Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Suggested reading: This article on Effective Brainstorming , and this book by Bryan Mattimore, which elaborates our interview from the Innovation and Creativity Summit on various brainstorming techniques (premium content): 7 – Lean Innovation Management. 5 – Design Thinking. Suggested reading: .

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Properly used, a business case embodies the essential learning and planning derived from Lean, Design Thinking, and similar approaches to product development. It is not a documentation exercise, but a tool for collaborative learning and communicating the justification for a product concept.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Doing so means a new kind innovation management because the management most of us learned in school won’t quite do the trick. His very lean progressive assembly process was the result. Today, the cost and time it takes to build, launch, and deliver new products at scale is lower than ever. For the consumer, this is awesome.

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

Paradigms of product development have shifted significantly in the last decade. We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

In that case, we shift to a focus on fostering a culture where the seeds of originality are sown in every department, ranging from product development to HR, finance, and sales. This ensures a steady stream of new products, services, and business models, which can be essential for sustaining growth and competitiveness.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

It was their job to ensure all aspects of the product development process were aligned and working together. Program management was steeped in technical processes, but also considered how product decisions would impact the product’s end users. Product Management reflected both of these facts.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 19, 2019

Learn more about what you can do right now to improve product portfolios and create a balance of near-term and long-term investment in new sources of growth. I enjoy the domain of innovation and product development and I think you can apply these practices across industries. Who are you? What do you do?

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Planview

MARCH 3, 2016

This was the mantra of Facebook in its early days, as is the case with most startups that subscribe to the iterative product development method popularized by the Lean Startup. Taking lots of small bets, as opposed to few large ones, supports: Learning through failure. Incremental learning. Methodologies.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Once upon a time, in the heyday of the Industrial Age, a young marketing, design, or engineering student would graduate from college and go to work for a large corporation, slowly melding into the steady, rhythmic din of bureaucratically-managed, organizationally-structured execution work in product development.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

Therefore startups trade off certainty for speed, adopting “ good enough decision making ” and iterating and pivoting as they fail, learn, and discover their business model. The corollary for a large company is: A company is a permanent organization designed to execute a repeatable and scalable business model. Lessons Learned.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Something that Bill Gates learned the hard way…. Rather than leaning on agencies for ideas and new ways of marketing devised through layered assumptions, clever theories and cliché discussions around “what millennials want”, lean on your customers instead. But campaigns can’t create impact on big ideas alone.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

An added upside — when sold internally as a pilot or experiment, you are setting up the possibility of failure/learning in advance, so there is no surprise when things don’t go to plan….because Support your innovators Provide training in iterative, experiment-rich approaches to innovation and new product development.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In contrast, Facebook’s acquisition of the virtual reality hardware company Oculus still requires significant product development, identification of a viable business model – and the target market and revenue may never materialize. The complete six-step decision process is shown in Figure 1.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In contrast, Facebook’s acquisition of the virtual reality hardware company Oculus still requires significant product development, identification of a viable business model – and the target market and revenue may never materialize. The complete six-step decision process is shown in Figure 1.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A system designed, over the long run, to produce more blockbusters than bombs. Most corporate business functions – new product development (NPD), quality, sales, R&D, marketing, etc. Persistent Innovation Requires Iterative Experimentation and Evolution.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In contrast, Facebook’s acquisition of the virtual reality hardware company Oculus still requires significant product development, identification of a viable business model – and the target market and revenue may never materialize. The complete six-step decision process is shown in Figure 1.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In contrast, Facebook’s acquisition of the virtual reality hardware company Oculus still requires significant product development, identification of a viable business model – and the target market and revenue may never materialize. 4. This process for establishing the Innovation Outpost will be the topic of the next post.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

The discipline's contributions are very well known⃜ human–centric design and design thinking, together with many powerful design methods like personas, empathy maps, customer experience journey maps, and probably a hundred or more creativity hacks, all used to study and better understand needs and solutions.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Nearly all that training is for dedicated innovation teams , or employees who are focused on new product development. And that’s a good thing. Who’s getting the training?

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