Objectives
• Why should you lead innovation within your company?
• What should you do to encourage innovation?
• How do you harness the power of innovation to increase your company’s value and minimize risk?
Description
Innovation is a central element of business growth strategy within companies that aim to generate added value for their customers, the company itself, and other stakeholders. While many company executives and business leaders agree that in order for their companies to survive today’s increasingly global marketplace, they must face the unpleasant truth that there may have to be fundamental changes in who they are, what they do, and how they do it. Few executives feel their companies are good at the specific processes and tactics frequently tied to successful innovation, such as generating breakthrough ideas, selecting the right ideas, prototyping, and developing business cases. We will provide insights to help you define and implement a process to drive innovation within your company using a sustainable approach to ignite business growth.
The speaker will discuss how you can leverage innovation as a resource to help shape a better future for your company’s growth and your career. These insights will help you increase creativity, nurture collaboration and lead activities to transform innovation to profit. He will identify the value of innovation, methodologies, and concrete steps you can take to foster innovation within your company.
Who Should Attend
This discussion is for entrepreneurs, business owners, company executives and senior managers who want to increase their company’s value and accelerate their professional careers by leading product innovation efforts.
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Let me know how I can help you create and implement a product strategy and product planning process to successfully grow your business.
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AIPMM offers globally recognized certifications for product managers, product marketing managers and brand managers.Certified Product Manager (CPM), Certified Product Marketing Management (CPMM) and Agile Certified Product Manager (ACPM). Certification requires obtaining a college degree, minimum one year of experience, and passing a certification examination.
Here are some of the benefits that innovation can provide.Benefits result in increased product value for your customers and improved profitability for your company.
The innovation process requires creativity and implementation. Innovation can be represented as a funnel to capture,screen and combine ideas into outcomes. Ideas flow in from the top and outcomes flow down at the bottom of this funnel.It is an approach to gather, categorize, prioritize, combine and screen ideas and identify viable options to implement a change into your company’s business model, strategy, processes, internal tools, emerging technologies or products.Attribute 1. Innovation involves the combination of ideas in the creation of outcomes.Attribute 2. Inputs to innovation can be tangible and intangible.Attribute 3. Knowledge is a key input to innovation.Attribute 4. The inputs to innovation are ideas.Attribute 5. Innovation involves activity for the purpose of creating economic value for your company. Innovation can be used to focus on reducing cost, time-to-market, fulfilling unmet customer needs, Attribute 6. The process of innovation is complex.Attribute 7. Innovation involves risk.Attribute 8. The outcomes are predictable as long as the screening process is managed correctly.Attribute 9. Knowledge and outcome are a key outputs of innovation.
Why Your Company Need It?Provides a roadmap to create value for your business, customers and investors.Identifies how you plan to market and sell your products to your marketplace.Anticipates your competitors’, including new entrants, probable moves.Defines how your customers think about your products. May encompass any number of products, depending on the nature of your business.
In their March 19, 2012 issue, FORTUNE magazine named the 50 most admired companies. The Most Admired list is the definitive report card on corporate reputations. Our survey partners at Hay Group started with approximately 1,400 companies: the Fortune 1,000 (the 1,000 largest U.S. companies ranked by revenue), non-U.S. companies in Fortune’s Global 500 database with revenue of $10 billion or more, and the top foreign companies operating in the U.S.They then sorted the companies by industry and selected the 15 largest for each international industry and the 10 largest for each U.S. industry. A total of 698 companies from 32 countries were surveyed. (Due to an insufficient response rate, the results for 11 companies in the scientific, photographic, and control equipment industry were not published. In addition, due to the distribution of responses, only the aggregate scores and ranks for the 10 companies in the oil and gas equipment/services industry were published.) To create the 58 industry lists, Hay asked executives, directors, and analysts to rate companies in their own industry on nine criteria, from investment value to social responsibility. This year only the best are listed in the magazine: A company's score must rank in the top half of its industry survey. Online, all companies' results are displayed. To arrive at the top 50 Most Admired Companies overall, the Hay Group asked 3,855 executives, directors, and securities analysts who had responded to the industry surveys to select the 10 companies they admired most. They chose from a list made up of the companies that ranked in the top 25% in last year's surveys, plus those that finished in the top 20% of their industry. Anyone could vote for any company in any industry. The difference in the voting rolls is why some results can seem anomalous -- for example, although FedEx is one of the top 10 Most Admired Companies, it is second in the Delivery industry behind top-ranked UPS, which ranked 29th on the top 50 overall.
Recommended Reading:Harvard Business Review April 2004The Ambidextrous Organizationby Charles A. O’Reilly III and Michael L. TushmanThe Roman god Janus had two sets of eyes—one pair focusing on what lay behind, the other on what lay ahead. General managers and corporate executives should be able to relate. They, too, must constantly look backward, attending to the products and processes of the past, while also gazing forward, preparing for the innovations that will define the future.
Here we show AIPMM’s Product Management Framework. It depicts the typical phases for products throughout their life cycle from cradle to grave.It contain elements that apply across all industries and all companies and can also be adapted to create customized frameworks to address unique needs of specific industries and companies.It defines a standard set of inputs, processes and outputs that can be applied to any product.It provides a solid foundation for both implementing and evaluating a product management organization in a company.
Here we show how the innovation process can be integrated with the Product Management process by aligning the phases of each process.Many innovative companies use anthropologists to discover unarticulated customer needs.We at AIPMM have our own Anthropologist to conduct research and discover unarticulated needs from prospective target customers. This can be done through non-invasive scientific observation. The discovery process requires discipline and a formalized process.The most innovative companies have teams of anthropologists within their market research teams to discover and gather unarticulated customer needs.
A business model is a framework that describes the rationale of how an organization creates, captures and deliversvalue to customers,shareholders and employees.The business model creation process is part of business strategy.Business models are used to describe and classify businesses. They are also used by managers inside companies to explore possibilities forfuture development.
A business model is a framework that describes the rationale of how an organization creates, captures and deliversvalue to customers, shareholders and employees.The business model creation process is part of business strategy.Business models are used to describe and classify businesses. They are also used by managers inside companies to explore possibilities forfuture development.
Tips for Fostering innovationPromote open communication and problem solving.Empower leaders to be creative and propose solutions.Create a relaxed, fun, and openenvironment.Recruit and reward innovative people.Benchmark your company and products with your competitors.
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Certification validates your knowledge and expertise in Product Management, Product Marketing Management and Agile Product Management.Certification evaluates your expertise regarding the product management and marketing body of knowledge.Certification provides a mark of distinction that sets you apart. Certification provides external validation of your knowledge and competence among others not familiar with the profession, improving your marketability. Certification shows your commitment to the profession and your own professional growth.Certification improves your opportunity for professional advancement, including your professional marketability, salary increases, job role and promotions.Certification requires a dedication to continuing education, promoting your continued growth and development as a professional. Certification may persuade your employer to underwrite educational activities that support your professional development and your company's continuous improvement efforts. Certification links youwith experts and thought leaders in your profession.
Contact me for any of the following:Obtain information about upcoming certification courses in your area.Let me know how I can help your business grow by defining and implementing the right product strategy.Obtain the answer worksheet.Obtain copies of these slides.
Contact me for any of the following:Obtain information about upcoming certification courses in your area.Let me know how I can help your business grow by defining and implementing the right product strategy.Obtain the answer worksheet.Obtain copies of these slides.