Why Isn’t Your Strategy Sticking?
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 27, 2024
It’s insufficient to just share the goals and objectives of your strategy and hope implementation will succeed.
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 27, 2024
It’s insufficient to just share the goals and objectives of your strategy and hope implementation will succeed.
Leapfrogging
MARCH 19, 2024
The Intersection of AI and Innovation Management My journey into the realm of innovation management began as I witnessed many clients wrestling with the increasing complexity of developing new products and services. The Rise of AI in Innovation Management What is Artificial Intelligence?
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Leapfrogging
MARCH 15, 2024
Introduction to Strategic Thinking in Business The Importance of Strategy in a Disruptive World In today’s business environment, disruption is the new norm. A well-crafted strategy can serve as a compass, guiding your organization through the complexities of a disruptive world and towards sustained success.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Managing the expectations of a wide range of stakeholders is one of the most challenging jobs of a project manager. In this article, the author suggests five strategies for managing expectations effectively.
IdeaScale
JULY 24, 2023
While the Agile methodology is really helpful for structuring teams and creating an efficient workspace, there are many different branches that each take their own approach to project management. All of these strategies fall under the Agile umbrella, and in this article, we will compare four of the most popular project management strategies.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 26, 2024
Many leaders would argue that there should be only one strategy for a company, and that strategy provides all the guidance and direction necessary for departments to create implementation plans. However, most high-level strategies have hundreds of ways they can be translated into action.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 12, 2023
In the author’s experience running dozens of web development and content projects, there are three key areas for hybrid project managers to think about: How to plan and kick off the project with the right people and expectations, how to set up tools so everyone can use them, and how to use meetings effectively.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 13, 2023
There’s a popular fallacy that encourages big-project managers to forge ahead as quickly as they can, on the basis that the payoffs will likely be bigger than they imagine.
BrainZooming
APRIL 7, 2017
We see seven keys to creating an innovative workplace culture where individuals are able to meaningfully contribute to the organization’s innovation strategy. If you’re looking at your organization and wondering where to start to foster a more innovative workplace culture, here are forty articles to go deeper into the topic.
Leapfrogging
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in this process has opened up new avenues for innovation and efficiency, leading to the development of AI-driven design thinking strategies. As a result, AI-driven design thinking strategies are emerging as a critical factor in developing innovative solutions that resonate deeply with users.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 1, 2024
Companies that integrate the cost of capital into their strategy and planning reap real benefits. With the cost of capital back to normal levels, it’s simply irresponsible not to make it a management discipline that changes the way you do business. When something is cheap, people waste it.
Leapfrogging
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
I encourage you to get it and embrace these strategies, whether you’re running a startup or in a big company. But they are manageable. For the unindoctrinated, “lean” is the term coined in a 1988 MIT Sloan Management Review article by John Krafcik, who recently retired as CEO of Google’s Waymo division.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Many managers view strategy as a complex subject, but at its essence it boils down to three questions: Where are we now? Where do we want to go? What is a credible path to get there? To successfully use these questions to chart a course, people must be brutally honest with themselves about where they are now.
Business Innovation Brief Submitted Articles
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
This article received the 2020 Business Innovation Brief Most Valuable Post Award in the Innovation Strategies category. When it comes to the trifecta of innovative Project Portfolio Management (PPM), PPM, Continuous Innovation and Agile come together to create a complete framework for innovation success.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 22, 2024
This article will share four evidence-based strategies that leaders and managers can use to build community in their remote teams. Remote work offers many benefits, but the lack of community – compared to in-person environments – can cause some workers to feel isolated and lonely.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Handling scope creep is one of the most challenging – and important — aspects of a project manager’s role. In this article, the author outlines practical strategies for how to push back on more work in a way that maintains your relationship with the requester, whether that’s the project sponsor, a customer, or another stakeholder.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 2, 2023
As a leader of leaders, you “create the weather” for your team. It’s your job to not only support your burned-out leaders, but also to keep burnout at bay going forward.
Innov8rs
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Alongside clear innovation priorities, optimized innovation pathways, and empowered innovation people, innovation portfolio management is a primary component of a complete innovation system. Together, they all concur to determine how organizations set strategy and make decisions to allocate resources. Keen to know how?
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
In this article, I’ll explain how you can keep your team’s efforts aligned with the genuine needs of your audience. As a leader, how can you recognize scope creep and realign your team? Shift the focus from “what” you’re building (the deliverables) to “why” you’re building it (the outcomes).
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Companies continue to struggle to design and implement a post-Covid return-to-office strategy that works for employees. To find the most workable alternative, they should focus on four factors: the needs of the work, the needs of the people, how work gets done, and the new managerial muscle required to manage a hybrid workforce.
IdeaScale
JANUARY 21, 2020
Managing the innovation process can help you improve customer experience with your brand.?. This process, known as idea management, is what drives business and improves the customer experience. This process, known as idea management, is what drives business and improves the customer experience. The Idea Management Solution.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 18, 2024
The problem with an AI-first strategy lies not within the “AI” but with the notion that it should come “first” aspect. An AI-first approach can be myopic, potentially leading us to overlook the true purpose of technology: to serve and enhance human endeavors.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 12, 2024
Strategy and foresight were once the same discipline. With modern updates and improvements to these combined disciplines, leaders can sharpen their vision for the future, empowering managers to make informed strategic choices and propelling teams towards superior performance. And they should be again.
ITONICS
MARCH 7, 2024
Firms thus need a well-crafted strategy and easy-to-use software to manage their intellectual property (IP) and their IP and patent portfolio to maximize their returns on investment. On the other side, no protection makes these assets easy targets of copycats in a business situation where information collection was never easier.
Idea to Value
JANUARY 6, 2017
This is especially true in the field of innovation management, which are so broad that it would be impossible to highlight every diverse opinion on how to approach the subject. He is also one of the leaders in developing the Three Horizons Framework, which a lot of other writers use to illustrate new management principles.
Leapfrogging
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Here’s the downloadable Strategy Uncertainty Map I developed as part of my work with Praxie.com. A Strategy Uncertainty Map is a visual representation of your top opportunities, which can include products, services, projects, or business strategies. Also, be sure to keep the Strategy Uncertainty Map alive.
Tullio Siragusa
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Transforming Your Business with Bottom-Up Management: The Design Thinking Way In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, a significant shift is occurring from traditional top-down management to a more inclusive and innovative strategy: bottom-up management.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Taking the time and effort to invest in upward relationships, such as those with skip-level managers, requires strategy, humility, and diligence. After all, leadership is not only about managing those below you, but also navigating the complexities above.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 7, 2024
It’s not just data, but information relevant to sales and channel partners; and it’s not just information, but management and process initiatives that translate that information into marketplace results. But, like any tool, digital systems are only as good as their users.
Innovation 360 Group
OCTOBER 22, 2020
In the ongoing series on innovation as a source of competitive advantage PWC has published a long series of articles on what makes organizations successful when it comes to innovation. One of the major drivers of success is to have a coherent innovation strategy. Now, what is this coherent innovation […].
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 10, 2024
In this article, the author offers advice from Nancy Rothbard, a professor of management and the deputy dean at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Arika Pierce Williams, a leadership development consultant and the president and founder of Piercing Strategies. But is it a good idea?
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 11, 2024
In this article, the author outlines eight strategies to try to build more breaks into your day. Many people operate from the belief that there’s too much to do and they can’t afford to pause during their workday. But taking effective breaks is essential to preventing burnout.
BrainZooming
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
What are all the change management strategy roles a change agent plays? As we worked on strategic thinking exercises to explore the company’s future vision and user experience, the change management strategy vocabulary the group used was conventional, unemotional, and lacking innovative thinking.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 23, 2023
In this article, the author outlines strategies to help you find the optimal level of confidence. Successfully transitioning to a higher-level leadership role requires self-confidence, but many leaders display too much or too little early on.
Viima
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Innovation strategy is a common source of anxiety for many innovation managers: they always want one, but few think their organization has a clearly defined one. Having said that, there still are a handful of ways in which innovation strategies often go wrong.
Planview
JANUARY 19, 2023
Organizations can maximize ROI and increase the likelihood of a successful digital transformation by connecting portfolio management and value stream management (VSM) practices. It’s critical to be asking the right questions: How does strategy become a plan? Are the right objectives being focused on?
BrainZooming
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
We’ve written a tremendous amount about change and change management strategy since the Brainzooming blog’s inception. Just HOW MUCH have we written on change management strategy? Well, to identify the articles listed here, a search for “change” on the blog yielded eighty-six PAGES of articles.
Innov8rs
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Paul navigates the technology landscape for both Sopheon and its customers and identifies the business values linked to investments in innovation management systems and processes. He advises executives on how to be more successful in innovation and execution of strategies such as sustainability.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
That’s why SMEs can benefit from taking three actions: designing controls proportionate to the risks at stake, analyzing the lessons from success (not only from failures), and using risk management to boost and protect business performance.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 20, 2023
As the manager, your job is to rally your team members and inspire them for the year ahead. In this article, the author outlines strategies for how to conduct a motivating performance review when business is down. But what if your business isn’t doing well? How can you objectively assess individual performance?
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 18, 2024
When approaching your manager about pivoting to a hybrid work schedule, you may encounter resistance. This article outlines five strategies that will help you confidently and respectfully negotiate a hybrid work schedule. It’s important to know where this resistance is coming from, and how you can calm fears about this change.
Innovation Excellence
JANUARY 6, 2020
To celebrate we’ve pulled together the Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2019 from our archive of nearly 7,500 innovation-related articles from more than 400 contributing authors. Click the.
IdeaScale
JULY 3, 2019
In order for businesses to stay relevant in 2019, they must have an excellent customer experience strategy or else they could be severely hurting their bottom line. Based on this statistic, it is clear that an effective customer experience strategy should be a top priority for all businesses. This article is a guest post by Nick Rojas.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 7, 2024
In this article, the author outlines strategies to try to improve your relationship. When you feel like you’re not favored, you may hesitate to proactively communicate with your boss, worrying that you might be a bother and worsen your relationship or that your attempts will be futile.
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