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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Innovators are forced to give up on initiatives, projects, and resources. In this context, innovators wonder how to get ideas across, how to continue projects, what back-up solutions to find and how to keep innovation afloat. The long-horizon projects are the first to go and this leads to an unbalanced innovation portfolio.

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InnovationOps: the Next Evolution of Innovation Management

Innov8rs

This synchronized system is called InnovationOps, which marks the next phase of evolution of innovation management in large organizations- like DevOps that was coined in 2009, to operationalize software development. These may generate Products to manage, which will kick off a number of different Projects.

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Organizing for Simultaneous Innovation Capability – key findings from +1,000 companies, republished from Drucker Forum 2016

Innovation 360 Group

According to Steve Coley (2009) the innovation work can be divided into three parallel Horizons , each one representing an S-Curve. At the same time, large H1 projects are prioritized to the extent that they are causing internal traffic jams among projects sharing resources. processes) and externally (e.g. value proposition).

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Organizing for Simultaneous Innovation Capability – key findings from +1,000 companies, republished from Drucker Forum 2016

Innovation 360

According to Steve Coley (2009) the innovation work can be divided into three parallel Horizons , each one representing an S-Curve. At the same time, large H1 projects are prioritized to the extent that they are causing internal traffic jams among projects sharing resources. processes) and externally (e.g. value proposition).

Company 40
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Choosing the right strategy handling uncertainty

Innovation 360 Group

Both situations are more common than we’d like to admit, simply because we try to apply what we know (how to run projects and operations with performance models, ROI and budgets) to something we don’t know. Platform and design thinking, prototyping, ideation, project selection, and speed are imperative capabilities.

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Choosing the right strategy handling uncertainty

Innovation 360

Both situations are more common than we’d like to admit, simply because we try to apply what we know (how to run projects and operations with performance models, ROI and budgets) to something we don’t know. Platform and design thinking, prototyping, ideation, project selection, and speed are imperative capabilities.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization.

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