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Creative Construction – Book review

The Inovo Group

Well-respected Harvard Business School professor and HBR contributor Gary Pisano has weighed in on the topic of large company innovation in his new book ‘Creative Construction’. This book is a worthwhile, albeit high-level, treatment of the topic with a rich set of descriptions and examples. Highlights. Gary Pisano, PhD.

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

One week from today, my 6th book, Invisible Solutions , will be released. I’ve been asked, “How long did it take to write the book?” December 2 – 10, 2018, I locked myself in a hotel room and started working on the book. In fact, upon reflection, the book took nine years to write and publish.

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Building the innovation stack

Paul Hobcraft

We can mix and match different emerging or established innovation approaches but sometimes miss valuable points and due to this lack of “being connected up” we lose flexibility, sometimes meaning and miss some of the potential value as the parts are not as well interlinked or dynamic; we screen out more than we add-in.

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Helping discover your innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

I always find the post-New Year to be a reflective part of the year of reviewing, deciding, and then setting new goals. I have followed a number of great innovation thinkers and read different books on the areas of innovation. Innovation application and practice seem to have stayed stuck, largely due to how it is organized.

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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. Without this commitment, consequences include slow delivery and increased technical debt.

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The Key Trends to Watch in Cybersecurity

Business and Tech

To address the problem, security leaders should: Review hiring practices. Which cybersecurity technology trends have you seen make the biggest impact in terms of improving data security in the last year? How can cybersecurity teams ensure compliance that all cybersecurity software is active and running on all endpoints?

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Intentionality and the Differentiating Competitive Advantage 

Planview

The data measures the flow of business value through all the activities involved in a software value stream. We see disparity for companies in the same industry, with some delivering business value via their software delivery at three times their prior speed once they start focusing on flow of business value.