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The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

Also, while human-centered design certainly existed, the practices of “design thinking” reaching tech companies to any real degree was still a decade away. By 2001, I was running Product Management at a different company. Product Management reflected both of these facts. I had never heard of Agile. We were Waterfall.

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Choosing the right strategy handling uncertainty

Innovation 360 Group

Both situations are more common than we’d like to admit, simply because we try to apply what we know (how to run projects and operations with performance models, ROI and budgets) to something we don’t know. Platform and design thinking, prototyping, ideation, project selection, and speed are imperative capabilities.

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Choosing the right strategy handling uncertainty

Innovation 360

Both situations are more common than we’d like to admit, simply because we try to apply what we know (how to run projects and operations with performance models, ROI and budgets) to something we don’t know. Platform and design thinking, prototyping, ideation, project selection, and speed are imperative capabilities.

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The fallacy of "modern" management when it comes to innovation management

Moves the Needle

Agile The agile manifesto , which was introduced in 2001, prioritizes short product development “sprints” in order to incorporate new information which might come from a variety of places such as new technology, customer input, insights, or development issues.

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Organizing for Simultaneous Innovation Capability – key findings from +1,000 companies, republished from Drucker Forum 2016

Innovation 360 Group

The key lies in understanding how to organize and transform into an organization that’s able to work short-, mid- and long -term, maximizing the utilization of all resources from tangibles to intangibles. Platform and design thinking, prototyping, ideation, project selection, and speed are imperative capabilities.

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Organizing for Simultaneous Innovation Capability – key findings from +1,000 companies, republished from Drucker Forum 2016

Innovation 360

The key lies in understanding how to organize and transform into an organization that’s able to work short-, mid- and long -term, maximizing the utilization of all resources from tangibles to intangibles. Platform and design thinking, prototyping, ideation, project selection, and speed are imperative capabilities.

Company 40
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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples

Moves the Needle

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. What is Design Thinking? Design thinking is a way of problem solving that evolved out of applying the scientific method to the process of design. But design thinking alone is not enough.

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