Product Portfolio Management

Innovation is all about focusing and optimizing the product portfolio so you can get products to market at the right time and cost. Topics we’ll explore in the Product Innovation blog category range from ideation management to product launch and product end-of-life. Experts will provide recommendations to take your innovation strategy and delivery process to the next level. You’ll get tips for picking the right projects, prioritizing good projects, and aligning them with strategy. Take your innovation strategy to the next level with information on improving time to market to maximize resources, funding, and time. Get tips from other customers on how they improved transparency to pick the right projects and kill the bad projects early. You will also be able to access ground-breaking research and fresh insights on how capacity planning can accelerate business innovation while lowering risk.

Forget risk management; long live resilience management – Enrich Consulting

We are surrounded by evidence of resilience: Our immune systems fight off thousands of potential invaders every day and constantly hone their defenses in response to the threats they experience. Ecosystems evolve to use the forces that might otherwise threaten them, such as the sequoia forests of the Sierra Nevada, which don’t just survive forest...

Get the Hell OUT: Sound Advice to Foster Innovation

Inspiration on how to foster innovation can come from an unlimited number of places and in a lot of different forms. And at the recent Prepared Foods New Products Conference, a fantastic group of food and beverage product development gurus shared their insights on uncovering the next big thing. How these clever companies go about...

Beat the Heat Indoors: A Summertime Reading List for Product Development Pros

It’s hot outside here in Texas. If you’re like me, you probably prefer to avoid 100+ degree conditions and instead bask in climate controlled air while reading, cooking, or spending time with family. While you’re cooling off indoors, I encourage you to bookmark and read some fantastic content published throughout this year – all relevant...

Find the Strategy Hidden in Your Portfolio – Enrich Consulting

The purpose of portfolio management is to select a set of projects that best fits the company strategy. However, ask three senior executives in your organization for the company’s strategy, and you may well hear three different answers—if you get any answers at all. Strategy, it turns out, is an elusive beast, especially the well-crafted,...

Connect, Inspire, Execute at PIPELINE 2014

It’s that time of the year again! The time to participate in PIPELINE: The Virtual Conference and Hub for Innovative Product Development and network with more than 2000 product development practitioners and leaders – online and free to attend. CONNECT with peers from industries in roles along the commercialization process from across the globe Get...

Innovation Demands Better Resource Capacity Planning and Management

Steady, continuous innovation and timely product delivery are only possible when the right resources are available at the right times to work on products. Innovation demands better resource capacity planning and management. If you’ve ever experienced the pain of having “too many projects for our resources”, you won’t want to miss the data uncovered from this...

Shark Tank Your Gate Meetings

Have you seen the hit ABC TV show, Shark Tank? (Or, as it’s known elsewhere around the world, Dragon’s Den?) Its inspirational premise sparks the creative genius in each of us as regular folks go into the “tank” to pitch their inventions and ideas to a panel of “shark” investors, all of whom attack with...

Sales Planning Software in Pharmaceuticals and Biotechs – Enrich Consulting

What is sales planning software? Sales planning software is used in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries to drive R&D, marketing, and manufacturing decisions both for in-market products and for medicines still in development. Functionally, it captures sales forecasts for each product in a company’s portfolio across geographies, patient segments, and product formulations. The forecasts are...

Killing Products: Gone, but Never Forgotten

A few weeks ago Carrie Nauyalis posted an inspiring blog about the positive aspects of killing products early in the innovation process and how it can be similar to a Jazz funeral. The piece was so well received that she expanded the blog into a full article on Innovation Management.se. Here’s a short synopsis and...

Connecting the Dots to Understand the Reality of Your Innovation Management Maturity

5 Tips to get your Innovation Management Program on the Right Track In a recent article posted on Innovation Management.se, Steve Beaumont outlines 5 things organizations can do to bridge the perception gap between executive management and reality for innovation management maturity. Educate executives – use the Fourth Product Portfolio Management Benchmark Survey to provide evidence...