Adam Hartung

DECEMBER 13, 2015

From humble beginnings, DuPont became well known as a leader in Research & Development, a consistent leader in patent applications, and the inventor of products that proliferate in our lives from nylon to Teflon pans plastic bottles to Kevlar vests. And it is too bad the leadership wasn’t in place to save it.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 23, 2015

These are some of the reasons why senior corporate executives are increasingly turning to separate innovation labs to spearhead their new product development. An innovation centre is a team of people and a physical location. The company provides mentors and support for startups to develop and test new products.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

So if you know that the CEO’s greatest pain is the fact that the sales team isn’t communicating with marketing or manufacturing, resulting in lower sales and poor customer experiences, then you have to look at what you’re proposing and figure out how it can ease that pain or even solve that problem. As you do this, state it clearly.

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Adam Hartung

MARCH 30, 2016

He pushed the board to shut down expensive R&D and product development to improve short-term earnings. Many big investors say that activists are the only way shareholders can do anything about lousy management teams that fail to deliver, and Boards of Directors that let management be lazy and ineffective.

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Innovation in Practice

MAY 23, 2016

For most companies, the top marketer, usually called the chief marketing officer, is part of the senior leadership team and sits on the executive committee or management board. If you let things slip in terms of your team’s skills and effectiveness, you’re going to lose that seat. Product development goes to R&D.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

We’re losing sight of the importance of soft skills–like communication, empathy, mindfulness, creativity, collaboration, and leadership. Similar problems apply at the leadership level, too, where often everyone from the manager to the senior level fails to understand the impact of these fundamental human skills. “As

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

We’re losing sight of the importance of soft skills–like communication, empathy, mindfulness, creativity, collaboration, and leadership. Similar problems apply at the leadership level, too, where often everyone from the manager to the senior level fails to understand the impact of these fundamental human skills. “As

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

This impact is evident across various facets of business, from operational efficiency and customer experience to product development and market analysis. A SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis can provide an initial framework for this evaluation.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Today I am leading a panel at the Sports and Fitness Industry Association leadership meeting in New Orleans. I had the chance to sit in and listen as Jim Carroll , the futurist, talked about a number of trends that will force changes in the way we make and sell products. There's a sports analogy that's applicable here.

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Be-novative

MAY 13, 2021

In our experience, there is no magic bullet to leadership that drives diversity, equality and inclusion but addressing the topic is a must for every conscious leader and it is a prerequisite of creativity and a culture of collaboration. Besides the known: we need to accommodate diverse points of view as part of leadership criteria?—?how

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

For guidance on developing strategic thinking within your leadership team, you may find value in 10 ways to get your leadership team thinking strategically and building the best business strategies. To foster innovation: Implement systems for employees to submit and develop new ideas.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

They link innovation to their well-defined business objectives by establishing and maintaining dedicated innovation teams. Innovative companies provide the right platform for their employees to share and discuss ideas and have dedicated teams to turn them into prototypes and test the prototypes resulting from those ideas.

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company). Leadership Insights 1. Then, put on your leadership hat. The question is “Why?”

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company). Leadership Insights. Then, put on your leadership hat. The question is “Why?”.

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IdeaSpies

AUGUST 31, 2018

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company). Leadership Insights 1. Then, put on your leadership hat. The question is “Why?”

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 22, 2022

I think we can all agree that user adoption is the primary objective for all products. User adoption is not something that evolves at a particular point of a product development life cycle. Instead, user adoption requires proper planning and implementation strategy when the product is just an idea. Conclusion.

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InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Here are 10 essential questions to discuss with your team when pricing your latest innovation. 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. This will also inform your decisions on what features and functionality the new product should deliver.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 9, 2020

It drives innovation to a transactional level and leads organizations to seek the perceived lower risk of acquiring new ideas vs developing them in house. Often agile development initiatives are not ‘agile’ at all. In addition, our research shows culture, leadership, and capability of handling uncertainty as top drivers of resistance.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit. With this in mind, if you’re a corporate executive or part of a product or innovation team, here are some key habits that you should stop doing if you want to innovate in the enterprise.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

Would that be so bad? Do you even need formal titles and classes of employees, which divide more than unite teams? Create cross functional, autonomous teams, with end to end responsibility. Yes, resist the temptation to involve the C room for all development gates. These lines will be obsolete soon. Dream or nightmare?

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit. With this in mind, if you’re a corporate executive or part of a product or innovation team, here are some key habits that you should stop doing if you want to innovate in the enterprise.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Let our team of non-conformists help you build your innovative company culture. A conformist company culture stifles innovation and breeds weakness. While middle management can keep the company strong in the near-term, the stifling of innovation makes the organization weak in the long-run. Contact Us. Let's talk.

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Peer Insight

JANUARY 2, 2019

Corporate Innovation Groups (CIGs) are often on “offense” when it comes to new product development and technological innovation, particularly when it comes to engaging the market and mitigating market-facing risks. The team didn’t bring the SVP along with them… They could have found out ‘No.’ ’ with new leadership.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

Our collective failure of imagination is caused by five related factors: Momentum of legacy – A company’s past and present are a powerful anchor that can blind a company’s leadership to alternative futures, especially when these futures challenge conventional wisdom or threaten knowledge authorities. Would that company invest in R&D?

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

This new–school view accepts the idea that we can be a part of creating the future, and so endeavors to do so through various forms of market leadership. This view is often focused on achieving excellence in operational execution – finding a particular business model that works and milking for it for everything its worth.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

However, in every case, it is beneficial for a company to look inwards and see whether their people, processes and leadership are acting more as innovation enablers, or bottlenecks. What it is: One of the most challenging aspects of innovation for most companies is not the generating of ideas, or the development of new innovations.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When it comes to the development and commercialization of new products , no one holds more accountability for the product’s ultimate success than the Product Manager. Product Manager” isn’t exactly a title that fits neatly into a box.

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Innovation 360 Group

AUGUST 25, 2019

Acknowledging the need for pursuing deeper impact over a wider area, the Growkomp Regional Development Project was designed to develop the innovation capacities of 22 manufacturing companies in the Småland regionof Sweden over a two-year period. The EU funded-development project was launched in 2016 with 8.2 The Solution.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Design thinking is a step above “customer development” because it takes a real human approach to getting to the root of an intrinsic problem. Many large organizations tend to stop after prototyping solutions that indicate desirability, and subsequently revert to traditional development methodologies.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

She naturally joined Louis Zero’s team as Shake my Firm project manager and then took on the development of Louis Zero workshop as a whole. 2) You have developed a bespoke innovation approach: Spot, Play, Go. We run an identification workshop with the project team, to assess the objectives, constraints and KPI?s

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The first article discussed the pros and cons of different UX team structures. For companies that depend on user experience for business success, a strong internal team is essential. They can be fantastic partners who drive real change, but their needs are very different from a product team.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

What should the team in the Outpost be doing day-to-day? Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. In the second stage, it moves into Investing, Inventing, Incubating and Acquiring technologies and companies, and in the third stage building product(s). How do you staff it?

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

What should the team in the Outpost be doing day-to-day? Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. In the second stage, it moves into Investing, Inventing, Incubating and Acquiring technologies and companies, and in the third stage building product(s). How do you staff it?

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

She naturally joined Louis Zero’s team as Shake my Firm project manager and then took on the development of Louis Zero workshop as a whole. 2) You have developed a bespoke innovation approach: Spot, Play, Go. We run an identification workshop with the project team, to assess the objectives, constraints and KPI?s

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

What should the team in the Outpost be doing day-to-day? Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. In the second stage, it moves into Investing, Inventing, Incubating and Acquiring technologies and companies, and in the third stage building product(s). How do you staff it?

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

In a more up-to-date sense, this balance also comprises collaborating with external partners, e.g. teaming up between multinational corporations and startups or small companies. Open doors and listen vs. Be loyal to your team. As executing and developing a business requires increasing specialization (e.g.

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