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New Research Sheds Light on Gap Between Goals and Performance for CPG Companies
This Consumer Goods Technology magazine survey of global consumer goods companies sheds light on the gap between their product development goals and the actual performance of their new products. |
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Overcoming Barriers to Sustainable Market Differentiation - Making Product Portfolio Management Real
An effective portfolio management process can help companies maximize the return on their innovation investments, even when resources are limited. This white paper details an integrated approach to product development that ties together portfolio management, the company’s growth plans, and its daily operations. By taking a 360 degree view of your company’s innovation process, your senior executives can make better business decisions about planned investments in new products.
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Overcoming Barriers to Sustainable Market Differentiation - Successfully Executing Gated Processes
For most businesses worldwide, gated processes are the backbone of their innovation strategies. Yet, many are challenged to execute these processes effectively. Learn what the most common barriers are to innovation success and how a series of repeatable, easy-to-understand steps can transform early-stage concepts into revenue-generating new products. |
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Overcoming Barriers to Sustainable Market Differentiation – Turning Great Ideas Into Great Products
Recent research indicates that low-performing companies introduce two times as many incremental products as high performers. By contrast, best-practice companies spend significantly less on product failures - up to 57%. Learn how having a well-defined idea development process can help you create a predictable, viable pipeline of high-value ideas that can become successful new products.
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Aligning Product Portfolios With Strategic Plans
Portfolio management is commonly recognized as a primary driver of product innovation. To be truly effective, however, portfolio decisions must reflect a balance between near-term objectives and long-term strategies. Find out what steps you can take to keep your innovation investments and strategies in sync, and your organizational resources focused on the right new product opportunities.
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Strategic Product Roadmapping: How to Develop Plans That Work
Many leading companies today are using roadmaps to visualize their innovation efforts across the enterprise, exchanging up-to-date strategic planning information about emerging technologies, customer needs, market demands and competitive information. This FAQs document provides answers to the most commonly-asked questions about how a combination of roadmapping software and best practices can help ensure that your organization’s product development and technology strategies deliver long-term organic growth. |
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Supporting the Business of Product Innovation
The business layer of PLM focuses on aligning a company's long-term strategic roadmap with its daily product development activities, as well as identifying and assigning resources to the best concepts for successful new products. Read this paper to lean how Sopheon's solutions enable and enrich strategic decision-making, providing end-to-end support of the entire innovation process.
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Innovation Governance: Aligning Strategy, Ideation and Execution for Better Business Results
Innovation governance is a system of cross-functional decision-making processes that define, align, and manage innovation activities across the entire product lifecycle, ensuring the achievement of strategic growth goals. It encompasses business decisions that impact every phase of the product lifecycle and affect many parts of the organization.
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Managing the Life of Your Product
Product lifecycle management, or PLM, is first and foremost a business discipline, the goal of which is to eliminate waste and improve efficiency. All too often, though, PLM solutions only address the technical or production layer - not the business decision-making that proceeds the actual manufacture of a product. This article from The Manufacturer attempts to ouline the importance of PLM as one of four cornerstones processes for reducing a company's business risk.
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The Prepared Mind: Best Practices for Selecting & Managing Winning New Product Ideas
Good ideas are the lifeblood of any organization. This original white paper introduces best practices for generating, capturing, storing, evaluating and screening your most valuable ideas and turning them into revenue-generating new products and services.
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An Introduction to Strategic Roadmapping
In this introductory white paper, learn the fundamentals of roadmapping, including what it is and how companies are using roadmaps to visualize strategic plans across the enterprise.
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IP Guide: No Blue Sky, Brainstorms, Buy-In
According to this Idealog article, if you want your company to deliver results from your innovation initiatives, you must treat innovation and ideation as a process, and one that you can and should consciously control.
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Ten Ways to Generate Higher Returns from Your Investments in Innovation
Studies show that one way companies can ensure their long-term success is by investing in product innovation. This white paper from Sopheon presents ten best practices leading innovators are using to generate the business payback they’re after. |
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Big Fish, Bigger Ambition
New Zealand King Salmon has been steadily growing its new product development program, adding $5 million in new revenue over the past two years. The company relies on Sopheon's Accolade® product innovation management system to help it identify the best ideas in its development pipeline and then bring them successfully to market. |