IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Are you looking for ways to take your innovation strategy to the next level in 2020? Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 14, 2021

Successful closed innovation requires protection, control, and ownership of intellectual property while still under development, through the use of special product development teams within a company. Social Innovation. Product Innovation. Value Innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

These insights complement the strategies discussed by keynote speakers for enhancing team culture and innovation, as seen in keynote speakers for team culture transformation and keynote speakers for inspiring team innovation. This section outlines strategies for effective team-building keynote speakers.

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Sopheon

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Last week, Sopheon took part in the Inspire Innovation Conference in Orlando, hosted by PDMA — Product Development & Management Association — a global association of innovation management professionals.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

An article in The Wall Street Journal about food companies innovating to raise prices features this definition of innovation from Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen: “Creating something I didn’t know I needed is innovation.”. Yet, customers probably aren’t thinking much about using your product, let alone ways to improve it.

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Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

As we welcome the new year, we asked our team of product innovation experts and thought leaders to identify trends they’re seeing across the industry and within our customer implementations. Trend #1: Greater Financial Scrutiny on New Product Development Balanced Against Innovation Opportunity While the U.S.

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InnovationManagement

JANUARY 5, 2017

In this article, Product Innovation Manager Alex Igor Sanghikian discusses the Adjacent Possibilities framework for product management. By exclusively focusing on your persona’s one main need and trying hard to fulfill that need with your product, you can build the next feature with a more focused vision.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 28, 2019

Susana Jurado is Head of Innovation Portfolio-Product Innovation at Telefónica since 2015.

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eZassi

MAY 27, 2022

It’s a complex, interdepartmental system that is augmented with 3 tactics: the advantage of open innovation, strategic supply chain forecasting, and tools for enhanced collaboration across teams that bring new products to market. Utilize Open Innovation for R&D. Half the company’s ideas must come from the outside.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

An article in The Wall Street Journal by Paul Ziobro shares an report on how toy manufacturers, including Mattel and Hasbro, are accelerating their new product innovation processes. Beyond these possibilities, what else can your brand explore to expand its repertoire of market listening strategies? Directly Observing Customers.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

It’s written by Richard D’Aveni, a professor of strategy at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. 3D printers are amazingly flexible: they can make a product one week, and then a very different product the next week, with minimal changeover costs. It also promises to reshape competition.

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Open Innovation EU

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

New Product and Development Service Process (Hauser). New Product Development Front End (Khurana). Revolutionizing Product Development (Wheelwright & Clark). New Product Development Funnel (Katz). Open Innovation (Chesbrough). Open Innovation Kick-Start Approach (AT Kearney).

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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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eZassi

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Large organizations like these can no longer exclusively rely on the internal R&D team or employee base to produce the product innovation and insights that will keep them in the game. Enterprises are increasingly turning to open innovation for their product development strategy.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

ROAD #1 — PRODUCT INNOVATION & BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION. Your company launches innovative new offerings within its current markets. This is generally a case of either product innovation or business model innovation. The innovations they represent are typically incremental or moderate.

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InnovationManagement

MAY 14, 2019

Most marketing professionals understand that insight into the hearts and minds of your customers is central to successful product innovation. Who is going to buy my product first? The post Taking an Audience-Centric Approach During the Tech Adoption Lifecycle appeared first on Innovation Management. But which customers?

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 29, 2017

As retailers strive to reinvent their customer experience and drive loyalty, many are opening innovation labs or centers that are focused exclusively on digital efforts or product innovation.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Either way, businesses need to identify where they are going wrong because innovation as a business strategy is here to stay. For survival, innovation is almost obligatory (Drucker, 1999). An innovation process “connects upstream idea valuation to downstream production and release to market.” Product Innovation.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Either way, businesses need to identify where they are going wrong because innovation as a business strategy is here to stay. For survival, innovation is almost obligatory (Drucker, 1999). An innovation process “connects upstream idea valuation to downstream production and release to market.” Product Innovation.

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Brunner

AUGUST 12, 2020

It’s good for market insight in terms of developing new brand positioning, and it could be used for product innovation. That’s something the brand didn’t realize was going on, and that has clear product development implications. It helps take a deeper dive into customer behaviors and competitive intelligence.

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InnovationManagement

JULY 2, 2020

The post Four Ways to Innovate Right Now appeared first on InnovationManagement. While the pandemic has been difficult for all us economically, as business owners, we never run out of opportunities. No matter the business climate, there is always a chance to do something new and something better—you just have to find it.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

.) – and the costs to deliver the product/service and have well defined product development and product management tools that emphasize the linear nature of shipping products to existing customers. for new product development that emphasize immediate returns. That’s now changed.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

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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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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Collective Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2017

It’s important to talk with them and survey them on a regular basis when trying to identify opportunities for new products or sales strategies. Product Innovation : Creates a difference with an existing product line and existing market, usually through features.

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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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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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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. We are committed to keeping innovation as something that is key to our global strategy.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 2, 2016

A long-standing belief across chemical and industrial product companies is that it’s not possible to rapidly produce low-cost, high-quality products. Many companies dedicate their best manufacturing equipment and people to quickly develop and launch a high-quality product, but these additional resources drive up costs unexpectedly.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

According to AcuPoll more than 95-percent of new products fail each year. This harrowing statistic should sound an alarm, one that says the way we approach the conceptualization and launch of new products does not work. Every year, billions of dollars shrivel down to zero. Careers and jobs lost. So much talent and energy gets.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 21, 2017

They needed a new product, in a hurry. From concept to packaging, they needed it all: RTB, packaging design, product name, name and product fit with top benefits, and fully baked complete concepts to test against legacy products and competitive products. Competitive pressures were high.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 20, 2015

While working to comply with the rule, manufacturers have realized that the problem to be solved is multi-faceted and interconnected. It’s like the ancient Greek myth of Pandora opening the box releasing the not-so-pleasant things into the world.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 26, 2017

As retailers look to drive profitable growth through loyalty and differentiation, innovation usually plays a prominent role. Innovation can take many different forms, such as product, customer experience, business model, service and process innovation. However, becoming innovative is not easy.

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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.

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Be-novative

APRIL 21, 2021

Such findings have implications for your company’s talent-management strategy and its bottom line. People who live their purpose at work are more productive than people who don’t. In the next five years, the world will see more projects than ever according to Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, Co-founder of the Strategy Implementation Institute.

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New Markets Advisors

APRIL 20, 2018

Now, of course, there are other clever accounting “innovations” that we don’t want to encourage, but there are certainly opportunities for advancement. Process improvements or innovation to support larger changes in the business (e.g., It over-emphasizes product innovation.

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Corporate Innovation

JULY 26, 2016

The reason it is so hard is because there oftentimes corporations do not have an overall long-term innovation strategy and clear understanding about the role startups and university labs will play in such a strategy. Furthermore, every innovation idea is being managed on a case-by-case basis.

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