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Event Details
The “fuzzy front end” of product development is often the least scientific. While much rigor and metric discipline is devoted to the launch and measurement of new product introductions, little is done to gauge measure or categorize the pipeline of potential innovation investments. While the early phases of product innovation management can explore many different avenues, this discussion will highlight two early decisions that are critical to developing a healthy process for managing the innovation pipeline:
1. Determining clearly defined idea categories: What are your companies “idea types”? Is the development process for market testing similar or different by type? Creating a series of set definitions can help formalize innovation delivery and innovation portfolio management.
2. Creating a broadly communicated set of decision making criteria: In the earliest phases of idea development, criteria that help determine what “idea type” an innovation concept fits under, how well it will/will not fit within the company’s strategic direction and how strongly the idea addresses certain internal and external goals is critical and too often overlooked.
This roundtable discussion will cover these two critical foundations for effective innovation pipeline management, with examples of idea categories, decision making criteria and market test expectation strategies. It should help provide the participant with an idea on how to formalize the front end innovation or at a minimum, provide stimulus for how to approach the innovation management conversation at your company.
Speaker Profiles
Tim Paul (Speaker)
Senior Manager: Consumer Driven Innovation, Allstate
http://www.allstate.com/
Tim Paul was brought to Allstate four years ago to help manage the development of a new product and service innovation strategy for Allstate Insurance. He is responsible for creating a pipeline of new ideas, developing new product prototypes, market testing them and scaling the most promising ideas nationwide. He has played a leading role in the market success of several high profile new product initiatives within Allstate over the past four years.
Prior to Allstate, Tim was a Senior Associate at Prophet, a brand strategy consulting firm where he helped design and develop the launch of a new brand resulting from the merger of two leading Agri-businesses. Prior to Prophet, Tim was a Senior Associate at Kuzmarski & Associates, a new product development consulting firm where he lead numerous new product portfolio development initiatives for large global corporations across various industries.
Tim received a Masters of Business Administration from DePaul University in Chicago IL and a BA degree in History from Saint John’s University in Collegeville, MN.