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Innovation Project Governance Do's & Don'ts

Innov8rs

Through this process, senior management can lead innovation, implement strategy, and empower their teams to create new sources of growth. At the same time, decisions made in the absence of fact-based evidence can result in poor outcomes. These are just a few examples of what poor decisions can lead to.

Project 80
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Understanding Data Governance and Who Should Own It

Acuvate

The tenets of data governance are to establish methods, layout clear responsibilities and develop robust processes to standardize, protect and store data. Reduce costs that might incur due to bad data. Analysis of poor quality data results in ineffective decisions. Institute regulations on how data is to be used. Protect data.

Data 45
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An Open Letter to Project Managers

Boxes and Arrows

When you asked me to apply standard guidelines and industry best practices, you are asking me to ignore what users have to say and to treat them like everyone else. Standards and guidelines abound, but not all of them apply. To act on good assumptions with caution beats acting on bad assumptions with confidence.

Project 98
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How to run experiments without compliance wanting to kill you

Moves the Needle

Chris was a Senior Product Manager at LexisNexis before founding his own firm and helped offer a firsthand account of fostering healthy collaboration between legal, product and innovation teams at LexisNexis when it comes to rapid experimentation. Innovation requires that people work differently, and different is bad. They shouldn’t.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Web Site Optimization—Part 2

Boxes and Arrows

In the previous article we talked about why site optimization is important and presented a few important goals and philosophies to impart on your team. We created the following minimum completion criteria for my past team at DIRECTV Latin America. I’d like to switch gears now and talk about more tactical stuff, namely, process.

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The Marketing Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

If they’ve just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on market research that doesn’t provide the answers you need, you also have the potential to make them look bad. The more brand-focused questions are things a visual or industrial designer will particularly want to know, though the answers can prove useful to the whole team.

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Cynefin: A framework that grows for me all the time in its value and worth.

Paul Hobcraft

If we miss a range of important points the obvious suddenly becomes chaotic, a crisis born out of this poor evaluation or simplification. You look here to focus increasingly on building guidelines, establishing rules or standards and less on applying fixed processes that do not meet this environment. The Complicated Environment.