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White-Papers

We are happy to provide you with the following selected resources dedicated to innovation & new product development practices. We will be regularly adding new items.
If you feel your work or experience has its place in this list please contact us at resources@innovation-framework.com

 
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BP1 Discover our NEW exclusive report on Strategic Roadmapping Best Practices.
The 10 Essentials and Benefits of Strategic Roadmapping
This paper condenses the latest research and company learnings
into 10 essentials best practices :
1.What is strategic roadmapping?
2.Relationship to other innovation management processes
3.Who should be involved
4.The five benefits of roadmapping
5.Defining a multi-roadmap framework
6.Defining roadmap content
7.Before you start: the ten factors that influence success
8.Roadmapping implementation process
9.The four drivers of sustainable roadmapping
10.Before you finish: roadmapping maturity levels
Roadmapping,
Innovation Strategy,
Technology Planning
IFT Research Paper
BP2 Doing it Right – Winning with New Products.
This paper examines the two ways to win at product innovation: doing projects right and doing the right projects. Dr. Cooper explores the critical success factors that make the difference between winning and losing at innovation. He outlines key components of the authentic Stage-Gate® system and the four goals of successful portfolio management.
Stage-Gate Process,
Portfolio management,
Scoring
Stage-Gate Inc. White-Paper
BP3 From Customer Insights to Innovation Growth Initiatives:  new Methods and Tools to move from Incremental to Breakthrough Innovations.
- what are the most effective and popular ideation methods that can nurture your innovation pipeline
- how private on-line consumer communities help major corporations to uncover unmet needs/jobs and identify white spaces for innovation
-  how a project management approach specifically designed for Front-End of Innovation projects can be used to better leverage the efforts and intelligence of your innovation and research teams.
Insights, 
Voice of Customer, Crowdsourcing,
Idea Management,
Innovation Growth,
Initiatives.
IFT Presentation
BP4 The Innovator’s Toolbox: Empowering the Next Wave of Difference Makers.
How do organizations identify the most promising ideas and translate these ideas into successful products? This study answers that
question by examining how leading companies empower their innovators with tools and strategies that allow them to leverage ideas and knowledge to develop a steady stream of new and profitable products.
Innovation enablers,
Idea Generation,
Idea Management,
Innovation Networks,
Knowledge Mgmt.
Aberdeen
Benchmarking
Study
BP5 Leveraging on-line consumer clubs to identify innovation white spaces.
- how to initiate an extended dialog with customers to explore unmet needs and possible white space for innovation
- how DBA used both a consumer board and an innovation board to build a stronger and added value project portfolio
Insights,
Open Innovation,
crowdsourcing,
Innovation Board.
DBA Apparel Case Study
BP6 Open Innovation and Open Business Models: Thriving in the new innovation landscape.
- the Changing Economics of Innovation
- the Need for Business Model Innovation
- barriers to Business Model Innovation
- how to Realize the Benefits
Open Innovation, IP, P&G, Intel, Ryanair Henry Chesbrough Presentation Direct download