What’s Inside the Book

Proven Strategies for Making New Products a Resilient Competitive Advantage

This small but powerful book (perfect to toss in your briefcase or bag) takes on the conventional thinking that says more resources are the answer—helping you to see what is really going on as your organization seeks to innovate and launch new products. In an open and straight-talking manner, it teaches you to challenge the premises undermining your performance. Then it shares strategies that strike directly at the root causes, so you can start taking action immediately—action against issues like:

• Low Project Throughput – Are you simply not getting as many new products to market as you need to?
• Poor Predictability or On-Time Performance – Do you struggle to predict and commit to timelines that your business can actually achieve?
• Minimal Market Impact – Are too many of your resources going to low-impact programs or programs that don’t deliver as promised?
• Long Time to Market / Slow Speed to Market – Do projects take too long causing you to miss critical windows of opportunity?

These are the key issues that Unlocking Innovation Productivity can help you overcome. As a passionate business leader and innovation insider himself, Mike Dalton has used these strategies across industries globally. This book crystallizes that experience into the roadmap you need to transform your organization—once and for all—to deliver both profitable and predictable new product growth.

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What Business Leaders Are Saying

“Dalton’s strategies helped us to improve our project throughput remarkably without adding more resources. A must read if you want to grow with new products.”

— Luise Bang, Global Head of PMO — Danfoss

“As engaging as any novel; these simple but insightful concepts will definitely result in shortening your NPD cycle and maximizing the value of your innovation portfolio.”

— Asim Syed, Director, Global Technical Service R&D — Dow AgroSciences

“Concisely articulates the root causes of product development problems along with a methodical approach for selecting the best new projects, streamlining workflows, engaging cross-functional teams, and building a learning organization.”

— Dan Glusick, VP Innovation Center & Business Systems — Rexnord Corporation

“A fresh approach to unlocking organizational capacity with a bias toward delivering value.”

— Lisa Franklin, Director, Global Product Strategy & Portfolio Mgmt — Johnson Controls

“Following Dalton’s seven proven strategies may very well be the impetus for success your organization needs.”

— Scott Anderson, Sr. VP of Power Tool Engineering — Milwaukee Tool

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About Mike Dalton

Mike Dalton is the Managing Director and Founder of Guided Innovation Group where the focus is on helping businesses that depend on new product growth to uncover the hidden capacity they need to transform their performance and market position.

During his 24 year career within the $10 Billion SC Johnson & Son family of companies, he developed unique expertise in applying constraints based methodologies to new product innovation. Since then, he’s worked with executive teams across a broad range of global industries to leverage these powerful strategies for breakthrough growth.

He is a sought after speaker for company events and industry associations and is also the author of Simplifying Innovation: Doubling speed to market and new product profits—with your existing resources and writes for leading publications such as Industry Week, CFO Magazine, and Research Technology Management.