Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 22, 2016

In the next step, comparing the current product development with the newfound perceptions of the future allows for improvement. Creating Breakthrough Product Through Collaborative Play , Addison-Wesley 2007, 56-61. For more details consult “Remember the Future. A day in the life.

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Strategos

MAY 5, 2016

While most of the client work that Strategos does is aimed at business model innovation, in recent years we have developed a principle-based approach to Management Innovation (see Mercy Salaz’s blog, Scope Creep ) and used this approach on several internal processes and practices such as product development. Hamel, Gary.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Eric Yuan, the founder of Zoom, was one of the first 20 employees of WebEx that was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007. While the leaders clearly see new product development as the best market entry strategy, that sentiment is clearly not shared by a large majority of others within the organization. The idea was rejected.

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IdeaSpies

AUGUST 31, 2018

They were inventors of the 20th Century; many of which gave rise to the said products. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Now, how about these? They were also inventors, but of the 21st Century.

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

They were inventors of the 20th Century; many of which gave rise to the said products. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Now, how about these? They were also inventors, but of the 21st Century.

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

They were inventors of the 20th Century; many of which gave rise to the said products. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Now, how about these? They were also inventors, but of the 21st Century.

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Values Centered Innovation

MARCH 17, 2017

In a 2007 McKinsey Quarterly article on “Leadership and Innovation,” the authors made it quite clear that “Innovation is a core driver of growth, performance and valuation.” The leaders in Product Development? Organization Development? Part 1 of 3: Innovation is the core driver to meet critical business needs. Operations?

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etventure

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Digitization requires a change of perspective – away from engineering-based perfectionism and toward rapid, agile product development that uses startup methods. When Apple presented the iPhone in 2007, “digitization found its most visible expression yet,” writes the paper’s editor, Guido Bohsem.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A 2007 study by M. Most corporate business functions – new product development (NPD), quality, sales, R&D, marketing, etc. Many companies succumb and invest in showy innovation activities (see this article for some humorous examples). But the CEO’s words to the shareholders often reveal a deeper truth. Prabhu, & R.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

He then eliminated all central control: personnel, product development, purchasing. Google in 2007 initiated a mindfulness and meditation course at its Google University as a way to help its employees maintain the company's strong track record for innovation. You do what is needed for the customer." Quiet minds.

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Matthew Griffin

MAY 26, 2015

Over the next ten years Apple sold over 320 million iPods and as they introduced more products such as the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2009 which, at the time of publishing this article, have both respectively sold 421 million and 170 million units their annual revenues grew from $5 Billion to an eye watering $171 Billion.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2010

It was in the midst of this downturn that Huang, Syma's vice general manager of product development (and the owner's brother-in-law) took a business trip to Japan and brought home a new model airplane. Syma isn't an aggressive new product developer; it prefers to succeed through determined focus.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, Research in Motion (RIM) was a major player in a worldwide market that sold about one billion cell phones annually (the term “smartphone” was new). Would it have a new product development or innovation process? Would that company invest in R&D? Conduct market research?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Most companies have articulated their purpose — the reason they exist. Consider Nokia.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

I remember noting Apple's outstanding R&D productivity as an outlier back in the iPod era. In 2007, prior to the original iPhone's launch, The Economist underscored it again.Of This isn't only a recent reality. course we know that, as research by Booz [pdf] back in 2005 demonstrated, "Money doesn't buy results."

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

Indeed, when Microsoft introduced its menu ribbon with the Office 2007 products, the reaction was quite negative. People reacted negatively, because the conventions for communicating with the product were being changed without warning.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed. If the goal was to leapfrog the competition in every product line while revitalizing U.S. The $1 billion plan envisioned 11 new product platforms in six different manufacturing sites. GE needed to reduce new product development cycles from 3-4 years to 1-1.5

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Like clockwork, it would wait until just before unveiling a new product design to file a corresponding design patent application. For instance, Apple filed applications for the original iPhone only four days before it was announced in 2007; for the original iPod in 2001, the filing was one day before release.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. If you look at this data for the period 1999 to 2007, the results are even more striking: These companies delivered shareholder returns of over 130 percent while the S&P delivered 0.6 Developing the Global Leader.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

A resource that can get you to the leading edge of innovation in your industry much faster than internal product developers — and at the same time, can show you how to forego superfluous services or product features that you thought were essential but that in fact, no one would miss.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

The successes are impressive even before 2007, when Amazon was smaller than Bed Bath & Beyond, JC Penney, or SuperValu are today. Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months. Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine.

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