Innovation Agility in Healthcare Part 2

Increasing Development Capability

April 24th, 2012 | by Andrew Nygard

As market, strategic and regulatory priorities shift, a clear decision-making and review process increases nimbleness and ability to compete. The next step for forward-thinking healthcare payors is building agile product development capabilities. Read More

Innovation Agility in Healthcare Part 1

Improve Strategic Alignment

April 10th, 2012 | by Andrew Nygard

Healthcare payors face an increasingly complex environment. Regulatory-driven restructuring, pricing and efficiency pressures from Medicare, self-insured corporations, and emerging and disruptive business models all combine to create an eerie projection of the future, not unlike the wild, wild west.¹ In response, healthcare executives and product development professionals are grappling with the question – “Can we innovate fast enough to compete?” Read More

Healthcare Product Innovation: Key Trends and Success Factors

March 5th, 2012 | by Andrew Nygard

In 2011, Kalypso conducted a survey assessing how market factors drive the need for healthcare payors and providers to innovate their products. We asked them to identify the most pressing market factors, assess innovation capability and identify barriers to bringing innovation to market. These are our take-aways. Read More

Open Innovation: Practical First Steps for B2B Companies

March 2nd, 2012 | by Michael Glessner

Considering an open innovation initiative? Don’t take it lightly. For B2B companies who face unique additional challenges, identifying and achieving value can be especially difficult. If your company sees the value and is ready to get started, here are four critical steps that will help ensure success. Read More

The Value of Open Innovation for B2B Companies

January 31st, 2012 | by Michael Glessner

We hear a lot these days about applying open innovation concepts to improve innovation and product development processes. The value is clear for B2C companies, but B2B firms have different challenges and needs that have caused many to hold off. Despite the challenges, the open innovation payoff for B2B companies is significant if done correctly, especially in today’s resource-constrained R&D environments. Read More

Predictions for Social Product Innovation in 2012

January 24th, 2012 | by Jim Brown and Amy Kenly

What predictions can we make for the use of social media and related social technologies to improve product innovation? To help answer that question, we turned to the results of Kalypso’s annual Social Product Innovation surveys from 2010 and 2011. Read More

Pricing Is Not an Afterthought

Leading Strategies for Pricing Early in the Product Development Process

January 4th, 2012 | by Ankur Sood and James Weaver

There’s a leading luxury car maker that performs an average of 100 more safety tests than those performed on a non-luxury car. They successfully sell the car in the market for $280,000. A well-known online retailer has one of the cheapest and most popular e-readers in the market at $79. So what is common between these two firms with winning products at different ends of the pricing spectrum? Read More

PLM Maturity: How to Get More Out of Your System

December 8th, 2011 | by Andreas Lindenthal

How many of the PLM capabilities available today do companies actually use? The answer is sobering... Read More

Evolution and Innovation

What Darwin can teach business about innovation, survival and growth

December 1st, 2011 | by

The theory of "biological evolution of species" proposed by Charles Darwin in 1859 could very well have been the “evolution of businesses". The concept of survival of fittest is as true for businesses as it is for living organisms. Read More

Jumpstart Your Innovation Budget with Strategic Pricing Segmentation

September 29th, 2011 | by Reed Shelger

Many manufacturing businesses struggle to meet high demands for growth from innovation with limited cash and other constrained resources. Companies look to their existing product portfolios to fund innovative, “big idea” projects, but often feel powerless regarding pricing. Read More

The What, Who and How of Effective Gate Meetings

September 21st, 2011 | by Matt Priest

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. Read More