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What does management have to do with innovation - Click To Read Article
Innovation is not about managing constraints and tracking progress, but is about creating products that appeal to new classes of customers. What is management’s role in innovation?
There are three domains of activity for a manager, each of them critical for effective development of innovative products:
1. Inwardly-focused activity, related to maintaining well-functioning teams and individuals;
2. Outwardly-focused activity, related to creating teams, communicating and removing roadblocks; and
3. Upwardly-focused activity, related to managing expectations of your bosses and your teams
Drawing on many years in hardware and software development, John will suggest when to “get out of the way,” when to “get our way” and when to “get in the way” while managing a development organization.
Using Competition as a Stimulus to Product Development - Click To Read Article
Competition benefits customers by letting them choose among products. It establishes a market with a range of solutions. Here are three ways use a customer frame of mind to stimulate product development.
1. When you evaluate product development proposals, listen with a customer’s ear.
2. While you plan your products, project the future of competitors’ capabilities.
3. Getting outstanding products is often a matter of imagining possibilities.
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