Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Practical Tips and Tools for Team Building While inspiration is critical, it must be paired with practicality. Keynote speakers should provide actionable tips and tools that teams can implement in their daily interactions. These might include communication techniques, conflict resolution strategies, or innovative brainstorming methods.

Team Building 100

Team Building Case Study Collaboration Culture 100

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.

Product Development 69

Product Development Innovation Management Management Trends 69

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 7, 2016

The TRIZ approach and best practices such as the Stage-Gate Process can greatly benefit each other. These approaches are not rivals, but rather can be used to amplify each other’s successes. Continue reading →

Product Development 40

Product Development Innovation Product Innovation Tools 40

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2023

Market evidence will tell you that most of new product innovations fail in the first year. Managers can squeeze out a few more percentage points of profit on existing products without significant risk. Doing new things in large corporations is difficult. Most managers will ask: why take the risk?

Artificial Inteligence 157

Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Innovation Generative AI 157

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The table below highlights some of the key strategic outcomes corporations aim to achieve through CVC: Strategic Outcome Description New Product Development Accessing cutting-edge technologies and innovations. Business Model Innovation Adopting novel approaches to business operations and customer engagement.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Technical Review Agile 100

eZassi

MAY 27, 2022

How do the major companies’ research and development teams build and manage a portfolio of innovative products while ensuring long-term market success and consistent brand loyalty? Utilize Open Innovation for R&D. Open Innovation is a proactive strategy complementing your R&D department. Request a Demo.

Industry 52

Industry Ideation Open Innovation Innovation 52

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 →

LEAN 40

LEAN Product Development Exercises 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.

Case Study 52

Case Study Product Development Study Collaboration 52

Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 21, 2016

To explore the topic and walk through an example of using Conjoint Analysis, I tracked down the market research tool master Brian Ottum, who has 30 years experience in new product development. Well, if not, it will after you listen to this interview.

Analysis 40

Analysis Management Product Development Marketing 40

Innovation Excellence

MARCH 12, 2017

Drawings, whether paper or electronic, have traditionally been at the center of the product development universe. But as more and more companies transform into model based enterprises (MBE), there are five fundamental concepts they should keep in mind.

Product Development 41

Product Development Company Product Innovation Tools 41

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. This is a fruitful way to identify innovation opportunities customers can’t clearly articulate. Involve Customer-Facing Employees.

Development Team Review 68

Development Team Review Strategic Thinking eBook Trends 68

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.”. We use early-stage innovation research to ask questions that can help identify product innovations.

Strategy 81

Strategy Strategy Innovation Groups 81

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.

LEAN 46

LEAN Culture Agile Tools 46

Collective Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2017

An engaged social media is an incredible tool to learn about customers needs and problems. Product Innovation : Creates a difference with an existing product line and existing market, usually through features. There are many tools for competitor research but here are some of our favorites.

Survey 40

Survey Artificial Inteligence Data Analysis 40

Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 27, 2019

Every innovative product begins as a concept in the mind of someone or some group of people. How do companies manage this asset, the portfolio of product concepts, even before they enter the pipeline? In our experience, product. These concepts are the seeds of your company’s future growth.

How To 79

How To Groups Innovation Management 79

Qmarkets

AUGUST 23, 2023

An electronics company might incrementally innovate its supply chain to make it more efficient, or continuously find ways to improve its products’ battery life. Incremental innovations can be broken down into three main types: incremental product innovation , incremental service innovation , and incremental process innovation.

Examples 98

Examples Innovation Disruption Innovation Programs 98

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?

Management 68

Management Project Product Development Product Innovation 68

Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

This is why Engineering, Science, and Technology are incredibly powerful and effective tools when properly guided by market needs, whether existing or emerging. This is very important in any organization that hopes to have a productive innovation agenda.

Innovation 40

Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Technology 40

Innovation Excellence

MARCH 6, 2017

When companies want to innovate, there are three things they can change – products, services, and business models. Products are usually the first, second and third priorities. Services, though they have a tighter connection with the customer and are more lasting and powerful are, sadly, fourth priority.

Change 54

Change Company Innovation Product Development 54

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. In every respect, innovation allows us to do that better. Can you tell us what it is and how it works? .

Innovation 130

Innovation Innovation Programs Innovation Management Tools 130

Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 1, 2017

If you want to gain ground on your competition you’ve first got to know where things stand. Where are their advantages? Where are your advantages? Where is there parity?

Competition 50

Competition Product Development Innovation Processes Product Innovation 50

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 30, 2017

As innovators, we all want to do three key things: Create something new, fantastic and disruptive; Bring it to the market fast enough to capture its value and grow our business; Do it again (and again, and again.).

Learning 42

Learning Disruption Innovation Marketing 42

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 →

LEAN 43

LEAN Management Innovation Product Development 43

New Markets Advisors

APRIL 20, 2018

It over-emphasizes product innovation. When companies try to get everyone involved in innovation, they often skip the crucial step of explaining the different kinds of innovation. While product innovation is important, it’s also the most common. It drains resources.

Innovation 40

Innovation Training Culture Culture of Innovation 40

Be-novative

APRIL 21, 2021

This is key for any innovation or co-creation process in order to drive results. CLIENT ENGAGEMENT DRIVES THE INNOVATION ROADMAP?—?Key Key clients are engaged more if they can influence the directions of product development: winning even more deals, improving retention. VALIDATED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PIPELINE?—?Co-creation

Trends 52

Trends Project Design Thinking Ideation 52