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The Annual Operating Planning Cadence Is Broken and What to Do – Part Two

May 29, 2013
Editor's note: This is the second in a series of three blog posts over the coming weeks. Read part one of this series. Read More

Innovation Processes Propel an Innovation Culture

May 28, 2013
The latest research published in MIT's Sloan Management Review (Spring 2013) includes a study of 759 companies from 17 major markets worldwide. The study found that corporate culture was a key driver of companies that were more innovative. Using the study as a springboard, Professors Jay Rao and... Read More

Screen Your Innovation Opportunities Based On Differential Value

May 23, 2013
Traditional ways to screen new product innovation opportunities includes effort/benefit analysis, cost/margin analysis, or risk/attractiveness matrices. A different method to screen these opportunities is to pay close attention to the expected differential economic value they generate versus... Read More

Keys to a Successful Innovation Governance Implementation

May 21, 2013
One of the things we recognize as we work with customers about to undertake this kind of initiative is that it can be daunting. There is a lot to do. Further, the work can be risky from a personal as well as professional standpoint. It would be great if we could just show up, deliver and implement... Read More

Three Rules for Generating the Best Ideas

May 15, 2013
I was looking for more information on how well ideation processes work this week, and I came across a great study by Karan Girotra, Christian Terwiesch, and Karl T. Ulrich at University of Pennsylvania was called “Idea Generation and the Quality of the Best Idea”. They ran a clever experiment to... Read More

Link Innovation Initiatives to the Strategic Planning Process

May 14, 2013
For innovation initiatives to have the most impact, they must be tied to the strategic objectives of the company. Too often, I've seen R&D managers working in the dark, not knowing what is important to the company or to the customer. If R&D managers don't know their company's priorities, they can't... Read More

The Annual Operating Planning Cadence Is Broken and What to Do – Part One

May 09, 2013
Editor's note: This is the first in a series of three blog posts over the coming weeks. Read More

Leveraging Agile Principles in Non-Software Product Development - Part Two

May 07, 2013
Editor's note: This is the second in a series of three blog posts. Read More

Leveraging Agile Principles in Non-Software Product Development - Part One

April 25, 2013
Editor's note: This is the first in a series of three blog posts. Read More

Trends in Portfolio Management

April 23, 2013
People often ask me about the innovation, new product development, and portfolio management trends I'm seeing in the field. For many years, I saw that companies' first priority was to automate the gated development process. That is, companies needed to automate the process of moving new products... Read More

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