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Moving from Project to Product: A Five-Stage Journey

Planview

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. What Does Moving from Project to Product Mean?

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Use a Strategy Uncertainty Map to Find Clarity in Disruptive Times

Leapfrogging

Here’s the downloadable Strategy Uncertainty Map I developed as part of my work with Praxie.com. A Strategy Uncertainty Map is a visual representation of your top opportunities, which can include products, services, projects, or business strategies. All opportunities have uncertainty. Use a map to navigate it.

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3 Tactics that Make Innovation Management Easier

IdeaScale

In order to maximize the number of ideas that are implemented each year, the implementation team works first to find existing in-development programs and projects that align to promising ideas and attaches the idea to that project. Redwood Credit Union has a culture that thrives on friendly competition and employee pride.

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How to use the 70-20-10 Rule to drive innovation within your business

Leapfrogging

The basic idea behind the rule is that 70% of stakeholder time and organizational resources for innovation projects should be spent on core business, 20% on related projects to the core business and 10% of the time to projects unrelated to the core business but that can drive the organization forward. . . About the Author.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process. Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival?

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Innovation Department Best Practices: A Talk with Peter Berger

IdeaScale

As an innovation director, Berger is working on projects that include the development of an all-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft to be used for short-distance air travel with the ease of hailing an Uber. Push the boundaries, but don’t forget where your competitive advantages are.

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Agile Mindset: How to Use Sprints to Streamline Projects

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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. Quick responses, changes throughout the project following a plan. Software that works with broader range of documentations.

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