CUBE Side #4 – Identifies Elements that Deliver Customer Value

Posted by Bart Huthwaite on May 25, 2011 in Innovation Cube | 0 comments

Gives you an “architecture of Things ” for systematically improving the customer experience Identifies your major targets for innovation improvement Focuses your innovation search Helps you “see” value improvement opportunities in a new way On CUBE side 4 stakeholders will look for insight into new ideas. Using a matrix of questions, each stake holder will...

CUBE Side #1 – Calibrates Your Innovation Quest

Posted by Bart Huthwaite on May 25, 2011 in Innovation Cube | 0 comments

CUBE Side #1 – Calibrates Your Innovation Quest. Focuses innovation goals Clarifies boundaries & hurdles Identifies all domain stakeholders Predicts forces that will impact the innovation (marketplace, technology & competitive environment) Too many times project teams spend valuable man hours developing a solution that they later find is wasteful or even...

How to Recognize Ripening Bananas

Posted by Bart Huthwaite on May 2, 2011 in Implementing Lean Design | 0 comments

How to Recognize Ripening Bananas Invention is not the mother of necessity. You do not create growth opportunities. You must discover and exploit them. The Rule of “Recognize Ripening Bananas”, the first task in your Systematic Corporate Innovation process, will help you spot new opportunities while they are still “green bananas,” ready for the picking. Opportunities seldom appear in the...

Designing Lean by using Modular Design

Posted by Bart Huthwaite on Apr 27, 2011 in What is Lean Design? | 0 comments

Modular by Design Modular outsourcing is catching fire these days. Industries such as automotive, computer and even shipbuilders are rapidly moving to outsourcing the design and build entire subsystems, or modules. They are finding that building a complex product from smaller sub-systems that can be designed independently, yet function together as a whole, can bring faster innovation, lower...

How To Measure Product Team Efficiency

Posted by Bart Huthwaite on Apr 27, 2011 in Implementing Lean Design | Comments Off

How To Measure Product Team Efficiency   Want to know the biggest killer of new product success? If you guessed “late-to-market” or “didn’t hear the customer’s voice” or “technology missteps,” guess again.  I’ve found these to be only symptoms. My experience shows poor product team efficiency to be at the top of the list.  How well your...

How To Win Management Support–and Keep It!

Posted by Bart Huthwaite on Apr 27, 2011 in Bart's Blog | 0 comments

How To Win Management Support–and Keep It! Winning top management support for your new product effort can spell the difference between success and failure. Strong, company-wide management support means enough resources and consistent backing, especially when the going gets tough.  Weak or vacillating management support can undermine your team’s morale.  It can also send a message...