The document discusses innovation leadership and managing innovation. It argues that innovation can be managed and measured, despite common beliefs otherwise. Successful companies actively measure innovation through metrics like revenue from new products, ideas generated, and time to market. The document also discusses how innovation can provide competitive advantage, with studies finding the most innovative firms deliver higher shareholder returns. It presents examples of companies that have used continuous innovation to drive growth and dominate their industries over decades.
project harmonization after mergers and acquisitionsMatt Green
This document outlines four key steps for aligning project portfolios after a merger or acquisition (M&A): 1) Align on the overall strategy, 2) Identify opportunities for synergies and resource sharing, 3) Develop an aligned new product development (NPD) process and common language, and 4) Create visibility and control across the combined pipeline. The document uses examples from the medical device industry to illustrate how to identify commonalities between seemingly different processes to facilitate portfolio alignment after M&A.
The human aspect in driving innovation is not to be underestimated. Driving innovation is done by implementing the necessary tools and structures. However driving desired behavior on individual and team level is at least equally important. Möbius will share insights in how to build an innovation and continuous improvement culture.
There is a key type of innovation for a web startup?Fabio Miceli
There is a key type of innovation for a web startup? An analysis through the most successful internet companies.
We always talk about innovation that can disrupt the market. But do we really need it? Are the most
important companies in the internet industry based on a disruptive innovation? Or should we rather
concentrate on just improve existing products on existing markets pursuing sustaining innovation?
After a brief introduction with a classification of different types of innovations, in order to answer
these questions this paper will analyze three of the most important companies in different areas of
internet. Such as Google for search, Facebook for social networking and Amazon for e-commerce,
hence we will try to understand whether there is a predominant type of innovation source of such a
huge success.
As a result we will discover that a start up must provide disruptive innovation to succeed. Moreover
there is an interlinked relevance among disruptive innovation and the innovation object, led by a
new product, a new process or a new business model.
This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 13 of Gareth R. Jones' book "Organizational Theory, Design, and Change". It discusses innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, and how organizations can foster these. It defines innovation and technological change, and describes the technology and product life cycles. It also outlines approaches to managing innovation projects, such as using cross-functional teams, stage-gate processes, and information technology to encourage collaboration.
Thomas Edison developed an innovative process for new product development using his laboratory in Menlo Park. He recorded experiments in detail to systematically track progress and avoid failures. Edison understood the need for products to be marketable by creating inventions that served customer needs. Modern companies benefit from implementing a stage-gate process for new product development, as Edison did, with distinct stages and decision points. This provides structure, accountability and helps ensure resources are used efficiently to successfully develop innovative products.
The document discusses innovation leadership and managing innovation. It argues that innovation can be managed and measured, despite common beliefs otherwise. Successful companies actively measure innovation through metrics like revenue from new products, ideas generated, and time to market. The document also discusses how innovation can provide competitive advantage, with studies finding the most innovative firms deliver higher shareholder returns. It presents examples of companies that have used continuous innovation to drive growth and dominate their industries over decades.
project harmonization after mergers and acquisitionsMatt Green
This document outlines four key steps for aligning project portfolios after a merger or acquisition (M&A): 1) Align on the overall strategy, 2) Identify opportunities for synergies and resource sharing, 3) Develop an aligned new product development (NPD) process and common language, and 4) Create visibility and control across the combined pipeline. The document uses examples from the medical device industry to illustrate how to identify commonalities between seemingly different processes to facilitate portfolio alignment after M&A.
The human aspect in driving innovation is not to be underestimated. Driving innovation is done by implementing the necessary tools and structures. However driving desired behavior on individual and team level is at least equally important. Möbius will share insights in how to build an innovation and continuous improvement culture.
There is a key type of innovation for a web startup?Fabio Miceli
There is a key type of innovation for a web startup? An analysis through the most successful internet companies.
We always talk about innovation that can disrupt the market. But do we really need it? Are the most
important companies in the internet industry based on a disruptive innovation? Or should we rather
concentrate on just improve existing products on existing markets pursuing sustaining innovation?
After a brief introduction with a classification of different types of innovations, in order to answer
these questions this paper will analyze three of the most important companies in different areas of
internet. Such as Google for search, Facebook for social networking and Amazon for e-commerce,
hence we will try to understand whether there is a predominant type of innovation source of such a
huge success.
As a result we will discover that a start up must provide disruptive innovation to succeed. Moreover
there is an interlinked relevance among disruptive innovation and the innovation object, led by a
new product, a new process or a new business model.
This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 13 of Gareth R. Jones' book "Organizational Theory, Design, and Change". It discusses innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, and how organizations can foster these. It defines innovation and technological change, and describes the technology and product life cycles. It also outlines approaches to managing innovation projects, such as using cross-functional teams, stage-gate processes, and information technology to encourage collaboration.
Thomas Edison developed an innovative process for new product development using his laboratory in Menlo Park. He recorded experiments in detail to systematically track progress and avoid failures. Edison understood the need for products to be marketable by creating inventions that served customer needs. Modern companies benefit from implementing a stage-gate process for new product development, as Edison did, with distinct stages and decision points. This provides structure, accountability and helps ensure resources are used efficiently to successfully develop innovative products.
Future Office Layout and Productivity Considerations for Startups and Scale u...Dave Litwiller
The Covid-19 response which moved much office work to virtual has created a natural productivity experiment in the knowledge economy. The favourable early results being reported by firms with employees working from home are challenging the widespread assumptions about the merit of extremely open offices as were frequently adopted in technology companies prior to the pandemic. For companies that will continue to have offices which are now designing re-occupancy plans, social distancing requirements offer an opportunity to revert to potentially more productive forms of office layout.
What are the differences between popular innovation project management methodologies? Why does project management often fail? Learn how risk assessment should define your methodology in order to become a real innovation factory. The waterfall methodology has been promoted for years as the best practice for IR&D management. These days agile and scrum are increasingly popular as alternative. Hater or believer? Good or bad? Get guided through our body of knowledge as published in the Inspire Toolbox.
- The document discusses open innovation, which involves leveraging external ideas and technologies in business operations while also sharing unused internal ideas with other companies.
- While open innovation has potential, many companies have had limited success due to factors like not valuing outside ideas and lack of clear processes. Most companies also only focus on early product design rather than innovating across the entire product lifecycle.
- For open innovation to be truly effective, companies need to seek innovations at all stages - from initial ideas to production, marketing and sales - and build strategic networks to support innovation throughout the organization and with partners.
DevOps has caught fire in the IT world in the last few years.
Not surprising as delivering faster has become a major
imperative especially with the increasingly digital world
and the convergence of internet, cloud, mobile, social and
analytics. Speed has become the new currency for IT
DevOps is a journey towards a new way of developing and managing the lifecycle of software applications. It first requires a mindset shift, followed by technology and process shifts. In other words, the only absolute truth is that you can’t overhaul your platforms and solutions without changing your culture and thinking.
DevOps - The Future of Application Lifecycle Automation Gunnar Menzel
Development to Operations (DevOps) will have a profound impact on the global IT sector in the near future. Realizing DevOps’ full potential, IT vendors have been agile enough in providing new products and services under the label “DevOps inside”, at an ever- increasing pace. However, with the growth in product choices, conflicting definitions and competing services, customers often encounter confusion, while making complex purchase decisions. They often seem to be unsure about how to deploy DevOps and get the most out of the solution.
While not trying to delve deep into DevOps, the Whitepaper tries to answer the following key questions:
What is DevOps?
What is DevOps trying to achieve?
How will DevOps achieve this?
How best to make use of the new developments?
Its aim is to help the reader:
Understand the DevOps concepts
Understand its current value and restrictions
Development to Operations (DevOps) is driving a profound impact on the global IT sector. IT vendors that realize DevOps’ full potential are more agile in providing new products and services under the label “DevOps inside” at an ever increasing pace. With the growing number of product choices, conflicting definitions and competing services, you may often encounter confusion while making complex decisions, delaying time to market. You at times may be unsure about how to deploy DevOps and get the most out of the solutions and tools available. Are you looking to master the DevOps "Fog?"
Learn new and trending innovations through the success of others during this informative session, and about tools and practices in the VMware world that will lead you to competitive advantage.
2013 best practices for aerospace and defenseCincom Systems
In the increasingly competitive Aerospace and Defense (A&D) manufacturing world, everyone is working to implement best practices. But not all best practices are equal. How do you decide which are just the table stakes and which will give you a strategic advantage?
http://dynamics.cincom.com
Global Cloud Transformation: Setting the Stage for SuccessBluewolf
Making a strategic move to the cloud means
companies need to be prepared for a new
way of thinking and operating. Moving to
the cloud isn’t—and shouldn’t be—business
as usual. It’s a switch that demands fresh
attitudes in defining what an implementation
is and a completely new way of working. A
global cloud transformation can be complex
and overwhelming for a company that is not
adequately prepared. To achieve success, it is
imperative that the technology aligns with both
a clear executive vision and crucial business
processes. Equally as important, the company
needs to commit to a change strategy
that enables everyone, from executives to
individual users, to engage the new system and
understand its role within the organization.
Project managers historically have difficulty participating during the innovation phase or Fuzzy Front-End of new products. Incomplete requirements, non-secured budgets, and unrealistic timelines are normal challenges the Project Manager must face once new product development begins. By becoming involved before the project starts, many of these issues can be minimized. In order to become engaged, the Project Manager must seek to understand the dynamics of the Fuzzy Front-End and then insert their value to the normal dominant functions of business and technology.
The document discusses lean innovation and product architecture design. It contains the following key points:
1. The main topic is designing a complexity-optimized product architecture using procedural models and methodical tools.
2. The challenges involve balancing external market requirements, internal product architecture needs, and organizational sustainability.
3. Methods described include market segmentation, success factor portfolio analysis, defining a function structure and assigning solution principles to derive technical needs and standardize architectures.
This document discusses different models of innovation used by retailers: closed innovation, open innovation, and adjunct innovation. It argues that adjunct innovation, which involves developing products externally and managing them internally, allows retailers to harness more consumer creativity and produce a higher volume and variety of innovative products. Specifically, adjunct innovation uses external ecosystems to source product ideas from consumers, then guides development and brings successful products to market. Examples like Procter & Gamble's Connect & Develop program and Apple's app store demonstrate how adjunct innovation can strengthen the relationship between consumers and retailers.
The document discusses the front end of innovation and provides a common framework to understand and manage it. It introduces the New Concept Development (NCD) model, which defines the key elements of the front end as opportunity identification, idea generation and enrichment, and idea selection. The model aims to provide clarity, common terminology, and optimize the "fuzzy front end" activities that occur before structured new product development begins. The document also briefly defines opportunities and ideas as the most important elements of the front end that the NCD model addresses.
The 10 Best Performing CEOs to Watch in 2020.” This issue focuses on some best performing CEOs out there who have made a significant mark in the industry.
Manufacturing Extension Partnership Centers collaborate with universities for outreach to manufacturers, service delivery, and getting new technology into companies. As MEP Centers move aggressively to support companies in their efforts to innovate their products and processes, to sell to new customers and enter new markets, these partnerships are more important than ever. This session will describe several of these “Next Generation Strategies” and new initiatives for MEP and how MEP centers are working with universities to implement them. They present opportunities for university engagement in economic development and job creation, and deeper partnerships between MEP centers and universities.
Al Dhafra Paper Manufacturing Company chooses PRESTO Digital TranformationAndrew Lenti
Al Dhafra Paper Manufacturing chooses PRESTO Digital Enterprise to increase shop floor collaboration in issue resolution, waste reduction, performance enhancement and talent & change management.
Technologies and Innovation – InnovationLee Schlenker
This document provides an agenda and overview for a session on digital technologies and innovation. The agenda includes introductions on the building blocks, sources, and practice of innovation. It discusses Peter Drucker's views on where innovative ideas come from by analyzing opportunities within companies, industries, and the social environment. It also summarizes theories on innovation from Joseph Schumpeter, who distinguished invention, innovation and imitation, and from Birkinshaw, who categorized types of innovation. The document outlines frameworks for innovation from Bessant and Tidd, Tidd et al., and Rothwell's five models of the innovation process. It discusses open innovation models like InnoCentive and examples from Spotify and Giffgaff. It concludes with perspectives
Organisations continue to search for the magic snake oil that will bring their innovation programs to life. But there is no magic. Its about building a portfolio of experiments and abolishing the "big-bang" approach that looks for the one thing to transform the business.
Thinking Beyond Compliance Medical Device WhitepaperJenna Dudevoir
This white paper is based on a research study with leading medical device companies - from startups to multibillion dollar enterprises - to explore how they are balancing new product development with compliance requirements.
Future Office Layout and Productivity Considerations for Startups and Scale u...Dave Litwiller
The Covid-19 response which moved much office work to virtual has created a natural productivity experiment in the knowledge economy. The favourable early results being reported by firms with employees working from home are challenging the widespread assumptions about the merit of extremely open offices as were frequently adopted in technology companies prior to the pandemic. For companies that will continue to have offices which are now designing re-occupancy plans, social distancing requirements offer an opportunity to revert to potentially more productive forms of office layout.
What are the differences between popular innovation project management methodologies? Why does project management often fail? Learn how risk assessment should define your methodology in order to become a real innovation factory. The waterfall methodology has been promoted for years as the best practice for IR&D management. These days agile and scrum are increasingly popular as alternative. Hater or believer? Good or bad? Get guided through our body of knowledge as published in the Inspire Toolbox.
- The document discusses open innovation, which involves leveraging external ideas and technologies in business operations while also sharing unused internal ideas with other companies.
- While open innovation has potential, many companies have had limited success due to factors like not valuing outside ideas and lack of clear processes. Most companies also only focus on early product design rather than innovating across the entire product lifecycle.
- For open innovation to be truly effective, companies need to seek innovations at all stages - from initial ideas to production, marketing and sales - and build strategic networks to support innovation throughout the organization and with partners.
DevOps has caught fire in the IT world in the last few years.
Not surprising as delivering faster has become a major
imperative especially with the increasingly digital world
and the convergence of internet, cloud, mobile, social and
analytics. Speed has become the new currency for IT
DevOps is a journey towards a new way of developing and managing the lifecycle of software applications. It first requires a mindset shift, followed by technology and process shifts. In other words, the only absolute truth is that you can’t overhaul your platforms and solutions without changing your culture and thinking.
DevOps - The Future of Application Lifecycle Automation Gunnar Menzel
Development to Operations (DevOps) will have a profound impact on the global IT sector in the near future. Realizing DevOps’ full potential, IT vendors have been agile enough in providing new products and services under the label “DevOps inside”, at an ever- increasing pace. However, with the growth in product choices, conflicting definitions and competing services, customers often encounter confusion, while making complex purchase decisions. They often seem to be unsure about how to deploy DevOps and get the most out of the solution.
While not trying to delve deep into DevOps, the Whitepaper tries to answer the following key questions:
What is DevOps?
What is DevOps trying to achieve?
How will DevOps achieve this?
How best to make use of the new developments?
Its aim is to help the reader:
Understand the DevOps concepts
Understand its current value and restrictions
Development to Operations (DevOps) is driving a profound impact on the global IT sector. IT vendors that realize DevOps’ full potential are more agile in providing new products and services under the label “DevOps inside” at an ever increasing pace. With the growing number of product choices, conflicting definitions and competing services, you may often encounter confusion while making complex decisions, delaying time to market. You at times may be unsure about how to deploy DevOps and get the most out of the solutions and tools available. Are you looking to master the DevOps "Fog?"
Learn new and trending innovations through the success of others during this informative session, and about tools and practices in the VMware world that will lead you to competitive advantage.
2013 best practices for aerospace and defenseCincom Systems
In the increasingly competitive Aerospace and Defense (A&D) manufacturing world, everyone is working to implement best practices. But not all best practices are equal. How do you decide which are just the table stakes and which will give you a strategic advantage?
http://dynamics.cincom.com
Global Cloud Transformation: Setting the Stage for SuccessBluewolf
Making a strategic move to the cloud means
companies need to be prepared for a new
way of thinking and operating. Moving to
the cloud isn’t—and shouldn’t be—business
as usual. It’s a switch that demands fresh
attitudes in defining what an implementation
is and a completely new way of working. A
global cloud transformation can be complex
and overwhelming for a company that is not
adequately prepared. To achieve success, it is
imperative that the technology aligns with both
a clear executive vision and crucial business
processes. Equally as important, the company
needs to commit to a change strategy
that enables everyone, from executives to
individual users, to engage the new system and
understand its role within the organization.
Project managers historically have difficulty participating during the innovation phase or Fuzzy Front-End of new products. Incomplete requirements, non-secured budgets, and unrealistic timelines are normal challenges the Project Manager must face once new product development begins. By becoming involved before the project starts, many of these issues can be minimized. In order to become engaged, the Project Manager must seek to understand the dynamics of the Fuzzy Front-End and then insert their value to the normal dominant functions of business and technology.
The document discusses lean innovation and product architecture design. It contains the following key points:
1. The main topic is designing a complexity-optimized product architecture using procedural models and methodical tools.
2. The challenges involve balancing external market requirements, internal product architecture needs, and organizational sustainability.
3. Methods described include market segmentation, success factor portfolio analysis, defining a function structure and assigning solution principles to derive technical needs and standardize architectures.
This document discusses different models of innovation used by retailers: closed innovation, open innovation, and adjunct innovation. It argues that adjunct innovation, which involves developing products externally and managing them internally, allows retailers to harness more consumer creativity and produce a higher volume and variety of innovative products. Specifically, adjunct innovation uses external ecosystems to source product ideas from consumers, then guides development and brings successful products to market. Examples like Procter & Gamble's Connect & Develop program and Apple's app store demonstrate how adjunct innovation can strengthen the relationship between consumers and retailers.
The document discusses the front end of innovation and provides a common framework to understand and manage it. It introduces the New Concept Development (NCD) model, which defines the key elements of the front end as opportunity identification, idea generation and enrichment, and idea selection. The model aims to provide clarity, common terminology, and optimize the "fuzzy front end" activities that occur before structured new product development begins. The document also briefly defines opportunities and ideas as the most important elements of the front end that the NCD model addresses.
The 10 Best Performing CEOs to Watch in 2020.” This issue focuses on some best performing CEOs out there who have made a significant mark in the industry.
Manufacturing Extension Partnership Centers collaborate with universities for outreach to manufacturers, service delivery, and getting new technology into companies. As MEP Centers move aggressively to support companies in their efforts to innovate their products and processes, to sell to new customers and enter new markets, these partnerships are more important than ever. This session will describe several of these “Next Generation Strategies” and new initiatives for MEP and how MEP centers are working with universities to implement them. They present opportunities for university engagement in economic development and job creation, and deeper partnerships between MEP centers and universities.
Al Dhafra Paper Manufacturing Company chooses PRESTO Digital TranformationAndrew Lenti
Al Dhafra Paper Manufacturing chooses PRESTO Digital Enterprise to increase shop floor collaboration in issue resolution, waste reduction, performance enhancement and talent & change management.
Technologies and Innovation – InnovationLee Schlenker
This document provides an agenda and overview for a session on digital technologies and innovation. The agenda includes introductions on the building blocks, sources, and practice of innovation. It discusses Peter Drucker's views on where innovative ideas come from by analyzing opportunities within companies, industries, and the social environment. It also summarizes theories on innovation from Joseph Schumpeter, who distinguished invention, innovation and imitation, and from Birkinshaw, who categorized types of innovation. The document outlines frameworks for innovation from Bessant and Tidd, Tidd et al., and Rothwell's five models of the innovation process. It discusses open innovation models like InnoCentive and examples from Spotify and Giffgaff. It concludes with perspectives
Organisations continue to search for the magic snake oil that will bring their innovation programs to life. But there is no magic. Its about building a portfolio of experiments and abolishing the "big-bang" approach that looks for the one thing to transform the business.
Thinking Beyond Compliance Medical Device WhitepaperJenna Dudevoir
This white paper is based on a research study with leading medical device companies - from startups to multibillion dollar enterprises - to explore how they are balancing new product development with compliance requirements.
This document analyzes factors that enable productivity using data from the Benchmark Index service. It finds that strategies focusing on market share build lower productivity than periods of consolidation focusing on existing customers. Graduate employment significantly impacts manufacturing productivity. Staff retention is critical, with high turnover reducing productivity by up to 25% in services. Training increases productivity more in manufacturing (up to 24%) than services (can reduce it by 18%). Expenditure on training improves productivity more in manufacturing (up to 47%) than services (up to 12%). Partnerships within supply chains and innovation yield earlier benefits for manufacturers. Automation and higher manager ratios correlate with higher productivity.
Innovation process management whitepaperNeeraj Thakur
The document outlines an Innovation Process Management (IPM) solution based on the Microsoft platform to help companies manage ideas from capture through selection. The IPM solution enables companies to widen their idea pipeline, formalize the innovation process, and optimize return on investment through six stages: strategize, capture, formulate, evaluate, define, and select. The solution is built on technologies like Office SharePoint Server, Office InfoPath, and Microsoft Enterprise Project Management to facilitate collaboration and management of the innovation process.
The document discusses how manufacturing companies are increasingly integrating innovation into their corporate strategies and collaborating across organizational boundaries to drive innovation. Some key findings include:
1) Innovation is becoming a more integral part of corporate growth strategies and is embedded in more functions beyond just R&D.
2) Companies are looking at innovation as an important lever for improving business performance and top-line growth, in addition to developing new products.
3) R&D collaboration, customer collaboration, and supplier collaboration are seen as key ways to support localized products while leveraging synergies globally. However, challenges remain in capitalizing on customer insights and shifting supplier relationships from cost reduction to shared value creation.
1) Companies must improve innovation management to remain competitive as globalization increases pressures and expectations for growth. Effective innovation is critical but many companies treat it as an unstructured process.
2) There is a lack of integration between the various tools and systems used for innovation, which leads to wasted resources as knowledge is scattered. Standard tools are not well-suited for scientific innovation data.
3) Companies need an enterprise approach to manage scientific experimentation and data to facilitate collaboration and learning from past work, in order to accelerate innovation and the commercialization process.
The document discusses factors for success and failure in innovation. It outlines an innovation growth model with 5 phases (adhoc, program, co-creation, eco-innovation, value chain innovation) and the challenges of moving between each phase. Key success factors discussed are people, management processes, tools, and opening innovation processes to external partners through co-creation.
1) The document discusses outsourcing R&D by increasing effectiveness through an Innovation Driven Procurement service.
2) It recommends assessing criticality of innovation programs and selecting the appropriate sourcing model, ensuring business models are carefully aligned with suppliers and partners.
3) Open Innovation concepts like "Spin IN and Spin OUT" can increase R&D effectiveness by leveraging innovations from other value chains and connecting with new ventures.
This document discusses the challenges of innovation and adaptability for managers. It argues that a manager must consistently provide innovation for both internal and external environments in order to advance technology and society. Without innovation and adaptability, customers will lose interest and the market will become static. The document uses examples like Kodak and Tesla to illustrate the importance and benefits of innovation, as well as the downfalls of failing to adapt to new technologies and customer needs. Kodak is highlighted for its failure to transition from film to digital, leading to bankruptcy, while Tesla is praised for its innovative partnerships and products that have enabled its success.
Managing innovation within firms-Chapter 4 (Paul Trott).pptxAartiPandey63
1. The document discusses the tension within organizations between the need for stability and efficiency versus the need for creativity and innovation. It notes that companies must balance these competing demands to be successful both today and in the future.
2. It explores the "innovation dilemma" where pursuing innovation too far can lead to failure, but pursuing it too little can also lead to company failure. Finding the right balance is difficult.
3. Several tools and factors that can help facilitate innovation within organizations are discussed, including having a growth orientation, accepting risks, cross-functional cooperation, and providing space for creativity. Formal structures, centralized decision-making, and size can impact innovation as well.
Philips Industry Consulting provides hands-on consulting services to help clients improve innovation and operations management. They have experienced professionals who have worked in various industries and can offer practical solutions based on proven approaches. Their focus areas include accelerating innovation, optimizing production ramp-up, improving operations excellence, and transforming supply chains. They have helped many clients achieve significant results such as 35% faster development at 30% lower cost.
Innovative, Cloud-Based Order Management Solutions Lead to Enhanced Profitabi...Cognizant
Communication service providers should turn to order management as a service to resolve escalating order management challenges, provide a consistent customer experience across channels, improve order negotiation and configuration, offer faster time-to-launch and comply with emerging variable investment requirements.
The document discusses how high-performing companies achieve organic growth through entering new markets, creating new products/services, and developing new skills. It finds that top companies:
1) Approach new markets with a deep understanding of customers and broad product ranges tailored to local needs.
2) Innovate new products/services faster and closer to customers to gain competitive advantages.
3) Intensely manage talent like customers, accessing diverse talent pools and paying more to retain key skills.
Flawless Project Execution The Road To Greatness For Professional Services Firmsarjencornelisse
White Paper on flawless project execution for professional services firms. It discusses:
1) Best practices must be integrated across the entire organization to consistently deliver projects on time and under budget. Best-in-class firms are more likely to have integrated solutions based on best practices.
2) Increased competition and lower volumes are forcing firms to cut costs. Those that can deliver projects efficiently will have a long-term competitive advantage.
3) Complex projects require established best practices, yet many firms have not adapted their processes. Implementing industry-specific best practices is key to navigating future challenges.
Organizations can transform their product disclosure processes through seven innovative approaches:
1. Roll automation can increase efficiency and reduce time-to-market by automating tasks and allowing parallel work.
2. Common content management can reduce verification time by centrally managing repeated content.
3. Master shells can improve time-to-market for entire portfolios by authoring content once for conditional use.
4. White labelling can produce branded variants without duplicating verification.
5. Verification certification provides transparency and auditability of the disclosure process.
6. One-click publishing can generate documents from a single verified content source.
7. Data integration can leverage business data to populate disclosure documents.
Leading Innovation and Change Best Practice Case Study Cl.docxcroysierkathey
Leading Innovation and Change: Best Practice Case Study
Client - a company synonymous with the term innovation. Since its inception, the company
founders have instilled a belief in unique product creation, including life altering product
innovations such as the light bulb envelope, TV tube, and optical waveguides. This concept of
innovation has been deemed one of the company's most essential quality programs, bridging
functional groups within the organization, renewing itself through continued time and iterations.
For the client, innovation not only challenges traditional ways to thinking, but has become a key
impetus to drive change. Innovation converts ideas into opportunities.
The client began its journey with the realization that the rate of new product development would
be insufficient to maintain company profitability in the future. In the late 1970's and early 1980's
there was a cycle of small pockets of promising technological advances, defensive moves, and
diminishing returns. Previously the company's innovation processes had been defined only within
the areas of research, product development, and engineering. The client began by analyzing past
innovations and the successes and failures associated with each, and benchmarking their own
best practices and lessons learned.
The client has defined innovative effectiveness as: requiring an understanding of overall
corporate and business strategies; developing organizational roadmaps based on customers, the
market, competitors, strengths and weaknesses, and resources; ability to evaluate, prioritize, and
select projects; and executing the selected project well. The key elements of innovation
intervention are: an innovation task force, composed of key innovators; the utilization of company
history as a resource for innovation; a focus on strengths and resources in a project of paramount
importance, referred to as "flexible critical mass;" and a two-and-a-half-day innovation conference
for 200 company leaders which focuses on reintroducing the innovation process.
Through the work conducted by the task force, not only were successes analyzed, but so were
areas in which the organization had fallen short over the years. By improving innovation by 10%
per year, costs could be cut in half, and doubling that rate would be equivocal to doubling the
RD&E spending level. This success would come down to the restoration of simple fundamentals:
- An environment and culture of energy and enthusiasm
- Entrepreneurial behavior at all levels
- The right people in the right places
- Sound business and technological strategies
- Improved processes for nurturing ideas
- Organizational mechanisms that could support the organization's drive for results.
Critical success factors also emerged from the client’s innovation conference, focusing on:
training programs at all levels within the company which would become a part of project reviews
and the deployment of empl ...
Oracle - How to take control of Product and Service Innovation guide.PDFFrancois Thierart
This document discusses best practices for structured product innovation management. It notes that while innovation is critical for growth, many companies struggle with ineffective processes that result in poor returns on innovation investments. It recommends that companies implement a connected, data-centric approach with digital tools to manage the entire innovation pipeline from idea generation through development and commercialization. This will allow companies to systematically capture and select the right ideas, build business cases, and create a balanced portfolio aligned with strategy. The document outlines five key steps top innovators take including managing ideas from diverse sources, developing requirements, managing concepts and resources, creating investment proposals, and optimizing the portfolio.
Cover Story - China's Investment Leader - Dr. Alyce SUmsthrill
In World Expo 2010 Shanghai – the most visited Expo in the World History
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China’s official organizer of the Expo, CCPIT (China Council for the Promotion of International Trade https://en.ccpit.org/) has chosen Dr. Alyce Su as the Cover Person with Cover Story, in the Expo’s official magazine distributed throughout the Expo, showcasing China’s New Generation of Leaders to the World.
The APCO Geopolitical Radar - Q3 2024 The Global Operating Environment for Bu...APCO
The Radar reflects input from APCO’s teams located around the world. It distils a host of interconnected events and trends into insights to inform operational and strategic decisions. Issues covered in this edition include:
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1. Accenture Solutions for Innovation and Service Management
Managing New Product
Development and Innovation
in Challenging Times
Driving high performance through profitable innovation
An Accenture research report
2. During challenging economic times, communications and high-tech
companies may be tempted to scale back on product development. Yet such
a decision risks cutting off the lifeblood of innovation that keeps a company
competitive. A better answer is to make innovation and new product
development more efficient and profitable.
New Accenture research finds that companies that are able to support a
more open and collaborative environment for new product development are
speeding new products and services to market faster than their peers. These
companies are more likely to say that their development process has acceler-
ated, and that they expect to launch more products in the coming year.
Expanding one's base of innovation partners and specialized developers is
a key to achieving high performance, as is an effective platform for better
management of the collaborative environment.
Table of Contents
Executive Overview: The keys to successful service innovation and new product development 1
New product development: The challenge is in the execution 4
Faltering development projects: Contributing factors 5
Overcoming the challenges: What the innovation masters know 8
Driving high performance through more effective new product development 10
Conclusion: Innovating through the downturn 12
3. Executive Overview
New Accenture research highlights the
keys to successful service innovation and
new product development
The investment community has not been kind in its assessment of The innovation masters report development times significantly faster
the future value of the communications industry, leading to a $200 than their peers. They also were more likely to say their product
billion loss in future value among a group of major industry players development process has accelerated over the past year, and were
just over the past couple of years.1 At its heart, such a loss points to more optimistic about the number of new services they will develop
serious issues with the innovative capability of the industry. Add an in the coming year, regardless of the economic climate.
economic downturn to the mix, and it spells trouble.
What’s behind the success of the innovation masters? One key finding
is that these companies are embracing principles of open, collabora-
Strategic cost reduction is certainly an imperative at this time, but
tive development and open innovation. More of them also report
so is innovation that drives growth and widens the post-recession
that they intend to improve overall development by working with
performance advantage. Accenture analysis of growth and recession
specialized developers, using better planning processes and expand-
cycles in the United States over the past several decades has found
ing their base of product innovation partners.
that companies that outperform their competition continue to invest
in refreshing their products and services even during an economic
downturn. There is a catch, however. These same companies are also more
likely to report that they experience cost overruns in new product
development. So clearly, although an open and collaborative
New research confirms that a more effective development increases the opportunities for innovation, it also
collaborative environment is essential introduces higher risk and, potentially, additional costs unless the
Accenture believes that a key to innovation during a downturn is development environment can be made more efficient and effective.
a more effective collaborative environment and a development
platform, based on open standards, that enables faster and more Creating a more effective and collaborative service
cost-effective collaboration among multiple parties, both internal delivery platform
and external to an organization.
What is to be done? If companies are to leverage the power of a
more open development environment and meet the twofold challenge
This point of view is supported by new research from Accenture—a
of speeding new product development at lower cost, then new
global survey of 277 communications, media and high-tech execu-
processes, tools and platforms are essential. In particular, the
tives conducted in late 2008. The findings confirm the presumption
traditional service delivery platform must evolve to enable more
that times are hard when it comes to new product development. Half
developers and the delivery of customer-centric services in a Web 2.0
the companies in our survey report budget overruns in new product
environment.
development. Forty-two percent of the companies report an overly
slow pace as they move a product from idea to prototype to launch.
The new kind of platform—Service Delivery Platform 2.0—is one
based on an open infrastructure: a scalable, distributed, efficient and
As a result of these challenges, 70 percent of the companies surveyed
open architecture capable of supporting a large number of service
stopped development of at least some services last year. Many
activations. It provides a set of components that can be used to
companies also report a talent shortage and a breakdown in the
create simplified interfaces to new service platforms. By being open
management of the end-to-end innovation process, which contrib-
to third-party developers and content providers, an open SDP helps
utes to delays.
developers create new, value-added services faster, more consistently
and with less expense.
What the innovation masters know
The news is not all grim, however. Our research finds a correlation Challenging economic times do not have to be a constraint on
between companies that meet or exceed their new product launch innovation. As this Accenture research study shows, open develop-
plans—a group we term innovation masters—and those that leverage ment—guided by a relentless focus on the customer and the customer
third parties and specialized providers in an open development experience—can reduce the costs of new product development and
environment. increase the chances of delivering breakthrough products. A more
effective delivery platform can meet today's need to reduce costs
while also positioning a company for market advantage in the longer
term, when the economy recovers.
Accenture Solutions for New Product Development and Innovation 1
4. 7%
More than 50 products
11%
17%
21%
11%
Average number of products
No products
23%
New product development
4%
6% 23%
3% 23%
1—10 products
38%
41%
34%
The challenge is in the execution 11—30 products
22%
26%
No products or services 30%
Figure 1: Primary obstacles to launching new products 31—50 products 3%
Figure 2: Number of discontinued development projects
4%
15%
10%
2% 22%
Projects run over budget 1-10 discontinued services
50% More than 50 productsproducts or services
1—10 No Svc
17% 39%
40%
Slow to move from concept to prototype 21% 35% 42%
11%
42% 45%
38% 1—10
Average number of products
Poor inter-departmental cooperation 11—30 products or services
23%
11-30 discontinued services
23%
34% 23% 26%
11% 22% 11—30
Unable to attract the right level of talent in-house 9% 31%
30% 13%
31—50 products or services 31—50
Lack of incentives to innovate 15%
30% 11%
No products or servicesdiscontinued services
31-50
3% 12% 21%
Lack of effective project management 50+
4%
30% 2% More than 50 11%
products or services
1—10 products or services 14% 15%
Lack of new ideas for innovative services
21%
40% AVG
27% 7% 42%
More than 50 discontinued services38%
Lack of pre launch testing
11—30 products or services 10%
25% 26%
16%
22%
Uncertain demand for goods and services 3% 31%
24% 31—50 products or services
15%
Total
11%
Europe
Total 21%Europe USA
USA
More than 50 products or services
15%
21%
7%
Total Europe USA
The executives in our survey are clearly veterans of product The problem is, it's not an ideal world.
development. They have a structure in place and a proven track
record, and they have even enjoyed some success in speeding new In the real world, communications, media and high-tech executives
product development over the past year or so. are feeling cost pressures and the frustrations of being unable to
move ideas through the pipeline fast enough. The ideas are there,
Only four percent of the companies surveyed have no formal but companies just can't execute quickly enough. (See Figure 1.)
development process in place. More than half regularly set up
management structures for innovation such as designing effective As a result of these challenges, 70 percent of the companies in
action plans, conducting market research and establishing a project our survey stopped development of at least some services last year.
team. Three-fourths of the companies have a pipeline of new The average company discontinued 15 new products, and 10 per-
product ideas, the source of which is input from internal sources cent of companies (including 35 percent in the United Kingdom)
as well as external parties such as customers, suppliers, alliance discontinued more than 50 services. (See Figure 2.)
partners, academics and inventors.
In other words, those surveyed as part of our research are experi-
enced and, in an ideal world, they would be comfortable with the
phased approach they have in place for conceiving, developing and
launching new products.
2 Accenture Solutions for New product Development and Innovation
5. 11—30 products
26%
22%
30%
31—50 products
15%
Faltering development projects
10%
22%
More than 50 products
17%
21%
Contributing factors
11%
Average number of products
23%
23%
Figure 3: Cost overruns and slow development times are the primary constraints to new product innovation
23%
Unable to attract the right level of talen in-house
30%
31%
29%
Lack of new ideas for innovative services
No products or services 27%
30%
3% 23%
4%
Lack of incentives for innovation
2% 30%
1—10 products or services 32%
28%
40%
Poor inter-departmental cooperation 42%
38% 32%34%
11—30 products or services 36%
Projects run over budget 26%
22% 50%
31% 58%
38%
31—50effective project management
Lack of products or services
15% 30%
11% 29%
21% 32%
Slow to move from concept to prototype
More than 50 products or services 42%
15% 39%
21% 47%
Lack of pre launch testing
7%
25%
25%
25%
Uncertain demand for goods and services
24%
24%
24% Total Europe USA
Total Europe USA
What's happening to cause so many development projects to What are the reasons behind such dramatic and widespread cost
falter? The research findings point to a number of factors. increases? One factor is obvious: If, as we have seen in these
survey findings, companies are experiencing project delays, these
High costs, excessive delays translate into cost overruns, as well.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the two main constraints on effective
More third parties involved in development
product development are cost and speed. Half the companies
surveyed, including 58 percent of European executives, cite bud- Companies also now find it necessary to involve many more
get overruns in new product development. Forty-two percent of parties in product development. About one-third of the executives
the companies, including 47 percent of the American executives we surveyed involve third parties and/or customers in their new
surveyed, report that they suffer from an overly slow pace as they product development processes. Based on Accenture experience,
move a product from idea to prototype. (See Figure 3.) Across our we know that high percentages of effective communications
survey sample, the average time to launch a new product was six service providers are using 10 or more co-design partners per
months. For their most important new services, companies are product development project.
looking to shorten that development time considerably.
Such a collaborative development environment increases the
The cost issue is particularly pernicious. High percentages of opportunities for innovation but also introduces more risk and,
companies—57 percent, including about equal percentages of US potentially, additional costs unless companies take steps to make
and Europeans—have experienced increases in costs of develop- the environment more efficient and effective.
ment. Only 6 percent of surveyed companies have achieved cost
reductions for new product development. (See Figure 4).
Accenture Solutions for New Product Development and Innovation 3
6. 4%
2%
1—10 products or services
40%
42%
38%
11—30 products or services
Figure 4: Development costs are 26%
increasing for a majority of companies surveyed
22%
Increased 31%
31—50 products or services 57%
58%
15%
11% 56%
21%
Decreased
More than 50 products or services
6%
8%
15%
21%
3% 7%
Stayed the same
36%
34%
40%
Total
Total Europe USA
Europe
USA
Technological complexity Talent shortages
Leading-edge technologies are also a factor and are, in fact, a A shortage of workforce talent required to spur innovation and
double-edged sword to companies in these industry sectors. On manage new product development is also a factor. About a third of
the one hand, technology developments constitute a major source the executives surveyed feel their organizations are constrained by
of innovation. On the other hand, unproven and often incompatible an inability to attract the right level of talent and by a lack of new
technologies further increase development times, as well as costs ideas for innovative services. A lack of incentives for innovation is
and risks. Products and services may become so complex as to be also a factor.
overly daunting to consumers, who seek instead a simple interface
and a unified experience when it comes to their communications This talent shortage is felt more acutely by the IT executives in our
services and electronic devices study, who were more likely than their business peers to feel the
effects of insufficient organizational incentives and the overall
For a communications or content company to release a new ser- lack of the right people generating breakthrough ideas.
vice on multiple handsets, for example, requires extensive testing,
which cuts into already slim margins. Complexity also increases Organizational disconnects
the rate of returns of consumer electronics devices. Other
A final contributing factor to both cost increases and project
Accenture research has found, for example, that in the United
delays is a disconnect between various functions and roles of the
States alone, the total cost of consumer electronics returns is
business. One-third of the executives we surveyed, for example,
almost $14 billion, of which 20 percent is due to processing costs
noted that "poor interdepartmental cooperation" was a significant
of "no trouble found" devices—equipment that is not defective, but
constraint on effective product development.
returned for reasons such as simply being too difficult for the
average consumer to connect and use. That's a huge cost drain.2
4 Accenture Solutions for New Product Development and Innovation
7. Figure 5: Most new services developed were extensions of existing services instead of breakthrough innovations in new areas
Voice services
50%
46%
55%
Messaging
42%
44%
39%
Content services
41%
39%
45%
Search/Navigation
36%
40%
30%
Personal information management
35%
45%
22%
Location based services
32%
34%
31%
Fixed mobile convergence
32%
37%
24%
User generated content
30%
27%
33%
Social networking video streaming
25%
27%
23%
Mobile advertising
19%
20%
18%
Other
17%
21%
11%
Total Europe USA
We also see slightly different perspectives on development and Indeed, we see evidence that such timidity is occurring. For exam-
innovation emerging from the executives we surveyed depending ple, most of the companies we surveyed are focused primarily on
on their job function. For example, business executives tend to see developing new services for areas in which they have traditionally
budget issues as the bigger constraint on innovation, while tech- generated most of their revenues, such as voice services and mes-
nology executives appear more focused on talent issues: having saging. (See Figure 5.) Relatively few companies reported planning
the right people in place and giving them the proper incentives to new offerings in areas such as social network video streaming,
drive breakthrough ideas to fruition. The technology executives user-generated content and location-based services.
also tended to place greater importance on working with third
parties to drive new, profitable products, and also emphasized Another recent Accenture research report confirms this tendency
attracting more specialized suppliers, increasing the availability of companies to restrict the power of their own innovations during
of training and simplifying products. times of economic stress. The study, conducted in collaboration
with the Economist Intelligence Unit, found that the majority of
The result: Innovation timidity innovation investments today are targeted only at extensions of
existing products and services, not game-changing ideas or
Added up, these new product development challenges have
business models. 3
additional compounded consequences on the business value
delivered by service innovation and new product development. If
risks appear to be too great, companies may become constrained
in their vision and overly timid in their investments.
Accenture Solutions for New Product Development and Innovation 5
8. 34%
More than 50 products
11—30 products
17% 26%
21%
22%
11% 30%
Average number of products
31—50 products
15% 23%
Overcoming the challenges
10% 23%
22% 23%
More than 50 products
17% More
21%
11% 36%
What the innovation masters know
Average number of products
23%
24%
44%
23% Less
No products or services 23% 10%
3% 12%
4% 8%
2% 6: In several key areas, European companies are enjoying greater On par
Figure
1—10 products or services 54%
success in new product development than their US counterparts
40%
44%
68%
No products or services 42%
3% 38%
11—304% launches in coming year
Plannedproducts or services Delivery vs. Target — Expectations
2%
26%
1—10 products or services 22% Exceed
31% 40% 40%
42% 47%
31—50 products or services 38% 32%
15%
11—30 products or services Meet
11% 26% 51%
21%
22% 46%
31% 57%
More than 50 products or services Fall short
31—50 products or services
15%
15% 9%
11% 21% 7%
7% 21% 11%
More than 50 products or services
15%
21%
7%
No products
4%
Total Europe USA 6%
3%
1—10 products
38%
Total Europe USA 41%
34%
11—30 products
26%
22%
30%
31—50 products
15%
10%
22%
Emerging from the survey responses, however, is an interesting Europeans products
More than 50 were more likely to exceed their launch expectations
17%
set of correlations between companies enjoying greater success and twice as likely to launch more than 50 products in the last
21%
11%
in new product development and the means they are using to year than companies in the United States. As they look ahead to
Average number of products
achieve it. the coming year, European executives are also more likely to be
23%
23%
optimistic about the number 23%of new services they will develop,
Evidence of greater innovation success regardless of the economic climate. (See Figure 6.)
The more successful innovators identified in our research—the
The innovation masters are less prone to be timid in their innova-
innovation masters—are launching new products faster than their No products or services
tion.3%
European companies are more likely to be branching out into
peers. These are also more likely to have exceeded their product 4%
new types of services such as personal information management,
2%
launch expectations in the past year, and they expect to launch 1—10 products or services
fixed-mobile convergence and services based on social networking
more products in the coming year. They are also more likely to 40%
applications. 42%
indicate that their product development process has significantly 38%
11—30 products or services
accelerated, even under challenging economic conditions.
A commitment to 22% 26% development
open
31%
In general, according to the Accenture research, these innovation 31—50 products or the success of the innovation masters? One key
What's behind services
15%
masters are found in continental Europe. For example, whereas 11%
finding is that these companies are more likely to embrace
21%
average new product launch times across our global sample was principles of open,or services
More than 50 products collaborative development and open innovation.
15%
six months, companies in France and Germany were significantly 21%
7%
more likely to have launch times under three months.
Total Europe USA
6 Accenture Solutions for New Product Development and Innovation
9. 11—30 products
26%
22%
30%
31—50 products
15%
10%
Our research finds a strong correlation between companies speeding new
More than 50 products
22%
services 11% market faster and those leveraging a more open and extensive
to 17% 21%
development community.
Average number of products
23%
23%
23%
Figure 7: European companies are more likely to rely on an open
collaborative environment leveraging third parties
No products orspecialized developers
Work with more services
3% 31%
4% 40%
2% 18%
Better planning processes
1—10 products or services 46%
40% 51%
39% 42%
Expand base of product innovation partners 38%
11—30 products or services 26%
26%32%
18%
22%
Hire/train employees to bridge resource gaps 31%
27%
31—50 products or services 31%
15% 22%
Simplify product or11%
service
21% 29%
33%
More than 50 products or services22%
Outsource innovation 15%
21%21%
7% 28%
12%
Collaborate or look to 3rd parties
21%
28%
11%
Other
1%
Total
2% Europe USA
0%
No, we don’t expect to reduce development time
5%
The2% executives in our survey are aware ofTotal
10%
the
potential benefits
Europe USA
This commitment to a more collaborative development environment
available to them through open development: 63 percent of is significant, especially in light of other findings discussed to this
respondents acknowledged that open innovation is a cost- point, such as the shortage of in-house talent and the difficulty in
effective alternative to traditional development. About half also generating enough high-quality ideas. There is at least a strong
acknowledged that open innovation can counter the negative correlation between the companies speeding new services to
effects of a shortage of in-house ideas and can lead to the market faster and those leveraging a more open and extensive
development of more products. The technology executives in development community.
our survey were more likely than their business peers to embrace
principles of open development. The need to reduce costs and risks
Amid these strong signs of successful results from an open devel-
One of the most important survey findings regarding open develop-
opment environment is one cause for concern, and it's a big one:
ment is that European companies were much more likely than their
cost. The same innovation masters who report shorter development
US counterparts to "always" use an open innovation model—37
times and the ability to release more products are also more
percent to 29 percent. European companies were also more likely
likely to report that they experience cost overruns in new product
than their peers to say they intended to reduce development times
development.
by working with more specialized developers, collaborating with
third parties or even outsourcing aspects of the innovation process. In today's economic environment, a better balance needs to be
(See Figure 7.) found between results and costs. An open environment for innova-
tion and development is promising, and even essential to success
today, but ways must be found to reduce development costs and
risks if such an approach is truly to support the achievement of
high performance.
Accenture Solutions for New Product Development and Innovation 7
10. Driving high performance through more
effective new product development
Figure 8: Performance comparison following the 1990-91 recession
Average return on invested capital relative to industry
15
15 10
10 5
5
0
0
-5
-5
-10 -10
-15 -15
-20
-20
1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997
1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997
Winners Losers
Winners Losers
Accenture's High Performance Business research initiative has 1. Commit to greater customer centricity in new
found that a distinctive trait of a high-performance business is
product planning
the ability to proactively use a downturn to improve its competi-
tive position—prudently cutting costs while also sharpening its Focusing on services with more likelihood of meeting significant
customer focus, driving operational excellence and carefully customer needs is key to profitable new product development.
acquiring capabilities and assets. In large measure, developing better, more customer-centric
innovations requires the application of analytic technologies that
Analysis of the 1990-91 recession shows that a readily identifi- provide a unified view of the customer. This results in a deeper
able group of companies emerge from economic downturns in understanding of the unique interests and desires of customer
strong positions and quickly widen their lead over companies that segments, enabling companies to target profitable customers
did not take a cost management approach with an eye for the more effectively.
long view. (See Figure 8.)
One important key to overcoming the problem of fragmented
Our current research into new product development and innova- customer data—and then using customer insight to create com-
tion leads to some specific insights about how companies can petitive advantage—is what Accenture calls "converged customer
pull away from competitors in this way by reducing costs and management." Converged customer management is an important
improving development times for new services. component of a company's services delivery architecture; it
provides the data services needed to provision, activate, execute
Accenture recommends that companies look to the following keys and operate value-added services.
to success when it comes to improving their ability to innovate
and to generate new, profitable services. Converged customer management can deliver accurate, detailed
and timely knowledge of customers' needs and preferences based
on the history of their interactions with products and on real-time
contextual data such as location and type of device used.
8 Accenture Solutions for New Product Development and Innovation
11. This more detailed understanding of customers then supports the This mass evaluation technique, supported by Web 2.0 technolo-
development of products and services with innovative, differenti- gies, helps separate the highest-potential ideas from others,
ated capabilities. For example, a customer's preferences can be leading to a winnowed-down list of the top ideas.
matched against the behaviors and interests of similar customers
within a segment. Based on inferences made about the broader 4. Leverage a new generation of open service
segment, companies can perform real-time, targeted advertising or delivery platforms
make additional product recommendations likely to be of interest
to the customer. As sophistication in customer analytics increases, What if companies could more easily leverage the insights of a
companies will be able to define a commercial bundle applicable greater pool of knowledgeable and experienced developers and
even to a single customer. provide them with a structure for effective collaboration? For
more than a decade, that has been the promise of a service
In an era when offerings such as wireless services are approaching delivery platform—a standardized service creation and execution
market saturation, the ability to use customer data effectively to architecture that accelerates the introduction of new applications
create innovative services and deliver a compelling user experience and services. These platforms have had a significant impact on
is critical. driving faster development times at lower cost.
2. Develop more effective program management However, if companies are to achieve high performance in a more
complex and open development environment, with services that
capabilities that break down internal silos
leverage Web 2.0 capabilities, they need to make the leap to a
Poor interdepartmental cooperation in new product development new generation of service delivery platforms.
was cited by about a third of survey respondents as a significant
impediment to effective service innovation. Similar numbers cited The new platform, what Accenture calls Service Delivery Platform
deficiencies in project management. One-fourth of the executives 2.0, is based on an open infrastructure—a scalable, distributed,
reported a lack of pre-launch testing. efficient and open architecture capable of supporting more third-
party collaborators and a greater number of service activations.
These findings point to several deficiencies that can only be The platform provides a set of components that can be used to
addressed by developing the processes and the talent required to create simplified interfaces to new services. By supporting more
manage the innovation process with more rigor and predictability. third-party developers and content providers, an open service
This is another area where companies should consider leveraging delivery platform helps developers create new, value-added services
third parties and outsourcing providers, who consider such faster, more consistently and with less expense.
management capabilities to be a core competence.
The open infrastructure also means that the service delivery
3. Tap into a larger idea pool platform can integrate and interact more easily with internal
operations support systems and business support systems. For
When it comes to innovations, many companies suffer from an
many companies, such systems are unable to easily integrate with
inability to harvest the good ideas that reside throughout the
those of third-party developers, further complicating companies'
workforce or among business partners. New social networking
ability to engage in open development and adding to overall
technologies provide the potential to locate ideas and to encour-
development costs.
age the kinds of dialogue and knowledge sharing from which
good ideas naturally emerge.
For an example of how an open service delivery platform can drive
faster and more cost-effective new product development, consider
For example, the Accenture Collaborative Innovation Solution is a
the case of 3 Italia, a leading mobile phone operator in Italy.
“mass collaboration” technique used to stimulate innovation and
3 Italia needed to increase its ability to create and launch innova-
then manage the innovation process. The solution begins with an
tive new services to drive revenue growth, but lacked a sufficient
issue of focus (a "seed" idea or request) for the organization. That
number of skilled development engineers and the appropriate
request is then passed electronically to a set of participants who
technical infrastructure necessary to achieve its innovation goals.
add their individual insights and perspectives. Those responses are
The company had a strong roadmap of target services, but was
then read and enhanced by successive waves of participants, each
unable to implement those services at the desired speed and cost.
handoff taking the preceding ideas in new, diverse and potentially
high-value directions based on different individuals' perspectives
In collaboration with Accenture, 3 Italia implemented a “product
of the issue or potential solution.
development factory” that enabled 3 Italia to rapidly launch new
products and services. The factory combines an underlying service
To keep these dozens, hundreds or even thousands of resulting
delivery platform that is hosted by Accenture, as well as a team of
ideas manageable and actionable, the Accenture Collaborative
development engineers dedicated to 3 Italia. Today, 45 percent of
Innovation Solution employs the same group of participants to
3 Italia’s mobile value-added services are developed and hosted on
rate and rank individual ideas.
the Accenture platform, including the company’s award-winning
mobile television product.
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12. Conclusion
Innovating through the downturn
Although many executives today are wary of a commitment to
innovation as economic pressures continue to grow, this Accenture
study demonstrates that it is possible to create an environment of
open innovation that is, at the same time, rigorous and cost effective.
Despite the unquestioned importance of new product development By opening traditional development processes to a broader range
to achieving high performance in the communications and high of players, and putting in place a proven infrastructure to support
tech industry, organizations are faced with greater challenges in collaboration, companies can drive high performance even in
executing and sustaining innovations that deliver results. The challenging times though faster, more cost-effective service
frequency and pace of innovation are areas of weakness, as is the innovation.
ability to consistently deliver high-impact products and services.
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1 Accenture analysis, 2009.
2 "Big Trouble with 'No Trouble Found': How Consumer Electronics Firms
Confront the High Cost of Customer Returns," Accenture 2007.
3 "Overcoming Barriers to Innovation: Emerging Role of the Chief Innovation
Executive," Accenture, 2008.
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