Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

To support you in building out your innovation competencies, capabilities and capacity that requires a deeper investment in skill development in a culture of continual learning. Use tools like brainstorming sessions or interdisciplinary teams to encourage diverse insights.

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Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Agile 173

Kainexus

JANUARY 27, 2022

Unfortunately, often internal pressures, external commenters, and poor product management practices hinder managers' ability to deliver products that customers truly value. Another sad reality is that it is common for organizations to make product decisions without really understanding what matters most to the customer.

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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. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. In fact, according to some estimates by Doblin , 96% of all new innovations which established companies attempt fail to make a return on investment.

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Company Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Design Thinking 251

Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

The question management teams are asking and answering is: how can we manage our near term costs to keep the investors happy in the short run? Note that this is NOT a bad question to ask, because investors are constantly watching the effectiveness of the management team and want to see companies hitting their numbers.

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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2023

Whether you’re plotting the course for your product development or managing a portfolio of initiatives , you’re bound to face the daunting challenges of accurately predicting project milestones and costs and steering projects toward valuable, cost-effective conclusions.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 23, 2015

Nine out of ten companies believe that they are too slow to market with new products. In the consumer goods category around 80% of new products fail. These are some of the reasons why senior corporate executives are increasingly turning to separate innovation labs to spearhead their new product development.

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Years ago, companies didn’t do much about their customers, until they figured out it was cheaper to keep a customer than it was to find a new one, which drew them toward customer loyalty. Why is it crucial for companies to offer a broad range of benefits, and how can they ensure employees utilize them?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

For guidance on developing strategic thinking within your leadership team, you may find value in 10 ways to get your leadership team thinking strategically and building the best business strategies. To foster innovation: Implement systems for employees to submit and develop new ideas.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

This impact is evident across various facets of business, from operational efficiency and customer experience to product development and market analysis. A SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis can provide an initial framework for this evaluation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

A new product may lack key features or components, or like some successful products take years to build an audience. I'm actually more interested in the 90+% of ideas that never make it to product development. Failure - the good, the bad and the ugly Let's first admit that some failure is necessary.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Corporations assign teams without skills or experience, rapidly conduct "brainstorming" exercises based primarily on current opinion or past experience and move as quickly as possible to present a small handful of ideas to a wary executive team. This crowds the product development process and eliminates room for new concepts to enter.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

The most common aspect of some of the innovative companies is that they are also high-performing organizations. In innovative companies, innovation is not sporadic. In innovative companies, innovation is not sporadic. Over 79 percent successful, innovative companies encourage innovative behavior throughout the organization.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 21, 2022

To a great extent, we are becoming complacent, waiting for others to change or improve or modify our lives, rather than dreaming up big ideas and developing them ourselves. Yet, most companies stick within a very narrow range of new product development options, unable or unwilling to shift the frame and think differently.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. This will allow the corporate to more rapidly apply the benefits of the collaboration and develop the business.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

We teach trend spotting and scenario planning to our customers to help them understand the importance of recognizing emerging needs and emerging segments, because the great ideas they generate won't become products or services very quickly. And then I ask them to tell me their firm's average product development process timeframe.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 15, 2016

The guy who stole a march on Ford, and really defined the automobile company structure that we have today was William Durant. Durant foresaw that people would want a range of products and options. He created what became General Motors by offering people more choice of options, more flexibility and product families.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 10, 2021

Companies that create strong listening programs that interact with customers and consumers to understand their needs and present real market and product opportunities to their business will be rewarded. The resistance to an outside-in innovation and new product development process has got to change.

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Innovation 360 Group

AUGUST 25, 2019

The creativity of a single division or even a single company alone is rarely enough to overcome the inertia of “the way it’s always been.” Companies—and successful innovations—do not exist in isolation, but in an interlinked network of businesses, partners, clients and customers, embedded in an intricately connected world.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Recently I was exploring the world of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and read an excellent Whitepaper from Aras Corp , one of the leading PLM solution providers. I have argued we do need to change the way we undertake innovation and its development. Some claim that they do this already but seriously they do not.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This process is widely adopted by managers, executives, and consultants to drive new product development, service innovation, and business model refinement. At the core of design thinking lies a commitment to putting users’ experiences and feedback at the forefront of product and service design.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Building an Innovative Company Culture. Executives love talking about “disruption” nowadays, but very few companies can achieve truly disruptive results. The reason: before you can disrupt an industry, you need to disrupt your own company culture first. Taivara Blog Post by Michael Shuchter. Contact Us.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Tune into the Pain of the Person You’re Talking To Forget about yourself and how excited you are about this great new idea or concept you want the company to implement. For example, you could say, “I know you’re dealing with… [lagging sales, poor internal communications, customer complaints, etc.]. Here’s how you do that.

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IdeaConnection

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Traditionally, oil companies essentially wandered around, digging into the ground and crossing their fingers. The discovery saved Exxon millions of dollars, and made Harold rich enough to retire at age 40, using his money to start a company called Antares, developing audio processing software.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Almost every business operation has been affected: from the manner firms talk to their customers to the logistics of product delivery to maintaining channels of communication between employees. Some big tech companies went as far as to allow willing employees to work from home either permanently or for a foreseeable future.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Almost every business operation has been affected: from the manner firms talk to their customers to the logistics of product delivery to maintaining channels of communication between employees. Some big tech companies went as far as to allow willing employees to work from home either permanently or for a foreseeable future.

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Crowdsourcing Tools Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 52

Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The total weightings of the various indexes which then result in a net rank for each country compared to each other country, allowing the GII team to say which country achieves the overall highest Innovation Efficiency Ratio ranking (it’s Switzerland). Innovation Leader, Achievers and Underperformers, GII 2016.

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Underperforming Technical Team Data Report Innovation 100

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

I was the “interviewee” for an “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence about how to plan team building exercises that create impact for work teams. As described in the article, I’ve been on the good and bad side of various team building exercises during my career.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Amazon is one of the most innovative companies on the planet – launching successful, bold new products and services on a regular basis. If you want to create a successful, hyper-growth company, you've got to focus on empowering your teams to rapidly experiment.” Encourage bold/crazy ideas 2.

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Adam Hartung

MARCH 30, 2016

It is not shy about seeking action at the Board level to change the direction of a company – by changing the CEO, seeking downsizings and reogranizations, changing dividend policy, seeking share buybacks, recommending asset sales, or changing other resource allocations. This made Icahn billions, but ended up killing the company.

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Mike Shipulski

AUGUST 3, 2016

For established companies, when times are good, it’s not the right time to try something new – the resources are there but the motivation is not; and when times are tough it’s also the wrong time to try something new – the motivation is there but the breathing room is not. But this is not a binary world. Some work, some don’t.

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Huub Rutten

MARCH 9, 2021

Business people: I mean the Sales teams and their leaders. Christine is the VP Commercials in a large country of a global consumer goods company. It takes years to recover from a bad launch in my business. You also lose revenue for other products during several years. Against your competitor!

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Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 52

Huub Rutten

MARCH 9, 2021

Business people: I mean the Sales teams and their leaders. Christine is the VP Commercials in a large country of a global consumer goods company. It takes years to recover from a bad launch in my business. You also lose revenue for other products during several years. Against your competitor!

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Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 52

Huub Rutten

MARCH 9, 2021

Business people: I mean the Sales teams and their leaders. Christine is the VP Commercials in a large country of a global consumer goods company. It takes years to recover from a bad launch in my business. You also lose revenue for other products during several years. Against your competitor!

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Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 52

Acuvate

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Create a team of experts in agile delivery methods to own and rule integration within your organization. Four percent of businesses reported that poor integration costs them as much as $1 million annually. Engage integration specialists to operate complex legacy systems with long development cycles.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 22, 2022

I think we can all agree that user adoption is the primary objective for all products. User adoption is not something that evolves at a particular point of a product development life cycle. Instead, user adoption requires proper planning and implementation strategy when the product is just an idea. What Is User Adoption?

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Innovation in Practice

MAY 23, 2016

For most companies, the top marketer, usually called the chief marketing officer, is part of the senior leadership team and sits on the executive committee or management board. If you let things slip in terms of your team’s skills and effectiveness, you’re going to lose that seat. Product development goes to R&D.

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Betterific

AUGUST 2, 2016

Welcome to the second part of our new “Brainstorming with…” series, where we interview two sets of people – the innovation challenge winners and the product developers and innovation experts that sponsor the challenges. And most importantly I’ve learned about the end-to-end cycle of product development.

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