Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Check out our article on mixing business strategy with the innovation process. The Perks of Innovation in Your Game Plan Let’s face it: innovation is the secret sauce in any killer business strategy. Being innovative lets businesses flip the script and dive into ventures nobody’s dared to try.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

The process breaks innovation into three continuous phases: build a prototype or solution, measure how it performs, and learn from the results to refine the product or strategy. Rather than investing heavily in long-term development based on assumptions, this iterative approach encourages teams to test hypotheses early and often.

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Sopheon

JUNE 9, 2022

While a phase gate approach to new product development may seem to be in direct conflict with the principles of Agile, both methods are valuable and can work side-by-side. The post Is Agile killing phase gate? The case for a hybrid approach to innovation and new product development appeared first on Sopheon.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Innovation isn’t just a shiny new product; it’s about jazzing up your services, tweaking those internal gears, and shaking up your business playbook. To truly make the thrilling leap with innovation, go bold—foster an atmosphere where creativity and a bit of daring flourish.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2020

Through our hands-on work with clients, we have developed a lean product development process. It is a methodology that depicts key milestones, but supersedes specific engineering models such as waterfall or Agile. The beauty of this process.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

By identifying gaps in processes, capabilities, or outcomes , businesses can develop targeted strategies to improve efficiency, enhance competitiveness, and achieve strategic goals. This analysis is widely used across industries, from business operations and project management to human resources and product development.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

The primary goal of an MVP is to minimize risk by validating key assumptions about customer needs and market demand before investing heavily in full-scale development. In innovation projects, the MVP approach helps businesses explore ideas, experiment with solutions, and learn through real-world interactions.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 7, 2025

Innovation and expansion New product development, market penetration, and technological advancements. This goal drives its product development, market expansion, and technological innovation in electric vehicles and renewable energy solutions. Product Innovation Enhancing or launching new products.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Large organisations tend to treat major new product developments as serious projects which require serious resources. However, despite all of the management science the large majority of new products fail – certainly in the fast moving consumer goods sector. Agility, fast feedback and risk mitigation are the watchwords.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 11, 2025

Facilitates agility and adaptation Encourages ongoing refinement of strategy based on results. For example, Boeing applied Hoshin Planning to enhance product development efficiency , ensuring cross-functional collaboration and reducing production delays. Manufacturing units (efficient EV production methods).

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eZassi

MARCH 18, 2025

The Ezassi Advantage: Enhancing Supply Chain Agility for Procurement Executives Why CPOs and Supply Chain Executives Should Pay Attention For Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs), procurement leaders, and supply chain executives, staying ahead of disruptions while driving efficiency, cost savings, and sustainability is more challenging than ever.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

In an environment where companies constantly seek innovation, launching new products or services without proper evaluation can lead to wasted time, effort, and financial loss. Concept Screening in Innovation Strategy Bringing an idea to market requires a careful evaluation process to determine its viability.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 11, 2025

Facilitates agility and adaptability Enables organizations to adjust strategies based on real-time data. Encourages Agile Strategy Adjustments Adapts plans based on real-time market insights. For example, Apple refines its OGSM approach by : Adjusting product development strategies based on consumer trends.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

I spoke to 11 of the world’s leading female innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition in order to answer the question of “What is innovation?”

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of innovation management by providing powerful tools to enhance consumer insights. By leveraging AI, you can gain a deeper understanding of consumer behavior, preferences, and trends, which are crucial for driving innovation and staying competitive in the market.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

It is particularly useful for product development, market expansion, pricing strategies, and overall business positioning. Differentiate from competitors Develop unique selling points (USPs) to stand out. I mprove strategic decision-making Use data to guide business development and innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Shaping Innovation for a Meaningful Change Following on from my initial post, “ Our Need is to Shape Innovation Dynamically, ” this post outlines the eight value-adding points that I can help build out and deliver alongside you in different delivery modules to fit your circumstances and budgets.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I've been writing an occasional series on some of the fundamental building blocks for innovation success - at least those that I think are critical, intangible and often overlooked. All are important to understand and all are critical to successful innovation. There's another time that is also important.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Support innovation and expansion Building new products and services based on core strengths. For example, Apples core competencies include innovative product design, seamless software integration, and a strong brand ecosystem. Technology & Innovation Investing in R&D to stay ahead of competitors.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Developed by Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan , Discovery-Driven Planning is ideal for: New product development. Innovation-driven projects. Accelerates innovation by testing assumptions quickly. Enhances Innovation Capabilities Encourages iterative improvements rather than rigid execution.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 31, 2025

Some of the most impactful innovations dont come from high-tech labs in advanced economiesthey emerge from the ingenuity of resource-constrained markets. Now, these solutions are disrupting industries in wealthier economies, proving that innovation thrives under constraints.

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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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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.

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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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helloFUTURE

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Agile methodology, with its roots deeply embedded in software development, has become synonymous with adaptability, responsiveness, and continuous improvement. The answer is a resounding “yes.” ” Here’s a dive into how…

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 9, 2018

When a noted doyen of the Fortune 500 like Coca Cola talks innovation, your ears should perk up. When a company that has both succeeded at innovation and failed utterly at new product development and launch (remember New Coke?) talks innovation publicly, it's worth listening to.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

Why have we not embraced innovation? I will not apologize here; this will partly be a “rant” and then begin to suggest a way forward on embracing innovation fully. I was thinking of having the headline “Innovation as our eternal doom or shame” or “innovation groundhog day” Let me begin in why.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. Suggested reading: 13 – Budgets for Micro-Innovations.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In a world where thousands of startups emerge each year, companies looking to stay competitive need to engage actively with this innovation ecosystem. 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.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2018

An operations manager at a Fortune 500 hundred company recently asked me: “what are your thoughts on the best innovation ‘models’ to serve as guides for how individuals or teams can structure some of their thinking?”. Third, remember you’re designing for agility which means you’re only making a commitment to explore and evaluate.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

The debate is about whether or not to fund innovation work, and if the decision is positive, how much to spend or invest in innovation. In this regard, there is clear demand for innovation, for new products, new services and experiences and consumers have the funds to spend on new things.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Collaboration, Idealization and the enabling of innovation I have have been looking back at innovation and how it has changed over the last twenty-five years. In a series of three posts, I have asked Google’s Gemini to answer five questions to track and trace the progress innovation has made and where it seems to be heading.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Intersection of Corporate Growth and Startup Innovation Defining Corporate Venture Capital Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) is the investment of corporate funds directly in external startup companies. This alignment can result in a myriad of collaborative opportunities, from product development to new market entry.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 11, 2021

I was asked recently to write a short post about the conditions necessary for innovation to succeed. It's actually not possible to write a short post about innovation, much less the conditions necessary for innovation to succeed, but I've tried to simplify this into nine critical factors for success.

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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". What has worked in more traditional settings - manufacturing, process improvement, etc - is now being applied to innovation. That is, not everything in innovation should move quickly.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Power of Disruptive Innovation Understanding Disruptive Innovation Disruptive innovation, a term you might have encountered frequently in today’s business lexicon, refers to a process where a product or service starts at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves upmarket, eventually displacing established competitors.

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