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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. In doing research for Project to Product I found myself having very similar discussions with analysts about expanding the benefits of Agile and DevOps to the operating model of a digital business. At the time, I was a Ph.D.

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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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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

2006) and are more likely to be created by making new and unique combinations (S. Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? Klein & Bullock, 2006; Lewin, 2011; Von Mises, 1949). Shane, 2003). Are managers prepared to allow experimentation? Does the organization encourage risk-taking? Do they tolerate mistakes?

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PLAYING IT SAFE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU CAN DO

Innovation 360 Group

In 2006, the massive Tower fell, going from profitability to bankruptcy in a few years. Successful innovators are structured, methodical, and systematic in organizing their innovation projects. At the same time, big box retailers started selling CDs at massive discounts to hold onto customers that were disappearing into ecommerce.

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Principles of open innovation

hackerearth

Michael Docherty, 2006). Companies can either acquire and internalize the external innovation sources or just enter into partnerships for specific projects. Popularized by Henry Chesbrough,“Open Innovation” term refers to the broad concepts of leveraging external sources of technology and innovation to drive internal growth.

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In defense of industry-agnostic innovation management

David Marks

Back in 2006 the duo reigned supreme in the mobile phone market. Everything the leadership of Nokia and Blackberry failed to do. Further the company should have a balanced portfolio of projects across different innovation horizons, and various areas of its value chain. But it isn’t the only ingredient. Then came the iPhone.

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Why take an industry-agnostic approach to innovation

David Marks

Back in 2006 the duo reigned supreme in the mobile phone market. Everything the leadership of Nokia and Blackberry failed to do. Further the company should have a balanced portfolio of projects across different innovation horizons, and various areas of its value chain. But it isn’t the only ingredient. Then came the iPhone.