Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Ever since Eric Reis published his bestselling book, The Lean Startup, the idea of a minimum viable product (MVP) has captured the imagination of entrepreneurs and product developers everywhere. The idea of testing products faster and cheaper has an intuitive logic that simply can’t be denied.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 11, 2020

00:12:00 – How digital product innovation has changed over the past 10 years. 00:20:45 – What it takes for a digital product to succeed. Jonathan new Book: The Workshopper Playbook – get it now for FREE: [link]. 00:16:30 – Innovation labs were a place where nothing got done. AJ&Smart website: [link].

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The innovation book Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival hammers the point home that innovation is the key to your company’s survival—in other words, “innovate or die.”

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 3, 2020

We are facing such an unprecedented change and technology is re-writing the rule book in everything we are going to do. Agile product development. Many of the fundamental assumptions are outdated and he is suggesting we move from the Analog to Digital era, with his chapters in the book to work through these.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Ever since Eric Reis published his bestselling book, The Lean Startup, the idea of a minimum viable product (MVP) has captured the imagination of entrepreneurs and product developers everywhere. The idea of testing products faster and cheaper has an intuitive logic that simply can’t be denied.

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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. Esther Gons is the co-author of The Corporate Startup, winner of the 2019 Golden Axiom Business Book Award and the 2018 Management Book Of The Year Award. Karin Hurt.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In fact I'd go so far as to suggest that many people involved in innovation, new product development and who want to focus on growth in major corporations would gladly leave their current companies if they could find companies that would place more emphasis on innovation and growth. Too much experience with too little challenge?

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Idea Sandbox

AUGUST 16, 2020

The following is adapted from a design process presented in the endnotes of Seth Godin’s book “ Free Prize Inside.” ” This works extremely well for problem-solving, product development, and strategy planning. Define the Problem. Define the problem. Envision the end state (know what victory looks like).

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Planview

JANUARY 9, 2025

When Dr. Mik Kersten published Project to Product a groundbreaking book that introduced the Flow Framework just over six years ago the term product operating model was relatively new. At the time, many leading software companies already knew how to organize people through a product-oriented mindset.

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Planview

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Rules has already received a number of stellar reviews, citing not just the necessity of this book, but its effectiveness in action. Its a small book, easy to read and one you will want to keep handy and refer to often.” Real world examples, anecdotes, and practices from successful leaders and companies. What Readers are Saying.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 24, 2021

Back in 2006, I encountered Tom Nagle’s work on pricing and read his classic book The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing. And he’s the person who developed a lot of the concepts that we use. IS: How is value at the center of both pricing and an innovation strategy? How do you put it at the center?

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Brought to prominence by Professor Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma , this important theory provides an explanation as to why large, established companies eventually get overtaken by smaller ones, and it introduced the concept of disruptive innovation. What is it: Every company knows about brainstorming.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

As Steve Blank puts it in his foreword to O’Reilly and Tushman’s latest book on the subject: Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma: Exploitation pays your salary while exploration pays your pension. Here, innovation will be closely tied to “product development” resources.

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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?) Fast, Nimble, Agile, Innovative Not to toot my own horn too much, but there's a methodology aligned to this way of thinking, that my co-author and I outlined in our book OutManeuver.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 19, 2020

One of my favorite authors is Robert Heinlein, who wrote a number of good Sci-Fi books, each of which had technical but more importantly societal considerations. Read the book - it's also one of the first places where "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" or TANSTAAFL, was popularized.

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

He is the author or coauthor of 15 books including “ Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don’t ” and “The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First.” You have people with dispersed operations, working on not only product development and software development, but also other things like marketing and strategy.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 18, 2022

As she did in her book “Supermaker,” Schmidt is quick to share the lessons she’s learned as a business owner to encourage other people who are getting started with their own businesses. I wanted to get my story out there and let people know that it is possible and you can come from nothing and make a name for yourself.”.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

JULY 6, 2024

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

It tied in quite nicely with the book I’m reviewing here. Enter the book. It turns out that Jeff Gothelf, author of Lean UX (the book I’m reviewing here) has also faced the same challenges. The answer situates itself within the Lean approach to product development. Lean UX has its own challenges.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2023

I've been leading innovation work for close to 20 years, writing about it on this blog and in my book (Relentless Innovation). But, we got started, getting some initial training from Tim Hurson , who wrote Think Better, a great book on innovation thinking, creativity and facilitation. I think a re-introduction is in order.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 30, 2018

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. Your product development pipeline must get shorter as well.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

That’s my takeaway from a new book, The Pan-Industrial Revolution: How New Manufacturing Titans Will Transform the World. The book explains why 3D printing, or more generally additive manufacturing, will do more than just alter the factory floor. Where do traditional small manufacturers fit into this?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 9, 2022

I wrote about this extensively in my book Leapfrogging. Robyn Waters, the former vice president of trend, design and product development, once told me the same thing. ‘Unconscious thinking’ helps you analyze data so you make the best decisions. The answer may surprise you. Disruptive Innovators Use Their Gut.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Whether you’re creating a new product, service, process, or business model, innovation is about keeping an eye on costs while pushing forward to create novel new solutions. Work with other companies to lower the costs–and the risks–around new product development. Leverage external innovation. Rethink waste.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

I have a small book about these experiences that one day I'll get organized and published. Plus, if the tangible products must fit within an existing infrastructure and work within accepted norms then the range and scope of innovation is narrowed and innovation becomes even more difficult to do well, and is easily copied.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 30, 2021

Incorporating sustainability into product development and organizational goals. Developing a circular process that incorporates lessons learned and challenges assumptions to develop new goals. Perceiving where the value lies in sustainability. Reiterating and upgrading business models and processes to be more sustainable.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

BIG THANKS TO JOHN GLINDEMAN, Manager of Product Development and Wellness for United Concordia , for his very supportive review of my new book, Storytelling for the Revolution. "My That job has had titles ranging from Actuarial Associate to Manager of Product Innovation. The introduction to the book.

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Planview

MARCH 18, 2022

As a result, we will gain insights on how her teams collaborate, the Planview culture, and career advice for those seeking employment in the Product Development (PD) automation field. Here is what Geetika had to say: Explain your role as a Software Development Engineer Test Manager and a few of your responsibilities.

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 2, 2013

For interactive products that are used repeatedly, Consummate Love is what we are seeking to elicit from our users. model embodies the different forms of love, and can help you envision product development as a process of building relationships with users. New York: Basic Books. New York: Basic Books. Phoenix, AZ.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 17, 2021

I'm a fan of military history, and it is always striking to me to see how much new product development and innovation can learn from the military and vice versa. Mental models and organizational structures that restrict innovation What do we think limits military generals from innovation or new tactics?

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Viima

APRIL 26, 2023

Don’t judge a book by its cover or a process by its name. The design sprint is not just about design, not only for designers, nor it has anything to do with running. But it has plenty to do with guiding a team in the right guiding a team’s innovation efforts. A problem, after all, is at the core of good design and successful innovation.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 26, 2014

Each panelist had made their mark on how design is done in start-ups: Laura wrote the influential O’Reilly book on UX for Lean Startups, and Todd penned the bestselling Rosenfeld Media Prototyping book. All of these approaches are useful, but the trick is to pick the right one for your particular stage of product development.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The company makes money by charging 6%-12% commision for every booking from the host and ~3% charge for the users booking the property. Further, MSPs can be classified depending on the product/service or the segment they serve. To a large extent, the community is used for marketing the product as well.

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Leanstack

AUGUST 4, 2016

Metaphors are powerful because they help you transpose concepts from one domain to another, which is exactly what I did in describing a business model development process. This 3-step business model development process is the same one I outlined in my first book: Running Lean. The first step here is business modeling.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The top person chooses one or more of the pitched ideas to put into the product development pipeline for introduction. If you don’t have a pipeline, start one, and test the idea as cheaply as you can before you advance to the next stage of development (as in Lean Product Development ).

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Therefore, corporate R & D programs need targets to ensure that the product development portfolio includes growth projects that carry more risk and have a longer payback. I believe that every person who touches product development has the ability – and the responsibility – to deliver innovative products to the market.

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