CONTINUOUS PRODUCT INNOVATION

We build and embed the capability to design, deliver and continuously manage and improve products that customers love

OUR CLIENT CHALLENGES

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Traditional development practices often prove to be rigid, slow to adapt, and disconnected from the dynamic needs of customers and the market.

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Slow time-to-market cycles, lack of responsiveness to changing requirements, and disconnect between development teams and end-users.

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Assumptions are not tested, with teams rushing to build, with the risk of building white elephants that miss the mark.

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These outdated practices not only hamper innovation, but also increase the risk of product failure, limit collaboration, and stifle employee engagement.

INSIGHTS AND CASE STUDIES

 

Product management innovation

  • We used agile methods to successfully accelerate LBG's ability to identify, design and deploy a new propositions into the market, increasing the speed to market by over 50%, productivity by 45% and staff engagement by 42%.

Product owner playbook development & training

  • We strengthened CCEP’s commercial Product Management capability, creating a tailored Product Owner playbook and delivering an immersive two-day course.
  • Working with a team of Product Owners responsible for managing multi-billion-pound revenue-generating products, our targeted interventions provided a new depth of understanding of related tools and techniques, driving standardisation and alignment.

OUR PERSPECTIVES

Mastering Product Management: A Key to Unleashing Business Potential

September 23, 2024

How to unleash the potential of Product Managers

JCURV Helps 7IM Pivot to Product

July 22, 2024

We had the pleasure to work with 7iM on their transition from Project to Product ways of working. Hear about how they embarked on the journey, their top lessons, and advice to others going on a similar transformation.

7IM – What was it like working with JCURV

July 22, 2024

Hear how from 7IM about their experience working with JCURV on their pivot to product transformation.

JCURV Announces Parternship with Visier

July 9, 2024

London, UK, 9 July 2024 — JCURV today announced a partnership with Visier, the people analytics and workforce planning software platform. Together, JCURV and Visier will provide enterprise organisations with a combination of Visier’s market-leading technology for workforce planning and people insights and JCURV’s workforce and organisation design consulting capabilities. This is such a critical…

From Chaos to Cohesion: Mastering M&A with Workforce Modelling

July 3, 2024

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are a powerful growth strategy for organisations of all sizes and shapes, but they come with formidable workforce challenges that can derail even the most promising deals. From the value of a deal to the volume of noise it can bring, we have all experienced the good, the bad, and the…

Embracing a Skills-Based Approach in the Modern Workplace

July 2, 2024

In a world filled with uncertainty, employees face a shifting landscape where traditional career paths and hierarchies no longer hold the same sway. The dynamics have shifted towards a skills-based organisational model, where what matters most is not just your position on the ladder, but the skills you bring to the table and how you…

The Pulse of Progress: Building an Effective OKR Rhythm using CFRs

June 26, 2024

In May, our JCURV Director and OKR Expert, Peter Kerr, was invited to speak at the OKRX Summit 2024. Peter’s talk on conversations, feedback, and recognition (CFRs) generated much discussion with the community. If you missed the Summit, read Peter’s key messages and reflections here. CFRs. The Unsung Heroes of the OKR Framework One of the central…

Launching AI Pilots: Why Change Management Will Keep You Ahead In The Race

June 18, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI), and in particular Generative AI (GenAI), remains a hot topic in the boardroom and a high-priority investment area, however many organisations are highly risk averse and significantly budget constrained. Taking a leap of faith toward new technology can seem like a risky move, but stagnating isn’t a safer option. As technology continues…

Politics & OKRs?

June 17, 2024

How An OKR Mindset Can Improve Political Promises And Accountability With the election battle in full swing, political parties are making grand promises about how they will manage public funds more effectively. While these claims often focus on impressive numbers—more doctors, more nurses, tax cuts—they tend to emphasize outputs rather than outcomes. As voters, we…

Inspire, Don’t Eradicate Through Automation

June 12, 2024

Five key workforce considerations before opening the AI floodgates Artificial Intelligence (the OG AI) is everywhere, and its influence on our daily lives is only going to become greater as our access becomes more abundant.  Just this week Apple announced the new features of iOS 18 with ‘Apple Intelligence’ integration into iPhone 15 Pro and…

WHAT WE DO

JCURV builds and embeds the capability to design, deliver and continuously manage and improve products that customers love:

Conducting expert assessments to understand the health of an organisation’s Product Management capability from process, skills, tooling and behaviours

Providing tailored bespoke Product Management masterclasses to develop talent and accelerate value delivery

Building capability through our Product Management Academy where a cohort is taken on a journey to transform their approach over a 6-month journey

Embedding our Product Management accelerator approach within organisations to increase the speed, efficiency and effectiveness of innovation funnel

Coaching product leaders to define value propositions, linked to customer needs, competitive in the market and aligned to their operating model.

LET'S CHAT

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Susie Young

Managing Director

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