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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. How do you prioritise the potential innovation projects? innovation management method.

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Who are open innovation managers and what do they do?

HYPE Innovation

Typically, innovation managers are researchers, strategists, evangelists, or pioneers who venture on to become change agents, leaders, organizational designers, coaches, and ultimately fill the seats of process owners, decision makers, and project managers.

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Continuous Improvement Project Management Fundamentals 

Kainexus

Organizations that wish to achieve operational excellence through continuous improvement execute many discrete projects to achieve this aim. Three factors have a substantial impact on the outcome of ongoing improvement projects.

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What is Lean Project Management? Principles & Benefits

Kainexus

Lean project management is the application of Lean manufacturing principles to the discipline of project management. Modern organizations have adapted Lean project management for today's business challenges and technology landscape.

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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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16 Best Free Online Brainstorming Tools in 2022

IdeaScale

What are the best tools for brainstorming in 2022? The goal of Teams is to put everything you need to finish a project on one platform. A “like” button serves as an informal polling mechanism among teams, especially if you’re managing a big group.

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The Intersection of Enterprise Innovation Management and Project Portfolio Management

Sopheon

Enterprise Innovation Management & Project Portfolio Management are often seen as two separate activities. The post The Intersection of Enterprise Innovation Management and Project Portfolio Management appeared first on Sopheon.

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Strategic Project Management is Key to Executing Strategy

Cascade Strategy

What is Strategic Project Management? Strategic Project Management (SPM) defines how a project may benefit a company's efficiency and strategic plan as a whole. It is the process of thinking about your Projects in light of their connection to your strategic plan.

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Best 7 Project Portfolio Management Software For Portfolio Managers in 2022

Cascade Strategy

When juggling multiple projects across an organization, it's not always easy to focus on the big picture and keep strategic priorities in mind. With project portfolio management software, you stand a chance Your decision-making is only as good as your information.

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Project Resource Management: The Key to Delivering Successful Innovation Ideas

Sopheon

An innovative idea may never become a great new product if decision-makers aren’t working with accurate data to manage resources effectively. The post Project Resource Management: The Key to Delivering Successful Innovation Ideas appeared first on Sopheon.

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2022 Vision Awards

Planview

The first of this year’s Vision Award Winners is Abbott Laboratories, whose R&D Program Management Offices within the Nutrition, Neuromodulation, and Electrophysiology divisions are using Planview to manage their product development processes.

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Get 35 Idea Management Tips With This Free Guidebook

In this free guidebook, you’ll find 35 actionable lessons to help you master modern idea management for your company. No matter if you are a veteran innovator or just starting out, these tips will help you take your innovation to the next level.

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Five Key Considerations for Managing Lay-offs

Destination Innovation

Hard times can strike any business or any organisation, even ones which have been well managed and successful. It is probably best to let go the least effective people so carefully discuss with managers and identify the list. Management lay-off staff cuts workload

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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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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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Phasing the Energy Transition by Technology and Horizon Management

Paul Hobcraft

The three horizons approach offers the methodology for constructing plausible and coherent innovation activities projected out into the future. The post Phasing the Energy Transition by Technology and Horizon Management first appeared on Paul4innovating Innovation Views.

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How Continuous Improvement Software Keeps CI Projects Organized

Kainexus

Organizations striving to reach operational excellence through continuous improvement engage in many individual projects to achieve this goal. Specialized continuous improvement project management software helps organizations dedicated to CI get the most out of each project.

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3 wildly effective strategies to manage project dependencies

Cascade Strategy

A big part of managing project risk is managing project dependencies

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Balancing your innovation portfolio: Does the 70-20-10 rule still apply?

Idea to Value

One of the best ways to assess what proportions your company should allocate to different types of innovation projects is by looking at your current and desired innovation portfolio. Innovation projects need to be judged and progress assessed using a different, appropriate methodology.

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Sometimes, flat hierarchies can hurt innovation in Start-ups

Idea to Value

It is common to hear Start-ups talk about the desire to keep hierarchies “flat” This means they do not want multiple layers of management, bureaucracy and red tape getting in the way of people actually doing their most innovative work.

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Organizational project management: The comprehensive guide

Cascade Strategy

In business, organizational project management is the ultimate system. James Clear hit the nail on the noggin right there. The Atomic Habits author recognizes the critical value of systems when it comes to achieving just about anything in life

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4 Ways to Improve Project Management to Waste Less Time and Make More Money

Entrepreneur - Innovation

How project management practices based on well-defined goals and clear communication can transform your company. Defining Moments

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Qmarkets recognized as Leader in the 2022 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Retail Innovation Management Platforms

Qmarkets

TEL-AVIV, April 26 th , 2022. Qmarkets was recently named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Innovation Management Platforms 2022 Vendor Assessment (doc #US47455321, April 2022).

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Having an argument with Artificial Intelligence

Idea to Value

It’s important to carefully evaluate the potential risks and rewards of any investment in innovation, and to have a well-thought-out plan for how to manage those risks. Nick Skillicorn: but isn’t it pointless to invest in innovation if most of the projects will fail?

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Better Than Smartsheet: 6 Alternatives You Don’t Want To Miss In 2022

Cascade Strategy

Smartsheet is a reliable tool for project management and task tracking. They need a tool that goes beyond spreadsheets and traditional project & task management. Portfolio ManagementBut some teams outgrow it.

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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.

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Visibility Planning & Project Prioritization

Moves the Needle

Unlike Horizon Planning where projects are prioritized based on “level of innovation” and “time to ROI”, Visibility Planning is based on evidence. How to use Project Prioritization. One project per sticky note. If they can’t, the project is killed.

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Tackle the monkey first

Idea to Value

When faced with a significantly challenging innovation project, is it worth doing the easy tasks first to get some quick wins on the board, or should you tackle the hardest part of the project? This is how you end up with undead zombie projects.

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The ladder of “No”

Idea to Value

In fact, as Start-ups grow, they will eventually need to develop layers of management to stay productive and efficient. Essentially, every idea an employee has needs resources in order to be turned into an innovation project. Project Manager ? Regional General Manager ?

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Beyond Time and Money, Other Critical Project Resources

Kainexus

People start, work on, and complete projects in organizations all of the time. Some projects are carefully planned and managed, while others happen more haphazardly out of urgency or necessity.

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If you want someone to make a decision, give them fewer choices

Idea to Value

In order to get the resources you need for innovation projects , usually you need management to approve your request for those resources. We often think that giving people more choices is better than having fewer choices.

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Qmarkets recognized as Leader in the 2022 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Retail Innovation Management Platforms

Qmarkets

TEL-AVIV, April 26 th , 2022. Qmarkets was recently named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Innovation Management Platforms 2022 Vendor Assessment (doc #US47455321, April 2022). According to an IDC press release (“ New IDC MarketScape Evaluates Worldwide Retail Innovation Management Platforms Specialty Software Providers “) the MarketScape report evaluates the capabilities and strategies of 10 global innovation management software providers.

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Opportunity cost

Idea to Value

And while it is a fundamental principle in economics and investing, it is just as important in innovation management as well. Yes, you cannot invest in two full-scale innovation projects which require the same people, money and resources. Every choice you make comes with trade-offs.

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Strategy and Innovation Management: The Innovators Dashboard

Innovators Alliance

We are thrilled to announce our new app for strategic planning and innovation management: the Innovators Dashboard, a proprietary, digital strategic planning and innovation tool developed for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. Advanced tools for detailed managing of company-wide innovation.

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Innovation portfolio management: what it is & why you need it?

Board of Innovation

Structuring your portfolio overview will do more than organize your innovation pipeline - you’ll figure out which projects are actually driving innovation while being aligned with your goals (and which ones are not). The post Innovation portfolio management: what it is & why you need it?

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Carbon Neutral Since 2020: Celebrating Earth Day and Our Commitment to Sustainability

IdeaScale

In 2020, IdeaScale became the first carbon-neutral innovation management solution by reducing our carbon footprint and giving back to the community at large. Offsetting emissions by taking part in quality projects around the world. IdeaScale is more than software.

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3 Steps to a Truly Terrific Innovation Team

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton “What had a bigger impact on the project? The process you introduced or the people on the team?” ” As much as I wanted to give all the credit to my brilliant process, I had to tell the truth. “People. It’s always people.”

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A Superpower That Can Save The Day

Innovation Excellence

Same But Different GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski If there’s one superpower to develop, it’s to learn how to assess a project and get a good feel for when it will launch. Change Leadership Management project management

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How Online Whiteboards Create Actionable Results for Businesses

InnovationManagement

Collaborative Innovation Idea Management Strategies Collaboration data integration digital permanence Ideation online whiteboards project management project planning task management whiteboard

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Ambidextrous organisations: Where innovation should sit in an organisation

Idea to Value

This might require typical accounting, management and sales processes to track and predict performance, and often comes from experience and time. These two responsibilities therefore require not just different skill sets, but also different mindsets and even different management methods.

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Webinar: Transform Your Strategic Objectives Into Successful Projects with Collaborative Work Management at Scale

One2Team

Register for our free webinar about collaborative work management : Learn how to align your local teams around a global transformation project with the One2Team Work Management SaaS platform. News & Team Project Management collaboration transformation webinar

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Acuvate’s 2022 Year In Review Bidding farewell to one of Acuvate’s best years yet

Acuvate

And our most significant achievements in 2022 have been aligned with this goal. Solving complex global issues in 2022 The last few years at Acuvate have been about building a solution-led mindset, building platforms and solutions with AI, data, IoT and other cutting-edge technologies.

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Strategies for Making Knowledge Management Part of the Innovation Process

Sopheon

It’s also important to utilize knowledge management from previous projects to make the best possible decisions. The post Strategies for Making Knowledge Management Part of the Innovation Process appeared first on Sopheon. New product development isn’t just forward-looking.