Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Its a central concept in lean startup methodology and a powerful tool for product development teams looking to accelerate progress while conserving resources. Product managers, designers, developers, and marketers rally around user feedback as the primary source of direction. Heres how to begin: 1.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

It is particularly useful for product development, market expansion, pricing strategies, and overall business positioning. Heres how to overcome them: Lack of Access to Reliable Data – Without accurate data, Competitive Analysis can be misleading. Solutions: Use trusted industry reports and third-party analytics platforms.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

Unfortunately, the enthusiasm I had for my new job waned after six months when an executive was appointed Head of Product Development—who insisted he knew SCRUM 1 better than anybody. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. Where did Agile come from?

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Internal Processes : Dive into how you get stuff done and pinpoint any bottlenecks or places where automation could help. If you need more pointers, swing by our article on how to use innovation to turbocharge your business strategy. Quick Reflexes (Agility): Ever seen a cat dodge a falling vase? That’s agility.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Heres how to overcome them: Focusing on Too Many Competencies – Not every strength is a core competence. When conducted regularly and combined with complementary strategic tools, Core Competence Analysis ensures companies remain agile, competitive, and positioned for success. Drive long-term innovation and growth.

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Strategyzer Innovation

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Nowadays there is no escaping the Agile hype. Large organisations are “becoming Agile” one after the other, fuelled by hopes of higher employee engagement and more efficient product development.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

But how can an enterprise organization re-invent product commercialization? Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. It does not include product development. Most companies have a product development process that is completely separate from their go to market strategy.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Here’s where a sprinkle of innovation can turbocharge your growth: Product Development : Cook up new goods or give current ones a spiffy upgrade to match what folks want. Check the Score : Put systems in place to see how your innovative ventures are paying off. Here’s how to keep it fresh and on the move.

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Sopheon

AUGUST 13, 2021

Interested in learning how to be agile and adaptive as you implement Stage-Gate into your organization? The post Win at New Product Development: Become Agile and Adaptive in Exclusive Seminar with Dr. Bob Cooper, Father of Stage-Gate appeared first on Sopheon.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

Although I was attending as a sponsor/exhibitor for Indigo Studio, I did manage to break away to go to the “There’s more than one way to skin a cat: Integrating UX into an Agile environment” session. So I’m always interested in seeing how others are faring and what ideas they might have to address pain points.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As a highly credentialed coach to many global Agile and SCRUM leaders in major international and local organisations, I enrolled in an agile coach certification program and enthusiastically attended all daily sessions. How do they go about humanising agility?

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Within the value proposition, we actively shape these journeys, building adaptability, agility and innovation for long-term success in the changing business environment we all face today. A landscape and the navigation skills that provide the adaptability and agility needed for successful innovation in the current business landscape.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

This is the second post looking more at collaboration and idealization and how and what has helped it evolve in this period. Hopefully, this change has enabled better value creation and learning how to innovate. From linear to agile: Idea generation is now a continuous process, not a one-time event. Has the methodology changed?

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. Addressing Agile-Stage-Gate PPM Implementation Challenges Resource Allocation, Capacity, Planning Best Practices.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Successfully navigating this landscape requires a precise balance between maintaining a clear focus on overarching visions and executing meticulously throughout the product development lifecycle. Example of How to Integrate Agile Work Management Solutions Consider a product team at a mid-sized tech company.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 18, 2020

A new product development process that works at lightning speed requires new ways of working plus new ways of innovating. In this post we will cover how to: Cut your development cycle time and free up working capital. Thinking about how to invest in the different horizons is like investing in the stock market.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Beyond internal gains, process improvement also allows organizations to respond more effectively to customer needs and market changes, giving them an edge over less agile competitors. These real-world stories show how organizations in different industries have optimized their operations and achieved measurable results.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This special team needs to be strategic, tactical, agile and fast. The ‘innovation team’ needs to define what innovation is in the context of your company, and how to ‘get there’. In a software context, these could be Senior Architects or Engineers with extensive prototyping and/or agile product development experience.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 3, 2019

For quite some time we've been hearing about how important it is to do things quickly, with many new adjectives placed in front of the word "innovation". Executives can't be faulted for asking for more validation, more data, more customer tests when existing, profitable products or business models are at stake. When can you move fast?

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New Markets Advisors

MAY 29, 2019

It’s how to build agility into your organization such that you can adapt as the strength of those advantages diminishes. To help your organization become more agile, I offer four pieces of advice, each of which ties to an essential element of agility. While we often prioritize the dynamic elements of agility?—?the

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Planview

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A product strategy needs to include innovation and investing in new technologies. Adopting the approach involves several elements, such as breaking down departmental barriers, establishing cross-functional teams, and creating feedback loops that connect customer insights to product development and service delivery.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 30, 2018

The question isn't even: should we become more agile or more nimble? The answer to that one is "yes" as well, and (shameless plug) I wrote a book about how to become more nimble, agile and innovative. Look at just one of my favorite data nuggets: how long it took specific products or technologies to reach 50M users.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Startups often bring fresh ideas, new technologies, and agile development approaches, but identifying the right ones to collaborate with or invest in can be complex. funding news, product launches, or team changes) allow companies to react quickly and adjust strategies, ensuring alignment and faster decision-making.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. Reviews, social media, mobile devices and so on mean that the quantity of information customers have on products, services, support issues, and ethical behavior makes them agile than the companies who serve them.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The progression of AI technology has led to its adoption in several key areas of business strategy, including market analysis, customer service, operational efficiency, and product development. Additionally, consider how AI can enhance not just individual tasks but also your overall approach to ai in strategic planning.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

You need one really good and agile team able to do both incremental and disruptive work. How is it being used to help drive future revenues? Talent - you'll want to consider who is part of the product concept, product development and product realization team, and consider it an end to end capability.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 12, 2015

For those who care about making data-driven business decisions, the challenge that presents itself is: How do we adhere to rigorous scientific standards in a world that demands adaptability and agility to survive? Not only that, but large effect sizes are almost as easily discovered in small samples as in large samples.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Agree on an internal definition at your company – solicit input from all over the organization, not just those in product development, IT and the C-Suite. This can lead to an understanding of how to support the development of both breakthrough new ideas, and incrementally building on established ideas that work.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Businesses that innovate can respond to shifts in consumer behavior, leverage emerging technologies, and enter new markets with agility. The ability to iterate rapidly helps in improving design thinking with AI by allowing for an agile and responsive approach to product development.

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etventure

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

During the last couple of years the MVP has become the holy grail of agile product development – but there are still a variety of different interpretations about what “MVP” really means. So, what is a minimum viable product, and how do you go about creating one? Understanding MVP Development .

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 15, 2015

Larger organizations lack the freedom and agility that smaller organizations have. Further, even if the organization gets better at generating ideas, they haven't resolved how to commercialize good ideas quickly, due to long decision making and product development processes. It's not an either/or proposition.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

This transformation is visible in various facets of management, including: Strategic Planning : AI algorithms can analyze market trends and consumer behavior to inform the strategic direction of product development.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Artificial Intelligence is not just a tool but a revolutionary force, catalyzing fundamental changes in how businesses operate, compete, and deliver value. The agility to adapt to AI advancements is now a vital component of surviving and thriving in the modern marketplace.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Obviously, you want to show how your idea or concept can accelerate the plan and the results of the plan. You want to show how your solution can help increase sales, increase innovation, increase product development, etc. Again, this can’t be a “maybe.” It has to be something you’re certain about.

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