Product Innovation Process

Viewpoint Blog | October 25, 2022

The Secret of Agile Motivation
Robert Webber

Everyone is looking for silver bullets. There’s a lot written about the secrets of motivation. If the secrets are out, why do so many organizations have unmotivated employees who come to work and do the minimum to get by? Here’s the promised secret of Agile motivation in four words: LET THEM DO AGILE! I’ll prove... [Read more]

JPIM Article | June 1, 2022

No Innovation Without Entrepreneurship: From Passion to Practice
Katharina Hölzle

In his Catalyst article, Kenneth Kahn takes an institutional perspective on innovation and entrepreneurship, arguing that a lack of differentiation between these two terms results in a missing demarcation of entrepreneurship and innovation centers... [Read more]

JPIM Article | January 12, 2022

Envisioning Innovation Opportunities Through Science Fiction
Thomas Michaud and Francesco Paolo Appio

The inherent uncertainty of the innovation process, along with the fast-changing world of technology, presents significant difficulties to modern companies. As a result, product managers and engineers are under growing pressure... [Read more]

kHUB Article | October 19, 2021

Winning Innovation
Norbert Majerus

Some companies view R&D and product development as a cost of doing business. It’s one more function to support with cash so that the company can continue to exist. Other companies, however, recognize that R&D is an investment... [Read more]

JPIM Article | May 29, 2021

Framing the Microfoundations of Design Thinking as a Dynamic Capability for Innovation: Reconciling Theory and Practice
Stefano Magistretti, Lorenzo Ardito, and Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli

Design thinking (DT) is gaining ground among academics and practitioners as a means to improve the innovativeness... [Read more]

Viewpoint Blog | January 22, 2021

Waterfall vs. Agile Product Development
Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy

Waterfall Model methodology which is also known as Liner Sequential Life Cycle Model. Waterfall Model followed in the sequential order, and so project development team only moves to next phase of development... [Read more]

Podcast | January 18, 2021

TEI 313: Product Innovation Process with Jean-Jacques Verhaeghe
Chad McAllister

This is another episode in the series on the product management body of knowledge I’m doing every other week. We are exploring the Product Development and Management Association’s... [Read more]

JPIM Article | October 16, 2020

Front End Transfers of Digital Innovations in a Hybrid Agile‐Stage‐Gate Setting
Kati Brock, Elke Den Ouden, Fred Langerak and Ksenia Podoynitsyna

Digital innovations often follow a more fluid innovation process and, therefore, require different ways of managing the front end of innovation. Agile as... [Read more]

Viewpoint Blog | August 17, 2020

Innovation Process for Radically New Products
Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy

When Sony launched the Walkman, it revolutionised the music industry. People thought that it would probably be the biggest breakthrough ever in that category until Apple came up with the iPod... [Read more]

viewpoint blog | november 13, 2019

PSM vs WATERFALL vs AGILE
Clint Padgett

The Agile methodologies for planning, managing, and executing projects have now been utilized for approximately 18 years, although certain components now lumped under the Agile heading have been in use for a far longer period of time... [Read more]

JPIM Article | September 4, 2019

Implementation of Social Innovations in Subsistence Marketplaces
Rinivas Venugopal and Madhubalan Viswanathan

Implementation of social innovations in subsistence marketplaces often fails as a result of not bringing about institutional change. In this article, we study the process... [Read more]

PDMA Webcast | February 21, 2019

From Pitch Deck to NPD: Adapting a Start-up Model for Corporate Innovation
John W. Eaton

We often hear corporate innovation leaders encouraging their internal NPD teams to “act like a startup”…but that’s clearly easier said than done. And while founders of tech startups and “intrapreneurs” at Fortune 500... [Read more]

kHUB Article | 2016

Learning to Innovate: A Skill That Can Be — And Must Be — Taught
Dr. Aruna Shekar

There are only a handful of institutions worldwide that formally teach innovation. It is becoming critical for current and future generations of students to be able to analyze and solve problems and... [Read more]

kHUB Article | 2016

Breaking the Mold: A Conversation with Dr. Gina O'Connor
Brad Barbera

Gina O’Connor, the mastermind behind books “Breakthrough Innovation” and “Grabbing Lightning,” understands how established companies can get tangled up in their own management systems... [Read more]

kHUB Article | 2016

The Power Of Design Thinking
K. Scott Swan and Abbie Griffin

Design thinking has recently emerged as a popular term in the business press. To achieve the benefits of this specific way of thinking, it is important to answer two questions... [Read more]

kHUB Article | 2016

Exploratory PD
Kathy Morrissey and Mary Drota

We call our approach Exploratory PD® (ExPD). ExPD is an adaptive approach that identifies and drives down project risks that can result in product failure. It adapts to the changing nuances of each project, while eliminating unnecessary... [Read more]

kHUB Article | 2015

Innovation Best Practices: Does adopting a "Best Practice" really make you any better?
Brad Barbera

Part of PDMA’s mission is to uncover and disseminate best practices in new product development and innovation. Enormous intellectual effort is devoted to researching what organizations... [Read more]

kHUB Article | 2015

Beyond the Product: Keys to Successful Innovation in Commoditized Markets
John Burns

In fast-paced markets such as consumer electronics or software, new product releases are frequent. These industries often measure product change in months, if not weeks. In other industries, however... [Read more]

kHUB Article | 2015

Open Innovation (Book Review)
Charles Noble, Serdar S. Durmusoglu and Abbie Griffin

Product innovation processes have not always been hard walled. They haven’t always shunned outside input or jealously guarded against leaks to the outside world. For example, back in 1714, the British... [Read more]

kHUB Article | 2014

Intellectual Property Module: Chronological Guide for Inventors
Center for Assistive Technology, University at Buffalo

The road you are about to travel as an inventor or technology developer is a complex journey. Along the way you will be introduced to new terms and processes and... [Read more]

pdma webcast | September 26, 2013

Pathway to Success: How to Breakdown Barriers that Stand in the Way of Successful Innovation
Susan Ward

Companies are under increasing pressure to deliver on innovation. More projects, faster time to market, and less risk are all demanded, not only to stay competitive... [Read more]

PDMA Webcast | February 12, 2013

Intellectual Property and Product Development
Peter Stewart, Bruce Schelkopf and Louis Foreman

This webcast introduces two free resources produced by the Center on Knowledge Translation for Technology Transfer pertaining to Intellectual Property (IP)... [Read more]

kHUB Article | 2013

Company 2.0: Red Hat Leverages Open Source Philosophy to Drive Innovation
Jackie Yeaney

At Red Hat, the innovation model we use is rooted in our open source philosophy. We call it a “Company 2.0” approach to management. Unlike traditional “1.0” structures, in which decisions are made at the top and... [Read more]

kHUB Article | 2013

Improving Product Development by Capturing Knowledge
Becky Partida

Product development relies on knowledge that can take the form of experience gained over the course of an employee’s career or lessons learned during a project... [Read more]

PDMA Webcast | May 3, 2012

Mouse Trap Principle...Prescription for Market Success?
Charles J. Brez and Thomas Swiger

“Build a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to your door”. This age old prescription for business success is believed by most people to be inherently true. That better performance will... [Read more]

kHUB Article | 2012

Want to Jump-Start Your Product Development? Reverse Engineer Your Future
Joe Tradii

So you’ve come to the realization that you’re suddenly in the position to play catch-up with your competitors. Reasons why don’t matter right now, but getting a competitive product to market as quickly as possible does... [Read more]

kHUB Article | 2012

How Industry Leaders Find, Evaluate & Choose the Most Promising Innovation Opportunities
Jacquelin Cooper

As open innovation has become one of the primary catalysts of growth, companies are continually looking for opportunities to add new product lines, move into... [Read more]

kHUB Article | 2012

Deliberate Product Differentiation
Joshua L. Cohen

Success is about standing out, not fitting in. That’s why Tiffany & Co. adopted robin’s egg blueZ packaging and Levi Strauss protects its iconic jean pockets. This is not done merely for the sake of being different or even simply better; it is rather for selling... [Read more]

PDMA Webcast | 2012

Integrating User Interface Design into the New Product Development Process
Rob Tannen and Mathieu Turpault

Products of all kinds are set to take advantage of more sophisticated electronics, including on-board computing power, touch screen and emerging interactive technologies. How can companies improve... [Read more]