Project Management

How focus benefits your growth strategy

Are you taking advantage of the benefits that focus can provide your organization? If you are clear on your growth strategy and new product strategy, one key way that focus can deliver results is pipelining.* Here’s an example of how pipelining works: You have four projects that that need to be completed The projects are similar [...]

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Checklists don’t work for innovation and one important way you can change that

To some, the idea of a checklist for innovation is ludicrous. How can you use a checklist for something as fluid as new product development – especially when venturing into game-changing or disruptive areas. Of course others are using a checklist already. They just call it stage-gate and then wonder why it doesn’t always deliver [...]

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What are late new product launches costing you?

What are late new product launches costing you? I recently saw that missing the launch date for their 3D Gameboy is costing Nintendo $1Billion in lost profits by missing the Christmas buying season. When Nintendo issued the profit warning cutting it’s fiscal 2011 profit forecast that news wiped out 10% of the stocks value in [...]

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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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Time keeps on ticking –
What’s a day of new product delay costing you?

In this post of the Simplifying Innovation blog, we discuss the dual benefit of reducing new product cycle time and offer five speed to market improvement strategies for your new product development.

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