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5 Factors Determining Success or Failure in the Shift From Project to Product

Planview

Five years ago, Planview CTA Mik Kersten outlined the “turning point” in his bestselling book, Project to Product: How to Thrive and Survive in the Age of Software with the Flow Framework. Figure 1: Where companies are today in their progression across the five project to product stages.

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Future-Centered Design: How to Turn Great Ideas into Action Plans

Daniel Burrus

Southwest Airlines has a notable history with both intrapreneurship and solving both internal and external company pain points creatively. But at Southwest Airlines, an internal employee named Marty Cobbs decided to take passengers by surprise by livening up the safety instructions with humor.

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The Whole Foods Strategy…Isn’t (Whole)

Matthew May

In the midst of all this, Whole Foods has decided to take a market segmentation strategy to reverse its downward trend, a strategy aimed squarely at Trader Joe’s, a solid Millennial brand: launch a chain of smaller, lower-priced stores that focus entirely on stock with the Whole Foods private label, 365. Think Southwest Airlines.

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Norwegian Airlines: Are They Built to Last?

Michael Roberto

Travelers in my area have been enjoying incredibly low fare trips to Europe on Norwegian Airlines. The Wall Street Journal's Heard on the Street column has some doubts : The airline operates a very different growth model to tried and tested low-cost carriers such as Southwest Airlines Co. in the U.S. and Ryanair in Europe.

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Basic or Luxury? Getting Your Value Proposition Right – Business Model Inspiration #4

whataventure

Research shows that serial entrepreneurs develop business models more successfully than others by building on proven strategies. Enjoy the following business model strategy to boost your creativity. Get inspired by Jumeirah’s or Singapore Airlines’ luxurious solutions, and decide for yourself. Singapore Airlines.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Innovators are forced to give up on initiatives, projects, and resources. In this context, innovators wonder how to get ideas across, how to continue projects, what back-up solutions to find and how to keep innovation afloat. The long-horizon projects are the first to go and this leads to an unbalanced innovation portfolio.

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PMO Case Study Roundup: Improve Efficiency, Reduce Costs

Planview

A PMO can support cost reduction by promoting efficient and effective project management practices, ensuring project investments align with business priorities, and continuously improving processes to optimize resource utilization and minimize costs. Those teams then shifted from traditional dashboards to Agile project portfolios.