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. Continue reading →

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

With careful patience they will tell me that while other firms may take months or years to move from the recognition of an opportunity to a good idea, and then from a good idea to a finished product, and then from a finished product to a successful market launch, their firm is different. Usually, blank stares result, for good reason.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking has become a cornerstone methodology in the worlds of innovation, business strategy, and product development. This shift can dramatically accelerate product development cycles and lead to more refined and user-centric products.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

A new product may lack key features or components, or like some successful products take years to build an audience. I'm actually more interested in the 90+% of ideas that never make it to product development. Why is there so much failure in the front end of innovation? Prototype, prototype, prototype.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Following an online input survey with both internal team members and external partners, three of us are onsite TODAY for a full-day innovation strategy and new product development workshop. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation. Right after 2018 started, they signed the scope of work to begin.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 23, 2016

If you invest the time to collect and use the ones that work for you, you can bring your innovation strategy superpower to life via all the creativity questions and strategic thinking exercises on the Brainzooming blog! See that superpower DOESN’T have to be fictional at all! – Mike Brown. Find New Resources to Innovate !

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 19, 2021

Over the next few weeks I'll work up a couple of blog posts about what I think the outbreak, our reaction and the aftermath of COVID can tell us about innovation, creativity, new product development and more. This is what the US healthcare system looked like when we headed into the pandemic.

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BrainZooming

MAY 27, 2016

The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation. Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 19, 2020

You are undertaking an exercise into the corporate unknown, where decision making, policies, corporate culture and investments are scarce. Even really good new ideas must run a gauntlet of timing, project priorities, favorite products, successful existing products and other issues simply to get accepted, much less implemented.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 24, 2018

Product development cycle times are now longer than shelf lives. You simply cannot crank enough efficiency in the development, launch and marketing phases to win back enough revenue to account for a poorly constructed exploration phase. While this series of blog posts may seem like a thought exercise, this shift is happening.

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etventure

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

During the last couple of years the MVP has become the holy grail of agile product development – but there are still a variety of different interpretations about what “MVP” really means. So, what is a minimum viable product, and how do you go about creating one? Understanding MVP Development . So, why do this?

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 1, 2020

I'm making the argument that your traditional new product development and innovation approaches may be too limited, and that you'll need to find new people to participate who have skills that are critical to innovating in new settings.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How can design thinking help with product development? These courses typically cover the key concepts and steps of the design thinking process, and may include hands-on exercises and projects to apply what you have learned. How can design thinking help with product development?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Regular Team-Building Exercises : Engagements outside the formal work setting to build rapport and improve interpersonal relationships among team members. These metrics may include quantitative data such as revenue growth, product development timelines, and market share expansion.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Ideas are simply a waypoint in an innovation process or exercise. In many cases if the ideas are very new or different, you may need to create new product or service development capabilities or develop new business models or channels. You may simply need new context for new ideas to be realized as new products.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

A third initiative tied to new product development depended initially on establishing a more robust understanding of customer needs. And while new products could be one innovation, there are opportunities for important innovation strategy advances in value propositions, support services, and new technology.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Price is such an integral part of product design yet is often overlooked until an MVP has been fully formed and perhaps even road-tested. Organisations posing the ‘How much will customers be willing to pay’ question too late in the product development journey have come to accept the resulting failure rate as the cost of doing business.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 14, 2016

Bringing a new product to market exercises the entire business process, and isn't something that's done all that often in many companies. It requires different skills than sustaining and extending an existing product. New products require: New engineering and design. None of these are easy to do. Different skills.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2015

And of course time for the product development process. Talent Talent in this context is composed of two factors: attracting the people who want to be a part of an innovation exercise, who have passion for creating new things, and giving them the tools or methods that they need in order to do their work well.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We, for instance, know certain activities are good for us like eating healthy, exercising regularly, and saving money. Adopting a fundamentally new product development process is no different. We encounter behavior change challenges all the time. Yet, we struggle to implement them into our regular routines. Less is more.

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 15, 2014

My point here is that we can still practice these observational research techniques even if we don’t always get the chance to do so on the products we get paid to design. And we can document these moments to make a case at our companies for why this kind of research needs to be part of our product development cycles.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We, for instance, know certain activities are good for us like eating healthy, exercising regularly, and saving money. Adopting a fundamentally new product development process is no different. We encounter behavior change challenges all the time. Yet, we struggle to implement them into our regular routines. Less is more.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

These trends, as one industry insider put it, “burn really bright and really short,” necessitating abbreviating product development cycles from several years to months, or even weeks. You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

It’s viewed purely as an execution exercise, all about operational efficiency. Put another way, it’s arbitrary to declare a feature that takes 1 year to develop and release “an incremental improvement”, or declare engineering work that takes 5 years to achieve ROI “incremental innovation.” It’s simply about “ incremental improvement ”.

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Innovation Architecture

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

How many people in the organization, for example, are skilled in facilitating customer journey mapping exercises for stakeholders such as the call center managers or the retail managers? Is the view all-encompassing or is the view somehow narrower in scope, relative to all the ways in which the organization touches the customer?

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The Second City in Chicago, for example–where SNL alumni like John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, and Tina Fey got their start–has an entire division devoted to helping professionals coax out their inner comics through improv, an exercise that allows them to fall on their faces and get up and try again in a nonjudgmental environment.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The Second City in Chicago, for example–where SNL alumni like John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, and Tina Fey got their start–has an entire division devoted to helping professionals coax out their inner comics through improv, an exercise that allows them to fall on their faces and get up and try again in a nonjudgmental environment.

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Underperforming Technical Team Study Leadership Policies 52

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

.) – and the costs to deliver the product/service and have well defined product development and product management tools that emphasize the linear nature of shipping products to existing customers. for new product development that emphasize immediate returns.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 26, 2020

To be sure, these combined forces of change will make the process of product development increasingly challenging. Product lifecycles are now measured in dog years as copycat manufacturers neutralize new features almost as fast as they appear. At the same time, however, they create the conditions for growth and opportunity.

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Be-novative

MAY 27, 2021

With this, you teach them to fish, learn from an inverse exercise?—?and They may have fun and also make wonderful discoveries about the mis-facilitation moments they might have experienced at any time in the past. and then based on these learnings, they can improve and design their best possible workshops. LET THEM LEARN FROM EACH OTHER.

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hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

That is the lesson learned at Lego — just in time,” says David Robertson, Professor of Practice teaching Innovation and Product Development at Wharton. In place of the static gaming experiences XBOX and PS offered, the joystick feature of Wii ensured that the players would get some exercise too! Then 3DS was released in 2011.

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Planview

JUNE 6, 2023

Simply put, a toolchain is a set of digital tools that enable product development by making complex tasks simpler and less error-prone and time-consuming. It should enhance communication and feedback between teams, offer simple visibility to ongoing processes and tracking, and support continuous delivery of products.

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Idea to Value

MAY 4, 2017

A successful brand innovator, David has worked in product development with the world’s largest drinks manufacturers for several decades, also helping to bring out other successful brands like Smirnoff Black, Le Piat d’Or, Purdey’s, Aqua Libra, Tanqueray Ten, Cîroc, Coole Swan and many others. Find out more at [link].

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the Creative Economy, inspiring a sense of play in culture, marketing, and innovation is critical to success. You have to engage your people so that they can engage prospects and customers with a lively sense of mission and purpose.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

Would it have a new product development or innovation process? This may sound crazy or impossible to do but the point of the exercise is not to detail an exact offering the company should start developing now but instead to envision a realm of possibility for which the company can start getting prepared.

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Michael Roberto

JUNE 13, 2016

I am very excited to announce the launch of a new online experiential exercise that I have developed in collaboration with Harvard Business Publishing and Forio (the same partners with whom I collaborated on two prior simulations including the Everest Leadership and Team Simulation). I hope that many professors will take a look!

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

These tools not only provide product teams with an immersive experience, they also help to uncover the key assumptions around customer behavior that can then be validated or invalidated by using experimentation. Sitting down and going through a five whys exercise regarding your experiment should reveal what went wrong.

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