Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success In the ever-evolving business landscape, executive team offsites have become a cornerstone for strategic planning and decision-making. By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

A new product may lack key features or components, or like some successful products take years to build an audience. I'm actually more interested in the 90+% of ideas that never make it to product development. Failure - the good, the bad and the ugly Let's first admit that some failure is necessary.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Corporations assign teams without skills or experience, rapidly conduct "brainstorming" exercises based primarily on current opinion or past experience and move as quickly as possible to present a small handful of ideas to a wary executive team. This crowds the product development process and eliminates room for new concepts to enter.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

The question management teams are asking and answering is: how can we manage our near term costs to keep the investors happy in the short run? Note that this is NOT a bad question to ask, because investors are constantly watching the effectiveness of the management team and want to see companies hitting their numbers.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 21, 2022

To a great extent, we are becoming complacent, waiting for others to change or improve or modify our lives, rather than dreaming up big ideas and developing them ourselves. Yet, most companies stick within a very narrow range of new product development options, unable or unwilling to shift the frame and think differently.

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Kainexus

JANUARY 27, 2022

Unfortunately, often internal pressures, external commenters, and poor product management practices hinder managers' ability to deliver products that customers truly value. Another sad reality is that it is common for organizations to make product decisions without really understanding what matters most to the customer.

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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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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

What it is: One of the most challenging aspects of innovation for most companies is not the generating of ideas, or the development of new innovations. They can cite a number of seemingly valid reasons for this, including: My team hasn’t got the time to resources or time to take ownership of this new thing.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 15, 2016

Durant was a merchandiser and understood the potential of product families and brands. There's an innovation analogy today Currently, many innovation teams are shaping up a lot like Henry Ford's company. And you can have any innovation you like, incremental or disruptive, as long as it results in a tangible product.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 24, 2018

Product development cycle times are now longer than shelf lives. You simply cannot crank enough efficiency in the development, launch and marketing phases to win back enough revenue to account for a poorly constructed exploration phase. Instead you must shift people, resources and focus to the exploration phase.

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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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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Traditional health benefits administrators have bad networks. Many software development companies have what’s called distributed teams, which means people working around the globe on products. What types of benefits and rewards are employees seeking today? How do you achieve effective collaboration across time zones?

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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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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The total weightings of the various indexes which then result in a net rank for each country compared to each other country, allowing the GII team to say which country achieves the overall highest Innovation Efficiency Ratio ranking (it’s Switzerland). Innovation Leader, Achievers and Underperformers, GII 2016.

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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. This could include areas such as sales and marketing, product development, or human resources.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 10, 2021

Companies that create strong listening programs that interact with customers and consumers to understand their needs and present real market and product opportunities to their business will be rewarded. The resistance to an outside-in innovation and new product development process has got to change. Is it allowed to?

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Innov8rs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Innov8rs | How product teams can tackle ambiguity, meet business aims, and prove their worth. With organizations asking why product teams are important, and what to expect from them, how can product teams respond? The reason for that makes sense, because product development is difficult.

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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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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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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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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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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

How will relatively stodgy companies compete when customer demands shift to expectations of interesting new products and experiences that are more like consumer goods expectations than automotive industry product development cycles? There's a sports analogy that's applicable here.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

An organization may have many channels of communication with the end-users, but the messages spoken by the business unit can be very different than those of the product development team or customer support team. To act on good assumptions with caution beats acting on bad assumptions with confidence.

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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

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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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2023

Whether you’re plotting the course for your product development or managing a portfolio of initiatives , you’re bound to face the daunting challenges of accurately predicting project milestones and costs and steering projects toward valuable, cost-effective conclusions.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 17, 2015

Those bad numbers? He innovated and created, and once users saw what he and his team had produced, they fell in love with a product they hadn’t even known they wanted. Product development and design is a cyclical process. They’re showing up because of what you told the client was wrong with the old design.

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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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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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Cascade Strategy

JANUARY 15, 2020

In product management teams, much like in other teams in an organization, KPIs are used to create clear targets, guide decisions, celebrate success, and identify risks and issues.

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Innovation 360 Group

AUGUST 25, 2019

Acknowledging the need for pursuing deeper impact over a wider area, the Growkomp Regional Development Project was designed to develop the innovation capacities of 22 manufacturing companies in the Småland regionof Sweden over a two-year period. The EU funded-development project was launched in 2016 with 8.2 The Solution.

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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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