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Open Innovation Ecosystems
In contrast to traditional innovation, which tends to unfold behind closed doors, open innovation leads to new products, services and operating models as the result of…
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Series: The Building Blocks of Innovation Capability
Amidst the rapid pace of change in today’s business environment, innovation has never been more important. Stephen Wunker (Managing Director, New Markets Advisors and co…
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Cultivate a Culture of Innovation
Amidst the rapid pace of change in today’s business environment, innovation has never been more important. Stephen Wunker (Managing Director, New Markets Advisors and co…
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Create an Innovative Leadership Style
Amidst the rapid pace of change in today’s business environment, innovation has never been more important. Stephen Wunker (Managing Director, New Markets Advisors and co…
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Aspire to Innovate Through Target Setting
Amidst the rapid pace of change in today’s business environment, innovation has never been more important. Stephen Wunker (Managing Director, New Markets Advisors and co…
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Build Structures to Support Innovation
Amidst the rapid pace of change in today’s business environment, innovation has never been more important. Stephen Wunker (Managing Director, New Markets Advisors and co…
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To ensure precision and efficiency, supply chain organizations look for the right measures to track their performance. These efforts focus on identifying key performance…
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Common Measures for Innovation in a Supply Chain Context
Many organizations have made innovation a priority for their supply chains. However, any successful innovation effort must consider the right measures for tracking…
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Innovation: Driving Successful Change
As organizations seek to navigate disruptions, innovation is key to driving successful, long-term change. This APQC collection has on-demand webinars, slides, and articles…
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The Building Blocks of Innovation Capability
With today’s rapid pace of change, innovation has never been more important. Steve Wunker, Managing Director, New Markets Advisors and co-author of The Innovative Leader, has…
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Three Steps to Innovation Capability
What makes a leader innovative? How do they enable their organizations to innovate? Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Panera’s Ron Shaich, and Levi’s Chip Bergh are some of the 50…
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Three Steps to Innovation Capability
What makes a leader innovative? How do they enable their organizations to innovate? Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Panera’s Ron Shaich, and Levi’s Chip Bergh are some of the 50…
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The road to innovation is paved with failure. Not every idea is going to work, and a large percentage of experiments are bound to fail. The most innovative organizations not…
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To objectively assess, manage, and compare product development performance, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes. APQC’s Process…
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Understanding Product/Service Development Processes
To objectively assess, manage, and compare product/service development performance, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes. APQC’s…
Measure Spotlight Results
(1 - 5 of 32 Results)Total cost to perform the process group "develop products and services" per $1,000 revenue
Number of FTEs (including external) that perform the process group "develop products and services" per $1 billion revenue
Product development defect rate in parts per million
Cycle time in days from the start of design and development through completion of test marketing for existing product/service improvement projects
Cycle time in days from the start of design and development through completion of test marketing for new product/service development projects
