Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2017

Question: We’re a very large, well-known consumer products company, and our portfolio is actually quite complex, as we have many different types of initiatives included, all at vastly different stages. In fact, we often debate whether certain projects should be included at all.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Team disagreements, project challenges. Product development, process improvement. For more on fostering a culture of innovation, delve into keynote speakers for inspiring team innovation. Performance Metrics Track improvements in productivity, innovation, and team outcomes.

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Team Building Case Study Collaboration Culture 100

Yet2

MAY 28, 2019

In mid-May, yet2 sponsored the NPD and Innovation in the Chemical Industry conference , organized by the European Networking Group. He detailed how the company decides where to place their innovation efforts and when closed vs open innovation models work best, using examples of innovation initiatives at Janssen.

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Industry Trends Conference Open Innovation 58

Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Capacity planning is standard for manufacturing, but many companies don’t diligently capacity plan their new product development (NPD) pipeline, and some expect managers to just “figure it out”. Later, they wonder why their projects are consistently late or miss target market windows. Continue reading →

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Product Development Project Marketing Management 40

Planview

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Improved Efficiencies Help Conagra Brands Speed Global Product Transfer New competitors, the growth of nontraditional retail outlets, and tech advancements in the industry made it imperative to transform how Conagra Brands , home to the world’s longest-standing food processing companies, did business.

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Huub Rutten

JUNE 1, 2021

He is the leader of quite a big group of researchers and developers, not only developing new IP but also engineering new features for the new product ranges. They can’t wait till the system is available for testing, so they deliver and move on to another project, for another product line.

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Huub Rutten

JUNE 1, 2021

He is the leader of quite a big group of researchers and developers, not only developing new IP but also engineering new features for the new product ranges. They can’t wait till the system is available for testing, so they deliver and move on to another project, for another product line.

Change 52

Change Software Roadmap System 52

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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Roadmap Project Innovation Product Development 74

Board of Innovation

JUNE 6, 2022

What’s next for consumer products Innovating for new moments in consumer journeys. Putting digital-first up-front in the design process, rather than having it as an after-thought, can decrease the cost and reduce the risk of product development and omni-channel launch.

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Underperforming Technical Team Video Design System 52

IM Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

Understanding revenue and cost on a per unit basis for Startups/innovation projects is vital but even established businesses have a lot to gain from doing it right. 15:00) CAC over LTV is fundamental to understanding product performance and analysing specific customer segments. RELATED INNOVATION WORKSHOPS & TRAINING.

How To 52

How To Underperforming Technical Team Case Study Entrepreneurship 52

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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Management Project Product Development Product Innovation 67

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At 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.

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LEAN Culture Agile Tools 46

Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Many companies view product lifecycle management (PLM) implementations the same old way they’ve viewed enterprise system implementations (like ERP) for years. As a result, companies tend to follow the same waterfall implementation approach. Continue reading →

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helloFUTURE

JANUARY 29, 2023

Product managers are frequently the ones that are tasked with driving innovation within their organizations. This should not come as a surprise, given that product managers, particularly excellent product managers, have a profound awareness of the user personas for their products and any market gaps.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The focus area (new markets, new uses, the source of ideas, line extensions, product development, etc.) for a consumer-product company or a business-product one or the best practices for product development in low-tech and high-tech firms will be different. Product Innovation. Culture/Country.

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Innovation Management Technical Review Management Software Review 40

hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The focus area (new markets, new uses, the source of ideas, line extensions, product development, etc.) for a consumer-product company or a business-product one or the best practices for product development in low-tech and high-tech firms will be different. Product Innovation. Culture/Country.

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Innovation Management Technical Review Management Software Review 40

Collective Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2017

For many companies the potential market is huge and with smart business intelligence you can identify new opportunities for several types of innovation: Application Innovation: This is when you find a new use for an existing product, tapping into a new base of customers and potential.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

The lens through which the Human Resource profession sees the world is generally one of how do we create the right organizational environments to promote innovation and how do we effectively engage our people to produce new innovation. This is very important in any organization that hopes to have a productive innovation agenda.

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Be-novative

APRIL 21, 2021

Connecting people virtually to co-create in a purpose-driven way accelerates positive business outcomes and unites people in finding meaning in transformative change, that is why Purpose & Co-creation projects are trending in 2021. The next 5-year outlook on the way we work and manage projects ??

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IdeaScale

JULY 21, 2021

Every year, IdeaScale hosts the Innovation Management Awards to award organizations who have demonstrated a level of sophistication in their innovation strategy that has had a measurable impact on their business. I mean, it was incredible, and especially because of the rate at which the inventory of products has grown.

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New Markets Advisors

APRIL 20, 2018

Additionally, diffusing innovation responsibility throughout an organization creates confusion about what your Innovation team should be doing. It reinforces the notion that they should be working on their own specific projects in isolation. It over-emphasizes product innovation.

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Innovation Training Culture Culture of Innovation 40

Corporate Innovation

JULY 26, 2016

And they try to gain access to the startups, the university teams, and their innovations by acquiring them, or by making venture style investments in them. In this manner, companies are now more symbiotic with new ventures and university research projects than ever before. new ventures) and/or technical projects in universities.

Product Development 65

Product Development Project Management Groups 65

Corporate Innovation

JULY 26, 2016

And they try to gain access to the startups, the university teams, and their innovations by acquiring them, or by making venture style investments in them. In this manner, companies are now more symbiotic with new ventures and university research projects than ever before. new ventures) and/or technical projects in universities.

Product Development 40

Product Development Project Management Groups 40

Corporate Innovation

JULY 26, 2016

And they try to gain access to the startups, the university teams, and their innovations by acquiring them, or by making venture style investments in them. In this manner, companies are now more symbiotic with new ventures and university research projects than ever before. new ventures) and/or technical projects in universities.

Product Development 40

Product Development Project Management Groups 40