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How Agile is Your New Product Innovation?
How Agile is Your New Product Innovation?
With software becoming an increasingly more important part of product development, Agile software development methods…
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The Cycle of Mistrust in New Products
The Cycle of Mistrust in New Products
If you’ve ever worked in marketing or been on the buying side, you know that building trust or overcoming skepticism is…
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What's the Strategy Driving Your Innovation?
What's the Strategy Driving Your Innovation?
Business growth requires a clear vision or goal and strategies to support it. However, a lack of that kind of clear…
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Growth Equation Framework Part 4: Upping Your Market Impact
Growth Equation Framework Part 4: Upping Your Market Impact
By Mike Dalton Maximizing market impact is the ultimate payoff for innovation. It’s not enough to launch quickly — you…
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Growth Equation Framework Part 3: Driving Faster Time-to-Revenue for New Products
Growth Equation Framework Part 3: Driving Faster Time-to-Revenue for New Products
Driving faster time-to-revenue for new products is one of the biggest opportunities to boost innovation growth. Getting…
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Growth Equation Part 2 - Driving New Product Growth with Predictability
Growth Equation Part 2 - Driving New Product Growth with Predictability
Many companies focus heavily on speed — but overlook one of the foundations of profitable innovation success:…
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Organizational Alignment: Your Secret Weapon for Accelerating Growth
Organizational Alignment: Your Secret Weapon for Accelerating Growth
Peter Drucker famously declared that any business has two basic functions – marketing and innovation. These functions…
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Growth Equation Framework Part 1 – Leveraging Flow to Drive Growth through Innovation
Growth Equation Framework Part 1 – Leveraging Flow to Drive Growth through Innovation
If you work in a company that manufactures highly engineered products, there’s a good chance you are making a sizable…
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Winning with New Products
Winning with New Products
A reader recently asked me whether New Product Cashflow (NPCF) was a good measurement for winning with new products…
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New Product Governance: Driving Growth & Revenue
New Product Governance: Driving Growth & Revenue
New product governance is a powerful enabler that accelerates growth and revenue. It proactively supports the best…
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"Problem-Solving as a Daily Discipline" Over the past 50 days, I’ve been consistently solving problems on LeetCode simply to keep my mind sharp and…
"Problem-Solving as a Daily Discipline" Over the past 50 days, I’ve been consistently solving problems on LeetCode simply to keep my mind sharp and…
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Don’t just celebrate new product wins — celebrate fast failures, too. Killing the wrong project early frees up resources for the winners that deserve…
Don’t just celebrate new product wins — celebrate fast failures, too. Killing the wrong project early frees up resources for the winners that deserve…
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Don’t just celebrate new product wins — celebrate fast failures, too. Killing the wrong project early frees up resources for the winners that deserve…
Don’t just celebrate new product wins — celebrate fast failures, too. Killing the wrong project early frees up resources for the winners that deserve…
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International Certified Critical Chain Project Manager (IC3PM)
ISCEA -International Supply Chain Education Alliance
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Can You Guarantee Your Next Project Will Finish On Time?
Industry Week
See publicationIs your company playing Schedule Chicken with new product development? Critical Chain Project Management offers a better approach.
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How to Break the Cycle of Mistrust in New Products
Industry Week
See publicationInsights into how to break the cycle of mistrust in product development and shorten the time to revenue.
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The Growth Equation: Four Levers for Increasing Your Innovation Throughput
Industry Week
See publicationThis article on frequency is the first in a series of four articles on the Growth Equation Framework for New Product Innovation Throughput.
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What's Constraining Your Innovation?
Research Technology Management Magazine
See publicationLeaders regularly need more from their new product investment while technology and marketing groups complain they are already stretched too far. The typical response to this dilemma is to add process (and the attendant bureaucracy) or to teach project and time management skills, these approaches often just end up with people running faster on the same treadmill. The answer lies in the more subtle direction of the Theory of Constraints (TOC)—a tool that has historically been used to help…
Leaders regularly need more from their new product investment while technology and marketing groups complain they are already stretched too far. The typical response to this dilemma is to add process (and the attendant bureaucracy) or to teach project and time management skills, these approaches often just end up with people running faster on the same treadmill. The answer lies in the more subtle direction of the Theory of Constraints (TOC)—a tool that has historically been used to help manufacturing operations identify and eliminate bottlenecks. A TOC approach works with the current process to find the innovation bottleneck—the constraint that is holding back all the other steps in the process. Five focusing steps are used to rigorously eliminate that constraint and move on to the next with an increase in innovation throughput as each cycle of improvement is completed.
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