Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

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. These metrics, although necessary to track, do not predict a result.

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Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

As we welcome the new year, we asked our team of product innovation experts and thought leaders to identify trends they’re seeing across the industry and within our customer implementations. Trend #1: Greater Financial Scrutiny on New Product Development Balanced Against Innovation Opportunity While the U.S.

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InnovationManagement

JANUARY 5, 2017

In this article, Product Innovation Manager Alex Igor Sanghikian discusses the Adjacent Possibilities framework for product management. By exclusively focusing on your persona’s one main need and trying hard to fulfill that need with your product, you can build the next feature with a more focused vision.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Understanding Innovation Management. Is it a lack of innovation or an inability to cope with change? Either way, businesses need to identify where they are going wrong because innovation as a business strategy is here to stay. For survival, innovation is almost obligatory (Drucker, 1999).

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Understanding Innovation Management. Is it a lack of innovation or an inability to cope with change? Either way, businesses need to identify where they are going wrong because innovation as a business strategy is here to stay. For survival, innovation is almost obligatory (Drucker, 1999).

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Each platform has its own development team, its own Program Manager and its own Project Manager. Scenario: A technology company is creating a consumer electronics solution that involves hardware, software and web components. Three separate teams, located in different parts of the company’s facility, create three platforms.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 7, 2016

The TRIZ approach and best practices such as the Stage-Gate Process can greatly benefit each other. These approaches are not rivals, but rather can be used to amplify each other’s successes. Continue reading →

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

GUEST POST from Dainora Jocuite While improvisation might bring the zest to a comedy performance or to your Saturday night’s Bolognese sauce, in the world of innovation a systematic approach is the way to go. And the zest here is a fitting and well-thought-through innovation management process.

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Yet2

MAY 28, 2019

In mid-May, yet2 sponsored the NPD and Innovation in the Chemical Industry conference , organized by the European Networking Group. de Chabot-Tramecourt explained to the audience how innovation has changed at Janssen over the years and how they handle the specific challenges of: Higher regulatory requirements. A complex environment.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 2, 2016

What I didn’t expect was the reflective advice it would provide on leadership and management, I enjoyed watching Pixar’s “A Bug’s Life” when it was released in 1998 and have more recently re-watched it with my kids.

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InnovationManagement

MAY 14, 2019

Most marketing professionals understand that insight into the hearts and minds of your customers is central to successful product innovation. Who is going to buy my product first? The post Taking an Audience-Centric Approach During the Tech Adoption Lifecycle appeared first on Innovation Management.

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helloFUTURE

OCTOBER 16, 2022

If you want to be innovative, you have to learn to overcome your fears. Some businesses are… The post To Innovate, You Must Be Fearless appeared first on IDEATE AND EXECUTE. Did you know that most people consider the fear of public speaking even more severe than the fear of death?

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 26, 2016

This article is the third and final in a series of 3 articles discussing measuring product innovation. Continue reading →

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Apple is an iconic brand noted for disruptive innovation. In the heat of the digital revolution that it helped spark, Apple’s products became a portfolio of increasingly complex and diverse offerings.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 10, 2016

This article is the second in a series of three articles discussing measuring product innovation. Continue reading →

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

The Innovation Mosaic: Building Bridges Between the Many Perspectives on Innovation. I have been a student of innovation for more years now than I care to count. It has also given birth to outstanding innovation methods such as outcome–driven innovation (jobs–to–be–done theory) and discovery–driven innovation.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 21, 2016

To explore the topic and walk through an example of using Conjoint Analysis, I tracked down the market research tool master Brian Ottum, who has 30 years experience in new product development.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 1, 2019

Scenario: a product development team at a medical device company had a testing phase that ran far longer than expected. This delay rippled throughout the project and had serious implications downstream. After the project was complete, the team leader wanted to go back and figure out why the test phase had not gone as planned.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Cross-functional transparency is necessary for three reasons: Helping guide product investment Efficient resource allocation Speeding products to market For example, IoT disruptions and the demand for connected-smart innovations have added a whole new layer of complexity to successfully bring most physical products to market.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The core product line was 15 years old and in need of innovation. Chad McAllister interviews Bill Ott, Executive Vice President of the product development organization at Kärcher. It begins with Kärcher North America, the market leader in carpet extraction cleaning.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 29, 2019

At the heart, product roadmaps show the major milestones of a project’s lifecycle. Maintaining Product Roadmaps is a useful discipline in just about any organization that has more than one product. But aside from capturing product timelines, what good are they?

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IdeaScale

JULY 21, 2021

Grant Thornton International, a Fortune 500 company, is a winner of the IdeaScale 2021 Innovation Management Award for Best Innovation. This year, one of our winners was Grant Thornton International in the category of Best Innovation for their ability to deliver the IASC – a process and product innovation with global appeal.

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Collective Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2017

When used correctly this data can allow companies to reasonably predict the outcome and validate their decisions while still moving quickly and innovating. Product Innovation : Creates a difference with an existing product line and existing market, usually through features. The post What Is Business Intelligence?

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Many of our clients ask if they need to specifically define what projects, products or offerings should be included in their product portfolios and what should be left out. Leading portfolio management practices advocate the need for defining portfolio inclusion criteria. Why is it necessary to define your portfolio’s scope?

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