Category Archives: Flexible Product Development

How are you building adaptability into your product development process?

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A Harvard Business Review issue (May-June 2018), was devoted to the importance of creating a flexible and adaptable organization. This is supported by the 2013 Comparative Performance Assessment Study conducted by the PDMA Research Foundation. The study states, “The use of formal, structured processes may have reached its potential and companies are now testing the […]

What Does Decentralized Decision-Making Really Look Like?

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An approach to leading teams is “leading by asking questions.” Think of it as the leader owning the questions and the team owning the answers . The leader is not expected to have all the answers but to ensure the team gets to a solution.

Strategy and Uncertainty

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The first step in making your strategy adaptable to uncertainty is to identify current assumptions, the kinds of uncertainties to monitor and establish a feedback mechanism.

Why Large Organizations Can’t Act Like a Startup

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How can established organizations be more nimble and adaptable? This is where entrepreneurial techniques, like experimentation and Exploratory PD, can be leveraged.