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Triple Bottom Line Template for Business Strategy

Leapfrogging

Best practices for alignment: Embed sustainability and social responsibility into product development and supply chain decisions. Incorporate TBL objectives into employee training and leadership development. Develop partnerships with ethical suppliers and eco-friendly organizations.

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Values Statement Strategy Template

Leapfrogging

Guidelines include: Listing 57 core values for clarity. Consider: How do these values guide product development and innovation? For example, IKEAs values emphasize affordability and sustainability , aligning with its low-cost, eco-friendly product strategy. Using simple, direct language.

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Top Challenges for Open Innovation and How to Solve Them

IdeaScale

Before you launch a challenge or send an invitation, sit down with your team and create some realistic, clear guidelines to filter the ideas you receive internally and to allow those crafting a proposal to understand the challenge better. In other cases, however, you may not find a product; not all patents hit the shelves, after all.

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The Role of Innovation in New Product Development: Three Approaches for Success

Qmarkets

Innovation is essential throughout the entire new product development (NPD) process, but nowhere is it more key than it is in the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) stage. FFE is the starting point of NPD and is where new product ideas are generated before entering the formal development process.

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How to Find and Test Assumptions in Product Development

Watch this webinar with Laura Klein, product manager and author of Build Better Products, to learn how to spot the unconscious assumptions which you’re basing decisions on and guidelines for validating (or invalidating) your ideas. You'll learn: Why every product leader goes into a new project with untested, hidden assumptions.

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Process Development Guidelines – Implementing a Project Portfolio Management Process

Bubblegroup

Project Portfolio Management process development guidelines. The guidelines apply equally to both a software and a non-software based approach (meaning project portfolio management process tools like ours are not a prerequisite to getting value from the document). Implementing a Project Portfolio Management process.

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How to Execute An Open Innovation Strategy with Innovation Management Software 

Qmarkets

At its core, open innovation is a collaborative process designed to tap into a wider pool of expertise, which drives faster innovation and lowers the risks and costs associated with new product development. Strategic Alignment : Ensures that product development and innovation efforts align with customer expectations and market changes.