Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Good innovation, like good cooking or the development of a human being, takes time, and time is something that is so constrained that most innovation projects simply compress time into manageable blocks, and in doing so compress and constrain good ideas. Agile, lean and rapid methodologies meant to accelerate the innovation cycle?

LEAN 155

LEAN Innovation Agile Project 155

Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Here are ways to gauge what’s cookin’: ROI (Return on Investment): What’s the moolah like after implementing those genius projects? Hustle Time (Time to Market): Just how speedily are those fresh-out-the-oven products reaching the shelves? Customer Grins (CSAT): Are folks happy about what you’re putting down?

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Innovation Internet of things Strategy 113

Planview

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

To thrive in this landscape, product leaders need to prioritize three pillars: leaning into AI-powered experiences, modernizing how they run their business (i.e., introducing a standardized product operating model), and streamlining compliance operations to allow room for innovation.

LEAN 64

LEAN Project Report Case Study 64

IM Insights

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Steve Blank, a contemporary innovation thinker (and, dare I say, philosopher), popularised the widely accepted principle “Get Out Of The Building,” urging entrepreneurs to engage directly with customers early in the product development cycle, challenging critical assumptions. To these prisoners, the shadows are reality.

Product Development 52

Product Development LEAN Exercises Data 52

Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Enhancing Customer Satisfaction: Deliver higher-quality products and services by improving processes. Methodologies like Lean, Six Sigma , and Kaizen provide proven frameworks for process improvement. Lean eliminates waste, Six Sigma minimizes defects, and Kaizen fosters a culture of continuous improvement.

Examples 59

Examples Strategy Strategy LEAN 59

Planview

JULY 15, 2022

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. Robert Cooper in the Journal of Product Innovation Management. Addressing Agile-Stage-Gate PPM Implementation Challenges.

Product Development 52

Product Development Agile LEAN Survey 52

Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These words include adjectives such as "lean", "agile" and "rapid", to make the point that innovation should be stripped to its bare components, move as fast as possible and create minimum viable solutions. Risk avoidance and current revenue are often more important than potential profitable products and services.

Innovation 113

Innovation LEAN Agile Product Development 113

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

There are significant shifts underway towards digital innovation in R&D and new-product development. The design needs to be customer-centric, agile, experimental, lean, standard as much as it can be, with simplicity and adaptive as being central to this. To achieve this innovation has gone digital, pure and simple.

Innovation 185

Innovation Radical Innovation Agile Design 185

Planview

AUGUST 12, 2022

And so is the mindset around productivity and team structure. In the traditional project-centered model, companies are organized around tasks, with each group focused on one element of a project. But greater emphasis is being placed on moving from project to product, which focuses on enabling teams to become end-to-end experts.

Project 59

Project Agile Groups LEAN 59

Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2015

But what we should be asking, in much the same way the "lean startup" folks are asking about bare essentials and "minimum viable products", is: what is the minimum investment it takes to make my (team, product group, line of business, company) more innovative? And of course time for the product development process.

Roadmap 100

Roadmap Innovation LEAN Culture 100

Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 17, 2015

His very lean progressive assembly process was the result. Today, the cost and time it takes to build, launch, and deliver new products at scale is lower than ever. Projections are based on past experience. This makes sense for some products where the market is well-understood, and the solution is well-known and fixed.

Innovation Management 61

Innovation Management Management LEAN Innovation 61

Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards ( NCARB ), a national non-profit organization, develops standards for licensure and credentialing of architects.

Marketing 65

Marketing LEAN Case Study Innovation 65

Moves the Needle

AUGUST 2, 2018

You can use Lean Innovation techniques -- Empathy, Experiments, and Evidence to ensure the driving force is sustained through the integration. Lean Innovation empathy work is a great way to understand the human side of acquisitions and again, this is from both sides of the table, acquirer and acquiree. Caveat Emptor, you might say.

LEAN 40

LEAN Technical Review Innovation Culture 40

Planview

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As technologies evolve and disruptions become an ever-growing presence of the business landscape, one of the best ways to improve the quick delivery of high-value innovations is by embracing digital transformation concepts in product development. And it is not a one-and-done checkbox.

Innovation 64

Innovation Product Development Innovation Management Software 64

InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? How can design thinking help with product development? These courses typically cover the key concepts and steps of the design thinking process, and may include hands-on exercises and projects to apply what you have learned.

Design Thinking 74

Design Thinking Design Underperforming Technical Team Ideation 74

Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization.

Agile 111

Agile Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review 111

Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

For example, introducing a “x percent rule”, permitting workers to dedicate a portion of time to exlorative projects beside their “core business”, may be sufficient to generate ideas and develop them up to a certain stage. Management uses KPIs for radical and incremental projects. Governance.

Culture 100

Culture Radical Innovation Innovation Underperforming Technical Team 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They provide narratives on how rapid prototyping accelerates the innovation cycle, thereby reducing time and resources spent on product development. They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes.

Innovation 113

Innovation Ideation Innovation Processes Leadership 113

Planview

MAY 5, 2023

From a customer perspective, Razat continues, “With the power of AWS, we will continue to help our growing customers connect their ideas to impact, across projects and products, and deliver positive outcomes – especially in times of change.” Regional teams used different work methodologies such as Agile, waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma.

CTO 59

CTO Case Study Collaboration Project 59

Leanstack

AUGUST 4, 2016

I spend a lot of time at the intersection of “business modeling” and “lean startup” and have been looking for the right category label to describe this type of work. You create a quick sketch of your business model using a tool like the Lean Canvas. The third step is lean startup.

Innovation Management 52

Innovation Management Management Innovation LEAN 52

Planview

MARCH 3, 2016

This was the mantra of Facebook in its early days, as is the case with most startups that subscribe to the iterative product development method popularized by the Lean Startup. If we put a certainty lens on inherently uncertain projects, in order to get our business case signed off, then we are destined to do one thing.

Culture 45

Culture How To LEAN Innovation 45

Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 17, 2015

How about four projects, one per quarter, next year? Each project starts with a blank page and ends up with pitches to the top decision maker. Each project starts with a blank page and ends up with pitches to the top decision maker. Each project takes one quarter of the calendar. It can be an ad hoc team.

Innovation 40

Innovation Product Development LEAN Project 40

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

A failed project is considered a negative to a corporate career. As a result, few people want to start a project that might not succeed. for new product development that emphasize immediate returns. But running a Lean Startup inside an organization designed for execution is an exercise in futility.

LEAN 46

LEAN Agile Culture Tools 46

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Source: Six Sigma Global Institute Lean Six Sigma: By combining lean management principles with Six Sigma’ s focus on process improvement, this approach helps enterprises reduce inefficiencies and solve operational problems.

Ideation 52

Ideation Innovation Brainstorming LEAN 52

Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

." - Robert Rubin, Product Development, AT&T. Several of the ideas we came up with in the Idea Champions session are being developed into concrete projects that are looking like very profitable opportunities." - Rudy Villa, VP, GE/RCA Licensing. "As ZoomStorming. Idea Champions. Brainstorm Champions.

Brainstorming 52

Brainstorming Idea Generation Entrepreneurship Ideation 52

Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By 2010, the Lean Startup methodology built upon these principles, emphasizing rapid experimentation and customer feedback to guide businesses towards sustainable business models. From Design Thinking to Autonomous Innovation In the 1990s, design thinking emerged, prioritizing empathy and iterative prototyping for user-centric solutions.

Innovation 64

Innovation Artificial Inteligence Ideation Design Thinking 64

Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

Of course, speaking to customers about their problems without having any defined product or solution roadmap in mind may seem awkward and even scary to many corporate employees (especially engineers and product developers). Yet the predominant enterprise culture prevents and even punishes these bold behaviors.

Underperforming Technical Team 83

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Disruption Agile 83

Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development. ” — Thais Cunha, Project Coordinator, Bomnegocio.com. Download This Case Study.

Groups 45

Groups Case Study Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 45

Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 1, 2018

His functional expertise includes operations excellence, supply chain, strategy development and execution as well as product development. Operational performance improvement (manufacturing & service domains) using methods such as Lean, TPM, Six Sigma. Business strategy development & deployment.

LEAN 45

LEAN Industry Groups Product Development 45

Mike Shipulski

OCTOBER 12, 2016

One well known approach is the VC model where multiple projects are run in parallel. The trick is to start projects with the potential to deliver ultra-high returns. The best known method is the Lean Startup method. The Lean Startup is also quite good when money’s tight. And then there’s the VC/Lean Startup combo.

LEAN 40

LEAN Project Resources Learning 40

Qmarkets

AUGUST 20, 2024

A well-defined strategy helps prioritize projects, allocate resources efficiently, and maintain focus on initiatives that offer the most value to the organization. This includes structured phases such as idea generation, development, prototyping, testing, and finally, implementation.

Software Review 52

Software Review Innovation Software Design Thinking 52

mjvinnovation

JULY 27, 2020

Companies with tight schedules and budgets must deal with the reality that product development may not be fast or cheap. Minimized Risks – identify real user needs early in the projects. Projects no longer have intangible results, as we closely monitor metrics and indicators. What is the scope of the project?

Strategy 40

Strategy Strategy Design Resources 40

Planview

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Quantifying the Disconnect Between Business Leaders and Technology Teams Consider one of the most startling findings from The 2023 Project to Product State of the Industry Report. how much value development teams delivered to customers over the course of a planning cycle).

Artificial Inteligence 72

Artificial Inteligence Data Roadmap Agile 72

Moves the Needle

AUGUST 19, 2019

Noel: “I describe myself as an innovation product development life engineer who’s worked on product development teams through most of my early career and mostly in technology-driven companies, and after business school, went into consulting. Why don’t we start by having you introduce yourself? Who are you? What do you do?

Management 40

Management LEAN Product Development Design Thinking 40

Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

In 1991, Don Reinertsen and Preston Smith introduced the world to the "Fuzzy Front End" of product development. In both cases, the work being described was work that preceded the formal product development process. Welcome to the Mid Zone of Innovation. Sept 27, 2015 | Anthony Mills. milestones). milestones).

Innovation 40

Innovation Ideation Product Development Innovation Management 40

Qmarkets

AUGUST 1, 2024

Business innovation can manifest in various forms, from adopting cutting-edge technologies to developing entirely new business models. Crucially, innovation isn’t limited to product development; it can also involve reinventing business processes, revamping organizational structures, or even reshaping corporate culture.

Trends 52

Trends Innovation Technical Review Idea Management 52

Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

In my daily practices of developing innovation management methods and software I cannot avoid the term anymore: nearly every development methodology or project management methodology uses EPICS as a kind of starting point for a development project. Epics are almost always delivered over a set of sprints”.

Software Review 52

Software Review Agile Software Development Software Developers 52