Fast Time To Market
In the early 1990s, lateralworks conducted an extensive multi-company study involving over 500 people who worked on fast-to-market projects in Silicon Valley. Since then, they have worked with hundreds of teams to accelerate the delivery of new technology products to market. The research continues today to keep the best practices current.
This podcast series will share many of the practices that teams use to deliver the right product to the market at the right time.
Fast Time To Market
Latest Episodes
Creating an innovation culture
This podcast investigates the innovation paradox, which involves balancing the free generation of creative concepts with the necessity of rigorous evaluation. Successful companies like Google, Amazon, and Pixar thrive by prioritizing psychologi...
Triads for faster product development execution
The discussion on the FTTM podcast delves into the Triad Model for faster product execution, based on lateralworks research. The model addresses the "ownership gap" and functional silos in traditional corporate structures by introducing a flat,...
Informed Ambition versus Blind Ambition
The fundamental challenge in development organizations is the gap between aggressive leadership timelines ("targets") and reality-based execution forecasts ("plans"); when leaders treat ambitious targets as factual plans, honest reporting goes ...
The Product Boss: FTTM Manager Role Profile and Competencies
Describe the product boss and why this is so different from how companies organize product development projects. They lack the lateral end to end ownership rom concept to manufacturing or a single person who owns it. First observed at Sun Micro...
Planning and managing breakthrough innovation cycles
This is a discussion of a framework for managing and scheduling innovation by treating breakthroughs as a series of structured learning cycles. Rather than viewing invention as an unpredictable event, the authors argue that speed is achieved by...
