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How
Embratel used the company intranet to facilitate transition
to a new, marketing-driven NPD process
As competition grew, Embratel management wanted to create
a more marketing-driven new product development culture, to
replace the older, engineering-driven environment. In this case
history, Victoria Photos and Joe Rodriguez share the story of
how this Brazilian telecommunications giant is achieving this
goal, in part through use of a special product management office
(PMO) website on the company intranet. (This
article is an Adobe pdf file. You can download the free Acobat
Reader here.)
The Success Secrets of Developing New Products
A year ago, our economy was booming and business was better than it had been in several years. Companies were busy developing and marketing new products and experiencing great successes...
Global
Act Globally
Joe Rodriguez, President of the training and consulting company Global Innovation Leadership, Inc, is proposing that all manufacturing businesses develop a Global Strategy. Most manufacturers, outside of the large corporations...
The Much-Needed Qualities of a Global Executive
Aside from the typical skills of an executive, such as the ability to motivate, to delegate, to transfer Knowledge and to work in teams, the global executive must be able...
Marketing Professional Services in Latin America
With the economic picture changing daily, people are constantly looking for new places to market their professional services, and new people to do business with. It has become obvious that...
Marketing Professional Services in Latin America
With the economic picture changing daily, people are constantly looking for new places to market their professional services, and new people to do business with. It has become obvious that...
Check your Global Cross-Cultural Quotient(SM)
Cross-Cultural skills are key to effectiveness in our Global Economy. Recently I completed a long project in Brazil at a subsidiary of a US company and found that the level...
Innovation
And Now, "Creativity and Innovation"
Fortunately for us, after years of downsizing and cost reduction, we are now seeing the innovative success of the Internet businesses and products; businesses in all industries are realizing that...
How to Foster Innovation in your Organization
Most organizations do not fully understand innovation, and therefore do not know how to encourage it. Management values new products, and accepts the truism that innovative organizations are the leaders...
Does Faster Product Development result in Successful Products?
The evidence is not clear that faster development results in better products, but it is clear that streamlining the product development process seems to be beneficial to product quality and...
People and Innovation (Part II)
In part I of People and Innovation, we discussed the fact that every human is capable of generating creative ideas. Today we want to discuss the different types of people...
People and Innovation (Part I)
A company that employs innovators will surely grow and prosper. This is the key mantra for companies in today’s Global economy. However, we must keep in mind that we mean...
Innovation: What is your climate?
Innovation is widely recognized to be the avenue to growth and profits. Generally, this means that by introducing a new product or service, we can develop new businesses (new markets...
Developing New Product Ideas
It appears that the easiest way to develop successful new product ideas is to concentrate on the needs of the people. This is a problem solving approach rather than a...
The Innovation Process
Now is the time to invent ways to get out of the current economic problems that many companies are experiencing. The solution is not downsizing, as this is just a...
Get Creative
News!! Creativity is a skill we all have!!
We may not all have the same degree of creativity, but we can all think of different approaches, ask others for their...
Leadership
Leadership and Change
During a recent Improvement Project, we were struggling to make any significant progress in a certain area of the plant. Suddenly, the manager at that time left the company and...
Utilize Training as a Response to Business Issues
Regardless of the size of your company, if you are to become an industry leader, the key to your success will be training. Industry Week magazine studies show that those...
Integrity in Consulting: How to succeed by doing the right thing.
Avoid the person that has no honor, for if he esteems not honor, he esteems not virtue. An honor is the throne of integrity."
-Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian's advice is...
Suggestions for Improving Meetings
One of the items that surfaces in the companies we consult at in New Product Development is the belief of the employees that the majority of the time they spend...
Integrity in Consulting: How to succeed by doing the right thing.
Avoid the person that has no honor, for if he esteems not honor, he esteems not virtue. An honor is the throne of integrity."
-Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian's advice is...
Lean
The New Manufacturing
Lean, Flow, Agile, Virtual and Global. Are these all different types of Manufacturing? Or are we just describing different parts of a whole? "I believe these are all aspect of...
Kaizen Blitz Week
Typically, Kaizen Blitz Weeks generate enormous jumps in productivity, as shown in the other Lean articles we have published. In the Ohio manufacturer changeover article we showed where the set...
Ohio Manufacturer LEANs for the Better
GIL Facilitates Fast Changeovers at Automotive Parts Supplier
Global Manufacturing Leadership, Inc. (GIL) helped this Ohio Manufacturer of automotive parts implement LEAN MANUFACTURING with dramatic results: A changeover process that required almost nine hours was reduced to 36...
The Top Manufacturing Mega trends
The third week of March is National Manufacturing Week in the United States and I feel is appropriate to take a look at look at what is happening in this...
The Practices of Lean Manufacturing
There are a number of practices, which fall under the umbrella of "Lean Manufacturing".
Among these are:
* Quick Changeovers - a practice that reduces the time needed to switch a machine...
Lean Office: Innovation and Problem Solving
Innovation is most often associated with growth, and Problem Solving with cost reduction. One looks at the future, while the other fixes items from the past. Innovation has no guarantee...
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