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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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What mistakes do you think Apple made?

It’s rare to see Apple make a mistake, and while the press is having a field day with the  current iPhone 4 issues, it’s unlikely this will be any more than a tiny little bump in the road for Mr. Jobs and company. But for the rest of us, the most interesting part could be [...]

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BP’s Big Spill: Lesson for your new products?

Yesterday I heard BP’s COO, Doug Suttles, admit that it could take months to get the Deepwater Horizon disaster under control. The journalist interviewing him jumped on that by asking why BP didn’t have a back-up plan in place before the spill. Of course, there’s a political and legal tsunami coming for BP, so Suttles [...]

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Are too many ideas killing your new product innovation?

Are too many ideas killing your new product innovation? In this post of the Simplifying Innovation blog, we’ll look at how letting too many ideas into your new product development process slows everything down and how focusing on fewer projects can more than double your results.

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