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Articles by Bill Kline

Bill Kline is the Associate Dean of Innovation and a Professor of Engineering Management at Rose-Hulman.

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People are Innovative, Organizations are Not

May 18, 2016 By Bill Kline

New ventures are completely focused on innovation by developing new products and solutions that create value for a growing customer base. As the successful venture grows, its priority often shifts to excellence in execution with a focus on sales, margins and growth. It becomes very good at doing what it has always done and not […]

Filed Under: Innovation, Large Organization Innovation Tagged With: Corporate Culture, Delivering Innovation, Strategy, Value Creation

Focusing on Features to Achieve Product-Market Fit

April 20, 2016 By Bill Kline

Achieving ‘product-market fit’ – the alignment of the features of the product or service with the demands of a target market – is a priority for all organizations. New development efforts often pack a large number of features into the offering, increasing cost and complexity while all of the features may not provide benefit or […]

Filed Under: Innovation, Product Design & Development Tagged With: Delivering Innovation, Portfolio Management, Strategy

On a Parallel Path: Innovation Emerging as an Organizational Competency

March 23, 2016 By Bill Kline

As innovation emerges as a new organizational competency, the path it is following is similar in many ways to the one followed by the field of quality many years ago.   Back in the 70’s and 80’s, Quality Circles, Total Quality Management, and ‘Quality is Job One’ were the themes and slogans of the day […]

Filed Under: Innovation, Large Organization Innovation Tagged With: Delivering Innovation, Organizational Competency, Value Creation

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