Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

Consistent with these famous case studies, scientific research shows that creativity and innovation can be enhanced by reducing team harmony. Likewise, a review of theoretical and quantitative studies showed that teams are often more creative when they have fewer rather than more resources (for example, time, money, and people).

Creativity 15

Creativity Development Team Review Study Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

.” Now the team is tasked with both identifying and carrying out the right activities to make the required sales. This gives the team enough time to achieve something dramatic — but not so much that members will struggle to keep it top of mind. In addition, the urgency creates the conditions for rapid skill development.

Project 15

Project Design Learning Underperforming Technical Team 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

In business today, "user experience" (or UX) has come to represent all of the qualities of a product or service that make it relevant or meaningful to an end-user — everything from its look and feel design to how it responds when users interact with it, to the way it fits into people's daily lives.

Strategy 13

Strategy Strategy Product Development LEAN 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2011

For such a project, the team is assigned to accomplish something beyond what they currently do or have done before. Here again each person develops and implements his own plans, but in this case shares what he is doing with the group. The second response is cooperation.

Collaboration 15

Collaboration Brainstorming Resources Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Organizations need to be continually on the lookout for new market developments and competitive threats, identifying essential experts and nimbly forming and disbanding teams to help tackle those issues quickly. The group was surprised several times by the demands of external stakeholders.

Agile 15

Agile Underperforming Technical Team How To Collaboration 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

Software Review 15

Software Review Design Thinking Software Design 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

We term these product launches “minivations” and they are the result of product developers who don’t realize just how much value their offerings would provide to customers. The product, owned by Germany’s Brandstatter Group, generated 90% of the firm’s $696 million in sales last year.

Product Development 11

Product Development Development Team Review Analysis Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Throughout the '70s, Xerox leadership empowered a group of scientists and engineers to develop products for the coming information era. Innovation is the confluence of product development and a business model that can deliver those products to customers at a profit.

Company 15

Company Innovation Product Development Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Yes, there might be a niche group who are underserved, but as long as what ultimately matters is who else is on the same platform, no entrant who targets just that niche will be able to do any competitive damage. Both companies, while under a corporate umbrella, operate as independent brands with largely independent development teams.

Disruption 15

Disruption Software Competition Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Product development teams will need to focus on delivering products as a service to enable real-time service level monitoring. This way, engineers and product designers no longer have to make educated guesses about how their products perform in the field, because they can collect actual performance data instead.

Company 14

Company Internet of things Data Product Development 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

Agile 8

Agile Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

Engaging with your users on a regular basis — through reporting tools built into your product, online surveys, or focus groups, for example — is a necessary step for understanding, rather than assuming you know, their challenges and needs. What would help them feel safe? A focus on outcomes rather than inputs.

Data 12

Data Tools Design Collaboration 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

new product releases every day, not every year), has caused an increasing pressure on product development in other areas, and on management in general, to change more continuously as well. For an example, I spoke with Andy Singleton , CEO of Assembla , a firm that helps software development teams build software faster.

Software 11

Software Industry Management Disruption 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The purpose of these spaces can vary widely, but they typically fall into one or more of three groups: transformation, innovation, and future-proofing. While the focus of many spaces is to create new digital products and services, evidence from broader coworking surveys suggests other roles could benefit from this practice.

Company 14

Company Survey Design Report 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

It has a more rigorous organization structure that divides responsibilities between the innovation team and development team, and strengthens management around the opportunity pipeline. These teams have disciplined processes to get the technology to market, generally with a one- to two-year product horizon.

Technology 9

Technology Underperforming Technical Team Innovation System 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

van Wassenhove, both of Insead in France, found that the complexity of high-tech innovation efforts can blur teams’ perceptions. The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. What went wrong?

Underperforming Technical Team 9

Underperforming Technical Team Management Project Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Typically, companies ask consumers, through surveys or focus groups, questions like, “What is that benefit worth to you?” If you calculate an average EVC across a group of heterogeneous customers, you may be missing critical differences. ” or “If you had to put a dollar amount on that benefit, what would it be?”

Marketing 14

Marketing Examples Management Company 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Throughout the '70s, Xerox leadership empowered a group of scientists and engineers to develop products for the coming information era. Innovation is the confluence of product development and a business model that can deliver those products to customers at a profit.

Company 8

Company Innovation Product Development Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

As they spread to all its software development teams, Michael Holm, the company’s CEO and cofounder, began to worry that his leadership team was hindering progress. So in 2010, Holm decided to run his nine-member executive group as an agile team. Systematic Inc.,

Agile 8

Agile Underperforming Technical Team How To Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

This problem can be compounded when senior executives publicly announce these non-products in an “exciting new space,” creating more pressure on the project development team to deliver something (anything) before it is clear what exactly should be delivered. Fix or kill? Fix: This is a process fix, a mindset fix.

Underperforming Technical Team 14

Underperforming Technical Team Product Development Development Team Review Competition 14