Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. This will allow the corporate to more rapidly apply the benefits of the collaboration and develop the business.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 10, 2025

How can innovation be effectively connected with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a structured and measurable way? Stage 1: Implementing a Unified Project Management Approach Standardizing project management practices across the company ensures that everyone speaks the same language.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

To support you in building out your innovation competencies, capabilities and capacity that requires a deeper investment in skill development in a culture of continual learning. Use tools like brainstorming sessions or interdisciplinary teams to encourage diverse insights.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Dear Project Managers, It has been a very enjoyable experience working with everyone over the last couple of months and sharing our ideas on UX design. Don’t make the only UX designer in your company the UX team, don’t restrict the scope of UX design to the user interface alone, and don’t hide the users from the UX designers.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

We teach trend spotting and scenario planning to our customers to help them understand the importance of recognizing emerging needs and emerging segments, because the great ideas they generate won't become products or services very quickly. And then I ask them to tell me their firm's average product development process timeframe.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 17, 2021

I'm a fan of military history, and it is always striking to me to see how much new product development and innovation can learn from the military and vice versa. Too often, executives and military leaders don't want to hear the "bad news" and that leads them to double down on poor strategies. Communicate. Be a bit humble.

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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2023

Project management is akin to navigating a ship in choppy waters. Applying machine learning to project management challenges can pave the way for smarter, more efficient, lower-risk projects and higher-quality products. Let’s explore how AI is shaping the future of project management.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 13, 2018

In these early stages of product development, it can sometimes seem like all of the good ideas have already been taken. When you apply this train of thought to innovation, it becomes apparent that some of the most successful products and services in human history were developed by recycling existing ideas.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 23, 2015

These are some of the reasons why senior corporate executives are increasingly turning to separate innovation labs to spearhead their new product development. An innovation centre is a team of people and a physical location. The company provides mentors and support for startups to develop and test new products.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 23, 2023

Additionally, fractional CxOs are often more flexible in terms of their availability and can be brought on for specific projects or initiatives as needed, giving portfolio companies the ability to scale their executive team as their business grows.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

This impact is evident across various facets of business, from operational efficiency and customer experience to product development and market analysis. A SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis can provide an initial framework for this evaluation.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 30, 2010

Large scale websites require groups of specialists to design and develop a product that will be a commercial success. To develop a completely new site requires several teams to collaborate and this can be difficult. Particularly as different teams may be working with different methods.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

I spent 8 years as a management consultant, and a number of my projects were referred to as “Strategy Consulting” Here, we would be asked to make predictions for a specific topic, such as the likely growth rates for an industry segment based on trends. Innovation Leader, Achievers and Underperformers, GII 2016.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 1, 2024

But what exactly is an innovation strategy, and how can it be developed and implemented effectively? Think of an innovation strategy as a gameplan for a sports team. Closed Innovation : Relies on internal resources and capabilities to develop new ideas. Key to setting the pace is a well-defined innovation strategy.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The first article discussed the pros and cons of different UX team structures. For companies that depend on user experience for business success, a strong internal team is essential. They can be fantastic partners who drive real change, but their needs are very different from a product team.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Innovative Products and Services : AI can help in the development of new products and services by identifying market gaps and customer preferences. Utilize a SWOT analysis to assess strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to AI in your sector.

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Mike Shipulski

OCTOBER 3, 2018

When the team is accountable to deliver on a project but are constrained to a fixed scope, a fixed launch date and resources, they will be afraid. From the very first day of the project, they know they cannot be successful and are afraid of the consequences. And make a list of projects where team members were praised.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When it comes to the development and commercialization of new products , no one holds more accountability for the product’s ultimate success than the Product Manager. Product Manager” isn’t exactly a title that fits neatly into a box.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

For guidance on developing strategic thinking within your leadership team, you may find value in 10 ways to get your leadership team thinking strategically and building the best business strategies. To foster innovation: Implement systems for employees to submit and develop new ideas.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 29, 2015

In the previous article we talked about why site optimization is important and presented a few important goals and philosophies to impart on your team. We created the following minimum completion criteria for my past team at DIRECTV Latin America. I’d like to switch gears now and talk about more tactical stuff, namely, process.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

In a more up-to-date sense, this balance also comprises collaborating with external partners, e.g. teaming up between multinational corporations and startups or small companies. Open doors and listen vs. Be loyal to your team. As executing and developing a business requires increasing specialization (e.g.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How can design thinking help with product development? This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. Prototype: In this step, the team creates a rough model of the solution to test and evaluate. What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies?

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

She naturally joined Louis Zero’s team as Shake my Firm project manager and then took on the development of Louis Zero workshop as a whole. 2) You have developed a bespoke innovation approach: Spot, Play, Go. We run an identification workshop with the project team, to assess the objectives, constraints and KPI?s

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Betterific

AUGUST 2, 2016

Welcome to the second part of our new “Brainstorming with…” series, where we interview two sets of people – the innovation challenge winners and the product developers and innovation experts that sponsor the challenges. And most importantly I’ve learned about the end-to-end cycle of product development.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In this article, etventure’s Head of Product Gregor Ilg will take a closer look at the buzzword “Agile” – and de-mystify Agile in a business context. If it is not applied properly, agile development can easily turn into chaos! Commence development – which might take many months to complete. What is Agile?

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

Project Management for Stakeholder Interviews. Note that it’s as important for in-house teams to ask most of these questions as it is for consultants; you may know one answer, but do you know this particular stakeholder’s answer? What’s your role with respect to this product? What worries you about this project?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This process is widely adopted by managers, executives, and consultants to drive new product development, service innovation, and business model refinement. At the core of design thinking lies a commitment to putting users’ experiences and feedback at the forefront of product and service design.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit. With this in mind, if you’re a corporate executive or part of a product or innovation team, here are some key habits that you should stop doing if you want to innovate in the enterprise.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

If you want to create a successful, hyper-growth company, you've got to focus on empowering your teams to rapidly experiment.” When data-driven experiments are run (like market surveys), they often take too long, cost too much or deliver little new insight to develop the idea. Encourage bold/crazy ideas 2.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit. With this in mind, if you’re a corporate executive or part of a product or innovation team, here are some key habits that you should stop doing if you want to innovate in the enterprise.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

caption id="attachment_21197" align="alignleft" width="330"] Jeff Holden - "Build a team that has an experimental ethos"[/caption] Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon, states : “Our success at Amazon is a function of how many experiments we do per year, per month, per week, per day…”. Encourage bold/crazy ideas 2.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 22, 2016

At the SAP Design & Co-Innovation Center (DCC), we frequently organize the so-called “Method Mondays,” a regular one-hour meeting series in which the team members share, practice, and test different methods. This helps players of the game identify with the persona and project themselves onto it. Why the methods work.

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Acuvate

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Create a team of experts in agile delivery methods to own and rule integration within your organization. Four percent of businesses reported that poor integration costs them as much as $1 million annually. Engage integration specialists to operate complex legacy systems with long development cycles.

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IdeaSpies

JULY 21, 2019

Take Bell Labs, for example, an industrial research and development (R&D) company, now owned by Nokia but originally founded by Alexander Graham Bell in the late-1800s. If researchers are working on a project that might have a potential real-world application, there are two general starting points to commercialisation. .

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Almost every business operation has been affected: from the manner firms talk to their customers to the logistics of product delivery to maintaining channels of communication between employees. Besides, less information is known to be shared in online communication, increasing the likelihood of poor decision-making.

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