etventure

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Product development is confronted with the constant challenge of supplying the customer with a product that exactly meets his needs. In our new blog series, etventure’s product managers provide an insight into their work and approach. The focus is on hypothesis-driven product development.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

From its foundational beginnings in early brand management to high tech software program management, product management has emerged as its own collective of product-focused best practices. Product Management is a vital component of organizations undergoing digital transformation.

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Planview

MARCH 18, 2022

For this month’s blog spotlight , we are going to travel to Bangalore and follow Geetika to spend a day in the life of a Software Development Engineer Test manager. Here is what Geetika had to say: Explain your role as a Software Development Engineer Test Manager and a few of your responsibilities.

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Board of Innovation

APRIL 24, 2017

This post is written for innovation managers & corporate lean startup coaches. Here are the 9 biggest challenges for corporates to implement lean startup and 23 great best practices to tackle them: CHAPTER 1: Organizations designed to maximize efficiency Product development/Engineers have no direct contact with clients.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 5, 2016

Can you truly predict a customers’ reaction to a new innovative product and then scale the success of the product? Lean practitioners say you can, if you measure the right metrics, interpret them correctly, and focus on the problem and the uncertainties that arise. Continue reading →

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Cascade Strategy

JANUARY 15, 2020

In product management teams, much like in other teams in an organization, KPIs are used to create clear targets, guide decisions, celebrate success, and identify risks and issues. It is usually up to the product manager to define these KPIs, depending on what they determine to be the most important metrics to track and report on.

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Planview

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As technologies evolve and disruptions become an ever-growing presence of the business landscape, one of the best ways to improve the quick delivery of high-value innovations is by embracing digital transformation concepts in product development.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Good innovation, like good cooking or the development of a human being, takes time, and time is something that is so constrained that most innovation projects simply compress time into manageable blocks, and in doing so compress and constrain good ideas. Agile, lean and rapid methodologies meant to accelerate the innovation cycle?

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Doing so means a new kind innovation management because the management most of us learned in school won’t quite do the trick. His very lean progressive assembly process was the result. Today, the cost and time it takes to build, launch, and deliver new products at scale is lower than ever. The result is choice.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These words include adjectives such as "lean", "agile" and "rapid", to make the point that innovation should be stripped to its bare components, move as fast as possible and create minimum viable solutions. Risk avoidance and current revenue are often more important than potential profitable products and services.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 19, 2019

In this episode, we link up with Noel Sobelman, a corporate advisor, researcher, and writer on innovation effectiveness, to discuss portfolio management. Learn more about what you can do right now to improve product portfolios and create a balance of near-term and long-term investment in new sources of growth. Who are you?

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 29, 2023

However, the rise of Lean Startup methodologies, popularized by Eric Ries in his book “The Lean Startup,” brought rapid experimentation to the forefront. Ries’s emphasis on Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) sparked a paradigm shift. Ries’s emphasis on Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) sparked a paradigm shift.

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helloFUTURE

JULY 24, 2023

In the race to launch a product, many businesses fall into the trap of building the ‘perfect’ product before releasing it. Enter the concept of the Minimum Viable Product…

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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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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? How can design thinking help with product development? This can help teams to break down the problem into manageable parts and generate creative solutions. Innovation managers: Innovation managers use design thinking to drive innovation within the organization.

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Planview

MAY 5, 2023

Fresenius Medical Care: Streamlining Portfolio and Work Management Fresenius Medical Care provides products and services for individuals with renal diseases. Based in Germany, the company operates 42 production sites on all continents to manufacture products such as dialysis machines, dialyzers, and related disposables.

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ITONICS

AUGUST 15, 2017

We offer a training to become an Agile Innovation manager in cooperation with our partners from Innovation Alliance. This modular training program ensures that you benefit from the Innovation Alliance’s many different fields of expertise and leads to the title of Agile Innovation Manager. You will …. Training components. Target group.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They provide narratives on how rapid prototyping accelerates the innovation cycle, thereby reducing time and resources spent on product development. They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes.

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ITONICS

MARCH 14, 2017

We offer a training to become an Agile Innovation manager in cooperation with our partners from Innovation Alliance. This modular training program ensures that you benefit from the Innovation Alliance’s many different fields of expertise and leads to the title of Agile Innovation Manager. You will …. Training components. Target group.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards ( NCARB ), a national non-profit organization, develops standards for licensure and credentialing of architects.

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The BMI Lab Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Alongside the series of episodes with entrepreneurs and innovation leaders, we recommend the first-ever ETL Research bonus episode which looks at one of the first empirical studies about lean startup , an approach that BMI Lab follows since day 1. If you want to find out more about our lean startup approach, check out our Launchpad.

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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. They promote innovation leadership. Most often, leaders don’t need to be innovators. They are tech-savvy.

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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). PACE NPD Funnel. MIT CIPD Funnel.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

There are significant shifts underway towards digital innovation in R&D and new-product development. The design needs to be customer-centric, agile, experimental, lean, standard as much as it can be, with simplicity and adaptive as being central to this. To achieve this innovation has gone digital, pure and simple.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

The best of these will guide AT&T's development for years to come." - Robert Rubin, Product Development, AT&T. As a result of Idea Champions'efforts we have implemented more than 250 value-added Big Idea projects." - Joe Belinsky, Professional Development Manager, Goodyear. ZoomStorming. Idea Champions.

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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 360 Group

JUNE 1, 2018

His functional expertise includes operations excellence, supply chain, strategy development and execution as well as product development. As a highly skilled operations professional, Krishnan creates value for his clients by helping the senior management team improve performance of the organization through.

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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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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.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 24, 2018

Much of the last 30 years of management thought has been consumed with improving exploitation skill - Six Sigma, Lean, Outsourcing and right-sizing are all efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the exploiting portion of your business. Product development cycle times are now longer than shelf lives.

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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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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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Whether you’re creating a new product, service, process, or business model, innovation is about keeping an eye on costs while pushing forward to create novel new solutions. Work with other companies to lower the costs–and the risks–around new product development. Leverage external innovation. Rethink waste.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

for new product development that emphasize immediate returns. In the last five years, as the need for continuous innovation in companies has become critical, Lean innovation methodologies (Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps) have also emerged. There are proven Lean innovation methodologies that work in large existing companies.

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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.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 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.

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