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High Velocity Innovation

How to Get Your Best Ideas to Market Faster

By: Katherine Radeka

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High Velocity Innovation

How to Get Your Best Ideas to Market Faster

By: Katherine Radeka

When a company can get its best ideas to market faster, its leaders gain the confidence that their most important strategic decisions will be executed faithfully, and that their visions for the company's future will be realized. They gain the ability to be agile in response to market changes, pursue new opportunities and achieve ambitious plans for growth. This book will show how companies can accelerate growth with the strategic elements that pull innovation from their best people; a framework for driving innovation that overcomes roadblocks, cultural barriers, and the pressure to sustain the current business; leadership models and metrics for building high accountability and responsiveness into innovation systems; and a road map for accelerating innovation across the business, no matter where it is now"--

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1632651564

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The Mastery of Innovation

A Field Guide to Lean Product Development

By: Katherine Radeka

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The Mastery of Innovation

A Field Guide to Lean Product Development

By: Katherine Radeka

What do Ford Motor Company, Steelcase, Scania, Goodyear, Novo Nordisk, and Philips Electronics have in common? They all need to get their best ideas to market as fast as possible. They need to achieve the mastery of innovation. When these companies needed to accelerate time-to-market, get more new products to customers, and improve their ROI from investments in R&D, they turned to Lean Product Development to help them master the process of innovation. By adapting Lean ideas to their specific product development challenges, they learned how to focus innovation on the problems that would maximize customer and business value, and deliver on their best ideas. Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award! The Mastery of Innovation: A Field Guide to Lean Product Development describes the experiences of 19 companies that have achieved significant results from Lean Product Development. Their stories show that Lean Product Development delivers results: Ford Motor Company completely reinvented its Global Product Development System and put decades of knowledge about automotive design at its engineers’ fingertips DJO Global, a medical device company, more than tripled the number of products they released to the market and cut development time by 60% Playworld Systems cut time-to-market in half–twice The diverse set of North American and European case studies in this book range from very small product development organizations (three engineers) to very large (more than 10,000). Some of the industries represented include automotive, medical devices, industrial products, consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals, scientific instruments, and aerospace. These companies have generously shared their knowledge about Lean Product Development to help you get your best ideas to market faster.

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1439877025

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High Velocity Innovation

How to Get Your Best Ideas to Market Faster

By: Katherine Radeka

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High Velocity Innovation

How to Get Your Best Ideas to Market Faster

By: Katherine Radeka

“If you strive for more relevant innovation or want to outpace your competition, this book is for you.” —Roger Johnson, Senior Vice President of Product Design and Engineering, Keurig Dr Pepper When a company can get its best ideas to market faster, its leaders can be confident that their most important strategic decisions will be executed faithfully, and their visions for the company’s future will be realized. They are also able to be agile in response to market changes, pursue new opportunities, and achieve ambitious plans for growth. High Velocity Innovation will show how companies accelerate growth with: The strategic elements that pull innovation from their best people A framework for driving innovation that overcomes roadblocks, cultural barriers, and the pressure to sustain the current business Leadership models and metrics for building high accountability and responsiveness into innovation systems A roadmap for accelerating innovation across your business, no matter where you are now Businesses like yours can establish strategies, systems, processes, and tools that build innovation velocity by addressing the root causes that lead to innovation disappointments. To succeed, your best ideas need solid execution without launch delays, budget overruns, or poor product/market fit. Not every idea will succeed—and not every idea should succeed. But a company’s best ideas can be identified and accelerated with High Velocity Innovation.

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