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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

Note that Marketing, Finance, HR, are all part of this product line. I am using the word serve as in servant leadership. Instead, the projects used a staged-delivery life cycle , an incremental approach with cross-functional teams and monthly demos. I’m still drafting, so I’m not committing to which part!).

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What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like

Harvard Business

When organizations lack a formal innovation pipeline process, project approvals tend to be based on who has the best demo or slides, or who lobbies the hardest. The framework has the team talking not just to potential customers but also with regulators, and people responsible for legal, policy, finance, support.