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Navigating the Shift from Project to Product: A Map for Success 

Planview

The secret lies in transitioning from a project-oriented management approach to a product-centric model. Despite beginning with unwavering enthusiasm, McKinsey reports that initiatives often lose approximately 42 percent of their projected value as they progress into later implementation stages and long-term sustainability.

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How Small Business Owners Can Navigate Inflation and High Interest Rates

Business and Tech

Think of your financial data as a story, with historical financials telling you where you’ve already been, KPIs showing you where you are today, and the budget/projections describing what you think will happen next.

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How to Measure the Success of Your Innovation Management Strategy

IdeaScale

Time itself creates points of comparison, whether you choose to evaluate them or not. Learn how to measure innovation success to improve the results of future innovation projects. Going forward on hunches, or feelings that a project is performing, is certainly possible, but it’s not wise. Numbers don’t lie.

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The Art of Decision-making as an Innovation Leader

Idea to Value

These are without a doubt all very important topics, but they still pale in comparison to decision-making. What’s more, your team hasn’t done this before , so you can’t create a very realistic project plan for implementing it either. The fundamentals for making great decisions on innovation.

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#1,635 – Cloud Brightening Experiment

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

For the global havoc caused by COVID-19 will pale in comparison to what horrors await us when the global food chain collapses and entire regions become unlivable. It’s our #1 priority at the moment. But we can’t lose sight of our actual #1 priority, in this moment and all other moments: Climate Change.

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The High Art of Designing Scaffolding

Mills-Scofield

Often, the most difficult part of any creative process is just getting started; preparing for the tasks at hand by putting the necessary structures in place that will bring the project to fruition. Neologisms and provisional project titles, for example, create space where new ideas can emerge.

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Innovate Like a Pirate: How Thinking Like a Buccaneer Can Yield a Treasure Trove of Value

Qmarkets

However, the good news is that there are a few attributes of the privateer persona that can and should be emulated when approaching an innovation project (and we should emphasize that this doesn’t involve getting anyone to walk the plank). Of course, decisiveness also means knowing when to cut your losses and move on.