New Product Development Process At Apple (4 Steps)
Learn about the new product development process at Apple including the major issues and four step approach to transform Apple’s new product process.
Escalation Process For Projects: Escalation Management in Four Steps
The Escalation Process clarifies the boundaries and channels of decision-making throughout an organization. Designed around the concept of a core project team, the Escalation Process diagram displays a path that allows the core team to make decisions at lower levels of the org chart while having a predefined path for exception management.
Product Development Checklist
The fastest way to destroy an Agile implementation is to let functional silos get in the way. Unfortunately, it happens all the time. And it happens because many companies underestimate the organizational implications of a successful Agile implementation.
Predictive Metrics Tree: Measuring the Behaviors That Drive Results
The Predictive Metrics Tree is a tool that ensures that what you’re measuring helps you achieve your program goals. Learn to create Predictive Metrics Tree.
Best Practices in Applying ISO to Product Development
As the ISO standard evolves, successful companies have embraced the standard to increase the quality of their products and services, while balancing the pressures of time to market and product cost.
Program Managers: Linchpin of Product Development Agility
The rate of technology and market change today is staggering. Yet, too many companies lack a Portfolio Management process that enables them to respond effectively to such shifts in markets and in the labs.
A Front-End Management Process For Innovation: Removing The Fuzz from the Front-End
We have advocated two systems for managing your company’s early stage product innovation activities. The first is a yearly planning process that ties the company’s vision to a strategy, and provides roadmaps that drive the annual budgeting process.
Innovation: Are Two Systems Better Than One?
In too many companies, the front end of development remains fuzzy. The same companies that will micro-manage IT, or spend time simplifying a portion of their manufacturing operations, show little interest in improving the early stage innovation activities that drive future growth.
Attitude Influence Diagram: Eliminating Political Roadblocks
Have you ever had an excellent product concept derailed by internal politics? It is frustrating since good ideas that could benefit the company as well as the individuals involved are blocked for irrational causes. The Attitude Influence Diagram is one tool that helps to overcome political obstacles.
Building High Performance Teams To Drive Innovation
Creating high-performance teams is a competitive advantage. Through high performance teams it is possible to quickly innovate and deliver winning products to market.
Risk Management Matrix: Anticipating and Mitigating Risk
You can’t take the risk out of invention and no project is completely risk-free. But you can reduce the risk, even in the most innovative programs. How? By anticipating it. The Risk Management Matrix is an elegant way to anticipate, manage, and mitigate product development risks.
Unclear Escalation Paths can Kill Projects
At the beginning of any major project or program, defining a clear escalation path and protocols for problems will greatly speed the project.