How Apple Is Organized for Innovation – Commentary
Joel M. Podolny and Morten T. Hansen’s article in the December 2020 edition of the Harvard Business Review, “How Apple
Product Development Execution
Service Overview
Product development is a company’s engine for sustainable growth. The advantages that come from consistently developing winning products or services are substantial, and they separate industry leaders from laggards. Effective product development results in:
- Superior, customer-driven products and services
- Faster time to market
- Faster reaction to market and technology changes
- Lower development costs
- Increased revenue and profitability
Accel’s approach to accelerating product development capability combines entrepreneurial methods with extensive experience and knowledge of development leading practices. Using our proven product development framework, we are able to quickly identify and close capability gaps across key process elements. Our approach goes well beyond standard phase gate methodologies. We view product development as a highly integrated, cross-functional discipline in which processes, organizational structures, development activities, decision making mechanisms, and enabling tools work together as a system. Mastering these elements enables step function improvement in delivery performance.
Our clients have realized substantial results from Product Development Execution transformations:
All projects applying Product Development best practices, common project management language, highly visible achievement-based communications, and tight control combined with teams empowered and accountable to solve problems
All projects applying Product Development best practices, common project management language, highly visible achievement-based communications, and tight control combined with teams empowered and accountable to solve problems
Time-to-market cut in half through transformation into a first-pass success culture
Time-to-market cut in half through transformation into a first-pass success culture
Detailed and highly usable processes accepted, applied, and championed culturally throughout the organization
Detailed and highly usable processes accepted, applied, and championed culturally throughout the organization
New products driving accelarated growth and profitability
New products driving accelarated growth and profitability
Insights on Product Development Execution
Pizzas, Minivans, and the Innovation Core Team
The benefits of organizing project work using a small, cross-functional core team structure have been around since the early 1990s,
Accelerate Decision-Making by Getting Leadership Out of the Way
Accelerate Decision-Making by Getting Leadership Out of the Way
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