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Disruption is all around but today's innovative organizations leverage the power of the crowd to set themselves apart. The innovation management blog dives into topics like employee engagement, crowdsourcing, and how to get those concepts from idea to the market. Get insights related to concept development, creating winning challenges, and best practices for engaging your audience to enable your organization to crowdsource breakthrough ideas from the employees, partners, and customers that know their business best. Discover how to prioritize and track all ideas in your pipeline, from original conception to delivery -- in new products and services, improved processes, and enhanced customer experience. You will also find real-world stories, industry research, and more.
Leaders must balance detailed short-term planning flexibility and strategic alignment to manage portfolios effectively. Most portfolio management platforms emphasize only one of these competencies at the expense of the other. For example, organizations striving for adaptability may stray too far from strategic goals, while organizations emphasizing strategy may be too rigid to react to near-term constraints....
Learn the differences between the project- and product-based software delivery approaches, benefits of product-based thinking for technology leaders, and best practices and strategies for adopting this approach.
Whether you’re just entering the AI arena or it’s your umpteenth time returning, you’ll need a framework in place to gather ideas and prioritize the best ones, minimize the risk you’ll face, and continually assess your opportunities. These executive insights from a recent panel discussion on AI in the enterprise provide the basis for an AI use case decision-making framework that can be applied to quickly identify the right use case.
Amidst the relentless waves of innovation and competition, OEMs, suppliers, and manufacturers in the automotive industry navigate a sea of challenges and opportunities. Technical debt, the accrued cost of code awaiting updates, is a significant obstacle. According to McKinsey, this “tax” on development comprises about 40 percent of IT balance sheets, stemming from the intense...
Of the varieties of enterprise real-estate portfolios, the oil and gas industry claims some of the most complex asset inventories with the highest risk. As the market continues to evolve and regulatory obligations expand, oil and gas companies may find that the complexity of their portfolios has quickly outgrown the standard means of management, requiring...
One of the most important decisions people in organizations make on a daily basis at all levels is choosing how to spend resources. The principal question they must ask themselves: Are we spending time on the most beneficial improvement opportunities? Intelligent use of resources manifests in improved internal functions, delightful customer experiences, productive partnerships, winning...
Yadhu Krishnan considers himself more logical than creative. That’s what gives him an advantage as a retention marketing manager—the first role he’s had that is involved with the customer side instead of the go-to-market (GTM) side. Read about his journey to this position, how his background is building his creativity, and what he thought of...
Speed in delivering high-value innovations is a critical differentiator that can make or break companies. According to a Boston Consulting Group report, companies prioritizing innovation—arriving first to market with new and relevant ideas—outperform the MSCI World Index on shareholder return by 3.3 percentage points per year. As technologies evolve and disruptions become an ever-growing presence...
The C-suite has to identify, adopt, and express a strategic approach to the AI paradigm we all have entered, and provide a blueprint for how their organizations will compete and thrive in it. This post by Dr. Pallab Chatterjee highlights the essential components of an AI strategy for CEOs.
As the world becomes more interconnected, the impacts of disruptions to product development are now felt more widely, which means product-driven organizations need to be more responsive and adaptive in how they manage their portfolios. Fierce competition and market oversaturation are just a few challenges organizations face when struggling to bridge the gap between the...
