Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Setbacks are common on projects — but project managers hold four key tools to understand why they happen and how to help their teams move past them. First, understand the neuroscience behind setbacks to encourage people to learn and grow. Second, openly acknowledge that a setback has occurred to prevent backsliding.

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InnovationManagement

APRIL 22, 2022

Too often, leaders label projects as successes or failures based on budget and schedule expectations. Although time and cost are critical factors, they ignore whether the project delivered the expected benefits.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

If your organization struggles to adapt to change, lacks collaboration, or is hampered by siloed thinking, these are clear signals that you need a cultural overhaul. To understand how change management can be a powerful tool in this process, explore use change management to transform organizational culture.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like. And one of the most important ways to have facilitate this in your projects is to ensure you have clarity and alignment from the very beginning on what the definition of success is for all teams.

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Planview

MAY 20, 2022

In this post, we’re going to show you how to execute a project. You’ve initiated your project, created an in-depth plan, and secured stakeholder buy-in. In this guide, we’ll break down exactly how to execute a project across multiple departments to improve efficiency and drive results. What Is Project Execution?

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In this guest post, learn how to effectively implement a virtually-led design thinking project. There’s no question that teams are capable of great things when working remotely, and there is no shortage of project management tools, virtual whiteboards and prototyping software out there to help.

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Idea to Value

MAY 12, 2019

?. In today’s episode of the idea to value podcast, we speak with Taylor Ryan, CMO of Valuer.ai, about the benefits that both corporations and startups can get from collaborating. 00:03:00 – The problem with projects in large companies to build capabilities, compared to founders who have already established how to solve a problem.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Such teams are characterized by their ability to effectively collaborate, adapt swiftly to change, and consistently exceed expectations. It’s the bedrock upon which innovative and collaborative teams are built. By incorporating these strategies, I’ve seen a noticeable improvement in team collaboration and innovation.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 17, 2020

Learn about the Miro collaborative whiteboard software tool and find tutorials to use it here. With more work being done remotely, it’s more important than ever for teams to be able to successfully communicate and collaborate together. How to Use Miro. Miro Training Resources for Collaboration and Innovation Work.

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Managing multiple projects, budgets, and tasks is essential for a manager to be effective, but these responsibilities shouldn’t overshadow the importance of team morale and engagement. In this post, we’ll explore the essence of team drive and how to motivate your team as a project manager. Why Is Team Motivation Important?

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Innov8rs

MARCH 6, 2023

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. So, without further ado, let’s get to it.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How to Be a Valuable Team Player During Times of Change: Strategies for Success In today’s constantly evolving business world, change is inevitable. Whether it’s a new project, a shift in leadership, or an overhaul of processes, change can be both exciting and challenging.

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CMOE

MAY 4, 2023

Statistics show that 70% of projects fail to deliver desired results and 42% of organizations don’t even understand the importance of project management—but they also show that 73% of organizations that use a formal project-management approach always or often have met their goal. Here, we focus on five core skills.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 18, 2020

By having a repeatable method in place to collaborate around ideas and refine solutions for challenges as and when they arise, you can help safeguard your enterprise. However, you may not know that your system can provide an alternative to smaller collaboration sessions.

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Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation. As a COO, you can apply this approach to increase collaboration within your company by following these steps: Encourage cross-functional teams: Design Thinking requires collaboration between different teams and departments.

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Be-novative

MAY 27, 2021

How to empower leaders to build a better Culture of Collaboration using virtual facilitation techniques? Most importantly, how should I do that to empower them to achieve more? where does it make sense to collaborate the most? If so: how to help them with facilitation techniques, ideas and skills? FOLLOW THE CLUES.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

This includes understanding the capabilities and limitations of AI models, data preprocessing, and initial model training relating to potentials and constraints and evaluating differences between “go it alone” or in collaborations and then in what form and means. Encourage collaboration between AI and human experts.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Here’s how to do it. If your goal is generating a flowing pipeline of new ideas for your business, your approach will be a bit different than if your goal is to complete a particular project. This is great, as long as you understand each team member and encourage interaction and collaboration. Optimize the Creative Environment.

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Flying Fish Lab

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Immediately after an Ideation Session, we tend to feel good because of the collaboration and shared risk-taking we experienced to generate innovative possibilities. So how do others do it? Agile Innovation Methods – Empower creative, multi-disciplinary teams to self-manage a project as collaborative peers.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2020

Here are best practices for how to lead a productive remote or distributed team. We experimented with some of the first online collaboration tools. Since that time, I’ve led startup teams of my own and designed collaborative processes involving distributed teams for about 30 of the Fortune 1000 as part of my consulting work.

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CMOE

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This guide explores the benefits of creating a learning culture in the workplace and provides actionable tips on how to establish and maintain it. Refer to your project portfolio management process to see your team members’ performance on tasks and responsibilities for specific projects.

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Be-novative

JANUARY 18, 2021

Be-novative Partner Hub 2nd Training How to create Results and Outcome driven projects? We share knowledge, inspire people and actively co-create new methods. We contribute to a better, more creative Earth. We organized a company-wide innovation competition with IQBusiness in 2020 May, due to Be-novative’s free workshops.

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Be-novative

JANUARY 18, 2021

Be-novative Partner Hub 2nd Training How to create Results and Outcome driven projects? We share knowledge, inspire people and actively co-create new methods. We contribute to a better, more creative Earth. We organized a company-wide innovation competition with IQBusiness in 2020 May, due to Be-novative’s free workshops.

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Phil McKinney

JULY 24, 2023

Setting firm deadlines for projects and tasks can eliminate this tendency, as people will be motivated to complete the work before the deadline. Encourage collaboration : Working with others can help people remain motivated and focused on the work at hand. Collaboration can also help expand ideas and create more innovative solutions.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

A culture that is adaptable, innovative, and collaborative can better withstand market fluctuations and respond to challenges swiftly and effectively. These could include a strong work ethic, a collaborative environment, or a commitment to customer service. As a leader, your role is to create the conditions that make this possible.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2020

Here are best practices for how to lead a productive remote or distributed team. We experimented with some of the first online collaboration tools. Since that time, I’ve led startup teams of my own and designed collaborative processes involving distributed teams for about 30 of the Fortune 1000 as part of my consulting work.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

By identifying signs of low morale and understanding its impact on productivity, you can begin the journey of transforming a potentially toxic workplace culture into a high-performing, collaborative team. Consider organizing regular team outings, workshops, or team-building exercises that focus on collaboration rather than competition.

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Be-novative

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

From the Be-novative Partner Hub The Be-novative Partner Ecosystem is a Hub of people and resources whose main goal is envisioning, accelerating and scaling the success rate of both organizational and product-development, creating impactful projects and meaningful solutions locally or globally. We contribute to a better, more creative Earth.

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InnovationManagement

MAY 19, 2021

Here’s how to navigate them. The post The Secrets to Making Open Innovation Projects Work appeared first on InnovationManagement. Open innovation often requires global teams with national culture differences to work together, which presents some challenges.

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Be-novative

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

From the Be-novative Partner Hub The Be-novative Partner Ecosystem is a Hub of people and resources whose main goal is envisioning, accelerating and scaling the success rate of both organizational and product-development, creating impactful projects and meaningful solutions locally or globally. We contribute to a better, more creative Earth.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 4, 2018

How to bring ideas to life? This is the fun part, for most of us, where all the work pays off, and you finally see where your idea is heading and how it might change your business. At root, idea implementation is like any other project you take on. Getting Ideas Done. Next, there’s tracking. Contact us.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Agile Philosophy came from the Agile Manifesto, when a small group of people got together in 2001 to discuss their feelings about the traditional approach to project management for software development. Customer collaboration on contract negotiation. Quick responses, changes throughout the project following a plan.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 7, 2023

Teams and their leaders should collaborate to define their missions, outcomes, and metrics that measure progress toward the desired result. Understanding these will help set the foundation for increased collaboration, improved productivity, and ultimately, growth. The problem is that it also makes the leader a project manager.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

Increased integration with other business tools, such as project management and collaboration software. Education and awareness: Providing education and resources to help companies understand the benefits of the software and how to use it effectively could increase adoption.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

As Steve Blank puts it in his foreword to O’Reilly and Tushman’s latest book on the subject: Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma: Exploitation pays your salary while exploration pays your pension. Ability to focus and not be pulled in multiple directions by competing projects.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

But how to fulfill that objective is often the challenging part. Here’s your guide on how to set department goals. Some examples of goals that align with the vision and mission of the organization include: Improving project completion by X% by the end of October. Metrics vary depending on the project. The results?

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