The Where and How to Play Strategy Questions
The key to business performance is to know where and how you want to play the game of business. Product line strategies and roadmaps are central to the answer. Learn More
About Paul O'Connor
Paul O’Connor is an expert in the field of New Product Development. For over twenty-five years he has worked with executives and facilitated teams of senior managers. In 1984, Paul founded The Adept Group Limited, Inc.
Capitalizing on his skills in business strategy, marketing research, technology assessment, organizational process and team facilitation, Mr. O’Connor influences and guides the product development and innovation efforts of clients in both consumer and industrial markets, around the globe. Read More
Entries by Paul O'Connor
Podcast-Corporate Innovation Productivity
An insightful discussion with Paul O’Connor exploring Corporate Innovation Productivity, the state of the art, our struggles, and where we’re headed.
Indivisible Product Strategy
Big company leadership teams must figure out how they wish to focus on “where-to-play” and “how-to-play.” Strategy Indivisibility, much like a prime number, is the natural level at which further dividing or aggregating a focus and strategy becomes forced and ineffective. Learn why a product line is indivisible and how indivisible strategy unison determines business performance.
Product Line Managers need Corporate Innovation
Some strategic moves that advance a product line are pure genius. At least that’s the way outsiders see them. For example, take Apple’s iMac introduction of the M1 CPU. It’s genius at its best, right?
Podcast-Single Versus Multi-Product Thinking
An insightful discussion with Paul O’Connor single product versus multi-product thinking and why it matters.
Corporate Innovation Productivity Whitepaper
February 1, 2022 /0 Comments/by Paul O'ConnorVideo – Corporate Innovation and Uncertainty Flow
This video blog explores Corporate Innovation and Uncertainty Flow.
Product Line Flow and Maximizing Its Velocity
A Product Line’s Flow and the Velocity of the flow are the most important focus to help improve the performance of product development and product management. Orienting on a product line’s flow demands managers to use both systems thinking and strategy coherently. Learn why product line flow and the dynamic of managing product line velocity are so important.
Product Line Velocity: Moving Beyond Time-to-Market
A focus on Product Line Velocity takes product development and management well beyond the limits of project management fixated on time to market. Learn why this dynamic measure is a crucial component of managing product lines as systems.
Decision Flow and Product Line Strategy
In product development, a DECISION FLOW has enormous affect on performance. Purposely improving your decision flow can boost product development. Sadly, many middle managers feel the decision flow is owned by the leadership team. They say fixing it is top management’s job, not middle management’s.
