Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Product managers of software products have several potential tools to consider and some vital ones that must be in their toolbox.

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Planview

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Managing this level of complexity and constant change requires a modern approach to PPM – one that positions the PMO to become a more strategic creator of business value. “ PMOs should also focus on program management to facilitate high-quality outcomes across teams. Empowered teams deliver business value.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes. Speakers may discuss project management tools and techniques that can help streamline the implementation process and ensure that the innovative solutions achieve their intended impact.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

He has helped organisations discover path-breaking strategies and embed turnaround roadmaps by shaping, defining and leading complex integrated initiatives. Areas of Expertise: > Innovation Assessment & Management. > > LEAN improvements. > LEAN Black Belt. > Strategy Development & Execution. >

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 17, 2018

I’ve integrated my experiences to advance clients’ agenda in three areas: Creating value from information assets – next generation systems, business engagement platforms, data management, analytics. Enabling organizations – strategic roadmaps, IT optimization, operating model definition. Area of expertise: Lean & Agile Management.

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David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Management would have experienced a paradigm shift and divert resources to an iPhone beater. Engineering and product management would cooperate to produce a product that builds on the strength of the companies and provide superior experience. Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Get Management Interested Getting the support of management cannot be emphasized enough, both in terms of your metrics and the success of your program. Keep Management Involved In a recent Medium post , I talked about demonstrating value as managers fearing recession cut innovation program budgets. Passionate.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Portfolio management is a tool that ensures we aim to realize these beliefs from many different angles so as to leave no stone unturned. using a Lean Canvas ), and the quantitative business model assumptions (e.g. using a Traction Roadmap). Each has a clear mission measurable by the traction roadmap?—?leaving

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Qmarkets

JUNE 26, 2019

Exploring new territory can be both daunting and exhilarating – whether it’s oceanography or innovation management! As a leading supplier of idea management software, Qmarkets allows large organizations to gather, develop, evaluate, select, and implement ideas which can deliver bottom line value across the company.

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David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Management would have experienced a paradigm shift and divert resources to an iPhone beater. Engineering and product management would cooperate to produce a product that builds on the strength of the companies and provide superior experience. Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product.

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Innov8rs

AUGUST 22, 2023

For Christian Lindener, Co-Managing Partner of EMEA Delivery and Client Success at Mach49, the answer is clear. To succeed with corporate venture building, lean on one of the main resources you already have: your people. A Product Lead who drives the vision and roadmap, experiments and looks at technical feasibility.

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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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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. And whatever they learn or earn from such measurements, they put it to use in their product roadmaps or other business areas. They adhere to lean principles of product development.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Establishing the right department goal and roadmap is key to overcoming companies’ execution challenges and obstacles. To ensure you are making the right choice, lean on SMART goal setting. For example, “improving project management” is a rather broad goal. But how to fulfill that objective is often the challenging part.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Portfolio management is a tool that ensures we aim to realize these beliefs from many different angles so as to leave no stone unturned. using a Lean Canvas ), and the quantitative business model assumptions (e.g. using a Traction Roadmap). Each has a clear mission measurable by the traction roadmap?—?leaving

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Roadmap LEAN Ideation Tools 50

Open Innovation EU

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The Lean Startup (Ries). The Lean Enterprise. Managing Distributed Innovation (Bogers). Managing Unsolicited Ideas (Alexey). Roadmapping. Please drop a comment if you would like one or more methodologies included in this overview. The list is almost random. Innovation Cycle (Avans). External Sources (West).

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

times more likely to be engaged in their roles when they have a manager who keeps them accountable for their performance. The sales manager creates a mentorship plan to help underperforming team members. The manager establishes specific performance metrics they and the team members can follow.

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Articles from GroundControl

MARCH 11, 2019

Where everyone knows how to do innovation, how to manage innovation, and how to look at innovation strategically. Transformation and innovation is not something that can be built with a roadmap. You can start improving the metrics and build out on portfolio management. Asking the right questions at the right time.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Even with the proliferation of lean startup, design thinking, innovation labs, accelerator programs, hackathons and innovation marathons, crowdsourcing and a host of designer canvases that keeps pushing our advancement along, success is still piecemeal and random. Can we go that route in our organization design? Exploring and Aligning.

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Leanstack

JUNE 7, 2018

Front and center was this high-level roadmap along with a checklist: The rest of the links in the document were tactical how-to guides for attracting prospects, running interviews, testing offers, and designing MVPs. Taking the First Business Model Snapshot “Set a timer for 20 minutes and take a first snapshot of your idea on a Lean Canvas.”

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

With a similar general goal of increasing happiness at work, there is a lot of support and overlap, with Lisette’s Collaboration Superpowers for remote working, Jurgen’s fourth book Managing for Happiness and the Management 3.0 brand, Jason’s Lean Change Management book and workshops, and Learning 3.0’s

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Strategos

MARCH 28, 2018

As you survey your company landscape, you may see that a variety of well-intentioned teams such as “Lean Startup,” “Design Thinking,” or “Crowdsourcing” are within pockets, preaching practices. Build a blueprint and roadmap: Keep the innovation life cycle in mind and build a blueprint of preferred approaches for each element of it.

Roadmap 40

Roadmap Underperforming Technical Team Crowdsourcing Innovation 40

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. If you want to kick start an innovation program, get in touch, I can give you a roadmap and help you adapt it to your context.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Peter Drucker, the godfather of contemporary management, said it well⃜ "⃜the business enterprise has two – and only two – basic functions: marketing and innovation. This is the land of Operational Excellence, using classical methods like Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma.

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Leanstack

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Earlier that day, his manager told him that their parent company (from a recent acquisition) would shut down their offices in a couple of months. Even though his startup had a few bad product starts, they eventually managed to get acquired. How did each of them end up in such a different place?

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation LEAN Meeting 52

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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David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Management would have experienced a paradigm shift and divert resources to an iPhone beater. Engineering and product management would cooperate to produce a product that builds on the strength of the companies and provide superior experience. Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product.

Industry 40

Industry Technical Review Innovation Culture 40

Leanstack

JUNE 7, 2018

Front and center was this high-level roadmap along with a checklist: The rest of the links in the document were tactical how-to guides for attracting prospects, running interviews, testing offers, and designing MVPs. Taking the First Business Model Snapshot “Set a timer for 20 minutes and take a first snapshot of your idea on a Lean Canvas.”

Survey 40

Survey LEAN Meeting Technical Review 40

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 72

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture Disruption 72

Planview

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In this study covering thousands of value streams under management, we baselined the capacity of enterprise organizations’ value streams by measuring the flow of value through software development tools (e.g., I can ask Planview Copilot what we can do in terms of freeing up capacity on the roadmap.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

In my experience, when product development is managed with an Agile development approach, user experience professionals are expected to find a way to work within the Agile framework to succeed. Here’s a summary of what what worked well for UX professionals supporting Agile development teams, as well as some of their common pain points.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

The term comes from the English and is based on the Lean Startup Model by Eric Ries. There is exclusively a communication gap between leadership and non-management employees. Digital innovation is taking over and brings innovation management to a whole new level. This picture applies for small as well as large companies.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 5, 2019

SAFe is an agile framework for development that has been gaining a lot of prominence among developers and managers of software projects. Based on a combination of agile and lean principles, it calls for close collaboration and alignment between teams and aims to centralize decision-making. Check it out! What is SAFe?

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

This is a constant tension in any innovation management system and an area in which new, AI-based tools will have significant impact in this area. A recent article in HBR describes a study of 154 companies that use the Spigit idea management system to analyze data on new concepts as they move from initial idea to reality.

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IM Insights

APRIL 23, 2022

Welcome to the innovation metrics podcast , where we bring you the latest on innovation management. We provide insights on how to measure innovation , innovation , accounting , and managing the uncertain process of developing new , sustainable , and profitable business models. Is this a problem that I want to focus on ? It make sense.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. Several pockets of innovation in his agency have begun to look to startups and have tried to adopt lean methods. —– What Have We Lost? Yet today at dinner his frustration just spilled out.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

I could outline countless ways to work through different examples, set about a strategic and operational digital transformation roadmap, to combine effective knowledge from people and excellence gained from what you need to do in IT and your technologies to get this going, but I will not here, as this is an opening primer, not a solution.

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