CorporateIntel

APRIL 1, 2012

Information compounds on our desktops, the team with analysis paralysis most often loses to the nimble risk takers—but all this means is that in product development , the role of Quality Assurance (QA) has never been more critical. ” Believe me, I understand trade-offs.

Software Review 40

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software 40

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

It can often seem like digital technology is making every aspect of business move at warp speed. It’s cheaper because of automation and because small development teams need less coordination and oversight. Google combines automated testing with a related process that requires a human peer to review code changes.

Product Development 9

Product Development Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

It’s extremely difficult to say how long current trends will remain significant — innovative technologies are popping up faster than we can forecast — and it’s impossible to tell which new trends could emerge during your campaign and thwart your efforts. And then tweak your strategy.

Agile 14

Agile Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

You even people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business — all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels. Lean UX : In many cases, the best way to embed UX thinking in your product development teams is not to focus on design as a specific competency.

Strategy 13

Strategy Strategy Product Development LEAN 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Bally Technologies , a leading provider of gaming systems for casinos, has earned more than 60 awards for innovation in just the last four years. How did Bally Technologies do it? But while the foundational elements are the same, Bally Technologies uses them in a distinct way. Through an innovation excellence framework.

Technology 9

Technology Underperforming Technical Team Innovation System 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

Underperforming Technical Team 15

Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Disruption Agile 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers.

Software Review 15

Software Review Design Thinking Software Design 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Xerox's failure to conquer the personal computing market — this despite developing revolutionary technology — demonstrates the importance of aligning all segments of your organization in the pursuit of innovation. Its successes include technology titans like Adobe and Level 3. In 1984, Apple Inc.

Company 15

Company Innovation Product Development Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Consider the case of an organization in our consortium, the Connected Commons , that uncovered a ground-breaking audio/visual technology which would differentiate the organization in existing channels but also had the potential to open up entirely new markets. 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 2, 2016

Technology advancements and the Industrial Internet of Things are making this outcome orientation more feasible every day. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Product development teams will need to focus on delivering products as a service to enable real-time service level monitoring.

Company 14

Company Internet of things Data Product Development 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Both companies, while under a corporate umbrella, operate as independent brands with largely independent development teams. Supply-side disruption arises when a new innovation or technology offers a better way of providing consumer value than the old technology does. Any capabilities they had were eroded quickly.

Disruption 15

Disruption Competition Software Technology 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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

However, our experience has been that [when a product fails] it’s not a technology problem or a pure R&D problem — it is really around marketing, customer segments, and of course pricing. They don’t need to be part of every discussion, but CEOs do need to make pricing and new product development their priority.

Survey 14

Survey Innovation Processes Marketing Course 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

But effective security is driven as much by people as it is by technology. After all, the point is to protect the consumers, employees, and partners who use our products. The ways those people interact with technology and each other can completely change the effectiveness of your security strategy.

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 Team Building 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Our job is to deliver the cutting-edge technologies they require. And, especially in recent years, as prolonged global economic challenges have rippled through the aerospace industry, we also need to make those technologies more affordable. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center.

Collaboration 11

Collaboration Design System Creativity 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Xerox's failure to conquer the personal computing market — this despite developing revolutionary technology — demonstrates the importance of innovation among all sectors of your company. However, despite the fact that Apple brought it to the general public, the company didn't pioneer the technology.

Company 8

Company Innovation Product Development Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. As digital technology becomes more pervasive, more and more companies will present this sort of valuation challenge.

Report 8

Report Development Team Review Project Resources 8

Boxes and Arrows

MAY 4, 2009

A lot of knowledge at that level resides with the Professional Services team rather than the Product Development team. R&D Wiki This Team Wiki is the home of internal coding standards, design documents, etc. The best technologies disappear from view because they become so common-place that nobody notices them.

Case Study 80

Case Study Study Technical Review Software Review 80

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

” will be difficult for many companies to achieve — not for lack of technological expertise but because they’ll fail to recognize the value of design in connected product development. applications pushed technology to address B2B market requirements. This evolution to “Internet of Things (IoT) 2.0”

Internet of things 15

Internet of things Design Technology Product Development 15

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

JUNE 19, 2015

Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. Instead of selling the concept of the “connected home,” Nest focused on specific problems their customers wanted to solve in addition to good technology. The result: Market success for the product and the company was purchased by Google for $3.2 Fix or kill?

Underperforming Technical Team 14

Underperforming Technical Team Product Development Development Team Review Competition 14