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Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innovators Alliance

We often jump to cost-cutting in an effort to preserve profits and cash flow. The logic is simple: we need to stay afloat. As a result, we focus internally, at the expense of forward-looking innovation. Apple began its stunning transformation with the iPod in 2001, during the darkest days after the Internet bubble burst.

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The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

It was not unusual to find PM’s who reported into Engineering at the time, the two cases perhaps reflecting the above origin stories. We were “pre-customer” and no, we didn’t IPO without customers. (We We were “pre-customer” and no, we didn’t IPO without customers. But don’t ask how many when we did.)

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How to Nail Your Most Valuable Metrics Using the Customer Journey

Moves the Needle

They're made up of the actual trips we take; the phases of our life from childhood to adolescence, school, work and maybe college and careers. And, some of those sub-journeys include our relationships with the companies who sell us products. Businesses are inevitably a part of the journey. More on each individual state here. )

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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 the Lean Startup Model?

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. We need to make some major changes with urgency and a depth of purpose.

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Integrating UX into the Product Backlog

Boxes and Arrows

Task completion rates 0 to 100% The percentage of users who have been observed to complete the story without any assistance. Staffing Resource’s name Who’s owns the design, at whatever level of fidelity is agreed to. Agile methods were developed without consideration for UX best practices.

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

Here’s a look at top companies who took customized innovation routes to pull themselves back from the brink of failure: APPLE. 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. Weathering the perfect storm.