Executive Update

Can You Afford to Be Innovative?

Posted September 13, 2010 | Leadership | Leadership |

Surveys of CEO strategic priorities consistently place innovation near the top.1 However, innovation is synonymous with change, and lower levels of management, especially seasoned managers, know that change can be expensive and disruptive. In product development, changes late in a project usually mean serious schedule and budget overruns.

About The Author
Preston Smith
Preston G. Smith has been an independent management consultant since 1986 helping manufacturers to bring new products to market faster. He is coauthor of the time-to-market classic,Developing Products in Half the Time. More recently, he has authored Flexible Product Development (Jossey-Bass, 2007), which re-creates the approaches of agile software development to enable the developers of non-software products to enjoy the benefits of an agile… Read More
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