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Is Your Innovation Performance Not Meeting Expectations?

August 14, 2013
Although it is widely accepted by CEOs and senior business leaders that innovation is the foundation of long-term, profitable revenue growth; many companies believe their innovation pipeline is under-performing against expectations. Read More

Are you Innovating or Renovating?

August 06, 2013
I have seen several research studies over the past couple of months about the decline of new-to-world and new-to-market products with a corresponding increase in incremental product improvements, product line extensions, and packaging changes. That begs the question – what should we consider as... Read More

Managing Innovation Projects in the Chemical Industry

August 01, 2013
The chemical industry is changing very quickly due to new methods of getting oil and gas from fracturing layers of rock. These new discoveries are changing the dynamics of the field, because they bring the cost of natural gas down substantially. As a result, traditional players in the petrochemical... Read More

Is Your Company a Customer Company?

July 30, 2013
Recently, I attended a great event, Becoming a Customer Company and was fortunate to hear from Jeremiah Owyang (Altimeter Group), Peter Coffee (Salesforce.com) and many others. The audience consisted of hundreds of marketing, sales and other leaders, including many from Fortune 500 companies. As... Read More

R&D Investment Focused on Innovation Leads to Organic Growth

July 26, 2013
Recently, a couple of articles caught my eye. The first article describes how valuations are making acquisitions a less attractive form of growth – which means greater focus on innovation – and goes on to introduce methods for CFOs to get a better handle on how innovation investments can be... Read More

CFOs: It's the Numerator, Stupid

July 16, 2013
All business processes can show improved productivity. Simplistically, productivity can be expressed as a fraction, outputs divided by inputs. Read More

Hybrid R&D – The Path to Breakthrough Innovation - Part One

July 16, 2013
Editor's note: This is the first post in a two-part series. Read More

Leveraging Agile Principles in Non-Software Product Development – Part Three

July 15, 2013
Editor's note: This is the final in a series of three blog posts. Read More

P&G's Innovation Culture Redux

July 11, 2013
Back before A. G. Lafley retired from Procter & Gamble (P&G) in 2010 and before he was more recently considered P&G's comeback kid, he wrote about building a “world-class organic growth engine” based on investing in people. In his article, Lafley discussed that P&G believed it to be important to... Read More

Getting Started with Roadmapping

July 08, 2013
An article on our blog, Introduction to Strategic Roadmapping, introduced the concept of strategic roadmapping. The next question that naturally follows is, “How do we get started with roadmapping?” The best — and easiest — way to start a roadmapping process is to hold workshops to educate your... Read More

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