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BD Named 2015 Outstanding Corporate Innovator Winner by Product Development and Management Association

Innovation in Practice

The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), the premier global advocate for product development and management professionals, announced today that it has awarded the 2015 Outstanding Corporate Innovator (OCI) Award to BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX). 7-11 in Anaheim, Calif.

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PLM Re-Birth at McDonald’s: How to Maximize Value in a Decentralized Organization

Innovation Excellence

[note these videos are from 2015]. McDonald’s, the world’s largest fast food restaurant chain, began its product lifecycle management (PLM) journey in 2005. Driving cycle time improvements, productivity benefits, and material cost savings are often within the top reasons companies implement PLM. Check out the video here.

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

Let’s sum up some relevant findings of these studies, making the case for dual innovation management: BCG: Most Innovative Companies 2014 . Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages.

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Dow and DuPont – Nobody wins when transactions replace leadership

Adam Hartung

duPont as a gunpowder manufacturer for the revolutionary war, the company has long been one of America’s leading business institutions. But in a series of fast actions during 2015, DuPont as it has been known is going away. From dynamic roots, the company had become quite stodgy and unexciting. Founded by e.i.

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Nothing new under the innovation sun

Jeffrey Phillips

I rise today to praise Innovation Leader and Innosight on their publication of the 2015 Innovation Benchmarking Report. This survey is based primarily on Fortune 500 companies, so a commitment of less than 10 people is, needless to say, a very small commitment. In fact I'm sure many of these same points were made a decade ago.

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Welcome to the Mid Zone of Innovation

Legacy Innovation Group

Sept 27, 2015 | Anthony Mills. In 1991, Don Reinertsen and Preston Smith introduced the world to the "Fuzzy Front End" of product development. In both cases, the work being described was work that preceded the formal product development process. Welcome to the Mid Zone of Innovation. milestones).

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Part 1: Accelerating the impact of Innovation Campaigns

Values Centered Innovation

From the Conference Board’s CEO Challenge 2015 (with data from over 900 global executives), KPMG’s Global CEO Report 2016 (with 1,300 global executives), and Gartner’ 2016 CEO and Senior Business Executive Survey (400 global executives), these are the top challenges that CEOs say they face today: Accelerate and sustain business growth.