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New Product Development Portfolio

New Product Development Portfolio

  • BP Castrol GTX Recycled

  • Gourmand Tours

  • Post Smuckers

  • Mrs. Fields

  • Post Spooners

  • Post Oh, Snap!

  • Post Smartz

  • Post Mom's Best

  • Better Oats >

  • Post Abundance

  • Quaker Goodness Grains

  • Quaker Q-Go

  • Vsource

  • McDonald's Frozen Novelties

  • Fellows Anti-bacterial

  • Frito-Lay Stacy's

  • Tropicana Fruitwise >

  • Cimetrix Robotics

  • Seagate Maxtor

  • Palm/Franklin Covey JV

  • Xircom REX 

  • InFocus Projectors

  • Ybook

  • Park City Mountain Resort

  • Frito-Lay OneRock Foods

  • Frito-Lay Kits

  • Tostitos Scoops! >

  • Tostitos Santa Fe Gold >

  • Pizza Hut Boli, BigFoot, Chunky, Half-Price

  • Mitsubishi Electric Portable Video

  • Mint Oreos

  • Gulp Vitamin >

  • Solaray >

  • PuraGlobe

  • Calyst Renewable BioFuels

  • Intellibed >

  • Revelyst Blackhawk

  • Skullcandy Olympics

  • Village Naturals Therapy

  • iFollo

  • Moxiyo GemFresh

  • BoxSpace >

  • Academia Structures

  • Greenleaf Foodservices

  • Kicking Lizard Salsa

  • ClearPlay DVD >

  • BP Castrol Tri-Shield

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Products 
I Invented or Helped Create

My Key Innovation Processes and Methodologies

My SagePoint® Stage-Gate Process

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Highly-Strategic, Non-Linear, Stage-Gate Methodology

Innovation Around the Core

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Levels of Innovation Around Core Business

Sneakerization: How to Line Extend a Brand (without ruining it)

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The Methodology Used by Line Extension Giants like Nike and Disney 

Balanced Innovation Portfolios

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From Big Bets to Quick Wins

Ideation Beyond Brainstorming

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Brainstorming is only as good as your Ideation Exercises

Innovation Spectrum

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Understanding the Range of Possible Innovation Approches

Innovation Champions: Organizing for Best Success

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Matching the Innovation Complexity with Stage-Gate Processes

Innovation People

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Recruiting, Training, Mentoring, and Motivating

Meet Brad McLaws

Welcome to the creative world of Brad McLaws Enterprises. Discover the unique and captivating work of Brad McLaws, a visionary artist based in Salt Lake City, US.

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Innovation Processes

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Innovation Processes

  • Balanced Portfolios 

  • Innovation Champions

  • Innovation People

  • Innovation Spectrum

  • Innovation Organizational Models

  • Firewalled Teams vs. Individual Geniuses vs. Pairs

  • Managing the Ebb and Flow of Innovation Workloads

  • Innovation Paradigm vs. Operational Paradigm

Testimonials

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"Brad McLaws is a unique blend of strategic depth, business savvy and remarkable creativity."

Chris Neugent

CEO
Post Brands

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"Brad's role as the strategic innovator of Tostitos laid the foundation for Tostitos Scoops' enduring success in the marketplace and accelerated the growth of the whole Tostitos chip and dip franchise into well over a billion dollar business."

Brock Leach

President Frito-Lay NA & PepsiCo Chief Innovation Officer

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"Brad made innovation exciting and engaging for our teams. Innovation Day was fantastic. Twenty-four ideas were presented. Eight were green lighted and are now in the development process. Brad 'gets it' on Innovation."

Shaym Balasubramanian

CMO
BP Lubricants

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"I believe I have worked with Brad more than anyone and can truthfully say that he's a genius. Brad is the rare individual that has a firm grasp of marketing strategy and at the same time is extraordinarily creative."

Bill Aho

CEO
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"When it comes to innovation, Brad can do everything.  From consumer research to brand strategy to brainstorming to sophisticated financial modeling to design to manufacturing sourcing to launch operations. And no one sells it in with more style."

Mike Munro

VP Tropicana
New Products

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"Brad is one of the best marketing executives I've had the privilege to work with. He builds extremely effective strategy for his brands and adeptly communicates his strategic vision to his agency partners."

Michael LaFortezza

President 
LAM Design

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