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.

How to Use Business Transformation to Drive Innovation in the Digital Era [Infographic]

The face of the professional landscape is always evolving. The modern consumer has an ever-changing list of demands, and organizations without an effective business transformation strategy fail to meet those needs and are often left behind. But how can you facilitate business transformation so that your products and services align with the customers’ needs? The...

A Product Development Process for Successful Strategic Outcomes

Previously in this series, we discussed leveraging technology to resolve product portfolio challenges. In part seven of our eight part series “The Complexity of Managing Smarter, More Connected Products,” we’re offering recommendations for improving your product development process. Here, we’ll look at how successful industry leaders have focused on the development process to conquer complexity...

Technology: The Key to Resolving Product Portfolio Challenges

In our last piece, we explained how top performers leveraged consistent and effective product portfolio management processes to ensure continued industry leadership. In this, our sixth installment of our eight part series, “The Complexity of Managing Smarter, More Connected Products,” we explore the notion of leveraging technology to resolve product portfolio challenges. Review the previous...

Product Development Processes: Changing the Game

In our last piece of this series, we described the need for data visibility as prerequisite to making sound portfolio management decisions. In this, the fifth in our eight-part series, we cover product development processes as a key success facilitator. Here, we’ll delve into how to make the most of the data visibility enhancements gleaned...

Ensuring the Life Blood of Your Business: Data Visibility

In the first three parts of this series, we covered the importance of addressing the challenges of modern portfolio management. Increasing complexity, addressing it through innovation investment and strategy alignment, and best practices for execution are critical—and data visibility is key. Catch up on anything you may have missed by reading through the first three...

Managing Product Portfolio Challenges in the Digital Age

If you read parts 1 and 2 of this series “The Complexity of Managing Smarter, More Connected Products” and “Connecting Innovation Investments with Delivery,” you are probably anticipating learning the key to transforming your organization into a top performer like those we’ve cited so far. In part 3 of this 8-part series, we’ll speak to...

Connecting Innovation Investments with Delivery

If you read part 1 of this series “The Complexity of Managing Smarter, More Connected Products,” it probably does not come as a surprise that while innovation investments are on the rise, business leaders are still struggling to align resources and money to their strategic targets. In part 2 of this series, we’ll look at...

Develop Breakthrough Smart Products to Create New Revenue Streams [Webinar]

IoT and smart products are having a dramatic impact on our organizations. Customer expectations are higher, the competition is increasingly fierce, and product portfolio management in this digital age is only becoming more complicated. Leaders must leverage new strategies, processes, tools, and best practices to be successful, tasks that may not always be easy, but...

The Complexity of Managing Smarter, More Connected Products

As a product leader, your job is to ensure business growth and innovation. However, the product development process is becoming more difficult due to the push for smarter, more connected products. The convergence of products and technology is fundamentally changing the way companies think and conduct business—a shift that is forcing leaders to navigate through...

Product Innovation Processes that Won’t Come Back to Haunt You

No one wants to be haunted, whether that means by fears, bad decisions, or actual ghosts. They’re all equally awful—well, being haunted by the supernatural may achieve a new level of awful. However, holding on to outdated product innovation processes can have the same effect as these nagging haunts. The longer they stick around, the...