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- Global Manufacturer Expects $60 Million of New Revenue From Product Innovation
- Ampacet is a specialty chemical manufacturer and is one of the world's largest masterbatch producers with global Research and Development (R&D) facilities. Each of its five R&D facilities has its own product development process. Because these processes had little or no consistency, there was no accurate way to track projects,...
- Tags: Innovation, Revenue, R&D, Product Innovation, Microsoft Corp., Ampacet, Product Development, Research & Development, Product Marketing, Strategy, Business Operations, Marketing, Management
- Case studies
- Are Your Products Open or Closed? How to Respond to the New Openness
- Companies in many industries are struggling to determine how best to deal with the power that social computing gives their customers as an open forum to share how they feel about products with millions of fellow consumers. This newfound power in the hands of customers is creating an openness of...
- Tags: Endeca Technologies Inc., Product Innovation, Optaros, Roi/Tco, Social Networking, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- Webcasts 2008-02-27
Additional Resources
- The Practice of Innovation: Customer-Centered Innovation at Pitney Bowes
- Success with new product development requires that the "myth of the brilliant idea" be replaced with a model for innovation based on a careful understanding and systematic tightening of constraints. This is called "Customer-Centered Innovation". In contrast to the "myth of the brilliant idea", customer-centered innovation manages the contexts in...
- Tags: Innovation, Pitney Bowes Inc., Leadership, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2004-10-01
- How IT Companies Can Stay Competitive in a Global Market
- In the global economy, innovation is the single most powerful competitive weapon an IT organization can wield. At the same time, it is fraught with risk. One study found that for every product success, 3000 new product ideas and 125 small projects fail. In short, innovation requires discipline across the...
- Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, Organization, Leadership, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-10-18
- Measuring Innovation Effectiveness
- The strategic importance and high level of investment in innovation initiatives require the use of effective measures. Is there a silver bullet for evaluating innovation effectiveness? Will the efforts "Move the needle"? This webcast will explore the types of innovation programs, the connection between innovation, performance and value, and highlight...
- Tags: Innovation Effectiveness, Leadership, Performance Management, Investment, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance
- Webcasts 2007-10-11
- Gabriel Consulting Group: The Quest for Relentless Innovation
- Maximizing innovation is a hot topic today. Innovative firms lead markets in both product leadership and financial returns. This report from Gabriel Consulting Group discusses the need for innovation and explains how traditional business models may not provide enough innovation horsepower to keep up in an increasingly speedy business world....
- Tags: financial, IBM Corp., innovation, leadership
- White papers 2006-05-01
- How to Foster Innovation in Your Company - Part 1
- In crowded marketplace, innovation can be critical to the continued success of the business. Yet, few organizations know how to encourage and pursue it. The attendee of this webcast will discover how one can foster innovation that promotes new product development, helps to identify new opportunities, and differentiates the company...
- Tags: Innovation, Webcast, Cisco Systems Inc., Leadership, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
- A Practical Guide to User-Centered Innovation
- This presentation provides a practical & step-by-step overview on how ethnographic research findings are made actionable by a user-experience product definition team, and how these inherently subjective/perceptive notions of what a product should be and do are subsequently translated into rigid and quantified objective engineering requirements. It describes ways by...
- Tags: Innovation, Intel Corp., Leadership, Strategy, Management
- Presentations 2006-09-22
- Forrester: Innovation Networks: A New Market Structure will Revitalize Invention-to-Innovation Cycles
- Finicky customers, ruthless competition, and stringent regulations are accelerating demand for technology-enabled innovation. But supply-side deficiency and ineffectiveness hamper firms' ability to convert inventions into profitable innovations. The result? A new market ecosystem — called Innovation Networks — will emerge to match global demand for innovation with worldwide supply. Innovation...
- Tags: Forrester Research Inc., IBM Corp., innovation, network
- White papers 2004-06-17
- Idea Qualification
- In today's highly competitive, change-intensive and global marketplace, innovation is a core competency that every business must embrace. Innomation is the automation of innovation and depends on people, processes and technology for success. Many technologies contribute to innovation success but few are true innomation technologies - tools and applications used...
- Tags: Innovation, Innomation, Leadership, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Product Lifecycle Management in the Food and Beverage Industry
- Companies in the food and beverage industry face many challenges in managing their products and competing in the industry - including retail consolidation, ineffective innovation, increasing regulatory requirements, empowered consumers, and complex supply chains. An integrated Product Lifecycle Management PLM solution can streamline and improve the fundamental processes that influence...
- Tags: Food, Product Lifecycle, Industry, Beverage, Product Lifecycle Management, Food & Beverage, Product Marketing, Manufacturing, Marketing
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Making Innovation Work
- The attendee of this webcast discovers how organization can increase its employees' abilities to deliver the innovation that drives a company's growth. The presenter addresses some of the reasons why companies lose their ability to sustain strong, effective innovation. The presenter also examines why companies find it so hard to...
- Tags: Innovation, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Leadership, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts 2006-05-12
- Forrester: IBM Links Its Engineering & Technology Services to Global Innovation Networks
- IBM's Engineering & Technology Services (E&TS) offers engineering design and product development services to clients that want to differentiate their new products and services by embedding electronics and software into them. E&TS — along with IBM's On Demand Innovation Services ODIS — accelerates IBM's evolution from a tactical IT vendor...
- Tags: electronics, Forrester Research Inc., IBM Corp., information technology, partnership, product development, software
- White papers 2005-07-11
- Armstrong Manages Complete Product Innovation Life Cycle With CA Clarity
- With hundreds of new products in development at any given time - and plants, R&D resources and suppliers spread across four continents - Armstrong found it challenging to set priorities, share information, facilitate collaboration and balance resources company-wide. Critical process and design information was siloed within specific units and product...
- Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., Armstrong, CA Clarity, Research & Development, Groupware, Productivity, Product Marketing, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- Case studies
- The Risk of Uncertainty: Coming to Grips With Innovation and People
- The presenters of this webcast offer their perspective on innovation and product life cycles. The attendee will learn how companies can embrace change, while protecting their profit margins and capturing future markets. The presenters energize the audience with their views on behavior, values and adaptability, and offer important insights into...
- Tags: Innovation, SAS Institute, Leadership, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
- Intel Architecture and Silicon Cadence: The Catalyst for Industry Innovation
- Intel has a long history of setting the pace of industry innovation with the relentless pursuit of Moore's Law. This pace of innovation has served the ever increasing needs of users by providing the ability to increase processor performance, and deliver new features and capabilities, through innovation in processor architecture....
- Tags: Innovation, Silicon, Cisco Catalyst, Processor, Cadence Design Systems Inc., Industry, Intel Corp., Intel Architecture, Leadership, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Office Products Maker Boosts Innovation, Collaboration; Cuts Cycle Time in Half
- ACCO Brands, the global leader behind Swingline, Kensington, and other brands, wanted to improve innovation and collaboration and to standardize Product Life Cycle Management PLM, in order to speed time to market, reduce costs, and further enhance product quality. The company adopted a Microsoft .NET - based enterprise PLM solution...
- Tags: Innovation, Microsoft Corp., Office Product, Leadership, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-05-28
- IBM Engineering & Technology Services Delivers Collaborative Innovation for Competitive Advantage
- IBM considers innovation to be a cornerstone of its competitiveness in the marketplace. Because technology innovation fuels economic growth across developed nations and society at large, it is what drives IBM as a company. But innovation cannot happen in isolation - throughout its history, IBM has worked with hundreds of...
- Tags: Innovation, Competitive Advantage, IBM Corp., Leadership, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Establishing Global Innovation Networks
- Manufacturers today are striving to achieve top-line growth while maintaining the cost reductions they've achieved in recent years. It's a delicate balance, particularly when business is increasingly global, fluid and complex. It requires that manufacturers become more adept at managing their businesses - in particular, their product lifecycles - more...
- Tags: Innovation, Network, Siemens AG, Manufacturer, Leadership, Strategy, Manufacturing, Management
- White papers 2007-10-01
- CIO insights from IBM: Build collaboration to drive innovation
- More than ever before, CIOs are taking on new responsibilities for driving business growth and fostering innovation. Collaboration is one of the key drivers of innovation—and so it's critical that IT leaders deliver this capability to their organizations. Since IT works with every area of the organization, CIOs are in...
- Tags: CIO, collaboration, IBM Corp., information technology, innovation
- White papers 2006-11-01
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