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What is the ambition matrix and how does it work as part of an innovation portfolio?

Idea to Value

Most companies are not really aware of all of the innovation projects they are working on. Let alone which project mix they should be working on. This is where a tool called the Ambition Matrix is extremely useful, and it is a tool I use with clients all the time to gain clarity on what their current innovation portfolio looks like.

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Managing WIP and Bottlenecks in the Financial Industry

Planview

In particular, two critical areas that demand attention and solutions are the effective management of work in progress (WIP) and the speedy resolution of bottlenecks. In this blog post, we’ll uncover why dedicating resources to tackle WIP and bottleneck resolution can lead to long-term time and resource savings.

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Digital Transformations Are Crucial to Optimizing Innovation Value

Planview

To demonstrate this perspective of digital transformation as a mindset and application to speed high-value innovation, this blog outlines a handful of crucial transformative processes and functions that can help your organization identify the right innovations and fly them to market.

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Use a Strategy Uncertainty Map to Find Clarity in Disruptive Times

Leapfrogging

A Strategy Uncertainty Map is a visual representation of your top opportunities, which can include products, services, projects, or business strategies. For example, when you assess your projects on the basis of your uncertainty in these two areas, you get a relative view of which projects carry the most risk so you can invest more wisely.

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Thought Leader and Influencer Interview with Michael Fauscette, CEO & Chief Analyst, Arion Research LLC

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

Michael is a high-tech leader, board chairman, advisor, and software industry analyst. He is also a published author, blogger, and thought leader on emerging trends in business software, digital transformation, digital experiences, and customer experience strategies and technology. I’m the chairman of an IoT startup as well.

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Why “Path-to-Value” is Crucial for Corporate Innovators

Imaginatik

Although the innovation group’s original charter was to focus on disruptive digital technologies, they quickly found themselves working on everything from small process tweaks in Customer Service operations, all the way up to incubating entrepreneurial projects trying to re-architect the company’s global billing processes on the blockchain.

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Mitigating risk with a balanced innovation portfolio

Innovation 360 Group

Assume that you have a number of projects that you want to execute, and you have a number of resources that can be used to execute them (resources such as innovation managers, or programmers). If the resources can be organized so all projects can be optimally executed without any interdependencies (i.e.,

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