Planview

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A product strategy needs to include innovation and investing in new technologies. The 2024 Project to Product State of the Industry report confirms this shift, showing how higher-performing companies organizations that meet objectives more than 70-90% of the time are at least twice as likely to actively focus on customer experience.

LEAN 65

LEAN Project Report Case Study 65

BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence offered an internal branding strategy take on the United Airlines woes, offering strategic thinking questions you can ask and answer to improve your brand’s resiliency and avoid brand crises. 3 Ways Your Internal Branding Strategy Can Be Smarter than United Airlines.

Strategy 72

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 72

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

When you embrace virtual collaboration, you’re adopting a flexible work culture that accommodates diverse work styles and schedules, which can lead to a more inclusive and dynamic work environment. Here, you’ll discover key strategies to enhance virtual team collaboration.

Collaboration 100

Collaboration Team Building Tools Video 100

BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

What leadership skills are necessary to successfully champion a collaborative strategy ? A client fully immersed in developing and implementing a collaborative strategy asked that question. When we leave after the plan is completed, however, we’re finding many leaders aren’t prepared to implement a collaborative strategy plan.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking 40

Anaqua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

They defined a new class of enterprise software and set the stage for a company culture that empowers its clients with direct influence on product development. Company Culture That Empowers Clients - The Anaqua Experience. It should be natural for a software provider and client to want mutual success in the relationship.

Collaboration 75

Collaboration Industry Software Review Roadmap 75

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

These platforms can boost productivity by automating routine tasks, fostering a culture of open communication, and enabling decision-making processes to become more streamlined and efficient. To dive deeper into communication strategies for virtual teams, explore our article on virtual team communication tools.

Collaboration 100

Collaboration Software Review Video Project 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

These platforms can boost productivity by automating routine tasks, fostering a culture of open communication, and enabling decision-making processes to become more streamlined and efficient. To dive deeper into communication strategies for virtual teams, explore our article on virtual team communication tools.

Collaboration 100

Collaboration Software Review Video Project 100

Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

One course that stands out as an example of bridging the academic divide between design and business is the Luxury Design and Strategy course in collaboration with Columbia Business School. Culture/Issues. Product design. The categories include: VR/MR/AR. Installation. Playful experiences. Storytelling/Film.

Design 93

Design Technical Review Software Review Software Developers 93

Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Some informants raised concerns about product owners or developers thinking of design only in very tactical terms and not recognizing the value that UX brings to the product ideation process. Some informants raised concerns about how UX was valued as part of product development. Product owners. UX managers.

Agile 111

Agile Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review 111

Peer Insight

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

So, do an audit on your strategy – if you can’t answer these 4 questions, meet with senior leaders to determine the answers: Why does this innovation team exist? After months of being stalled, one corporate innovator in a major CPG firm revisited some core questions about their strategy and pivoted to a new decision-making framework.

Project 52

Project Innovation Product Strategy Strategy 52

BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

In many organizations, however, substantial creative thinking challenges come from leaders and cultures that may say they want new thinking, but seem to do everything they can to scuttle creativity. Protecting Your Creativity in a Culture that Doesn’t Value It. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Creativity Brainstorming Strategic Thinking 40

BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Creating the Culture. When creating the new culture, think “lowercase b.”

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Company Entrepreneurship 40

Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

AI and powerful scenario-analysis capabilities will be crucial for assessing strategies against opportunity costs, product trade-offs, and the overall inherent risks of an R&D portfolio. These efforts should be crucial elements of any strategy aimed at driving long-term success and profitability.

Product Development 69

Product Development Innovation Management Management Trends 69

Innovation in Practice

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

How and where innovation is performed matters: As Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter, author of classic texts on corporate strategy and the competitive advantage of nations, has noted, “Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.”. One reason is that U.S. at healthy levels; the other is that the U.S.

Study 40

Study Strategy Strategy Innovation 40

Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Our projects have been successful because we know the challenges our company faces, the gotchas around the corner, how it behaves, what its culture is, and what triggers its immune system reaction. Over time, this will foster a culture of innovation across the company. Of course, this all depends on what the investment threshold is.

Disruption 52

Disruption Project Roadmap Innovation Processes 52

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Various factors, however, such as costs, regulations, perceived employee indifference, cultural barriers and other issues can stop leaders from acting as if they believe better off employees are better for their organization. That does not mean everyone determines and forms strategy. Documenting the Knowledge of Tenured Workers.

Training 40

Training Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Strategy 40

Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

Wargaming – Wargaming seeks a robust, flexible strategies that enable your product to anticipate and outmaneuver competitive, or other, threats that can have devastating consequences. Whether the additional detail above is performed before or after your scoring can be determined by your own organization’s culture.

Ideation 48

Ideation Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Technical Review 48

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

But perhaps above all, the scouting team's mission is to evaluate whether the direction of the potential company or technology to be bought matches with the strategy of the acquiring company. Below are some tips on how to make your tech scouting more efficient, and best practices to help ensure your search goes smoothly.

Innovation Processes 40

Innovation Processes Innovation Data Technology 40

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

But perhaps above all, the scouting team's mission is to evaluate whether the direction of the potential company or technology to be bought matches with the strategy of the acquiring company. Below are some tips on how to make your tech scouting more efficient, and best practices to help ensure your search goes smoothly.

Innovation Processes 40

Innovation Processes Innovation Data Technology 40

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

UX, as user experience is known, is the new black in business culture. Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet.

Leadership 14

Leadership Design Product Development LEAN 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

As the meeting progressed, the lead product owner got more and more agitated, and eventually exclaimed, “I can’t control any of these issues!” ” The company had layers of bureaucracy and management, siloed functions, and a culture of friction and defensiveness. . ” and stormed out.

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Meeting Culture Product Development Course 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2016

But this strategy misses an important opportunity for associations – many of which are in trouble. Dove’s focus on values and community sparked a change in the conversation around women and beauty in advertising and in the wider culture.

Industry 14

Industry Conference Training Product Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

A company has to establish a strategy and a purpose that provide context for employees’ actions. Clarity of purpose and what we call high-resolution strategies, which give people a clear view of where they’re headed, provide the compass that can guide the choices that teams and individuals make when working autonomously.

Agile 15

Agile Leadership Culture Web Developers 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Asking our best thinkers to determine how we declare an environmental commitment for our company and customers was invigorating but still required a culture change. One example is our Design for Sustainability program for product managers and design engineers, which we developed with Underwriters Laboratories Environment.

Technical Review 15

Technical Review Leadership Design Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

In addition to being cultural champions, they can help remind their companies not to shift their attention too far away from product strategy and innovation. Founders can be invaluable resources because they provide an arc of continuity from the firm’s earliest days to today.

Technical Review 15

Technical Review Entrepreneurship Strategic Management Product Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

It had a shrinking labor force, low labor productivity, low technological competitiveness of Russian exports, and excessive government meddling that constrained investment. This will guide how they align sales, marketing, and product strategies.

Marketing 12

Marketing Strategy Strategy Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

” You might help them get organized, shape their vision, strategy, and goals, or volunteer to tackle a particular project that would help them have a significant impact in a short period of time, says Watkins. Sutton agrees that your goal should be to support your peer-turned-manager as she “grows into the new role.”

Software Review 15

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Case Study CTO 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

Japan’s educational institutions and cultural work ethic give its managers a jump-start in their careers, but most companies don’t continue the development process as far as it could go. What we found was an incredible paradox. Japanese professionals had higher potential than the global average but lower competence.

Leadership 8

Leadership Groups Management Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

If the talents or efforts of individuals get credited or blamed for performance, then performance that doesn’t meet expectations does not raise tough questions about whether culture, product, strategy, incentives, or technologies might be improperly configured or misaligned with one another.

Data 9

Data Big Data Product Strategy System 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The result was often a global organization bogged down with redundancy, additional costs, and a fragmented corporate culture. Sharpen product strategies for a more digitally connected world. This kind of strategy increasingly applies beyond the multiplex.

Data 8

Data Technical Review Marketing Competition 8

Acuvate

JANUARY 31, 2023

2023 might be the year in which AI will break through many companies’ working cultures and start to be introduced in some of their daily routines. Yet, with the retail landscape ever evolving, it becomes very difficult for data scientists to keep up with the changes in data patterns and therefore model tuning.

Artificial Inteligence 145

Artificial Inteligence Trends ChatGPT Generative AI 145

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

Although insights from social listening can and should drive corporate strategy and innovation, these are more likely trapped inside the marketing and service departments that “own” them. Anthropologists and the culturally sensitive analysts who think like them specialize in meaning management.

Underperforming Technical Team 15

Underperforming Technical Team Data Marketing Analysis 15