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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

In these early stages of product development, it can sometimes seem like all of the good ideas have already been taken. First and foremost you need to identify the most popular product or service which currently exists within your field of industry and then scrutinise its strengths and weaknesses.

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InnovationOps: the Next Evolution of Innovation Management

Innov8rs

Mike has thirty years of experience in building and leading cross functional teams and organizations to successfully define, develop and bring new companies and products to market. The Jobs in Innovation Management For starters, this does require a change in how we think about jobs.

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The Wheel of Innovation: Lessons learned from >1,000 companies and 62 countries

Innovation 360 Group

Typical external innovation (the right part of Figure 2) is about how to organise for efficient customisation of deliverables, typically used in Industry 4.0. There will be a structured innovation process for products and services organised in platforms for product or service lifetime management and product or service document management.

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The Wheel of Innovation: Lessons learned from >1,000 companies and 62 countries

Innovation 360

Typical external innovation (the right part of Figure 2) is about how to organise for efficient customisation of deliverables, typically used in Industry 4.0. There will be a structured innovation process for products and services organised in platforms for product or service lifetime management and product or service document management.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

The two primary methodologies organisations, analysts and Wall Street use to measure profitability are the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Rate of Return on Net Assets (RONA) because by describing profitability as ratios it allows us to neutralise differences and compare the profitability between different industries.

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Interviewing Executives and SME Stakeholders

Boxes and Arrows

These are usually the most critical stakeholder interviews, because the way other team members approach product development depends on the views of the people at the top. It can be difficult to get on a senior executive’s schedule, particularly if the executives regard the product’s design as a secondary concern.

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The General Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

Answers to this question will tell you whether this person has some unexpected expertise to share and will give you some clues about how this person might view the world; a product manager who has a background in the domain but not in product management won’t have the same concerns as an experienced product manager who doesn’t know the industry.