How to Transform Into a Customer-Centric Merchandise Planning Organization
Are you working to become more customer-centric when it comes to merchandise planning? Here are six key areas to focus on.
Leading Practices for Strategic Data Governance
Data governance is an important practice in CPG, but it is often not considered a strategic priority. Here are five leading practices, along with a maturity model for companies that want to move from tactical to strategic data governance.
Defining Portfolio Scope: Is it Necessary for Effective Portfolio Management?
Why is it necessary to define your portfolio’s scope? There are at least two compelling reasons: clear portfolio ownership and an enhanced focus on crucial projects.
Drive Rapid Business Value with Retail Connectivity
Consumers have high expectations when it comes to how, when and where they want to shop, but disconnected data sources inhibit retailers' ability to make informed decisions. Rapid success in retail connectivity is possible with the right focus and approach.
Achieving Breakthrough Innovation: Five Steps to Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty
How many times have you heard, “great idea” and, “risky” in one sentence? If you’re a company wanting to make a big jump in innovation, the answer is, plenty.
The What, Who and How of Effective Gate Meetings
Preparing for a New Product Development (NPD) gate meeting is usually the last thing on an innovation team leader’s list of things to do, especially when typical meetings entail lengthy slide decks on the merits of projects and research studies on the risks of new products.
Great Ideas Are Not Enough: Championing Innovation Governance
Great ideas may kickoff the innovation process, but great ideas alone don’t guarantee innovation. What really makes companies sustain success in innovation is their ability to trigger and maintain a cycle of innovation.
Innovation Officer Insights: Implementing Open Innovation
Open Innovation is transforming the nature of commercial development, but complexity around IP, decision making and finances causes many alliances to fail. Dr. Gene Slowinski presents powerful management tools and metrics designed to improve success and increase the value of open innovation alliances.
How to Protect Breakthrough Innovation: Designate a Sponsor
Assigning an influential project sponsor will ensure breakthrough innovations are protected inside the organization.
Retail Innovation Shout-Out Blog Retail Innovation Shout Out: Smart Home Appliances Incorporate Dash Replenishment Service
Amazon Replenishment Service allows smart connected household devices to automatically place orders when supplies are running low.
Why Do Companies Need Data Governance?
Data governance helps protect a company’s most important assets: knowledge and data. This in turn has an impact on decision-making, risk mitigation, and brand identity. Here are some of the key costs and benefits of data governance.
March Madness: Design and Deploy a Winning Innovation Team
With the right team, the CINO can minimize the effects of unpredictability, rapid changes, high expectations, mounting pressure, and fierce competition. Avoid this madness with a robust corporate innovation team and enable the right team members to address common innovation challenges.