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What impact does time pressure have on creativity?

Idea to Value

Companies such as AT&T’s Bell Labs (leading to the transistor and the laser), 3M allowing people to have 15% of their time to work on projects of personal interest (leading to Post-It notes ) and Google. However, above moderate levels of stress, creativity quickly falls.

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The Gremlin Strategy, or How to Ward Off Disruption

Matthew May

Such a person is Brian Muirhead, who at age 41 in 1993 accepted the job as flight systems manager of the Mars Pathfinder project and with it the NASA challenge to land a cutting-edge, remote-controlled robotic all-terrain rover on Mars that would reliably beam back images, collect samples, and return scientific data on the red planet.

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Flow Metrics for the Win — Planview Named a Leader in Forrester Wave™ on Value Stream Management

Planview

My first experience with it was back in 2006 when I took a call from Carey Schwaber of Forrester. We held a mutual view on how collaboration and tooling are needed to span the end-to-end software lifecycle. In the decade following, I was amazed to witness how ALM went on to shape the tool landscape around software development.

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Theaster Gates: “It’s about our ability to shape things.”

Tim Kastelle

Gates works as an artist, curator, urbanist and facilitator and his projects attempt to instigate the creation of cultural communities by acting as catalysts for social engagement that leads to political and spatial change. Gates describes this project as “real-estate art”… Wait! million project which opened last year.

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What is Crowdsourcing, and How Can it Add Value to Your Enterprise?

Qmarkets

However, there is a need to create a clear understanding of what crowdsourcing is, and how it can be used to create value. Equally important, we need to clarify which crowdsourcing platforms and applications are available in the marketplace and how to apply them to specific crowdsourcing projects.

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In defense of industry-agnostic innovation management

David Marks

And with so many different technology breakthroughs these days, how should one know which to focus on? Back in 2006 the duo reigned supreme in the mobile phone market. Further the company should have a balanced portfolio of projects across different innovation horizons, and various areas of its value chain. Then came the iPhone.

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Why take an industry-agnostic approach to innovation

David Marks

And with so many different technology breakthroughs these days, how should one know which to focus on? Back in 2006 the duo reigned supreme in the mobile phone market. Further the company should have a balanced portfolio of projects across different innovation horizons, and various areas of its value chain. Then came the iPhone.