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ISBM Pulse: Innovation and new product development

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Failing To Innovate

Do business failures generate more creative solutions than successes? This article discusses the direct link between failure and innovation. The new way of doing business involves smart failure that leads to solutions sparked by risk taking.

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What Creativity In Marketing Looks Like Today

As marketers sometimes we feel like we are stuck in a never-ending loop of creation and idea generation. Once you finish one campaign – off to the next! This article in the Harvard Business Review provides a mix of B2C and B2B examples of innovative ways that companies have adjusted to think beyond marketing. Operating like a startup could be the key to staying agile.

Voice of the Customer (Gerry Katz)

In this 45-minute webinar, Gerry Katz, founder of Applied Marketing Inc., shares with you a preview to his course  (held on October 11th & 12th in Chicago), on the Voice of the Customer. This highly-regarded course is designed to teach attendees how to use Voice of the Customer data to accelerate innovation in business-to-business markets.

Agile-State-Gate (Robert Cooper)

Robert Cooper gives you a preview of his course “Agile-Stage-Gate®, the Next Generation Idea-to-Launch Process”, in which the Stage-Gate® paradigm is advanced for agile working teams. Agile is transforming new product development systems with its cross-functional teams and iterative, adaptive approach. Although originating in the software industry, this course is for product manufacturers and service providers looking to adopt agile systems. 

In this webinar, you get a preview on the following insights:
– Understand how and why leading firms are moving beyond their traditional Stage-Gate® process
– Build Agile project management into your idea-to-launch gating system
– Learn how to build experimentation and iterations into your projects – get rapid customer validation of your product
– See how to pick the best development projects for maximum productivity and focus