Sopheon

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s a simple but common truth: teams that don’t collaborate and communicate won’t consistently innovate. Innovation at scale requires open channels of dialogue to ensure speed and accuracy, but that can’t happen when teams work in silos — especially when it’s between product development and manufacturing.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Traditionally used in manufacturing and operations to track metrics like production time, cost efficiency, and quality, benchmarking has evolved into a broader innovation and strategy tool. It now applies across business functions, including customer service, technology, marketing, supply chain, and product development.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 11, 2025

Unlike traditional planning methods, which often focus solely on top-down goal setting, Hoshin Planning integrates both top-down and bottom-up collaboration , ensuring that every employee contributes to strategic success. Improves communication and engagement Encourages collaboration across all levels of the organization.

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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. This is the second post looking more at collaboration and idealization and how and what has helped it evolve in this period.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 4, 2025

Initial assessments are highly valuable before you embark on participating in Ecosystem collaborations. My aim is to encourage business thinking around Collaborative Ecosystem Management for the future. There are several emerging frameworks that provide for both universal and distinct application stages.

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Sopheon

DECEMBER 17, 2021

How companies address supply chain delays, the labor market and collaboration will define new product development success in 2022. The post Successful New Product Development Will Require Innovative Approaches in 2022 appeared first on Sopheon.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Ensuring a timely and cost-effective product development life cycle. Coping with the rapid pace of technological change and its impact on product relevance. Introduction to Lean Startup Methodology The fast-paced and competitive business environment requires innovative strategies for developing new products and services.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Understanding Team Collaboration Collaboration within a team setting is a cornerstone of modern organizational success, driving innovation, problem-solving, and efficiency in today’s complex workplace. Higher Employee Engagement Teams that work collaboratively often report higher levels of engagement and job satisfaction.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

A strong problem statement not only serves as a guide for internal teams but also fosters collaboration across departments. By applying this framework, organizations can refine their product development, service improvements, and strategic initiatives to better meet customer expectations.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 11, 2025

Enhances cross-functional collaboration Ensures teams work toward common objectives. Steps to develop effective strategies: Identify the key drivers for achieving each goal. Develop initiatives that align with business strengths. Ensure cross-functional collaboration for execution.

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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. Ensure Organizational Alignment Foster collaboration across departments.

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helloFUTURE

JULY 3, 2023

In the fast-paced, dynamic world of product development, no single person or team monopolizes good ideas. Successful product development demands collaboration – and not just among individuals, but across functions.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

This technology can be applied across various stages of innovation, from idea generation to product development. Collaborate with AI Experts : Work with AI specialists to understand the technical aspects and capabilities of AI tools. Invest in Quality Data : AI systems rely on high-quality data to function effectively.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

It is particularly useful for product development, market expansion, pricing strategies, and overall business positioning. Social Media & Advertising Observe competitors engagement strategies, ad campaigns, and influencer collaborations. Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Collaborate with AI Experts : Partner with AI experts and consultants to gain insights into the latest AI advancements and how they can be applied to your innovation processes. This collaboration can provide valuable guidance and support. This will enable them to effectively utilize AI tools and techniques.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Promote Collaboration : Bring folks from different teams together to tackle problems and come up with fresh solutions. Promote Collaboration Get a mix of skills to solve challenges innovatively. Internal Processes : Dive into how you get stuff done and pinpoint any bottlenecks or places where automation could help.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

What is clear anyone that does develop a fully integrated platform designed for innovation will certainly disrupt the current way products are managed. We can actually get into true lifecycle management across not just one business but within collaborations across functions, companies, and entire ecosystems, to contribute.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Because it invests customers in product development, it can also be useful from a marketing perspective or if you want to use crowdsourcing, but don’t want to deal with the downsides of the entire internet having a vote on your product. That can drive even closed innovation processes in powerful ways.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Focus on Competence Development and Investment Strengthening core competencies requires ongoing investment in: Talent Development Hiring and training employees to enhance expertise. Strategic Partnerships Collaborating with key partners to enhance capabilities. Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

An open innovation strategy is about reaching beyond internal resources to collaborate with external sources—whether they’re customers, academic institutions, startups, or other firms—to discover, develop, and launch new ideas. But what exactly does open innovation entail, and how can companies leverage it strategically?

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Developing Excellent Problem-Solving Skills. Business owners face several problems such as: reducing costs, generating an effective product development strategy, and creating new products. Closing the gap between collaboration and action will result in greater creative thinking. Taking Decision-Making Up a Notch.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A growing hybrid and remote workforce has shown the need for clear communication and collaboration across teams. The dismantling of silos is especially crucial in companies that produce physical products involving cross-functional teams that need more efficient ways of sharing and visualizing their work across the organization.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Disruptions to effective product development are constant but don’t need to be detrimental to an organization’s ability to deliver innovation with speed and maintain a healthy ROI. Suppose organizations make adaptability a cornerstone of their product development strategy and overall culture.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started. Crowdsourcing is a great way to assemble data for product innovation.

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Anaqua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Anaqua is taking us into the next generation of IP management with new levels of collaboration and productivity.” – Heidi Martinez, Chief IP Counsel and Associate General Counsel, Xerox Corporation. Over the years, we’ve made investing in product development a top strategic focus.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

These companies might have an innovation team as part of each brand / business unit, responsible for researching and coming up with ideas and designs for new products. Here, innovation will be closely tied to “product development” resources. More resources required and potential duplication between teams.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Product Lifecycle Management is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from inception, through design and manufacturing, to service and disposal. Then, ensure that the product development process is aligned with the company’s strategic drivers.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

For corporations looking to collaborate with startups, the following factors need to be considered: Corporations should be aware of their problems (both internal and external) and focus on optimizing for quality over quantity. This will allow the corporate to more rapidly apply the benefits of the collaboration and develop the business.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 14, 2021

Successful closed innovation requires protection, control, and ownership of intellectual property while still under development, through the use of special product development teams within a company. Innovation most often occurs from the collaboration and combined efforts of a group, not an individual working alone.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

Since then, crowdsourcing has evolved into a widely used business strategy, enabling companies to engage employees, customers, and the public in problem-solving, product development, and market research. This ensures new products align with market demand while strengthening brand loyalty.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 28, 2020

Emotional intelligence helps leaders implement product development strategies, innovation strategies, and change management. Employees will feel more motivated to express their ideas and work toward successful collaborations. They present confidence in who they are and how they believe.

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Planview

JULY 7, 2023

Even more so, when discussing AI and its purpose and value in product development, it can be easy to fall deep into a rabbit hole of all the possibilities and potential. In this post, we outline three more general applications of AI/ML in product development that deliver results in this quickly expanding field.

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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. Enabling cross-functional teams to visualize work in their preferred methodology can lead to greater efficiency and collaboration.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

Innovation has gone from being islands of knowledge, developing new products and services exclusive to that one company, then quickly copied by the competitors, into something radically different. There are significant shifts underway towards digital innovation in R&D and new-product development.

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