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. Keep Learning: Offer courses and sessions so your bunch stays sharp and on par with the times.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 11, 2025

For example, Boeing applied Hoshin Planning to enhance product development efficiency , ensuring cross-functional collaboration and reducing production delays. Measure Performance and Adjust Strategies Tracking progress against strategic objectives ensures that businesses stay on course and make necessary adjustments.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 26, 2021

In product development, it might be an innovative, competitive technology solution that is worth marketing because it will surprise and delight customers. In product development, it might be the process management that lets you create a dependable schedule. What is Air? In a services business, it might be customers.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Innovation is essential throughout the entire new product development (NPD) process, but nowhere is it more key than it is in the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) stage. FFE is the starting point of NPD and is where new product ideas are generated before entering the formal development process.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 2, 2019

Of course, this means that a company needs to have the capability to recognize and act on great ideas when they arrive, as well. One of the reasons that they want a software solution to collect employee ideas is because they’re afraid that they’ll miss a great idea that comes from someone in their workforce.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 24, 2021

About 70% of people said, “Of course we should include values in our model. And of course, in B2B, if it’s not a commodity, then nobody knows it. Not everything the ninja teams tried worked or was scalable, but what did work was passed back to R&D to come into the standardized product development process.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 9, 2021

Of course, with that and a towel, you can accomplish almost anything. But the question about staffing for growth, new products and innovation is an important and interesting question. New product development, innovation and growth responsibilities are simply layered on top of their existing jobs.

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Corporate Innovation

JULY 26, 2016

However, to get started and make this practical, consider column headings such as firm name, stage in portfolio, insights learned per firm, engagement priority, engagement or dis-engagement decision, and of course the changing context and arguments of strategic fit. In Summary.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

Yet there are few really interesting or new products on the market and the products and services that exist are becoming commoditized. What the companies that make the decision to maintain cost containment will miss is the opportunity to put new products and services into the product development funnel.

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Innovation in Practice

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), the premier global advocate for product development and management professionals, announced today that it has awarded the 2015 Outstanding Corporate Innovator (OCI) Award to BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX). 7-11 in Anaheim, Calif.

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The Human Factor

APRIL 8, 2021

You’ve come up with a brilliant idea for a product and are ready to take the first steps to make it a reality. Here are 5 steps you should follow for successful product development. . The first step to successful product development is, of course, innovation. But where do you start? Continuously innovate.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 22, 2019

Increasingly, new product development is being digitized (that it, it is becoming an increasingly digital experience with generative design) and new product development must incorporate digital capabilities - sensors, data, communications. Soon all products will be smart products.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

So as I read about the solution that Aras provides to the designers within Manufacturing to manage PLM complex systems and products, you have to wonder why this cannot be extended into all innovation’s management. Function four supports all phases of the product lifecycle.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Employees who understand customer pain points, organizational processes, and product development are invaluable in designing new business models that incorporate AI’s capabilities while keeping humanity at the core. AI: A Double-Edged Sword Of course, there is a flip side to all this.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

I bet the post title got your attention, but of course in this modern age of digital content we bloggers need headlines that pop through all of the noise and gain attention. It helps, of course, that I'm of the opinion that the headline is provocative, and has, as Kissenger once said, the added benefit of being true.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

One approach would be to focus on the "short term", what can innovation do for us to put better products on the shelves in less than 90 days. The general answer to that, given product development cycles, channel issues and customer awareness is: no much, except perhaps in the virtual world.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Because it’s a tool that values equality and that makes our jobs easier (at IdeaScale, we prioritize product development based on what people upvote in our community). We offer our employees PTO to vote and we even volunteer at the polls on election day. After all… even animals vote. We definitely love the people on our team.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 15, 2016

And you can have any innovation you like, incremental or disruptive, as long as it results in a tangible product. We've even got separate names for the different activities: "fuzzy front end" where ideas are generated, and "new product development, or NPD" for the activities where the ideas are converted into products.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

There are significant shifts underway towards digital innovation in R&D and new-product development. Of course, this shift requires really big changes in strategy, operations, the organization and in each individuals orientation. To achieve this innovation has gone digital, pure and simple.

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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. Solution Development - You've got to figure out how good ideas are going to get converted into new products or solutions.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2018

We work with clients to materialize their Design Thinking processes like we did with our customers at SAP , achieve their Agile product development and research operations, and implement business viability assessments based on COSTAR or Business Model Canvas. Limits in applicability or scope. Methodology agnostic” you might say.

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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. Why is there so much failure in the front end of innovation? This is the bad side of failure.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 18, 2022

I just want to encourage owners that it is OK to change your mind and to change course.”. Diversity across the boardroom and across your team is just so key to making sure we’re considering every aspect of our messaging and our product development, our long-term roadmap,” Schmidt said. “It Destiny in the blockchain.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The question, of course, is where. Customers buy a product and use it for an entirely different purpose, or ask for a feature the founders never intended for the product. Do innovation meetings devolve into discussions of accessories or minor improvements? Are profits declining?

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Of course many of these conversations revolve around innovation and new product or service development (or the lack thereof), and how people are engaged in their work and their roles. And this dissonance between noise and activity is beginning to impact senior people in significant ways.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Having learned that many young football players pack bananas in their sport bags only to find them mashed between their cleats before practice, she asked her product development team to create a better solution. Take Gatorade’s former president, Sarah Robb O’Hagan, for example.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 10, 2018

Jesters of course are an outgrowth of slaves who rode with generals returning from major conquests in ancient Rome. Further, they need the ability to realize good ideas as new products and services, either within the internal product development process or developed externally or acquired.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The software ideas are of course almost infinitely scalable, while consulting is somewhat scalable. Now, of course, consulting is shifting its business model, looking for revenue streams outside of the billable hour because the model is no longer deemed scalable.

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CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Of course, leveraging strategic thinking in the workplace is easier said than done. Product Development A product manager identifies a gap in the market and promotes the development of a new product or product mix that meets the specific needs of a customer segment.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 10, 2021

What I mean by that is to start taking your cues from your customers, the environment and future realities, and shape your capabilities and products to meet those emerging wants and needs. This is, of course, exactly opposite from what we've been told to do over our careers.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2023

Just as "green-washing" takes place to make companies appear more ecologically friendly, so to does innovation theater happen in many companies, to make it appear they are doing more new product development than they are in reality. Now, of course, there is a new buzz phrase - machine learning and/or AI, especially focused on ChatGPT.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 15, 2015

Further, even if the organization gets better at generating ideas, they haven't resolved how to commercialize good ideas quickly, due to long decision making and product development processes. Can the ideas or concepts they generate enter the product development process? It's not an either/or proposition.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The integration of AI into strategic planning and product development is a transformative move that can lead to substantial rewards. Leveraging AI for Product Development and Innovation AI is not just a tool for optimization; it’s a catalyst for innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 30, 2018

Of course you can ignore change and hope for the best, but hope is rarely a good strategy. Decision cycles must be shortened, more rapid experiments and minimum viable products created and tested. Your product development pipeline must get shorter as well. Which do you pay attention to and which do you ignore?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Having learned that many young football players pack bananas in their sport bags only to find them mashed between their cleats before practice, she asked her product development team to create a better solution. Take Gatorade’s former president, Sarah Robb O’Hagan, for example.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Of course there are other ways to get ideas, primarily from third parties or by acquiring intellectual property, and those are right for some situations and conditions, but this option is relevant only part of the time. Transparency - Product development and product execution are transparent.

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