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CARRIE NAUYALIS

Carrie Nauyalis, NPD Solution Evangelist at Planview, is passionate about establishing customer relationships, developing market positioning, defining field enablement strategies, providing market-based feedback into Planview product development, and being an overall evangelist and though leader for the Product Development market. She is an active speaker, MBA guest lecturer, blogger and vlogger on all things Product Portfolio Management, with warm places in her heart for the topics of innovation, Stage-Gate® and Agile.

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PMO is not a Dirty Word

Many product organizations have some type of Project Management Office (PMO), even if they refer to it by a different name. The PMO is a critical component to a successful product delivery, yet it often carries a reputation for being heavy-handed policy enforcers. When focused on the right things, the PMO plays a pivotal role in driving innovation process excellence and ensuring profitability.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:18:41-07:00December 9th, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: innovation maturity, innovation tool, maturity model, policy, program management, project management, project portfolio management|

Shark Tank Your Gate Meetings

A gated product development process is often implemented by organizations to assist in scrutinizing projects throughout their lifecycle to ensure only the fittest survive. Unfortunately, many of the checks and balances lack the teeth required to kill doomed projects before they squander resources. How can a TV show provide valuable insight into your gate meetings? Stay tuned to learn more.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:29-07:00May 19th, 2014|Categories: Life Cycle Processes|Tags: evaluation of ideas, funding, gatekeeping, investment, investors, Product Development, shark tank, stage gate|

It’s Midnight. Do You Know Where Your Projects Are?

Product innovation shouldn’t be scary. But if you don’t know where projects are throughout the development process, those projects could be as good as gone. This article considers how the level of visibility organizations have into a product as it progresses through the full commercialization process directly relates to its success. What steps can organizations take to expand their field of vision into product lifecycles and how can having a single source of truth be the light in the darkness?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:30-07:00May 13th, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: commercialization, innovation, Innovation Management, innovation management maturity, innovation maturity, innovation success, product innovation|

Mourning the Dead: Why You Should Have a Funeral after Killing Your Product

Pulling the plug on an in-flight project is hard. No one wants to be the person calling it quits, offending team members and admitting defeat. It is this mentality, however, that ends up sucking the life out of resources and budgets and setting the organization up for continued failure because the process is broken. How can you ensure only the right projects survive, wrong ones are killed early and lessons are celebrated after an appropriate mourning period? It’s going to take courage.

Ideascale2020-03-30T12:18:24-07:00April 28th, 2014|Categories: Idea Management, Organization & Culture|Tags: Failure, funeral, lessons learned, portfolio management, Product Development|

Maturing Innovation Management One Step at a Time

The fall conference season is winding down and this year I've had the privilege of attending and speaking at some great innovation events, sharing the newly launched Innovation Management Maturity Model™. From regional PDMA meetings in Dallas and Atlanta, to the national PDMA PIM conference, the Optimizing Innovation conference in NYC, to the Planview Horizons Annual Customer Conference, it's been a brain-filling couple of months.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:16:24-07:00December 9th, 2013|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: innovation, Innovation Management, innovation management maturity model, innovation maturity, portfolio management|

The Innovation Management Maturity Model: How Do You Stack Up?

You might talk the talk of innovation. But do you walk the walk? Or, more realistically, are you doing some herky-jerky semblance of a walk that’s not getting you very far?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:16:34-07:00October 28th, 2013|Categories: Life Cycle Processes|Tags: Business Model Innovation, innovation, Innovation Culture, innovation management maturity model, innovation maturity, innovative companies, project portfolio management|

Are you Really Innovating? Five Signs You Might Be Faking It

This article challenges companies to take an honest look in the innovation mirror to determine whether they’re truly making it or perhaps faking it when it comes to bringing innovative products and services to market. Consider this a simple litmus test to self-diagnose.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:14:59-07:00July 22nd, 2013|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, Ideation, innovation, Innovation Management, measuring innovation, product pipeline, R&D, voice of customer|