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Iterate, Iterate, Iterate, Innovate

Destination Innovation

The spin-off products include books and a Sony film. The product is produced by the Rocket chemical company and is distributed in over 160 countries. Many great products were the result of a long series of iterations. Authors whose pet project is rejected have to rework and improve their pitch.

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Why Companies are Turning to Innovation Centres

Destination Innovation

Nine out of ten companies believe that they are too slow to market with new products. In the consumer goods category around 80% of new products fail. These are some of the reasons why senior corporate executives are increasingly turning to separate innovation labs to spearhead their new product development. Community Anchor.

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Shifting Radically the Innovation Business Model

Paul Hobcraft

I personally find this solution has not worked as well as intended, as they, the internal consulting team, over time, get sucked into issues detracting them from being the internal force of change, desperately trying to influence the leadership but eventually ending up as being allocated specific projects as project overseers or implementers.

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The Whole Foods Strategy…Isn’t (Whole)

Matthew May

Now if you’ve never shopped at either Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s, know this: Trader Joe’s is a loved brand by nearly every segment, not simply the Millennials, and not simply because of their low prices, but because of their unique product and shopping experience based on simply being human.

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2024’s Retail Odyssey: Going Small, Artificial, and Augmented!

Speaker: Kelly Goetsch - Chief Strategy Officer at Commercetools | Jason Cottrel - CEO & Founder at Orium | and guest speaker Brendan Witcher - VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester

To stay ahead of the curve, digital leaders are experimenting with less risky initiatives and scaling back on outdated projects that no longer yield impactful results. Join us for a deep dive into Forrester’s Predictions report to get more information on next year’s digital commerce landscape.

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Our inabilities to adapt needs changing.

Paul Hobcraft

Simply put companies ‘die’ due to their inability to adapt to change and transformation projects fail because the message somehow fails to register and never gets completed to the original objectives. Rational choice is the familiar one where we set ROI’s, KPI’s, establish clear milestones and expectations from new projects or innovation.

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Take Smarter Risks through Discovery Driven Planning

KindlingApp

Traditionally, many organizations have relied on the tried and true methods applied to project management, commonly referred to as stage-gate process: a process whereby each stage or phase of a project is managed independently, and the project only progresses to each successive stage after clearing the last.

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The Essential Guide to Building Analytic Applications

What should software teams know about implementing security that works with the rest of their products? What should product managers keep in mind when adding an analytics project to their roadmap?

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3 Challenges of Building Complex Dashboards with Open Source Components

Speaker: Ryan MacCarrigan, Founding Principal, LeanStudio

Many product teams use charting components and open source code libraries to get dashboards and reporting functionality quickly. Watch this webinar with Ryan MacCarrigan, Founding Principal of LeanStudio, to learn about key considerations for launching your next analytics project.

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The Definitive Guide to Dashboard Design

Dashboard design can mean the difference between users excitedly embracing your product or ignoring it altogether. Great dashboards lead to richer user experiences and significant return on investment (ROI), while poorly designed dashboards distract users, suppress adoption, and can even tarnish your project or brand.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

We hope this guide will transform how you build value for your products with embedded analytics.

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Living With Technical Debt: Balancing Quality and Perfection

Speaker: Cliff Gilley, The Clever PM

As a Product Manager, you probably have to deal with technical debt. Unexpected details pop up, as small as UX that needs clean-up, and as big as a previously unforeseen flaw in the infrastructure of a project. Are we willing to live with some level of technical debt in order to ship product and meet deadlines?

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.". Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late.

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How Agile Approaches Change Project, Program, and Product Measures

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Before agile approaches took the world by storm, we used Gantt charts and defects to measure project and program progress. We had trouble measuring product progress until just before release—often too late to change anything. We can measure the project’s and program’s progress with a variety of product burnup charts.

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How to Find and Test Assumptions in Product Development

Watch this webinar with Laura Klein, product manager and author of Build Better Products, to learn how to spot the unconscious assumptions which you’re basing decisions on and guidelines for validating (or invalidating) your ideas. You'll learn: Why every product leader goes into a new project with untested, hidden assumptions.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way.

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Process, Product, and Profitability: Everything You Need to Know

Speaker: Michael Cardy - Red Hat Chief Strategist, Jason Tanner - CEO of Applied Frameworks, and Mike Mace - VP of Market Strategy at UserTesting

In this webinar, leaders in digital transformation and project management will explain their tactics for usage testing and turning customer feedback into actionable insights. Empowering product managers to drive decisions. Multi-channel experiences and product growth. Increasing profitability.

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Best Practices for Creating Long-Lasting and Continuous Discovery Habits

Speaker: Teresa Torres, Internationally Acclaimed Author, Speaker, and Coach at ProductTalk.org

Industry-wide, product teams have adopted discovery practices like customer interviews and experimentation merely for end-user satisfaction. As a result, many of us are still stuck in a project-world rut: research, usability testing, engineering, and a/b testing, ad nauseam. June 24, 2021 at 12:30 pm PDT, 3:30 pm EDT, 8:30 pm BST.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.