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Eating your own dog food

Idea to Value

In 2006, the editor of IEEE Software recounted that in the 1970s television advertisements for Alpo dog food, Lorne Greene pointed out that he fed Alpo to his own dogs. One major type of project we sold, which clients often paid millions for, was the implementation of the newest version of SAP finance software.

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Planning fallacy: Why we are so bad at predicting how long something will take

Idea to Value

But did you know that it is one of the best examples of a project going over time and budget? Large-scale and important projects often take longer to complete and more money than originally planned. Large-scale and important projects often take longer to complete and more money than originally planned.

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#1,530 – The Sketchbook Project

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

According to Atlas Obscura : “The Brooklyn Art Library houses the Sketchbook Project: a collaborative library of artists’ sketchbooks that’s grown every year since 2006. And the project is not only open for people to contribute to, but also for people to browse. A definitive guide to artistry since 2006.

Project 40
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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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Interview with Design Thinking Leader Steven Forth on What Makes Business Model Innovation So Challenging

IdeaScale

IdeaScale was introduced to Ibbaka because they are working with us on a very special project to help us innovate on our business model, but we were impressed at their experience, conversancy in design thinking and innovation and passion for subjects like growth models. We do that in several ways: . How do you put it at the center?

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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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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.