Part I: Overview of Exploratory Product Development
Chapter 1: The Case for Exploratory Development
- Uncertainty & Risk in Product Development
- The Need for Change in Product Development
- The Underlying Problem: Uncertainty
- Too Slow for the Times
- The ExPD Advantage
- The Trend Toward More Adaptable Processes
- ExPD: Adaptable Strategy-to-Launch Process
- Appendix: The Language of Uncertainty and Risk
Chapter 2: High-Level Overview of ExPD
- A Systems Approach
- Segment 1: Strategy Segment
- Segment 2: Ideas & Selection Segment
- Segment 3: Explore & Create Segment
- People
Part II: How to Do it
Segment 1: Strategy
Chapter 3: Why Strategy Matters for Product Development
- Why Strategy Matters
- Limitations of Traditional Strategy Development
- The s2m Strategic Framework and ExPD
- Stable Environment
- Strategic Framework
- Internal Capabilities
- Moderately Dynamic Environment
- Strategic Framework
- Internal Capabilities
- Highly Dynamic Environment
- Strategic Framework
- Internal Capabilities
- Getting Started: Five Key Tasks
- Case Study
Segment 2: Ideas and Selection
Chapter 4: Idea Management System
- Overcoming Hurdles of the Ideas Management System
- Segment 2: Ideas & Selection
- Generate Ideas
- Capture And Filter Ideas
- Prepare Ideas
- Prioritization Valve 1
- Characteristics of an Effective Management Committee
Segment 3: Explore and Create
Chapter 5: Investigate
- Track A: Managing and Resolving Product Uncertainties
- Identify Uncertainties
- Evaluate Uncertainties
- Prioritize Uncertainties
- Track B: Product Development Activities
- Assess Idea Maturity
- Appendix: Product Risk Framework Case Study
Chapter 6: Plan
- Planning for Uncertainty: Flexibility, Adaptability, and Speed
- Flexible Planning
- Adaptable Planning
- Speed in Planning
- Product Charter
- Developing the Product Charter
- Components of the Product Charter
- Resolve Development Plan (RDP)
- Components of the RDP
- Pledge
- Assumption Tracker
- Detailed Timeline/Project Plan
- Prioritization Valve
- Process Characteristics of Prioritization Valves
- Portfolio Management
Chapter 7: Resolve
- Introduction to Resolve
- Tools of the Trade
- Get Ready to Resolve Product Uncertainty: The Four Steps
- Design
- Build
- Execute
- Learn
- Appendix 7A: The Mechanics of the Resolve Loop
- Appendix 7B: Categories of Prototypes
- Appendix 7C: ExPD Case Study
Part III: Adaptive Practices that Support ExPD
Chapter 8: People
- Enterprise
- Startup vs. Enterprise
- Internal Incubators
- Principles of a Learning Organization
- Management
- Decentralized Decision-Making
- Management by Exception
- Leading by Asking Questions
- Team
- Cross-Collaboration
- Building Team Trust
- Employee Mastery
- Culture
- Culture Triangle
- Cultural Change Case Study
- Learning from Failure
Next Steps: Implementing the ExPD System