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Inform Your Product Development with Innovation Roadmaps

IdeaScale

Product roadmaps are powerful tools to get the team organized and to get a new product launched. However, they can also be used for the conceptualization of the product itself. A roadmap allows you to focus the momentum from early stages and drive it through to an actual product.

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Turn the Tables on Product Development Disruptions

Planview

Disruptions to effective product development are constant but don’t need to be detrimental to an organization’s ability to deliver innovation with speed and maintain a healthy ROI. Barriers to effective product development have always existed; they are not new.

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Idea Magnets and New Product Development from a New Tree

BrainZooming

What new product development strategy might an Idea Magnet employ to pursue a fresh path to new ideas? Realizing that product’s limitations, he started from scratch to design something completely new, yet familiar and functional. This is Turner’s personal perspective on his new product development strategy. Climbing Down and Finding a New, New Product Development Tree. Idea Magnets and New Product Development.

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What Did the Pandemic Teach Us About New Product Development?

Planview

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. Consider an Adaptive New Product Development Strategy.

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How to Develop a Recession-Proof Product-Led Strategy

Speaker: Wes Bush, Author of "Product-Led Growth"

Join this webinar to hear PLG pioneer Wes Bush compare great product-led strategies and discuss how you can get past common obstacles.

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Using Lean Innovation in the Product Development and Commercialization Process

Moves the Needle

In today’s fast-moving business landscape, the ability to commercialize products quickly and efficiently is imperative. Companies that successfully bring new products to market rapidly, benefit from having a leg up on their competition while diminishing the negative effects of shrinking product life cycles. However, moving a product from lab to market is a process that in itself could use re-invention. It does not include product development.

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How to Speed Up Your New Product Development Process by 30%

Innovation 360 Group

A new product development process that works at lightning speed requires new ways of working plus new ways of innovating. In this post we will cover how to: Cut your development cycle time and free up working capital. A 3 step process to speed up your time to market.

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The Role of Innovation in New Product Development: Three Approaches for Success

Qmarkets

Innovation is essential throughout the entire new product development (NPD) process, but nowhere is it more key than it is in the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) stage. FFE is the starting point of NPD and is where new product ideas are generated before entering the formal development process.

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DNA of an Innovative Business: Is It Yours?

InnovationManagement

With the acceleration of modern economic, societal and environmental changes, new opportunities are created everywhere, and often where we least expect them. Enabling Factors Competition customer engagement customer support inspiration marketing new product development sustainability

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How Corporations Can Manage New Ventures and University Projects as Extensions of their Advanced Product Development

Corporate Innovation

Professor Ikhlaq Sidhu and I recently started talking about how the interest of corporations in the innovations created by startups is leading to changes in corporate R&D models, an area he has been studying for some time. The World of Innovation Has Changed. A great deal has changed in corporate innovation since the days of Bell Labs and Xerox PARC. What has changed?

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How Corporations Can Manage New Ventures and University Projects as Extensions of their Advanced Product Development

Corporate Innovation

Professor Ikhlaq Sidhu and I recently started talking about how the interest of corporations in the innovations created by startups is leading to changes in corporate R&D models, an area he has been studying for some time. The World of Innovation Has Changed. A great deal has changed in corporate innovation since the days of Bell Labs and Xerox PARC. What has changed?

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How Corporations Can Manage New Ventures and University Projects as Extensions of their Advanced Product Development

Corporate Innovation

Professor Ikhlaq Sidhu and I recently started talking about how the interest of corporations in the innovations created by startups is leading to changes in corporate R&D models, an area he has been studying for some time. The World of Innovation Has Changed. A great deal has changed in corporate innovation since the days of Bell Labs and Xerox PARC. What has changed?

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Digital Factory of the Incumbent: Software of the Mind

InnovationManagement

Technological changes are one of the leading advocators to shape customer value. Enabling Factors In-Depth Article Innovation Psychology Life Cycle Processes Report Training & Education customer engagement digital innovation digital marketing Innovation Management innovation processes innovation psychology Innovation Strategy marketing Product Development retail shopping value value creation

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The Myth of the First-Mover Advantage: Why to be Smarter, Not Faster

New Markets Advisors

They want to fail quickly, pivot, and be first to market with their new idea. Since pioneering the app-based ride hailing market, Uber has been bombarded with other companies trying to offer similar services or address niche markets that are under-served by Uber. has struggled to gain even one-third of the market. Despite taking a wait-and-see approach, the iPod captured roughly 70% market share. Companies today worry too much about being fast.

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Unique Ways Successful Startups are Changing the Corporate Innovation Landscape

Idea to Value

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. The corporate landscape is changing drastically, and for a corporate brand to stay relevant, they must innovate in order to change with the market. Rapid production and MVP. The concept is more broadly related to product development and UX design.

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How to Develop Innovative Leaders

InnovationManagement

This is because rapidly changing technology is continually driving changes in markets and shifting trends in customer behavior and expectations. Strategies creative efficiency free time innovation intellectual growth leaders opportunities product development ripple effect risk self awareness shift thoughtfulnessThere is no arguing that in today’s marketplace companies must innovate to survive.

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3 Organizational Strategies for Constancy & Change

BrainZooming

Steve Lahey, the Number 1 Brainzooming Fan , posted an intriguing quote about developing organizational strategies from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos: “I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’ I almost never get the question: ‘What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?’ Here are three strategic paths to pursue to account for both more of the same and disruptive change. #1. Formalize a list of predictable things in your market.

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What Is Business Intelligence?

Collective Innovation

This can include information about the company internally, customer information, market information, sales velocity, competitive information and numerous other metrics. Business Intelligence turns your data into actionable information allowing you to make decisions that increase the likelihood of successful new products, sales programs and marketing efforts. This should include operational data, marketing information and sales revenue.

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“Business-ready” Big Data Insights: a new approach to data analytics

Innovation Excellence

Continue reading → Innovation Processes & Tools Research Science Technology Video Big Data Data Analytics managing change Market Analysis marketing new product development NPD TrendsThis presentation from the Chief Innovation Officer Summit in NYC is focused on a new approach to data analytics that takes it out of the proverbial lab and makes it actionable for the boardroom.

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Learn from the Best: Google’s Nine Principles of Innovation (Part 1 of 2)

Robert Brands

Exploring Google’s Successful New Product Development and Innovation Process. So how does Google promote a culture of innovation and ensure that innovative ideas are properly implemented, creating profitable new products that position the company for long-term success? For example, at Google it was their Google Health product manager who suggested that the company optimize information on suicide prevention hotlines whenever a related search was conducted.

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Innovation Management & Digitization

Huub Rutten

Dear Reader, I can see a change of trend when working with customers on their innovation management journey. At the start of this century Innovation Management was defined as an Idea to Market process, very much a process owned by R&D. Innovation Governance Product Development

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Innovation Management & Digitization

Huub Rutten

Dear Reader, I can see a change of trend when working with customers on their innovation management journey. At the start of this century Innovation Management was defined as an Idea to Market process, very much a process owned by R&D. Innovation Governance Product Development

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Innovation Management & Digitization

Huub Rutten

Dear Reader, I can see a change of trend when working with customers on their innovation management journey. At the start of this century Innovation Management was defined as an Idea to Market process, very much a process owned by R&D. Innovation Governance Product Development

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Decision Making Attitudes

Huub Rutten

Dear Reader, in this Blog I want to share a story with you that changed my view on the pure rationalized approach of decision making in the innovation process. They invent stuff and then they look if they can create a product or solution out of it.

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Decision Making Attitudes

Huub Rutten

Dear Reader, in this Blog I want to share a story with you that changed my view on the pure rationalized approach of decision making in the innovation process. They invent stuff and then they look if they can create a product or solution out of it.

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Decision Making Attitudes

Huub Rutten

Dear Reader, in this Blog I want to share a story with you that changed my view on the pure rationalized approach of decision making in the innovation process. They invent stuff and then they look if they can create a product or solution out of it.

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Digital Transformation - an interview

Huub Rutten

Huub, you are right we digitize our products and processes since we use chips and sensors. I don’t know really, perhaps because the connected part of the products and machines are more and more important. But it changes the business, the marketing and the support services.

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Digital Transformation - an interview

Huub Rutten

Huub, you are right we digitize our products and processes since we use chips and sensors. I don’t know really, perhaps because the connected part of the products and machines are more and more important. But it changes the business, the marketing and the support services.

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Digital Transformation - an interview

Huub Rutten

Huub, you are right we digitize our products and processes since we use chips and sensors. I don’t know really, perhaps because the connected part of the products and machines are more and more important. But it changes the business, the marketing and the support services.

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Key for Innovation Implementation and Business Success is Communication

Idea to Value

Sure, having a brilliant idea for a new product or service coupled with the top talent and resources may give you a rocket-propelled push at the starting line for the innovation process. When it comes to changing your corporate culture to make it more accommodating for innovation , you will want to plan a cohesive and consistent communication strategy. Ensure that your innovation efforts and initiatives are cross-referenced with your organization’s marketing efforts.

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System Engineering in an Agile environment

Huub Rutten

Andrew is a senior Director System Engineering in a big manufacturing company: “You should understand Huub, Agile gives a lot of freedom to the development teams. System Engineering has an important role in any company that creates physical products, with or without Digitization.

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System Engineering in an Agile environment

Huub Rutten

Andrew is a senior Director System Engineering in a big manufacturing company: “You should understand Huub, Agile gives a lot of freedom to the development teams. System Engineering has an important role in any company that creates physical products, with or without Digitization.

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System Engineering in an Agile environment

Huub Rutten

Andrew is a senior Director System Engineering in a big manufacturing company: “You should understand Huub, Agile gives a lot of freedom to the development teams. System Engineering has an important role in any company that creates physical products, with or without Digitization.

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Digitization Chief Engineer Michael

Huub Rutten

Dear reader, let me share with you a conversation I had with the Chief Engineer Digitization & Software Development of a large company that produces complex electronic devices with many software elements in and around them. Front end of Innovation Innovation Governance Product Developmen

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Digitization Chief Engineer Michael

Huub Rutten

Dear reader, let me share with you a conversation I had with the Chief Engineer Digitization & Software Development of a large company that produces complex electronic devices with many software elements in and around them. Front end of Innovation Innovation Governance Product Developmen

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Digitization Chief Engineer Michael

Huub Rutten

Dear reader, let me share with you a conversation I had with the Chief Engineer Digitization & Software Development of a large company that produces complex electronic devices with many software elements in and around them. Front end of Innovation Innovation Governance Product Developmen

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The Word EPIC

Huub Rutten

In my daily practices of developing innovation management methods and software I cannot avoid the term anymore: nearly every development methodology or project management methodology uses EPICS as a kind of starting point for a development project. Product Development

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The Word EPIC

Huub Rutten

In my daily practices of developing innovation management methods and software I cannot avoid the term anymore: nearly every development methodology or project management methodology uses EPICS as a kind of starting point for a development project. Product Development

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The Word EPIC

Huub Rutten

In my daily practices of developing innovation management methods and software I cannot avoid the term anymore: nearly every development methodology or project management methodology uses EPICS as a kind of starting point for a development project. Product Development

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A Product Line Director with hands in the air

Huub Rutten

Dear reader, Leon is the Product Line Director, a Category Leader of a 1 billion dollar global product line. His company has 7 product lines, smaller ones but also bigger ones from a turnover perspective. And that is the starting point of your product line roadmap?”

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A Product Line Director with hands in the air

Huub Rutten

Dear reader, Leon is the Product Line Director, a Category Leader of a 1 billion dollar global product line. His company has 7 product lines, smaller ones but also bigger ones from a turnover perspective. And that is the starting point of your product line roadmap?”

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A Product Line Director with hands in the air

Huub Rutten

Dear reader, Leon is the Product Line Director, a Category Leader of a 1 billion dollar global product line. His company has 7 product lines, smaller ones but also bigger ones from a turnover perspective. And that is the starting point of your product line roadmap?”

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Governance Charter for Managing New Product Investments

Huub Rutten

Dear Reader, Joe the CEO , Leon the Product Line Director and Emily the Product Manager are hard working people, very motivated to make their company successful. There are so many layers between the Board room and for example a software developer or an industrial designer.

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