BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

These trends, as one industry insider put it, “burn really bright and really short,” necessitating abbreviating product development cycles from several years to months, or even weeks. The company’s CEO reports having given the team very little budget and only three months to have toy ideas ready for last January’s toy fair.

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Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To start, invite more individuals to review an intern’s work. It’s invaluable to show the interns where his or her work fits within the larger effort of the company, [such as] how the case study created by a marketing intern aligns to a need within sales, or the competitive analysis is used by the product development team,” Moss said. “It

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. How can design thinking help with product development? This involves reviewing the feedback from the user testing, and making adjustments to the solution based on the insights gathered. How can design thinking help with product development?

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Be-novative

MARCH 30, 2021

With that said, tailor-made feedback and future-proof assessments are vital when it comes to first-time managers. They are thirsty for relevant, human feedback to learn from. They appreciate if feedback comes in real-time without waiting weeks for the results of a personality test.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2018

Although his one-on-one meetings with these reports, which involved progress reviews, motivation, and coaching, were highly productive, his monthly team meetings weren’t. Catherine, a senior marketing director leading a cross-functional product development team at the same company, provides a contrasting case study.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2011

The way to support — or avoid killing — a free product model is by structuring the internal organization in a way that delivers the right incentives. However, while this approach promotes the free products business model, it makes tight integration with other products more difficult.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

For instance, a recent study of 100 product development teams found that two common disruptors of team harmony, namely diversity and task uncertainty, were positively associated with creative performance. Although not all hard tasks are worth doing, most things worth doing are hard, which is why we aspire to them.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Our research focuses on agility not as a broad ideal, but rather on where it matters most — at the point of execution, where teams are working on new products, strategic initiatives, or with top clients. Set up “communities of practice” or business development initiatives to help share expertise or resources.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

.” HBR: Too Much Team Harmony Can Kill Creativity by Darko Lovric and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic — “Consistent with these famous case studies, scientific research shows that creativity and innovation can be enhanced by reducing team harmony.

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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. After bringing its new product to market, the component maker commissioned an assessment of its product development process.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Processes, organizational cultures, and resources emerge inside companies, creating pressure that runs opposite to the pursuit of innovation. Innovation is the confluence of product development and a business model that can deliver those products to customers at a profit.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Both companies, while under a corporate umbrella, operate as independent brands with largely independent development teams. Doing so would have completely upended their product development organization. After being slow to invest heavily in mobile, Facebook marshalled resources to do so. How did it do this?

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

For example, suppose that you and the interview team think that Jodi may be overstating his accomplishments. ” or “Tell me a little about the product development team Jodi worked on.” Try open-ended questions like these, “What were Jodi’s responsibilities in the merger?”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. These criteria assume a limited supply of financial capital and that prudent allocation of financial capital determines a firm’s success.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Processes, organizational cultures, and resources emerge inside companies, creating pressure that runs opposite to the pursuit of innovation. Innovation is the confluence of product development and a business model that can deliver those products to customers at a profit.

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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.,

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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.

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