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You need a why and a how, not a what, for innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm happy to say I've learned a lot about innovation in corporations, and also somewhat excited to say I'm still learning, because the pace and nature of innovation is changing so rapidly. If you have a good corporate, business unit or product strategy, ensure that innovation supports it. Beyond the why is the how.

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4 Challenges Facing Embedded Services Organizations & How to Solve Them

Planview

They must also enable product adoption, in order to increase product expansion and renewal rates. As such, to be successful ESOs face the challenge of serving not one, but two masters: profits and product adoption. To address this challenge, ESOs should consider changing their engagement models to fit the need.

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3 New Year’s Resolutions Every IP Portfolio Manager Should Make for 2018

Anaqua

Importantly, larger organizations need to ensure that IP aligns with the business at the individual product/market level. For each product market, there should be a distinct product strategy. Innovative tools promote attorney efficiency and productivity, while contributing to a firm’s competitive stance.

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The Innovation Generation Has Arrived

Legacy Innovation Group

They got to be a part of the steady execution of the company's slowly evolving product line, happy to help develop and launch the next version of the company's stayed and true products. But that day has long come and gone, and all that has changed now. Today's young marketers, designers, and engineers are very different.

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Immediate Regret: Why Did I Take This Job?

Michael Roberto

Here's an excerpt from Lublin's column: Technology industry veteran Puneet Goel says he wishes he had done greater due diligence a few years ago before taking charge of product management at a midsize tech company He never reached out to his immediate predecessor who no longer worked there. Be careful!

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Unleash Your Visual Superpower!

Boxes and Arrows

In-house designers often have to advocate for design priorities versus new features or technical change. Meaning anyone who provides the vision for a product, whether it be in code, wireframes, comps, prototypes, or cocktail napkins. Did it instigate change? Agency designers can create great visions that fail to be executed.

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Innovation’s New World Order

Innovation in Practice

How and where innovation is performed matters: As Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter, author of classic texts on corporate strategy and the competitive advantage of nations, has noted, “Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.”. But that conceals what has actually been happening.

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