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Were we all upside down in 2022?

Paul Hobcraft

What an utterly strange year, 2022 has been. the art of building Agility into your innovative thinking and approaches. Why did I call my advisory service Agility Innovation , it conveys the need to be agile, to be responsive, to be different and seek new ways of undertaking something.

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L.I.V.E. (Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution): A new, more effective way to manage multiple innovation projects

Idea to Value

This new management method makes it nearly impossible for innovation teams to fail at delivering multiple challenging innovation projects faster, with less risk and lower required budgets. The problem with traditional project management techniques. innovation management method.

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The Agile Project Management Approach to Value Delivery

Kainexus

Agile project management is an iterative philosophy that focuses on delivering value frequently and getting quick feedback from internal and external customers to adapt to emerging changes quickly. Using visual management to create transparency.

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The 12 principles of Agile

One2Team

Twenty years ago, software development specialists met to define and give a framework to the emerging Agile movement : this is the Agile Manifesto. The 4 values of Agile: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. project management in hybrid approach.

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Process, Product, and Profitability: Everything You Need to Know

Speaker: Michael Cardy - Red Hat Chief Strategist, Jason Tanner - CEO of Applied Frameworks, and Mike Mace - VP of Market Strategy at UserTesting

Join us to learn how companies mitigate risks through usability testing and real-time qualitative feedback from customers to efficiently launch and develop digital products.

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Scaling Agile Through Cascading Missions

Moves the Needle

I had a conversation recently with a few industry professionals who were expressing concerns about the idea of scaling agile. Their objection was that not everybody can be agile nor needs to be. Management of functions protects their resources independent of achieving shared objectives.

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Top 5: How to plan your 2023 innovation activities and events for maximum success

Idea to Value

Hi there, With 2022 almost behind us, a lot of companies and teams are planning their next steps for 2023. This is especially true for venture and innovation teams, who let’s face it, many of whom had a very tough 2022.

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9 Agile Transformation Metrics for Executives to Watch

Planview

How do you know whether your Agile transformation is on the right track, or heading in the right direction? Understanding Agile transformation metrics for executives is key to proving the ROI of your Agile transformation. In Agile, the metrics themselves are not the goal.

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How to Set Up Agile Innovation Portfolios Using ITONICS

ITONICS

Portfolio Management $Innovation OSRadical or incremental? New products or improved processes? CIOs leading innovation are mandated to strike a balance between quick wins and moonshots.

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How do you scale agile within your organization?

Moves the Needle

When it comes to scaling Agile, proper management is crucial. A core principle of agile is a “self-organized” team. But, collaboration with stakeholders is also an agile principle. Traditional performance management makes these two principles difficult.

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JIRA isn’t an optimal product management tool—here’s why

Sopheon

Jira has evolved from being a bug and issue tracker software to uses ranging from test case management to agile software development. But should it be used for product management? The post JIRA isn’t an optimal product management tool—here’s why appeared first on Sopheon.

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The 3 Principles that Lead to Better Collaboration Between Design and Product Management Teams

Speaker: Felix Watson Jr., Product Manager at Google, and Terrell Cobb, Designer at Microsoft

In this webinar, Felix Watson and Terrell Cobb will teach you three principles that will help you gain alignment between both Designers and PMs.

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Agile vs Waterfall: Which one is better for your company?

Cascade Strategy

Agile and waterfall- no, they’re not yoga positions. These opposing approaches to project management can determine whether you successfully implement your plans or meekly peak with a PowerPoint presentation.

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The fear of business contagion requires different innovation response

Paul Hobcraft

The ability to pass on inflation or be agile in supply response to sudden shortages will need very different agility than ever before. Being agile and responsive becomes central to seeing opportunity gaps quicker and responding in socially aware ways.

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PI Planning in Agile: Boosting Efficiency with Flow Metrics

Planview

PI Planning in Agile is often held quarterly, bringing together multidisciplinary teams to lay out the product delivery cadence. When scaling agility to your whole organization, it’s important to have an overarching cadence to keep teams in sync. What is PI Planning in Agile?

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The linkages of innovating purpose

Paul Hobcraft

I outlined in a post in May 2022, “ linking sense of innovating purpose “, my ten points of linkage need, and I want to build on this further here in some explanations for each of the linkages. The linkages of innovation purpose.

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11 female innovation leaders share their definition of innovation

Idea to Value

So for International Women’s Day 2022 (March 8th), I decided it was time to include more female voices in the debate, and update the original article. She is consistently ranked among the Top 10 management thinkers in the world and was ranked #1 for strategy by Thinkers50.

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6 Agile Transformation Challenges Facing Post-Pandemic Leaders

Planview

One thing has become clear for organizations in this pandemic era – change is hard, and if you don’t have a transformation plan, you’re more likely to fall victim to one of these common Agile transformation challenges. Read Next: 9 Agile Transformation Metrics for Executives to Watch.

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Building out our innovation ecosystem in design and thinking

Paul Hobcraft

To achieve this evolution and allow innovation to thrive and work, organizations need to become better equipped in supporting knowledge, data, insights and people in their data handling, management, analysis sharing and processing.

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Please, we need a different Innovation narrative

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation “fights” to attract resources, gain management attention or understand its difficulties in the time it takes, its potential risks and its need for a more ambitious and bold commitment of support. Often innovation activity frustrates senior management.

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New innovation approaches to counter the fear of Business Contagion

Paul Hobcraft

We are at the cusp or already into significant changes to how the world, society and we as individuals will manage or engage going into the future. These do not stand alone, they make up the new strength within the fabric of innovation management, hence my interwoven application.

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An innovation framework that offers a formula for sustainable advantage

Paul Hobcraft

Building agility and responsiveness to constantly changing market conditions. Connecting Knowledge Management with finding ongoing Business Value. A formula to build a framework for sustainable innovation.

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Manufacturing Agility: Edwards LifeSciences Reduces WIP by 70%

Planview

A patient-first approach has always been at the heart of Edwards’ business (pun intended); but as the business grew in size and complexity, it struggled to achieve the manufacturing agility required to perform at scale. Agile Mindset Drives Medical Innovations.

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Manufacturing Agility: Medical Tech Leader Reduces WIP by 70%

Planview

As a global leader in medical technology grew in size and complexity, it struggled to achieve the manufacturing agility required to perform at scale. Agile Mindset Drives Medical Innovations. Inefficient Whiteboards Limit Manufacturing Agility.

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Design Thinking Applied to M&A Integration

Tullio Siragusa

The most common reasons for failure are: People struggle to work with long checklists since it is difficult to manage the details. Another difficulty in a lengthy checklist is that it is not made to manage delays, directional change, or scope creep. Change Management.

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3 Strategies for Starting Your Lean Portfolio Management Journey

Planview

There are a number of benefits that come from following Lean Portfolio Management principles in your organization. That’s why over the last decade, it has become common for organizations to undertake Agile transformation initiatives to improve value delivery.

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Flow Metrics for the Win — Planview Named a Leader in Forrester Wave™ on Value Stream Management

Planview

I was not sure who Forrester was and why they were researching a category called Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). We needed a name for the concept and started calling it Value Stream Management (VSM) during exploratory conversations with Diego Lo Giudice and Chris Condo of Forrester.

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Innovation requires a more dynamic systematic approach

Paul Hobcraft

The difficulty for many is that innovation is a complex process that has many intangibles within the total mix to manage. There are so many challenges in managing innovation. You must provide an adaptive organization to manage these and many more than the abovementioned areas.

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Use a Strategy Uncertainty Map to Find Clarity in Disruptive Times

Leapfrogging

Let’s kick-off 2022 with a useful tool. Some people think being agile is a mindset. If you have the right tools, anyone can both build agility into how you think and make it the foundation of your business processes. All opportunities have uncertainty.

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WHY IS IT MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER TO INNOVATE?

ImagineNation

Better adapt, respond to, and be agile in fast-changing circumstances, uncertainty, instability, and to random and unexpected Black Swan events, like the global Covid-19 Pandemic. At ImagineNation we are celebrating 10 years as a global innovation consultancy, learning, and coaching company.

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Why Innovation Programs Fail and How to Ensure Yours Don’t

ITONICS

Innovation Management Agile InnovationIn this article, we shall unpack the Gartner ® Customizable Innovation Framework and the enterprise strategy to help you and your organization identify the key objectives and goals to initiate innovation planning and establish a clear scope.

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One2Team and Sciforma Recognized in 2021 Gartner® Market Guide for Product Portfolio Management as a Representative Vendor!

One2Team

In this new report, One2Team and Sciforma are both Recognized as Representative Vendors in Product Portfolio Management! Product Portfolio Management, a growth driver. New Product Innovation, One2Team solution that meets the needs of Product Portfolio Management.

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Linking sense of innovating purpose

Paul Hobcraft

Dynamic Capabilities – opening up your thinking to dynamic capabilities by spotting and resolving the tensions, gaps, building a greater fitness landscape model that builds agility on a new pathway , strengthening and defining all the different stocks and flows.

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National and Global Security — A Call to Action

Faisal Hoque

A digital transformation strategy aims to create the agile capabilities of fully leveraging the possibilities and opportunities of new technologies and their impact faster, better and in more innovative way in the future.

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The revival of the Stage Gate method by its creator Robert G. Cooper

One2Team

Cooper, has noticed an evolution of the Stage Gate method over the years in innovative companies and proposes a new, more agile product development system. Agility and 3. Agility. One2Team: a platform that combines structure and agility for all your projects.

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Adapting in Uncertainty: Best Practices for Effective Product Portfolio Management

Planview

In a recent webinar with Planview, Forrester covered some best practices for effective product portfolio management —with a customer-centric approach. Let’s cover Forrester’s four core principles of product portfolio management and how they can be applied most effectively.

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Knowing Your Innovation Pathway Curve – A methodology

Paul Hobcraft

Our methodology takes you through a structured approach, a way of climbing up this innovation understanding curve so the different needs you are trying to achieve (distinctive, radical, disruptive) can be managed in a clear way to support any future innovation initiative.

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ICYMI: Planview Recognized as a Leader in Adaptive Project Management and Reporting

Planview

Across industries, strategic PMO and business leaders are using adaptive project management to drive strategic delivery and value while adapting to quickly changing customer needs and preferences. Understanding Adaptive Project Management and Reporting. Project Portfolio Management

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Strategic Leadership: Understanding its Purpose and Core Attributes

CMOE

Regardless of the position you hold in an organization—senior leader, mid-level manager, front-line manager, or leader of a group—your organization needs and wants you to lead strategically. Agility. You can’t have strategy without leadership.

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5 Innovation Lessons from the Backstory of OpenTable.com

Leapfrogging

We can also see how these approaches were precursors to larger movements in lean startup, design thinking, and agile. Business Insider and the Thinkers50 have named him one of the world’s top management experts and consultants.

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A Day in the Life of a Planview Software Development Engineer Test Manager

Planview

For this month’s blog spotlight , we are going to travel to Bangalore and follow Geetika to spend a day in the life of a Software Development Engineer Test manager. I manage the Automation team in Bangalore where I direct a team of 7 members. How do you manage your work/life balance?

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10 Most Popular Innovation Management Questions

PlanBox Innovation

Launching an innovation management system does not have to be guesswork, and it is a lot easier than most organizations imagine it to be. Question 1: How can we build a system if we have not settled on an innovation management process? .

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Innovation Ecosystem Understanding through an AI-driven approach

Paul Hobcraft

I am a great admirer of the work that Itonics offers around Innovation Management. That got my interest up as I show here in this adopted visual of the Hype Cycle for Innovation Management. Ecosystem Management.

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