critical for an effective Growth Transformation system. They often have their own teams, their own budgets, and their own objectives. This is starting to change. Today, all companies have a variety of functions aimed at growth.

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System Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 52

Innovation 360 Group

AUGUST 25, 2019

These businesses are close to the action and markets, allowing them to easily adopt a need-seeker approach, a strategy highly correlated with radical innovation, the kind that shakes up markets and innovates from the inside out—from operations and processes though to business models and products. million Swedish crowns. The Solution.

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Case Study Underperforming Technical Team Project Study 51

Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 24, 2018

Those are sunk costs, and should not direct the future direction of your strategy or organizational structure. Product development cycle times are now longer than shelf lives. If you look at the high tech industry, almost every handheld device manufacturer has recognized this shift. Second, decide who is going to do exploration.

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Underperforming Technical Team Culture LEAN Exercises 125

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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Design Thinking Design Underperforming Technical Team Ideation 74

IdeaScale

MARCH 13, 2018

In these early stages of product development, it can sometimes seem like all of the good ideas have already been taken. When you apply this train of thought to innovation, it becomes apparent that some of the most successful products and services in human history were developed by recycling existing ideas.

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Crowdsourcing Technical Review 124

Cascade Strategy

JANUARY 15, 2020

In product management teams, much like in other teams in an organization, KPIs are used to create clear targets, guide decisions, celebrate success, and identify risks and issues.

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Examples Underperforming Technical Team Management LEAN 52

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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Underperforming Technical Team Trends How To Examples 81

Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

I spent 8 years as a management consultant, and a number of my projects were referred to as “Strategy Consulting” Here, we would be asked to make predictions for a specific topic, such as the likely growth rates for an industry segment based on trends. Innovation Leader, Achievers and Underperformers, GII 2016.

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Underperforming Technical Team Data Report Innovation 100

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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Crowdsourcing Tools Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 52

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. External crowdsourcing , the more traditional form of crowdsourcing is still an excellent tool to facilitate new product development.

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Crowdsourcing Tools Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 52

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. Adopting a fundamentally new product development process is no different.

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Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Tools Product Development 49

Acuvate

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

According to a report by IDG , 89 percent of enterprises plan or already have adopted a digital-first strategy by weaving data analytics, private cloud, and mobile technology into their operations. Create a team of experts in agile delivery methods to own and rule integration within your organization.

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Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence Data System 56

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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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. Adopting a fundamentally new product development process is no different.

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Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Tools Product Development 45

Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 22, 2022

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. Instead, user adoption requires proper planning and implementation strategy when the product is just an idea. Conclusion.

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Design Thinking Design Underperforming Technical Team Idea Generation 62

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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Underperforming Technical Team How To Roadmap Tools 80

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

At its core, the framework is a collection of strategies and tools for finding inventive solutions to difficult problems. 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. If this doesn’t work, it is going to make me look bad.

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InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Here are 10 essential questions to discuss with your team when pricing your latest innovation. Price is such an integral part of product design yet is often overlooked until an MVP has been fully formed and perhaps even road-tested. This will also inform your decisions on what features and functionality the new product should deliver.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Design Groups 63

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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Underperforming Technical Team Video Design System 52

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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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Leadership Groups 49

Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 9, 2020

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. Often agile development initiatives are not ‘agile’ at all. In addition, difficulties with integrating these acquisitions can reduce the realization of long-term value significantly.

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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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Underperforming Technical Team Conference Innovation Programs Case Study 63

hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

They link innovation to their well-defined business objectives by establishing and maintaining dedicated innovation teams. Innovative companies provide the right platform for their employees to share and discuss ideas and have dedicated teams to turn them into prototypes and test the prototypes resulting from those ideas.

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Company LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 77

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. 2) You have developed a bespoke innovation approach: Spot, Play, Go. We run an identification workshop with the project team, to assess the objectives, constraints and KPI?s

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Underperforming Technical Team Training Design Project 85

Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Design thinking is a step above “customer development” because it takes a real human approach to getting to the root of an intrinsic problem. Many large organizations tend to stop after prototyping solutions that indicate desirability, and subsequently revert to traditional development methodologies. What is the Definition of “Agile”?

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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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Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 56

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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Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 56

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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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 27, 2021

With the emergence of new business models and the acceleration of companies’ transformation process, so-called user-centric strategies have become popular. UX is today the central pillar of all companies’ digital strategy that perform well in the digital context. Before the emotion comes the strategy.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

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. To act on good assumptions with caution beats acting on bad assumptions with confidence.

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