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Companies use slow, ad hoc approaches to innovation

This FierceCEO piece raises the problem of innovation being handled slowly and ad hoc rather than through a repeatable operating discipline. Today, the same…

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Doug Ringer

This published work explores a practical product-business question through the lens of Product Development & Execution.

This FierceCEO piece raises the problem of innovation being handled slowly and ad hoc rather than through a repeatable operating discipline. Today, the same issue appears when ideas lack clear intake, evaluation, ownership, and decision paths.

Original publication: FierceCEO

Why it still matters

The underlying leadership question remains relevant: connect customer and market evidence, clear decision rights, and disciplined execution to the business outcome.

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Originally published by FierceCEO. The date associated with the source record is May 1, 2018.

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Product Development & Execution

Doug Ringer

Product management is a business role.

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