Your path to business agility
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.
In part one of this series, “Why Measure Innovation by Capability,” I discussed some key insights from Tech Clarity’s latest whitepaper, 5 Ways to Measure Innovation Performance,” and why product leaders need to measure both innovation capability and desired outcomes to improve innovation performance. Now, let’s dive into the first three factors that will help...
The city of Austin is alive for yet another SXSW 2018 festival – watch this video to learn more. The conference brings together tech gurus, innovators, artists, musicians, celebrities, and basically rock stars of all types to share the latest innovations and art while inspiring attendees. We absolutely love the energy of SXSW which is...
Variance analysis is a common tool in financial analysis, helping teams compare the cost forecasts and schedules to actual values. In portfolio management, variance analysis is used not only for cost and schedule comparison, but also to track changes in project and portfolio forecasts of value over time. We’ve written about these features in the...
Just as you need both a windshield and rear-view mirror to drive a car, you need more than outcome-based metrics to measure innovation. But how can you truly measure an idea? Until an idea becomes tangible, you may have a difficult time ensuring its success—a daunting prospect for business. At the same time, companies know...
Regardless of where or how you work with your teams, your collective goal is to work together to get work done. As you may know, project delivery is not always easy. The cliché of doing more with less is all too real, often creating a complexity for teams and managers alike. The truth of the...
You don’t have to be a pirate to find hidden treasure—although it may give you the upper hand. With the right information, anyone can become the hero or heroine to unlock secrets to success—in this case, secrets to work and resource management. While the benefits of work and resource management are (not-so-hidden) jewels, there is...
We’ve all attended professional conferences over the years. And while the topics and venues may change, the format remains the same: An awesome keynote that sets the tone A promise of networking, but no real structure to support attendee interaction Death by PowerPoint Scrambling to take as many notes as possible to share back at...
Everyone likes to talk about innovation, but how do you measure it? How do you know whether or not your innovation program is performing well? And which innovation metrics will drive the right behavior to achieve your organization’s strategic goals? While I am a firm believer in focusing on outcomes in order to achieve both...
Innovation is the engine that brings new ideas and products to market. These great ideas can make a big difference when it comes to staying competitive and creating new revenue streams. But knowing which ones to push and when to deliver them is the tough part. How can you innovate if you don’t have the right...
The 2016 Resource Management and Capacity Planning Benchmark Study revealed that increasingly more organisations understand the importance and value of capacity planning. The number one pain point year over year for most companies is too few resources for too many projects. Sound familiar? Innovation thrives when organisations can better plan and create innovation capacity. Many...
