Leapfrogging

JULY 18, 2021

This is a process I’ve taught businesses to implement for more than 25 years, helping some of the world’s biggest businesses develop their innovation processes. The Innovation Funnel Management Process helps narrow down ideas from an innovation process or project into a realistic plan of action and next steps. . Here’s a?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 7, 2025

Unique Selling Proposition: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects A Unique Selling Proposition (USP) is a distinct and compelling reason why a customer should choose a product or service over competitors. Guides Product Development Ensures offerings align with customer needs. Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Core Competence Analysis: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects Core Competence Analysis is a strategic framework used to identify an organizations unique strengths that provide a competitive advantage. Lead Successful Strategy Projects! Lead Successful Strategy Projects! What is Core Competence Analysis?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 11, 2025

OGSM Strategy Framework: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects The OGSM Strategy Framework (Objectives, Goals, Strategies, and Measures) is a structured strategic planning tool used by organizations to clarify vision, set priorities, and ensure execution. Lead Successful Strategy Projects! Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

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Sopheon

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

40% of NPD projects fail to meet profit expectations. The post Meet CPG Profit Objectives with These Three New Product Development Priorities appeared first on Sopheon. Often, the problem rests in 3 areas: inflexible decision processes, poor resource planning & over-reliance on low-risk offerings.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2025

Values Statement: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects A values statement is a declaration of an organizations core principles and ethical standards that guide its behavior, decision-making, and culture. Lead Successful Strategy Projects! Consider: How do these values guide product development and innovation?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2025

Purpose Statement: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects A purpose statement is a clear and concise declaration that defines an organizations fundamental reason for existence beyond making a profit. Lead Successful Strategy Projects! Lead Successful Strategy Projects! What is a Purpose Statement?

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Ensuring a timely and cost-effective product development life cycle. Coping with the rapid pace of technological change and its impact on product relevance. Introduction to Lean Startup Methodology The fast-paced and competitive business environment requires innovative strategies for developing new products and services.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 11, 2025

Hoshin Planning System: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects The Hoshin Planning System , also known as Hoshin Kanri , is a strategic planning methodology that aligns an organizations long-term vision with day-to-day operational execution. Lead Successful Strategy Projects! Iterating product offerings based on customer feedback.

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Sopheon

APRIL 4, 2023

Product managers and project managers are two distinct roles. To launch new products successfully, they play a crucial role and must collaborate tightly. Product managers work closely with project managers to ensure that product development is aligned with the product strategy.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski When your most important product development project is a year behind schedule (and the schedule has been revved three times), who would you call to get the project back on track?

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 18, 2019

In fact their bureaucracy, structures and pace are in place to ensure that any new project is carefully reviewed, carefully inspected and carefully scoped to either eliminate risk or mitigate risk to the greatest extent possible. Otherwise the risk isn't in product development, it will be found in revenue, profits and even viability.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 1, 2019

Scenario: a product development team at a medical device company had a testing phase that ran far longer than expected. This delay rippled throughout the project and had serious implications downstream. After the project was complete, the team leader wanted to go back and figure out why the test phase had not gone as planned.

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Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

The trends outlined in this blog offer a glimpse into the future of product development and some exciting opportunities for product-driven companies to achieve real ROI regarding cost savings, efficiency, productivity, digital transformation benefits, and employee satisfaction.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

These companies might have an innovation team as part of each brand / business unit, responsible for researching and coming up with ideas and designs for new products. Here, innovation will be closely tied to “product development” resources. Positives: Each brand will have numerous resources skilled in innovation.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Improved Efficiencies Help Conagra Brands Speed Global Product Transfer New competitors, the growth of nontraditional retail outlets, and tech advancements in the industry made it imperative to transform how Conagra Brands , home to the world’s longest-standing food processing companies, did business.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Large organisations tend to treat major new product developments as serious projects which require serious resources. They use project planning tools and stage gate processes. However, despite all of the management science the large majority of new products fail – certainly in the fast moving consumer goods sector.

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Planview

JANUARY 9, 2025

When Dr. Mik Kersten published Project to Product a groundbreaking book that introduced the Flow Framework just over six years ago the term product operating model was relatively new. At the time, many leading software companies already knew how to organize people through a product-oriented mindset. Published on Oct.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Each platform has its own development team, its own Program Manager and its own Project Manager. Three separate teams, located in different parts of the company’s facility, create three platforms. There are no clear and distinct processes for.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The evolution is commonly known as a project-to-product shift or product operating model. Adopting the approach involves several elements, such as breaking down departmental barriers, establishing cross-functional teams, and creating feedback loops that connect customer insights to product development and service delivery.

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Planview

JULY 8, 2024

Digital product development is not merely a trend but a fundamental transformation in how businesses operate and innovate. This blog will delve into the common challenges in digital product development and discuss the necessity of a product operating model that leverages AI for better outcomes.

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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?

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Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Disruptions to effective product development are constant but don’t need to be detrimental to an organization’s ability to deliver innovation with speed and maintain a healthy ROI. Suppose organizations make adaptability a cornerstone of their product development strategy and overall culture.

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Planview

JULY 29, 2024

Conversely, if you’re relying on inflexible project portfolio management software that restricts the way teams work, you could fall short of reaching those goals. After exploring dozens of tools and platforms, they chose AdaptiveWork as their solution for managing thousands of global projects across 70 portfolios.

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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. The questions have been split into two broader categories below. Addressing Agile-Stage-Gate PPM Implementation Challenges.

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Planview

OCTOBER 11, 2022

But as with any innovation, IoMT product development and innovation brings risks that need to be considered. 3 Challenges of IoMT Product Development. As with any growing technology, there are risks IoMT stakeholders and product developers need to consider to ensure their products offer strong ROI.

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Planview

JULY 7, 2023

Even more so, when discussing AI and its purpose and value in product development, it can be easy to fall deep into a rabbit hole of all the possibilities and potential. In this post, we outline three more general applications of AI/ML in product development that deliver results in this quickly expanding field.

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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. This is one reason why ideas like agile and rapid sprints seem so compelling.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Companies which want a structured system to manage a funnel of ideas and projects (e.g. Companies which want to allow external parties/consumers to suggest improvements to existing products or entirely new products (e.g. like P&G’s Connect and Develop platform). Business Model Canvas.

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ITONICS

JANUARY 10, 2025

Thats what poor project prioritization feels like for many teams. Imagine a ship setting sail without a clear destinationits crew would waste time, fuel, and effort drifting aimlessly.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 10, 2025

Stage 1: Implementing a Unified Project Management Approach Standardizing project management practices across the company ensures that everyone speaks the same language. “Having a unified approach means project leaders truly take responsibility,” Martijn emphasizes.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 26, 2021

I generally try to classify projects into three levels of priority before I consider adding resources to anything on deck: Air, Water, and Food. Whether you are setting high-level goals or project priorities, try ranking your options into these categories. There’s no time like the present to set goals. What is Air? What is Food?

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Here’s where a sprinkle of innovation can turbocharge your growth: Product Development : Cook up new goods or give current ones a spiffy upgrade to match what folks want. Divvy Up Resources : Make sure you’ve got the essentials covered—time, cash, and crew—to back your fiery projects.

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