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The Case for Ambiguity – How to Set Your IT Project Up For Success

MSSBTI

However, that is exactly what happens to an overwhelming number of leaders on a regular basis with their technology projects. A McKinsey-Oxford study found that large IT projects go over-budget 45% of the time, over-schedule 7% of the time, and under-deliver 56% of the time¹. How to Avoid Project Estimation Errors.

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What is the ambition matrix and how does it work as part of an innovation portfolio?

Idea to Value

Most companies are not really aware of all of the innovation projects they are working on. Let alone which project mix they should be working on. Here is the original image of the Ambition Matrix from the article: Original Image of the Ambition Matrix from HBR 2012. Is this project an innovation at all?

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To reach young adults, companies like The Home Depot Rental are finding success on TikTok

Brunner

Learn how you can, too. . When it comes to home improvement projects, do-it-yourselfers span all age ranges, from young adults to seniors. . In particular, the company wanted to connect with Millennials, born between 1981 and 1996, who are first- or second-time homeowners and have renovations or ongoing projects to complete. .

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How to create a scalable strategy in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis

mjvinnovation

The Lebanese mathematician and statistician is the author of works such as The Logic of the Black Swan (2007) and Antifragile : Things that Benefit from Chaos (2012) – which we have already talked about in our webinar Antifragile Future: where are we headed? How to become scalable. RPA to automate your processes. Conclusion.

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There are Knowns and Unknowns in Innovation: Let’s Manage Them Differently

Paul Hobcraft

Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2012—North America, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute. The pressure lays always on: how to quickly turn an unknown into a known? Converting something previously unthought of (those unknowns) gives the potential for far greater value.

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

Although I addressed why this was critical, I realized I never give readers specific tools on how to do this. Because I wanted to have complete control over the project and needed to retain all intellectual property, I decided that a hybrid publisher (vs a traditional publisher) would be the best option. The list grew over time.

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Innovation lessons from Lego

Jeffrey Phillips

In strange and disappointing news, Lego announced that it was facing dire sales projections , with growth slowing from over 25% per year to low single digits. Today I'm wondering if making a movie about toys is a signal that something has "jumped the shark". What lessons can we learn? The signals were out there, of course.