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Innovation is a team sport

Cris Beswick

At OUTCOME , we believe innovation is a system game, meaning it’s a team sport. The challenge is that many organisations have lost sight of the true definition of a team. 1] Let’s also differentiate between a department or group inside an organisation, as a group does not necessarily constitute a team.

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

However, by developing an innovation strategy that anticipates a downturn, you can help your enterprise weather the storm and even uncover lucrative ways to gain a competitive edge. It’s estimated that a loss of more than $2 trillion in world-wide economic growth occurred between the second quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009.

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The Engineering Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

Project Management for Stakeholder Interviews. Try to speak with engineering management as well as the design engineer(s), if such a role exists; it’s seldom a good idea to involve the entire engineering team at this point. How large is the engineering team assigned to the project, and what are their skills?

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Innovation Networks – Needed Now More Than Ever

The Inovo Group

“This new mode of organization—a ‘network of teams’ with a high degree of empowerment, strong communication, and rapid information flow—is now sweeping businesses and governments around the world.” – Gen. Changing Organizational Behavior in a VUCA World. Work is organized by programs and projects and done by purpose-built teams.

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Alignment Diagrams

Boxes and Arrows

Bad experience. See the original details of the event from 2009 [1] ). Indi Young developed this technique and detailed it in her book Mental Models (Rosenfeld Media, 2008) [2]. Often designers aren’t called in until after a project is already set up. Sketch draft diagrams for your current project.

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The Marketing Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

Project Management for Stakeholder Interviews. If they’ve just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on market research that doesn’t provide the answers you need, you also have the potential to make them look bad. This answer is essential when your mandate includes developing a unique design language for hardware or software.

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IA Summit 09 - Day 3

Boxes and Arrows

IA Summit 2009 Podcasts The IA Summit was held in Memphis, TN from March 20-22. See the Slideshare IA Summit 2009 page for up-to-the-minute lists of available presentations. By understanding basic psychological principles we can raise the bar on our projects! The remaining Summit sessions will be published in the next two weeks.