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Integrating ‘Agile’ Approaches into ‘Waterfall’ Cultures

InnovationTraining.org

These processes can each guide us, depending upon our goals, knowledge, and values surrounding stakeholder engagement. Responding to change over following a plan. Rather than awaiting well-developed solutions before re-engaging customers, Agile continuously consults with them and redefines direction as a result.

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Workplace Culture: Productive People Make High-performing Teams That Produce Rapid Results

Innovation Excellence

A positive, engaging workplace culture can attract and retain talented employees, increase productivity, and even improve financial performance. Workplace culture can change rapidly with world events, and play an important role in how employees respond to and operate in times of crisis. Employees who feel their voices are heard are 4.6x

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How to keep our children (and adults) from losing their creativity

Idea to Value

Is it just a biological process (nature) or is it caused by changes from the society around us (nurture)? From a natural change perspective, there are some changes which happen in our brains as we age. Therefore, the older brain’s preference will always be to use safe memories instead of creative new ‘risky’ solutions.

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Evidence that children are more creative than adults (and the opposite)

Idea to Value

Teenagers did show higher creativity on the social challenge though. A 2013 paper suggests that children engage more in imaginative play because it helps them develop the learning skills of causal-reasoning. Another 2012 study showed that pretend play and creativity were also linked.

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The Role of Creativity in the Life of a Product Manager

Rmukesh Gupta

They have announced that the colour of the year 2017 is going to be Pantone Greenery. People do not accept change well,” Mr. Sadow said, recalling the many months he spent rolling his prototype bag on sales calls to department stores in New York and elsewhere. So, get ready to see a lot of green all around you. to order a few.

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Innovation in Myanmar

Innovation Excellence

Likewise, when one is working in the process improvement area, individual impacts from a modified process need to be considered as part of the innovation work, for if a small change to a process results in greater overall efficiency but comes at great personal expense to individual steps in the process, the end result could be conflict or friction.