Author: Michael Dalton

A frustrated business executive recently asked me to help diagnose his company’s new product development processes. They had taken several new products most of the way through design only to have to go back and revise the...

The subject of pricing makes most people uncomfortable – including those involved with new products. No surprise there since many organizations keep the responsibility for pricing in either finance or product management. But not...

Here’s a 3 part interview with Business 901’s Joe Dagger where we discussed applying Theory of Constraints to innovation, the Customer Value Lens, and open innovation as a tool to elevate the innovation bottleneck....

Patrick Lencioni’s new business fable, Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty is a short, but thoroughly enjoyable read about how being open, vulnerable, and transparent...

Who would have guessed that a movie about blue aliens could teach us anything about new product innovation? Of course, I’m not talking about the movie itself, but the story of how it was made – something that was...