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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.
A common problem in both portfolio management and sales and operational planning (S&OP) is reconciling product revenue forecasts between a company’s regional sales analysts and its corporate decision-makers. Typically, regional sales analysts focus on short-term objectives, and their forecasts must align with targets or commitments set by regional heads. By contrast, corporate staff tend to...
The portfolio review session is coming up, so you craft a list of questions about project value, cost, and risk that can be answered on a scale from 1 to 10. Your R&D project teams score their projects, add up the scores for each project, and voilà, you have a ranked set of projects, ready...
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance. — John Maynard Keynes [1] An old cliché in forecasting is that when it comes to the single-valued forecast, the only thing you can say with certainty is that it’s wrong. More than just plain wrong numbers,...
The prevalent tendency to underweight, or ignore, distributional information is perhaps the major source of error of intuitive prediction…The analyst should therefore make every effort to frame the forecasting problem so as to facilitate utilizing all the distributional information that is available to the expert. —Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky [1] Most people involved in...
Happy New Year! As we kick off 2013, I thought it would be helpful to share some of the most popular innovation and product development resources of 2012. These whitepapers and webcasts feature analysts, thought leaders, and practitioners sharing their wisdom and experience to help us make better, more informed decisions and optimize our limited resources....
10 Historically Proven Military Strategies that You Can Apply in Your Organization for Optimizing Resources in Product Development “From Sun Tzu’s 13 principles to Napoleon’s 115 maxims, to the countless other [military] strategies, there are hidden gems of resource management advice that are as relevant today as they were back then.” After reading this statement in...
What I Got My Kids (keep it a secret) and Why It’s a Big Problem for Apple Those who know me have accused me over the years of being an “Apple fan-boy”. Although I would argue that I am really more of a technology geek and early adopter, it’s hard to argue with the fan-boy...
How the Product Portfolio Management Benchmark Study Findings Should Inform 2013 Planning It’s that wonderful time of year again — planning, planning, and more planning. Where are you and your organization in the portfolio planning process at this point? Patting ourselves on the back because we are done! In the thick of it and taking...
The word “hybrid” typically conjures images of the Toyota Prius (only for now if Ford has anything to say about it), but in the world of enterprise software it is about evolving business models. Actually, and more importantly, going hybrid is about bringing more value to customers by providing them with choice — the choice...
Howdy! We continue our “Coffee Talk” video series on the Planview YouTube Channel — all about the latest news and trends taking place in innovation and Product Portfolio Management (PPM). This month’s “Talk” comes to you from the University of Texas Campus in Austin where the Product Portfolio Mavens share insights discussed during the innovation...
