September 2010

Should you ever throttle back marketing?

The VP of marketing at an engineered products client recently asked me a great question. “If our constraint is the ability to develop new products, would you recommend we purposely slow the flow of new opportunities?” Let’s look more closely at the situation. First, this company manufacturers highly customized OEM parts that often requires pushing [...]

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What’s your favorite innovation tool?

Someone recently asked me to contribute an article on my thoughts around what the single most important development in innovation methodology was. Not to take a contrary view, but I had to tell them that there wasn’t one. Don’t misunderstand—there are numerous innovation tools, theories and approaches that I incorporate into my practice. Open Innovation, [...]

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Managing your constraint – Part III – Personal Kanban and your calendar program

In previous posts, I shared the Personal Kanban approach for getting the most out of your constraint – the 86,400 seconds you are limited to each day – and also some free web based approaches for automating your Kanban board.  This post share’s my approach to integrating  Kanban into my planning, calendar, and follow-up systems. [...]

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