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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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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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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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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Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

." - Robert Rubin, Product Development, AT&T. Several of the ideas we came up with in the Idea Champions session are being developed into concrete projects that are looking like very profitable opportunities." - Rudy Villa, VP, GE/RCA Licensing. "As Your High Velocity Brainstorming sessions were wonderful.

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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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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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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

In 1991, Don Reinertsen and Preston Smith introduced the world to the "Fuzzy Front End" of product development. In both cases, the work being described was work that preceded the formal product development process. Welcome to the Mid Zone of Innovation. Sept 27, 2015 | Anthony Mills. milestones).

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2015

The idea I'd like you to contemplate until my return is that we are all making innovation far too complicated, and we need to stop dressing up the activity with lots of talking points and stop working ourselves and our management into a tizzy about commitments and investments. This is simply a management decision.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

A failed project is considered a negative to a corporate career. As a result, few people want to start a project that might not succeed. for new product development that emphasize immediate returns. But running a Lean Startup inside an organization designed for execution is an exercise in futility. Lessons Learned.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

Developing the capability to Lead FOR Innovation should thus be a priority for all executives. Still, it requires a distinct set of principles, mindsets, best practices and a specific divergence from traditional 20th-century management approaches. Risk management: Each horizon represents a different level of risk and uncertainty.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

." - Robert Rubin, CCS Product Development, AT&T. "As As a result of Idea Champions' efforts we have implemented more than 250 value-added Big Idea projects." -- Joe Belinsky, Professional Development Manager, Goodyear Rubber and Tire. Your High Velocity Brainstorming sessions were wonderful. Our clients.

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The Inovo Group

AUGUST 5, 2019

The processes, methods and tools used for New Product Development (NPD) are insufficient for strategic innovation [1] and strategic innovation is necessary for the accelerated growth that companies demand. Sometimes new product development (NPD) is relatively straightforward, although it may be extremely costly and difficult.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

The important aspect of the theory which most discussions ignore though is that while it is happening, management at the established companies think they’re making the right decision to let the new companies take over the low-end of the market. 10 – Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Idea Management.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Therefore, corporate R & D programs need targets to ensure that the product development portfolio includes growth projects that carry more risk and have a longer payback. Sometimes, the innovation is highly visible, such as the breakthrough product that allows the company to open up completely new markets.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Therefore, corporate R & D programs need targets to ensure that the product development portfolio includes growth projects that carry more risk and have a longer payback. Sometimes, the innovation is highly visible, such as the breakthrough product that allows the company to open up completely new markets.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

The Lockheed Skunk Works ® led by Kelly Johnson was responsible for its Advanced Development Projects – everything from the P-80 , the first U.S. Skunk works differed from advanced research groups in that they were more than just product development groups. jet fighter plane, to the U-2 and A-12 spy planes.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Business Management. We begin with Business Management. The new–school world of Business Management has made great contributions to the innovation thought pool, including such powerful frameworks as innovation–driven growth strategies, business model innovation, the business model canvas, creative go–to–market strategies, and more.

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Leanstack

AUGUST 4, 2016

I spend a lot of time at the intersection of “business modeling” and “lean startup” and have been looking for the right category label to describe this type of work. After much deliberation, I’ve settled on the label: “Innovation Management.” The third step is lean startup.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Quantifying the Disconnect Between Business Leaders and Technology Teams Consider one of the most startling findings from The 2023 Project to Product State of the Industry Report. how much value development teams delivered to customers over the course of a planning cycle).

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Definitely solid ROI!" - Mary Ann Heenehan, Corporate Groups Development Manager, Chubb Insurance "Idea Champions helped us generate powerful new ideas and engage with such energy that six months later their impact still hasn't worn off." - Candida G.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Good experimentation helps firms better manage myriad sources of uncertainty when past experience can be limiting. Examples for touchpoints can be idea management platforms, portfolio management boards , corporate strategy teams or company-wide events and communication platforms. Breakthrough innovators (i.e. Governance.

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Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

In my daily practices of developing innovation management methods and software I cannot avoid the term anymore: nearly every development methodology or project management methodology uses EPICS as a kind of starting point for a development project. It seems so.

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Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

In my daily practices of developing innovation management methods and software I cannot avoid the term anymore: nearly every development methodology or project management methodology uses EPICS as a kind of starting point for a development project. It seems so.

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Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

In my daily practices of developing innovation management methods and software I cannot avoid the term anymore: nearly every development methodology or project management methodology uses EPICS as a kind of starting point for a development project. It seems so.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Nearly all that training is for dedicated innovation teams , or employees who are focused on new product development. And management of operations is all about control. And that’s a good thing.

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Integrative Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

Good experimentation helps firms better manage myriad sources of uncertainty when past experience can be limiting. Examples for touchpoints can be idea management platforms, portfolio management boards , corporate strategy teams or company-wide events and communication platforms. Breakthrough innovators (i.e. Governance.

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ITONICS

APRIL 4, 2018

Having a clear strategy and a purposeful, structured process for implementing new business models and/ or gradually adapting existing ones to new business models will determine the success of digital transformation projects and company’s market position. How to develop a clear strategy in the context of digital transformation?

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In our last post, we addressed the six key questions that senior management should address to determine if an Innovation Outpost makes sense for a company. These priorities have been identified by earlier planning work at the senior management level. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams. see the previous post.).

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In our last post, we addressed the six key questions that senior management should address to determine if an Innovation Outpost makes sense for a company. These priorities have been identified by earlier planning work at the senior management level. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams. see the previous post.).

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CorporateIntel

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

If you’ve spent any time with me in product development, you know I like to quote the sometimes overused phrase, “People in companies get stuff done in spite of org charts, not because of them.” I’ll confess to that in a moment, but the title of this article has likely already given away my leaning.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In our last post, we addressed the six key questions that senior management should address to determine if an Innovation Outpost makes sense for a company. These priorities have been identified by earlier planning work at the senior management level. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams. see the previous post.).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In our last post, we addressed the six key questions that senior management should address to determine if an Innovation Outpost makes sense for a company. These priorities have been identified by earlier planning work at the senior management level. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams. see the previous post.).

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 12, 2015

One of the riskiest assumptions for any new product or feature is that customers actually want it. Having frequently witnessed the back-and-forth between product teams and research groups, it is clear that there is no shortage of misconceptions and miscommunication between the two. Quantify risk tolerance.

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