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Parkinson’s Law and the Peter Principle – are they relevant to innovation?

Idea to Value

10 people write 10 reports in 10 hours. If you hire 10 more people how many reports will all 20 people write in the same time? This is why “lean” and “agile” have become buzzwords today. Designers of performance management systems have many tools in their arsenal to make the judgement as “right” and as “fair” as possible.

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Applying lessons from pandemic prepared schools

Christensen Institute

A mission-driven, agile culture that prioritized relationships was also a common feature of prepared schools. Factor 1: Forward-leaning orientation. This description of the forward-leaning orientation of prepared schools aligns with what the Tools of Cooperation theory describe as “leadership tools.”

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design.

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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. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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Using Lean Innovation in the Product Development and Commercialization Process

Moves the Needle

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle. How Lean Innovation Re-Invents Product Commercialization Production As discussed above, in most companies, product development is considered “pre-commercialization.”

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The Right Way to Do Lean Research

Boxes and Arrows

StartX , a nonprofit startup accelerator, recently devoted an entire day to the role of design in early-stage companies. Each panelist had made their mark on how design is done in start-ups: Laura wrote the influential O’Reilly book on UX for Lean Startups, and Todd penned the bestselling Rosenfeld Media Prototyping book.

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The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

Ken Beer was the Director of Product Management and reported into the Marketing department. It was not unusual to find PM’s who reported into Engineering at the time, the two cases perhaps reflecting the above origin stories. It’s interesting to reflect that in 1997, the Agile Manifesto had not yet been published.