Moves the Needle

JANUARY 22, 2016

Here’s why: Modern market research methods, like Lean Startup, do a great job of focusing on customer-centric discovery. It generates insights through empathy (one of the 3 E’s of Lean Innovation, see 5 Ways to Spark Innovation at Your Organization ). Conclusion Market research has an important role to play in product development.

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Marketing Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Report 58

Open Innovation EU

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The Lean Startup (Ries). The Lean Enterprise. New Product and Development Service Process (Hauser). New Product Development Front End (Khurana). Revolutionizing Product Development (Wheelwright & Clark). New Product Development Funnel (Katz). Value Engineering (Miles).

Crowdsourcing 81

Crowdsourcing Innovation Open Innovation LEAN 81

Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Definitely solid ROI!" - Mary Ann Heenehan, Corporate Groups Development Manager, Chubb Insurance "Idea Champions helped us generate powerful new ideas and engage with such energy that six months later their impact still hasn't worn off." - Candida G.

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Brainstorming Training Ideation Idea Generation 26

hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

Top-tier managers handling innovation roles in successful companies set an example for the company’s employees to contribute to the innovation process. They adhere to lean principles of product development. The most common aspect of some of the innovative companies is that they are also high-performing organizations.

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Company LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 77

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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Product Development Innovation Engagement LEAN 40

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Their executives and management teams recognize the importance of innovation, and even include innovation as top three priorities or as a component of the annual strategy. They want to learn new innovation tools but want to manage innovation within the comfortable confines and predictable outcomes of existing business as usual processes.

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Innovation Agile Disruption Product Development 100

Planview

AUGUST 12, 2022

Instead of splitting product knowledge across numerous teams and piecemealing tasks together, a product-based team is responsible for every aspect of the product, from its overall design to the budget, market research, and product development. How are backlogs managed and prioritized? You’ve done it!

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Project Agile Groups Company 59

Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

Although I was attending as a sponsor/exhibitor for Indigo Studio, I did manage to break away to go to the “There’s more than one way to skin a cat: Integrating UX into an Agile environment” session. It turns out that Jeff Gothelf, author of Lean UX (the book I’m reviewing here) has also faced the same challenges. Enter the book.

Agile 80

Agile LEAN Development Team Review Software Review 80

The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Yuan was Cisco’s vice president of engineering and in 2011 he pitched a new smartphone-friendly video conferencing system to Cisco management. There is a stark difference between the decision the executive leadership is leaning towards and how the rest of the company sees things. The idea was rejected.

Leadership 52

Leadership Groups Product Development System 52

Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

And the fact is, the company is not that good at launching products that we agreed to launch in time, we are too often too late, and we have many recalls, because we have to cut corners. I was a mechanical engineer myself, so I know what it means to deal with the pressure on the shop floor in R&D and in the plants.

Course 52

Course Innovation Marketing Trends 52

Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

And the fact is, the company is not that good at launching products that we agreed to launch in time, we are too often too late, and we have many recalls, because we have to cut corners. I was a mechanical engineer myself, so I know what it means to deal with the pressure on the shop floor in R&D and in the plants.

Course 52

Course Innovation Marketing Trends 52

Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

And the fact is, the company is not that good at launching products that we agreed to launch in time, we are too often too late, and we have many recalls, because we have to cut corners. I was a mechanical engineer myself, so I know what it means to deal with the pressure on the shop floor in R&D and in the plants.

Course 52

Course Innovation Marketing Trends 52

CorporateIntel

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

If you’ve spent any time with me in product development, you know I like to quote the sometimes overused phrase, “People in companies get stuff done in spite of org charts, not because of them.” I’ll confess to that in a moment, but the title of this article has likely already given away my leaning.

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Report CTO Product Development Management 43

Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Have you noticed that the Lean Startup concept has been getting more and more attention lately? Which is all a good thing really, as it creates the occasion for us to examine what is the "best" way to launch new brands, products, and companies. What's In Your Sandbox? Sep 04, 2014 | Anthony Mills.

LEAN 40

LEAN Technical Review Marketing Software Review 40

The Inovo Group

AUGUST 5, 2019

The processes, methods and tools used for New Product Development (NPD) are insufficient for strategic innovation [1] and strategic innovation is necessary for the accelerated growth that companies demand. Sometimes new product development (NPD) is relatively straightforward, although it may be extremely costly and difficult.

LEAN 40

LEAN System Company Tools 40

Integrative Innovation

APRIL 7, 2016

Let’s sum up some relevant findings of these studies, making the case for dual innovation management: BCG: Most Innovative Companies 2014 . Breakthrough innovators are willing to make decisions and choices as much on the basis of intuition and insight as on data and forecasts – they bet on people rather than manage a process.

Disruption 40

Disruption Innovation Survey Study 40

ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

They’ll talk about how the Growth Team needs to consist of creative people chosen for their ability to think broadly and seek out new things, while the Current Business team is expected to just keep turning the engine that generates profits through servicing existing customers and markets. Innovation is a Company-Wide Responsibility.

Company 52

Company Innovation Programs Innovation Product Development 52

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 management of operations is all about control. And that’s a good thing.

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Training Innovation Technical Review Culture 45

ITONICS

APRIL 4, 2018

Accepting that every factor of a company (customer, employees, products, etc.) Your task, starting with the management levels, will be to ensure a common understanding about the need for digital transformation as well as the right mindset. Here, a good change management and adequate leadership are essential.

Technical Review 47

Technical Review Agile Roadmap Competition 47

Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Business Management. We begin with Business Management. The new–school world of Business Management has made great contributions to the innovation thought pool, including such powerful frameworks as innovation–driven growth strategies, business model innovation, the business model canvas, creative go–to–market strategies, and more.

Innovation 40

Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Technology 40

ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

They’ll talk about how the Growth Team needs to consist of creative people chosen for their ability to think broadly and seek out new things, while the Current Business team is expected to just keep turning the engine that generates profits through servicing existing customers and markets. Innovation is a Company-Wide Responsibility.

Company 40

Company Innovation Programs Innovation Product Development 40

Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization. Here’s a summary of what what worked well for UX professionals supporting Agile development teams, as well as some of their common pain points. Opinions on what’s working.

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Agile Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review 111

Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

Underperforming Technical Team 83

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Disruption Marketing 83

Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 12, 2015

One of the riskiest assumptions for any new product or feature is that customers actually want it. Having frequently witnessed the back-and-forth between product teams and research groups, it is clear that there is no shortage of misconceptions and miscommunication between the two. Quantify risk tolerance.

How To 105

How To Data Survey Analysis 105

Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In our last post, we addressed the six key questions that senior management should address to determine if an Innovation Outpost makes sense for a company. These priorities have been identified by earlier planning work at the senior management level. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams. see the previous post.).

Underperforming Technical Team 56

Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 56

Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In our last post, we addressed the six key questions that senior management should address to determine if an Innovation Outpost makes sense for a company. These priorities have been identified by earlier planning work at the senior management level. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams. see the previous post.).

Underperforming Technical Team 56

Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 56

Corporate Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

His insights about how corporations are adopting Lean Startup will be at the core of this series of four co-authored blog posts. Ownership and management were one and the same – the owners managed, and there were no salaried middle managers or administrators. and the emergence of new industries, markets and customers.

Technical Review 49

Technical Review Disruption Innovation Technology 49

Corporate Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

His insights about how corporations are adopting Lean Startup will be at the core of this series of four co-authored blog posts. Ownership and management were one and the same – the owners managed, and there were no salaried middle managers or administrators. and the emergence of new industries, markets and customers.

Technical Review 49

Technical Review Disruption Innovation Technology 49

Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

Underperforming Technical Team 72

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture Disruption 72

Corporate Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

His insights about how corporations are adopting Lean Startup will be at the core of this series of four co-authored blog posts. Ownership and management were one and the same – the owners managed, and there were no salaried middle managers or administrators. and the emergence of new industries, markets and customers.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Disruption Innovation Technology 40

Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In our last post, we addressed the six key questions that senior management should address to determine if an Innovation Outpost makes sense for a company. These priorities have been identified by earlier planning work at the senior management level. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams. see the previous post.).

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 40

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In our last post, we addressed the six key questions that senior management should address to determine if an Innovation Outpost makes sense for a company. These priorities have been identified by earlier planning work at the senior management level. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams. see the previous post.).

Underperforming Technical Team 35

Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 35