Most popular presentation of Pipeline 2012

I had a great time at the recent Pipeline2012 event; good chats with people about ways to “win under uncertainty” – especially when determining if an innovation has a chance to make it in the marketplace; how to deal with uncertainty about market size, pricing, etc., and where to apply

An FEI Live Blog of my talk

I just got back from the Front End of Innovation conference in Orlando Florida, where I chaired a day on optimizing the portfolio and gave a talk on increasing value from innovation. They had a blogger in the audience, who summarized my talk. You can read about it

Taking PPM to the Next Level Webinar – Register Now!

Optimizing Product Development Value
No matter how well you plan, products will not always be successful. 40% to 75% of new products fail to achieve forecast revenue or profits. Even at companies as sophisticated as Google: “Out of 22 major product launches, eight have been huge flops.”
In this webcast, we will

Pipeline 2012 Now Available On-Demand!

It’s not too late to benefit from all of the great content that was live on Thursday, May 10th at this virtual conference.  Register now for this SmartOrg sponsored event and view as many recordings as you like at your leisure through August 10th.
Innovation and

Does Innovation Need a Simpler Process?

During my checkered-past, I spent several decades as a soccer official, including a few years as the National Director of Referee Assessment for the United States Soccer Federation. Early in my career, I had the privilege of working with the late Ken Aston, a FIFA referee who had been in

The importance of the Formulation Phase in Innovation

I just gave a webinar jointly with Rich Duncombe of HP on “Fire Up Your Cross-Company Breakthrough Innovation“. During the audience polling questions, I was struck by how low people set their sights. They take potentially great ideas and make them small, worth only a

Revitalizing your Organization’s IQ – May 2012 ValuePoint

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By Don Creswell, SmartOrg
In our past three issues, Jim Matheson penned a series of articles, building from the reasons companies like Eastman Kodak and others fail from “brain death”, to Organizational IQ, which

Fire Up Cross Company Breakthrough Innovation – webinar replay

 
Click here to view the April 26th, 2012 complimentary eBroadcast focusing on leveraging partnerships to dramatically grow your company with reduced risk through co-innovation.  (Please register on the page to which you are directed to gain access to the webinar.)  You will hear