Pipeline Accelerator Tips

Welcome to our library of new product innovation tips, featuring over 100 vetted strategies to help you drive predictable growth. These insights are designed specifically for product leaders in highly-engineered industries looking to see invisible constraints and accelerate their development pipelines. Explore the categories below to turn your innovation process from a cost center into a powerful growth engine.

Limit New Product WIP with Resource Management

Tip #1 – Limit New Product WIP to Get More Across the Finish Line in Less Time

New product opportunity matrix showing capability vs market stretch risk levels.

Tip #2 – Pick New Product Opportunities You Have a Right to Win

Innovation project management strategy for planning new product development obstacles

Tip #3 – Plan for New Product Obstacles

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Tip #4 – Give the Gift of Stable New Product Priorities

customer constraints represented by hands in handcuffs

Tip #5 – Find Your Customers’ Constraints

Focus Early-Stage Innovation on Learning Gaps

Tip #6 – Focus Early-Stage Innovation on Learning Gaps

Image showing how limiting WIP increases product launch speed

Tip #7 – Execution Rules – Limit Your WIP

Planning new product projects in small batch sizes to improve workflow.

Tip #8 – Plan New Product Projects in Small Batch Sizes

Square watermelon representing hidden customer constraints and unarticulated customer needs

Tip #9 – Look for the Constraints Customers Can No Longer See

Avoiding distractions in innovation with focus Innovation Focus

Tip #10 – Avoid Bright Shiny Objects in Innovation

Overcoming customer resistance to new products

Tip #11 – Plan for Resistance to Your New Products

Dashboard gauge showing new product growth metrics for innovation speed.

Tip #12 – Keep Your New Product Growth Metrics Simple