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Elevate Your Strategy: Leading Executive Team Offsites for Business Success

Leapfrogging

Setting the Stage for Success In the ever-evolving business landscape, executive team offsites have become a cornerstone for strategic planning and decision-making. By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking.

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What innovation leaders share with military leaders

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm a fan of military history, and it is always striking to me to see how much new product development and innovation can learn from the military and vice versa. Fourth, technologies, skills and knowledge are moving faster and the world is a very different place than it was when these leaders (military or corporate) were coming up.

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Six factors that lead to greater innovation success

Jeffrey Phillips

A new product may lack key features or components, or like some successful products take years to build an audience. I'm actually more interested in the 90+% of ideas that never make it to product development. Failure - the good, the bad and the ugly Let's first admit that some failure is necessary.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

How can design thinking help with product development? This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. Prototype: In this step, the team creates a rough model of the solution to test and evaluate. What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies?

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Innovating from the outside in

Jeffrey Phillips

What I mean by that is to start taking your cues from your customers, the environment and future realities, and shape your capabilities and products to meet those emerging wants and needs. This is, of course, exactly opposite from what we've been told to do over our careers. Incomplete products are simply not going to be successful.

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Can We Have One of These? A Product Innovation Platform

Paul Hobcraft

Recently I was exploring the world of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and read an excellent Whitepaper from Aras Corp , one of the leading PLM solution providers. I have argued we do need to change the way we undertake innovation and its development. Some claim that they do this already but seriously they do not.

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Where Features-and-Benefits Selling Gets It All Wrong (and How to Get It Right)

Daniel Burrus

So if you know that the CEO’s greatest pain is the fact that the sales team isn’t communicating with marketing or manufacturing, resulting in lower sales and poor customer experiences, then you have to look at what you’re proposing and figure out how it can ease that pain or even solve that problem. As you do this, state it clearly.