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The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

The memo that started it all sounds more like modern product marketing than product management, but your mileage may vary. The primary function was to serve as the bridge between Engineering and Marketing. Ken Beer was the Director of Product Management and reported into the Marketing department. I had never heard of Agile.

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

Moves the Needle

Henry Ford’s great insight was that if he could reduce the cost of cars such that his decently-paid employees could afford to buy the automobile they made, he’d have a massive market. His very lean progressive assembly process was the result. The number of competitors in most open markets is incredible and increasing rapidly.

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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples

Moves the Needle

Lean Innovation Definition At Moves The Needle, we define lean innovation as “reducing waste in the discovery, creation, and delivering of new value to customers." We base Lean Innovation principles upon the 3 E’s of Lean Innovation : Empathy, Experiments and Evidence. What is Design Thinking?

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FEI Boston Speaking Topics For The Annual Conference

eZassi

The FEI Boston Conference 2018 is designed to help you stop talking about innovation and to leave with a blueprint to immediately begin to take action and build your own culture of innovation. In 2001 Mike found himself on a stage receiving a finalist certificate for a prestigious innovation award. FEI Boston Speaking Topics.

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How to Nail Your Most Valuable Metrics Using the Customer Journey

Moves the Needle

As you can see, this journey combines awareness marketing, with product marketing, a sales funnel including conversion, and then into product engagement, and ends with "passionate", which some people include with product -- you often hear the word delight -- or is described as branding, where you hear the word "loyalty".

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FEI Boston Speaking Agenda For The Annual Conference

eZassi

The FEI Boston Conference 2018 is designed to help you stop talking about innovation and to leave with a blueprint to immediately begin to take action and build your own culture of innovation. In 2001 Mike found himself on a stage receiving a finalist certificate for a prestigious innovation award. FEI Boston Speaking Agenda.

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

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It was close to bankruptcy in the late 1990s with rivals BM, Dell and HP eating up the market. The company had a paltry 4 percent market share and losses of over $1 billion. Market expansion was what Apple needed, not a sizable chunk of the PC market. The climb has been quite an uphill task for the iconic toy designer.