Archive for February, 2008

New Product Development Report Offers Powerful Keys to Overcome Innovation Crisis

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

New Product Development expert, Rob Beachy and renowned team dynamics expert, Harvey Robbins, have written an exciting new White Paper, “The Innovation Crisis: Keys to Re-engineering New Product Development.” NPD practitioners will discover the 5 key new product development processes that the most innovative and successful companies like Apple, Microsoft and GE use to stay […]

Idea Management – How to Inspire, Gather, Develop and Manage Innovation

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Ideas are essential. That being said, you just can’t generate ideas in a vacuum; throwing ideas up against the wall that are not aligned with the organization’s vision, mission, and values.  Generating a constant flow of ideas cannot succeed in a random way. They need to be created within an on-going consistent process.
Without a constant […]

Teamwork and Collaboration: Overcoming the Barriers to New Product Development Success

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Not everyone believes in innovation, creativity and new product development. Of course, those are individuals who work for organizations who are destined to fail. If you work for a boss who doesn’t believe that new product development should be high on your priority list, then move to a different department or go work for someone […]

Developing and Using the Product Innovation Charter – Turning Corporate Strategy into An Easily Understood Action Document

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

There’s a great Dilbert cartoon that starts with the statement, “all companies need a strategy so the employees will know what they don’t do.”
Did you know that 59% of new products launched in the market from market leaders are successful, meaning they meet their sales, market share and profitability goals?
Did you know that over 60% […]

The Importance of a Teaming Vision for Successful New Product Development

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

I’ve got some good news and some bad. The bad news is that we’re lost. The good news is that we’re making great time.
The point of this old saw is that team talent, efficiency, intelligence, and clout are pretty useless unless the new product development team has some clue where it is going and how […]