Silver Streak Partners LLC
Resources
Recent Presentations and
Brown Bag Briefings
I can deliver these presentations without charge as Brown Bag Briefings for companies located along the Colorado Front Range. Contact me for more information.
Finance for Engineers. This tutorial provides product developers and managers with the tools to discuss new products as financial investments and optimize ROI.
Managing Fuzzy Projects. Traditional linear project management practices can be toxic to innovation. Take a look at a different way to manage exploratory projects.
Dynamic Resource Management. It seems paradoxical, but this approach to project management produces schedules that are both more robust to variance, and shorter.
Time is Money. Provides a collection of tools and ideas to make better business based decisions about time to market.
The Business of Innovation. This presentation guides scientists, students, and inventors to think about technical breakthroughs as business opportunities.
Articles
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3 Principles to Improve Product Innovation. Firms that look for improvements exclusively in the engineering department are missing the mark. This article presents ideas for company-wide improvements to the new product effort.
Rightsizing your New Product Process. No matter what size a company is, it's a bad idea to adopt another company's "best practices" NPD processes are a balance between costs and benefits, and a process that doesn't fit won't produce the best results.
When the Solution is not the Opposite of the Problem. Organizations often find themselves bouncing back and forth between a problem and a "solution" that doesn't work. Using ideas from the organizational theory of polarity management, this article explains causes of and solutions to this perplexing situation.
Improving R&D results: Count on the Uncountable. There are 5 important dimensions of performance for product development, but only 2 are countable. Managers who insist exclusively on measureable metrics see only an incomplete picture.
Is Friction Dragging Down your New Product Results? Don't just accept conflict between talented technologists working on new products. This kind of friction can seriously undermine business results.
Hiring for Skills Plus Cultural Fit. Do you find yourself hiring for the same position over and over again? You may be hiring for skills and experience, but ignoring cultural fit.
Efficient Communications. Managers at most technical firms focus their attention on tangible issues: hard facts and measureable data. But intangible issues such as communications can have a tangible impact on business results.
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