I have been thinking about the year ahead and wanted to come up with simple, easy-to-remember guidelines for deepening my own leadership skills in 2017. 2015, for me, was all about BALANCE both personal and professional. Balance turned out to be more of a challenge than I originally...
The co-working movement may be considered the latest fad, but it has been around for decades under different names and forms. Cross-organizational or cross-functional teamwork is the basis of many existing business processes. Co-location of teams and matrixed organizations are also well known. Marketing, product development...
Today's thought from INSIGHTOVATION® - July 19, 2016 Stay ahead of your business cadence. Are you still analyzing the first half of 2016 to see where you are vs. the business goals? If so you are already behind for the year. That analysis should have been done starting...
Writing a resume or job description? Preparing to interview a product manager candidate or be interviewed for a product manager job? I was recently asked to identify characteristics of a great product manager. If functional expertise is a given, then what are the characteristics that take a product...
EXCERPTS FROM INSIGHTOVATION® STRATEGIC PLANNING WORKBOOK Strategy can be thought of as your organization's playbook, spelling out "where to play" and 'how to win" with your customers and consumers, and how you will beat others competing with you in the same arena. Developing and articulating strategy can be...
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Your NPD process is stuck in the 80s when...
Is Everyone Fighting for Resources? 6 Steps to Better Portfolio Management 1. Have a standing cross-organizational portfolio team: A Portfolio Analysis and Recommendation Team - 'PART' with a structure, process, cadence, measures, metrics and portfolio goals will create an efficient and credible environment for portfolio issues to be...
Product and innovation managers! You are falling short of your goals, yet you are effectively and efficiently conducting your gated projects and you are analyzing and optimizing your portfolio scenarios. Your problem may not be your skill and capability level at these processes but instead, after...
Your new product development team has time constraints and has to make decisions on a project, but marketing does not have enough information on the size of the market, the customer requirements, or the user needs and sales doesn't know what the retailer needs for...