article thumbnail

The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

It was their job to ensure all aspects of the product development process were aligned and working together. Program management was steeped in technical processes, but also considered how product decisions would impact the product’s end users. Product Management reflected both of these facts.

article thumbnail

A New Model to Start Innovation

Gijs Van Wulfen

The start of innovation is described by Wikipedia as the messy getting started period of a new product development process. It is in the front end where the organization formulates a concept of the product or service to be developed and decides whether or not to invest resources in the further development of an idea [i].

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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. This is Lean Startup.

article thumbnail

Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company).

article thumbnail

Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. They are not addressed by appointing an R&D team, integrated the best of tech, stretching product development to design new models and services, or even hire great talent. The title of this piece is ‘Great to Good’.

article thumbnail

Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. They are not addressed by appointing an R&D team, integrated the best of tech, stretching product development to design new models and services, or even hire great talent. The title of this piece is ‘Great to Good’.

article thumbnail

When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

He focused on a few target products and services and he did them well. Even though the Mac business was picking up, it was only in 2001, with the release of the iPOD (now retired) disrupting the digital music market, did Apple start soaring. The climb has been quite an uphill task for the iconic toy designer. Source: [link].