Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Ideation on its own isn’t enough to drive innovation outcomes—and could even be a waste of resources if not governed properly. To drive outcomes, you need disciplined portfolio management, as Rachel Kuhr Conn , Founder and CEO of Productable, outlines below. But what happens next? Here’s how.

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Planview

AUGUST 3, 2023

As the world becomes more interconnected, the impacts of disruptions to product development are now felt more widely, which means product-driven organizations need to be more responsive and adaptive in how they manage their portfolios. Incremental : Is it innovation to enhance what we have today in an incremental way?

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Innov8rs

MARCH 27, 2023

On the other hand, a “Paid Pilot” refers to a trial or experiment where the startup charges the corporate for using their product or service). Therefore, if you’re willing to allocate significant resources to open innovation, paid pilots, M&As, and CVCs may be the most suitable options. Invested resources per unit of time (e.g.,

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Innov8rs

APRIL 7, 2024

During a recent Innov8rs Learning Lab, Gina O'Connor's offered a compelling roadmap for companies seeking to navigate the complexities of fostering innovation that transcends incremental improvements to achieve radical, market-shifting outcomes, based on decades of research with large multinational organizations, as summarized below.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

One level lower in the hierarchy Emily faces in fact the same challenge, she cannot enforce results, she has to coordinate and deal with unexpected events, lack of resources. So these departments are the resource owners and have traditionally an intrinsic powerful position. Dependent on goodwill. The same is true for Engineering.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

One level lower in the hierarchy Emily faces in fact the same challenge, she cannot enforce results, she has to coordinate and deal with unexpected events, lack of resources. So these departments are the resource owners and have traditionally an intrinsic powerful position. Dependent on goodwill. The same is true for Engineering.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

One level lower in the hierarchy Emily faces in fact the same challenge, she cannot enforce results, she has to coordinate and deal with unexpected events, lack of resources. So these departments are the resource owners and have traditionally an intrinsic powerful position. Dependent on goodwill. The same is true for Engineering.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

“Huub, it is not easy to be a Product Line Director, you know, I feel like driving a car without a steering wheel. I always have to ask, beg, if others want to help me and my roadmap. The only people who report to me are a group of market researchers, and a group of product managers. My hands are in the air.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

“Huub, it is not easy to be a Product Line Director, you know, I feel like driving a car without a steering wheel. I always have to ask, beg, if others want to help me and my roadmap. The only people who report to me are a group of market researchers, and a group of product managers. My hands are in the air.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

“Huub, it is not easy to be a Product Line Director, you know, I feel like driving a car without a steering wheel. I always have to ask, beg, if others want to help me and my roadmap. The only people who report to me are a group of market researchers, and a group of product managers. My hands are in the air.

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Planview

OCTOBER 16, 2023

By aligning value streams with customer journeys and incorporating continuous feedback loops, businesses can ensure they are creating products and services that genuinely resonate with their target audience. It offers a roadmap to streamline operations, prioritize tech debt, and mitigate risks.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This process is widely adopted by managers, executives, and consultants to drive new product development, service innovation, and business model refinement. At the core of design thinking lies a commitment to putting users’ experiences and feedback at the forefront of product and service design.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2015

And of course time for the product development process. Even passionate people need to have guidance, and can work more effectively if they have a roadmap and a defined end goal. Invest in defining what a successful innovation roadmap looks like, and here's a hint. Time to understand unmet customer needs.

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Successful organizations use external resources in an open co-creation process to achieve a larger accessible market through building value nets and growing the total market. Competitors share in the development of new ideas, more expertise is focused on the problems at hand, and everyone wins in the end.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

It was their job to ensure all aspects of the product development process were aligned and working together. Program management was steeped in technical processes, but also considered how product decisions would impact the product’s end users. ” The program manager was part of the Engineering department.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Put that together with difficulties in tracking pertinent details of each project while being hit with a steady flow of new information from leadership and other key stakeholders, it becomes clear how a product roadmap might become muddied and lose focus.

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Be-novative

APRIL 21, 2021

It is only C-Level executives who can highlight the long-term strategy and make resources available, but it is the mid-level managers who can drive such purpose-driven co-creation projects forward as project owners, consulting experts e.g. as mentors. Other examples of co-creation project audience by Deloitte: Resources?—?what

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New Markets Advisors

MAY 29, 2019

that fluidity only manifests if the organization has a strong core that can provide the resources and the capabilities to create change. This is especially true in industries with long product development timelines. Recognizing the need to shift direction or reallocate resources is an important step in practicing agility.

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Be-novative

MARCH 17, 2021

ACTION PLANNING TOGETHER: Rejoining the subgroups the leadership team can work on a Roadmap Canvas to make sure action is envisioned and supported on a whole-company level. MAKE COLLABORATION AND EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT A KPI: Strategy workshops may uncover both the hidden and known KPIs that C-level leadership measures all their actions on.

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Be-novative

MARCH 17, 2021

ACTION PLANNING TOGETHER: Rejoining the subgroups the leadership team can work on a Roadmap Canvas to make sure action is envisioned and supported on a whole-company level. MAKE COLLABORATION AND EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT A KPI: Strategy workshops may uncover both the hidden and known KPIs that C-level leadership measures all their actions on.

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ITONICS

JANUARY 4, 2018

Durst: We continue to be the sole provider who covers innovation management with an integrated, end-to-end approach: from environmental scanning to trend and technology management all the way to innovation portfolios and roadmaps. Business models of the sharing economy allow for the shared use of wholly or partly unused resources.

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New Markets Advisors

APRIL 20, 2018

While it’s possible to broaden the scope of who’s involved in innovation efforts, it takes a full system of governance, processes, metrics, and tools to ensure that that new breadth is productive. It drains resources. At scale, the resources spent on failed innovations?—?particularly For others, it will be draining.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Head of Corporate Innovation Management and Product Development. Participants act as wonderful multipliers as the SV-Spirit is spreading in downright “viral” ways across the company." – Dr. H.S. Maintaining the Magic.

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ITONICS

APRIL 4, 2018

The most promising options are then prioritized based on adequate criteria and translated into a roadmap which can be used to plan and manage the project implementation. This can be done in parallel to your daily business or as an integrated part of daily business.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Head of Corporate Innovation Management and Product Development. The goal of these efforts is to get the visiting leadership team “on the same page” about emerging trends, the future they want to create together, and the innovation practices they will want to mobilize to reach the intended future. Maintaining the Magic.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Head of Corporate Innovation Management and Product Development. The goal of these efforts is to get the visiting leadership team “on the same page” about emerging trends, the future they want to create together, and the innovation practices they will want to mobilize to reach the intended future. Maintaining the Magic.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

At the time, there were no widely recognized market research reports, customer insights, or technology roadmaps (except perhaps inside Apple) that projected what the world might conceivably look like in 2017. Technology roadmapping? Would it have a new product development or innovation process? Conduct market research?

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Leanstack

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

A year later, Steve is still building his product. He has no product revenue and relies on part-time freelancing work to fund his product development. He knows a lot is riding at stake, so he spends many more days developing his elevator pitch, outlining his product roadmap, and polishing his 10-page slide deck.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization. In other cases, the expectations held by different members of the scrum team about the timing and relationships between design and development activities appeared to be out of alignment.

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