Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Introduction to New Product Development In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and shifting consumer preferences, the ability to innovate and execute new product development (NPD) effectively is a cornerstone of business success.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 11, 2025

For example, Procter & Gamble (P&G) has successfully used OGSM to align corporate strategy across global markets, ensuring strategic clarity and execution. Facilitates agility and adaptability Enables organizations to adjust strategies based on real-time data. Use performance metrics to monitor and adjust plans as needed.

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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

MARCH 7, 2025

Unlike operational goals, which focus on day-to-day tasks , strategic goals set the foundation for long-term success by addressing: Market positioning How the company competes in its industry. Innovation and expansion New product development, market penetration, and technological advancements.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Concept Screening is a structured decision-making process that helps organizations evaluate multiple ideas and identify the most promising ones for further development. 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.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Developed by Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan , Discovery-Driven Planning is ideal for: New product development. Market entry strategies. Adapt flexibly to market feedback and new insights. AWS, Kindle, Alexa) is based on testing market demand, iterating products, and scaling based on customer feedback.

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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. Its a central concept in lean startup methodology and a powerful tool for product development teams looking to accelerate progress while conserving resources.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Competitive Analysis is a structured framework that enables organizations to evaluate their position in the market by assessing competitors strengths, weaknesses, strategies, and performance. It is particularly useful for product development, market expansion, pricing strategies, and overall business positioning.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

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. This allows you to anticipate market trends and adjust your strategies accordingly.

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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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

By leveraging their core competencies, organizations can create sustainable differentiation, deliver superior value, and expand into new markets effectively. Align internal strengths with market needs Ensuring company expertise meets customer demands. Scalable Can be applied across different products, services, or markets.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The business vibe these days is a whirlwind—tech is always one step ahead, folks are changing their minds faster than a kid in a candy store, and the market’s mood swings like a pendulum. Quick Reflexes (Agility): Ever seen a cat dodge a falling vase? That’s agility.

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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. Eye good picks like products, services, how stuff gets done, and biz tactics. Go Agile : Embrace a get-and-go approach for quick tweaks and turns.

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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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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Companies that successfully bring new products to market rapidly, benefit from having a leg up on their competition while diminishing the negative effects of shrinking product life cycles. However, moving a product from lab to market is a process that in itself could use re-invention. What is Commercialization?

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Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

The trends outlined in this blog offer a glimpse into the future of product development and some exciting opportunities for product-driven companies to achieve real ROI regarding cost savings, efficiency, productivity, digital transformation benefits, and employee satisfaction.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

There is first elapsed time - the time from the first recognition of an opportunity or need until the product comes to market. This is one reason why ideas like agile and rapid sprints seem so compelling. Agile, lean and rapid methodologies meant to accelerate the innovation cycle?

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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. By developing solutions tailored to resource-limited environments, companies can uncover cost-effective and efficient innovations that can later be adapted for high-margin markets.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

This iterative approach is driving innovation by ensuring that solutions are aligned with user needs and market realities. From linear to agile: Idea generation is now a continuous process, not a one-time event. This agility is driving innovation by enabling organizations to adapt to new opportunities and challenges quickly.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 9, 2018

When a company that has both succeeded at innovation and failed utterly at new product development and launch (remember New Coke?) Reading the article closely If you read the linked article closely you'll see that Coke, traditionally a bastion of marketing and financial management, is now looking for people with different skill sets.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 30, 2010

To develop a completely new site requires several teams to collaborate and this can be difficult. This case study shows how the ComputerWeekly user experience team integrated with an agile development group. At this point the development team maintained the site with an agile process.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

Whether it’s refining products, solving complex challenges, or gathering market insights, companies are increasingly turning to crowdsourcing to stay competitive. Customer Co-Creation Brands involve customers in product development, allowing them to submit ideas, vote on features, or provide direct feedback.

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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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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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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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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

There are significant shifts underway towards digital innovation in R&D and new-product development. Digital is demanding so much in new processes that need to be more agile, responsive, reflective of new insights at increased speed and fluid in the design of those undertaking the solution to react.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This alignment can result in a myriad of collaborative opportunities, from product development to new market entry. The Importance of Startup Innovation in Corporate Growth In today’s rapidly changing business environment, startup innovation is often at the forefront of technological advancement and market disruption.

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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. By investing in this process, companies can enhance their product offerings, streamline operations, and even pivot toward new markets.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In this article, etventure’s Head of Product Gregor Ilg will take a closer look at the buzzword “Agile” – and de-mystify Agile in a business context. We love Agile at etventure – but we also understand it can create stress and confusion. What is Agile? Before Agile. The Agile Ethos.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

When you get evaluated in 90 day increments by the stock market, cutting or controlling costs is always an easier decision than investing in innovation. Consumers are returning to the markets at a record pace, and thanks to the government's largess we have more funds to spend. But we are asking the wrong question.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

By carefully analyzing and refining workflows, businesses can eliminate inefficiencies, optimize performance, and stay competitive in a rapidly changing market. 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.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 11, 2021

For example, one of the biggest idea killers is the inability for many companies to take really good ideas and get them prioritized in the existing product development process. That's because they are wedded to the existing products and processes. With those basics in mind, you can do a lot of good innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 30, 2018

Whether we are talking about change in your global markets, in your industry or in your customer base, change is everywhere. 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.

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