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3 Questions You Need to Ask Before Creating an Innovation Roadmap

Leapfrogging

In January 1996, two Stanford PhD students started working on a research project that would change the world. They nicknamed their project BackRub, because it checked backlinks of websites to determine their importance. Businesses that don’t innovate risk being disrupted by their competitors.

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Navigating the Shift from Project to Product: A Map for Success 

Planview

The secret lies in transitioning from a project-oriented management approach to a product-centric model. Despite beginning with unwavering enthusiasm, McKinsey reports that initiatives often lose approximately 42 percent of their projected value as they progress into later implementation stages and long-term sustainability.

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How Category Expertise can help to create breakthrough

Flying Fish Lab

It can even push the ideas from good to great and we had a lovely example with a project we did for a global leading paper company. The roadmap we developed with the team generated a raft of exciting ideas, most of which brought new functional benefits into the category.

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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. That shift creates constant momentum, making it easier to adjust perspectives and see with more clarity all the opportunities to turn the tables on disruption.

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Top Strategies to Prioritize Features for Innovation Teams

IdeaScale

And now they have to figure out which features should be prioritized for their innovation roadmap, too? In this blog, we will recommend strategies for choosing the best features for your innovation roadmap along with the do’s and don’ts of feature prioritization. . Prioritize based on your existing roadmap. Kano Model.

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Why innovation portfolios matter

Jeffrey Phillips

After a decade of reading about it, getting pounded over the head with the Jobs/Apple story and watching new innovations disrupt entire industries, businesses are starting to react. Product roadmaps help us think through how a product will morph and add value over time, to remain valuable for customers by adding new capabilities or features.

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Digital Transformation = Reimagining of the Business for the Digital Age

Rmukesh Gupta

The current pandemic has clearly shown that being digital is not just a nice to have side project for businesses but in many cases, has become the core of the business model. They are not examples of digital transformation but are examples of digital disruption. Too often, Digital transformation, feels like a buzzword.

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