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A Collaborative Product Development Stage Gate

IdeaScale

In order to manage a 500% increase in the volume of ideas, the Sustainable Development Business Innovation (SDBI) group instituted a unique workflow for each campaign (there are four major campaigns in the ideation community) and each workflow included several levels of review.

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What Did the Pandemic Teach Us About New Product Development?

Planview

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. In his paper on Accelerating innovation, Dr. Cooper makes the case that “firms can respond quickly and pivot with innovations.”

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Using Product Development Metrics That Motivate at the Team Level

Innovation Excellence

The two most common product development metrics are R&D spending as a percent of sales and revenues from new products over time. There’s no linear relationship between R&D spending and new product success. For example, a company might allocate ten percent of its R&D.

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Crowdsourcing vs. Focus Groups: A Comparative Review

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing is a favored method of gathering data for product innovation. Companies use crowdsourcing for product innovation and focus groups for market research to gather the most relevant and useful data. Both can be invaluable in various decision-making stages of product development. Both are valuable.

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12 Types of Innovation You Should Know in 2021

IdeaScale

Before being “open” as in open innovation, research is conducted internally within a company to privately create and manage inventions and new advancements before sharing them with the world. Social Innovation. Product Innovation. Technical Innovation. Corporate Innovation.

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Elevate Your Team: Keynote Speaker Secrets for Effective Team-Building

Leapfrogging

Product development, process improvement. For more on fostering a culture of innovation, delve into keynote speakers for inspiring team innovation. This could include integrating relevant examples, case studies, or anecdotes that resonate with attendees. Team disagreements, project challenges.

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Challenges when innovating smart, connected devices

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been struck by the importance of two rapidly converging forces - digital transformation and new product innovation. As we've discussed, here and elsewhere, ad nauseam, there is increasing demand for new products and services, making stretching the capacity of tenuous innovation processes and teams.

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