Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

Prelude : When kicking off a project, we assemble the best possible project team , our “ special commando ” like we call it. We run an identification workshop with the project team, to assess the objectives, constraints and KPI?s Now, we have all the keys to start the product development. GO : Bring the action!

Underperforming Technical Team 42

Underperforming Technical Team Training Design Project 42

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 a top management group, it might be the requirement to reduce overall expenses or headcount by 20%; for a sales or business development team, the goal might be to increase revenues by 10% in the next quarter; and for a product development team the focus could be on accelerating a market launch by two months.

Collaboration 15

Collaboration Brainstorming Resources Leadership 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

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. ” As design expertise became more critical to the success of IBM products and services, increasingly designers worked more frequently in collaboration with software engineers on product development.

Software Review 15

Software Review Design Thinking Software Design 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Its straightforward, step-by-step methodology makes it relatively easy to explain and to implement: Identify the minimal viable product. Develop a version rapidly and test it with customers, ideally in a real-world competitive situation. Repeat the process until the core product is competitive or pivot to explore a new approach.

LEAN 11

LEAN Learning Product Development Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

By the summer of 2008 GE leadership wanted to sell the appliances business or spin it off. If the goal was to leapfrog the competition in every product line while revitalizing U.S. The $1 billion plan envisioned 11 new product platforms in six different manufacturing sites. everyone met again to review what they''d done.

Development Team Review 10

Development Team Review LEAN Training Culture 10

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

JANUARY 2, 2017

Its early success also highlights the CEO’s critical role in challenging the organization to assess its digital competence and to determine how urgently it needs to respond to threats and opportunities. Product development teams have to work with field maintenance and commercial teams.

Underperforming Technical Team 15

Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Disruption Agile 15

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

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

JUNE 25, 2015

We’ve created an end-to-end electronic domain that connects all elements of product development – conceptualization, design and analysis, simulation and optimization, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operations and sustainment. Another part comes from sharing information.

Collaboration 11

Collaboration Design System Creativity 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently. Based on our experience working with these teams, we recommend senior teams do the following if they want to become more agile: Treat your enterprise priorities as a managed backlog. The CEO and his leadership team share a joint table.

Agile 8

Agile Underperforming Technical Team How To Leadership 8

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

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