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Future-Proof Your Business: Building Strategies for a Disruptive World

Leapfrogging

Navigating a Disruptive Business Environment In today’s fast-paced and technology-driven landscape, businesses are frequently faced with disruptions that can significantly impact their operations and long-term viability. Recognizing the early signs of these disruptions is key to responding effectively.

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Innovation project or Innovation Capability?

Jeffrey Phillips

No, today I want to talk about the differences and problems when companies focus on innovation as a discrete project, versus what they really need, innovation as a competency or capability. Plus, innovation as a project demonstrates some investment in innovation but controls for cost and risk.

Project 209
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Innovation or Disruption: What’s Your Aim?

IdeaScale

The terms “innovation” and “disruption” are commonly used in today’s business world. Disruption is innovation, but not all innovation is disruption, just like all squares are technically rectangles , but not all rectangles are squares. What Disruption Does. Disruption has elements of both destruction and creation.

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Why Fostering Employee Engagement Also Fosters Innovation

IdeaScale

Employee engagement is what causes employees to want to give extra effort at work. Improve employee engagement and you build an environment that cultivates innovation. Employees who are engaged in their work feel as if they are making a real contribution, feel challenged but not overwhelmed, and believe their voice is heard.

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An innovation culture or a culture of continuity

Jeffrey Phillips

Culture conflict What's challenging about creating a corporate culture steeped in innovation is the dichotomy between performance and disruption. Further, while most corporations will pay lip service to innovation, and would enjoy new revenues and profits, they view innovation as a project or an activity that is discrete.

Culture 252
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How to fuel your project with intelligent naivety?

Flying Fish Lab

We’re going to focus on two particular ones that we pay particular attention to during the set up stage of any project. We engage these different stakeholders with open ended questions and often it’s the case that what they don’t say is as important, if not more, than what they actually say.

Project 52
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Navigating the Challenges of Project Management: Essential Skills and Strategies

CMOE

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.

Project 52