Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Understanding organizational culture is crucial for leaders looking to steer their companies in the right direction. Culture is shaped by a variety of factors, including the company’s mission, leadership styles, policies, work environment, and the behavior modeled by those at the top.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Over the past 30 years they’ve invented a new way of running companies, what author Andrew McAfee calls the “Geek Way.” Companies that resist this recipe risk being left behind. Silicon Valley firms don’t just create technology.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 14, 2023

Innov8rs | Despite its importance, innovation project governance is often handled ineffectively, slowing down rather than driving innovation. Innovation project governance is a decision-making discipline where organizational leaders decide which ideas to pursue, how to allocate the innovation budget, and how to assign resources.

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IdeaScale

JULY 23, 2019

IdeaScale encourages all of your employees to be innovative and create ideas no matter their role in the company. With project management tools, you’ll have a software to start tracking your favorite ideas and prioritize the ones you love. Many of these softwares can also calculate the time and money spent on each project.

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Planview

APRIL 6, 2022

Demand management software helps companies improve productivity, reduce bottlenecks, and make better-informed decisions. It can transform the way organizations plan and execute projects. We’re going to look at how the PMO Delivery Lead of a global telecommunications company successfully implemented demand management software.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

You know the saying: The only constant is change. It’s true for all disciplines and describes the project portfolio management (PPM) market for several reasons. Consider these changes faced by PMOs in recent years: The call to infuse agility and become a modern PMO. Where is the PPM Market Headed?

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Braden Kelley

MARCH 4, 2019

And when you consider that companies are spending an increasing amount of their budget on technology and working to … Continue reading → It seems like a simple question. One that you would expect to lead to some risk mitigation behavior, but it doesn’t.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 15, 2024

A few weeks ago, I saw an article in Fast Company about the layoffs at IDEO , one of the world’s most respected Design Thinking firms. According to the Fast Company article, revenues have fallen from $300m in 2019 to under $100m in 2023, a more than 2/3 drop.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Most companies say that they are investing in innovation. Many of these companies don’t understand why their innovation failure rates are so high. Unfortunately, many companies won’t even realise that they have this problem. None of this is actual innovation. And innovation needs to actually end up delivering value.

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Planview

AUGUST 12, 2022

The way we work and organize is changing. In the traditional project-centered model, companies are organized around tasks, with each group focused on one element of a project. But greater emphasis is being placed on moving from project to product, which focuses on enabling teams to become end-to-end experts.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

However, some companies and creative individuals have already come up with innovative solutions to the problem. This required the following companies to completely reinterpret what their companies were able to manufacture, and change this over at a rapid pace, requiring a huge deal of innovative thinking.

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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2023

Project management is akin to navigating a ship in choppy waters. Applying machine learning to project management challenges can pave the way for smarter, more efficient, lower-risk projects and higher-quality products. Let’s explore how AI is shaping the future of project management.

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Planview

JULY 26, 2023

In its conventional sense, project management has been marked by rigorous methods and stringent controls. But in the wake of generative AI technology, we’re on the brink of a transformative change in how projects are managed. The Power of Chatbots Chatbots have been around for a while.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Previously, NGOs and companies “co-existed.” Times have changed. A good corporate image is now reflected in the environmental and social issues a company corresponds with. Hence, companies are investing their time and energy in thinking about the impact of their actions on both the community and climate.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 1, 2024

Another base principle is that most companies desire innovation in the form of new product and services to create new revenue and new market share. There is a more powerful desire in most companies, however, and that is the desire to avoid variance, reduce risk and maintain consistent, profitable operations. Answer is: probably not.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This report is a follow up to the amazing InnoLead reports I have previously written and spoken about, including the one which outlined how over time companies planned to invest more and more in adjacent and transformational innovations. And the biggest drop is in what proportion of projects will be for transformational innovations.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 18, 2019

It is easy to talk about failure as a good thing in innovation projects. However, what about situations when it is not only you that is being impacted by the failure of a project or experiment? I have even talked about a simple way to reframe failure by thinking like a scientist.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 21, 2018

When we looked at that response, we were wondering how a company culture might be inhospitable to innovation and we looked at some of our most commonly reported customer reported obstacles for an answer. If you’re not finding some room in the budget to prototype and learn, you’re not likely to keep pace with the changing market.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Hi there, With 2022 almost behind us, a lot of companies and teams are planning their next steps for 2023. With the global economy stalling and fear of an upcoming recession, many companies have significantly slowed their investments into new innovation teams. Ensure everyone in the organisation still feels creative.

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Idea to Value

MAY 28, 2021

If you or your company has invested in an innovation or project, and it just is not working, when is the right time to stop it? Or if everything is going fine in your company but the market is changing, how do you know when to change the business model? Result: 17% said yes. Result: 85% said yes.

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Planview

MARCH 20, 2023

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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Power of Organizational Culture Organizational culture is the bedrock upon which companies build their strategies and operational approaches. It encompasses the values, beliefs, and behaviors that determine how a company’s employees and management interact and handle outside business transactions.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 22, 2023

While this is a powerful belief in looking at the rise and fall of political and national powers, as well as societal changes, it also may impact your innovation team. Many employees at a company have seen what previously (historically) worked for them, and see that things are changing.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 25, 2023

Eventually, in any story, the tension is resolved - the protagonist wins (in the happy ending stories) or the antagonist changes sided, or the antagonist wins (unhappy resolution). Some people are resistant to change, even when you can show them a better and brighter future. Change of any form creates challenges and uncertainty.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 2, 2021

Overview: Change agents are individuals or groups who find and manage change across your organization. Where Do I Find Change Agents? There are multiple places where people driving change in your team are visible, inside and outside your organization, and you’ve likely already met them.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

Increased integration with other business tools, such as project management and collaboration software. More emphasis on data analytics and reporting to help companies better understand and track their innovation efforts. From < [link] > What holds Innovation software back for companies to adopt more?

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Planview

JANUARY 27, 2022

Today we’re going to look at how a global biotech company used biotech project management software to drive greater business value. The company is known around the world for its groundbreaking molecular diagnostic testing capabilities. Senior Director of IT Governance, Global Biotech Company.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Nurturing Innovative Team Collaboration In the rapidly evolving business landscape, innovative team collaboration has become a cornerstone for companies seeking to remain competitive and adaptive. Increased Agility: Teams that collaborate well can adapt more quickly to changes in the business environment, maintaining a competitive edge.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 1, 2021

With the rapid transition to work from home, the recent adoption of project management tools has skyrocketed. These are just a few points that some project management tools need to consider to gain managers’ attention and win the teams’ adoption. Keep reading to understand which is the best for your project.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 20, 2023

From India to Vietnam: The Changing Landscape of Offshore Software Development Outsourcing software development services to offshore vendors has become an increasingly popular way for businesses to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Other emerging offshore destinations for OPD services include the Philippines, and South Africa.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As companies grow, it is inevitable that more hierarchies will be created. However, as layers of management build up on top of each other over time, there is a danger of developing a “ Ladder of No “ And this ladder of No can have a devastating impact on an innovation culture within companies. Project Manager ?

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 4, 2022

This can be especially dangerous when the problem they are avoiding is that they are being disrupted , other companies are out-innovating them, an important project is off-target or performance KPIs are falling behind. The fear that froze the company came from two places.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In this guest post, learn how to effectively implement a virtually-led design thinking project. McKinsey & Company research shows that “Design-led organizations realize 10% more revenue than ones that aren’t.” Losing Momentum : Virtual projects are notoriously difficult to keep moving. A REMOTE DESIGN THINKING JOURNEY: 1.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. As such, MVP is a way startups are changing the corporate innovation landscape. Why startups are coming forward.

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