Product Innovation

Challenges are forcing CPG companies to reinvent themselves so they can survive-and thrive-in the current environment. To compete they are facing large transformations.

Starbucks announces a new leadership structure that positions the company to leverage its assets and operations, and gain maximum benefit from the retail, consumer, mobile and digital shifts currently underway in the global marketplace.

The company aggressively enhances focus on quality product innovation to deliver unwavering consumer demand for taste, health and convenience at a good value for the second-half of the company's fiscal 2014.

The five-year investment plan is focused on innovation and brand building, infrastructure, agriculture, and community.

Morton Salt is refreshing its brand this year by updating its logo and introducing a new packaging design system, and is also marking this milestone year with the first of many new product innovations to come.

The fund will provide grants to innovators in the manufacturing sector and seeks to create new processes, ideas, and jobs that support America's growing manufacturing footprint.

IDC recently revealed 10 industry trends that will most impact the role of the CIO in 2014. For example, by 2018, the adoption of 3rd Platform technologies, like mobile and big data, will redefine 90 percent of IT roles. Find out the other top-of-mind themes including social, cloud, and more.

CGT's readers rank the top technology providers of solutions for product management, including new product development, formulation, packaging, introduction and launch.