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The Role of Innovation in New Product Development: Three Approaches for Success

Qmarkets

Innovation is essential throughout the entire new product development (NPD) process, but nowhere is it more key than it is in the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) stage. FFE is the starting point of NPD and is where new product ideas are generated before entering the formal development process.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

New Product and Development Service Process (Hauser). New Product Development Front End (Khurana). Revolutionizing Product Development (Wheelwright & Clark). New Product Development Funnel (Katz). Productive Thinking (Hurson). Focus stage: Seed Published: 2007 more….

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

From 2003 to 2007, I have been in charge of the R&D project portfolio management line of business at a solution provider. This often resulted in over engineered solutions that practitioners had a hard time to use. Merging Theory and Practice.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

From 2003 to 2007, I have been in charge of the R&D project portfolio management line of business at a solution provider. This often resulted in over engineered solutions that practitioners had a hard time to use. Merging Theory and Practice.

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Good Ideas Often go Nowhere: Here’s What You Can Do About It

The Inovo Group

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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Management Innovation:  Busting Bureaucracy

Strategos

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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A New Model to Start Innovation

Gijs Van Wulfen

The start of innovation is described by Wikipedia as the messy getting started period of a new product development process. It is in the front end where the organization formulates a concept of the product or service to be developed and decides whether or not to invest resources in the further development of an idea [i].