Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Applying innovation theory lenses to the trends, patterns, news bites, and field data gathered over the course of 2022, here are our education researchers’ favorite blogs that either they or their colleagues have written this year, and the reasoning behind their picks. Robert Markle, research project manager, education.

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Christensen Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The pandemic cast education technology (edtech) into a starring — and some might argue above-its-paygrade — role in education. Although by no means perfect, before the pandemic, technologies in education had been steadily improving for decades. Learning skills and acquiring knowledge are cornerstones of education.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Elizabeth Francisco, president of ResMan, offers expansive insights from being a woman in business to the rapid advancement of property management technology. Residents in a community are welcomed members, and interactions with the management team and fellow residents are encouraged. Elizabeth Francisco President, ResMan.

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IdeaScale

MAY 4, 2021

However, project managers might wonder exactly who these “crowd workers” are. Critics often assume that employed professionals don’t have time to participate in crowdsourcing projects. Crowd workers are skilled and highly educated. This means the crowd is as educated, if not more so, than your employees!

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Kainexus

OCTOBER 30, 2019

People have been managing projects in business for as long as there have been businesses. Project management is necessary for organizations of all types and sizes, whether it is formally recognized or not. The PMBOK® Guide is developed by active project management practitioners and subject matter experts.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

One of the best ways to assess what proportions your company should allocate to different types of innovation projects is by looking at your current and desired innovation portfolio. This is one of the fundamental strategic questions which every business leader needs to consider. But what does a well-balanced innovation portfolio look like?

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

During our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management, we asked Christian Stumpf (Co-Founder & Program Manager TenneT PowerLab at Tennet) these questions. What is the best way to maximize their potential?

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 1, 2024

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. It is not a capability or a project that you switch on or off, any more than you switch on or off a highly efficient supply chain. What can we do?

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InnovationManagement

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Too many projects in the development pipeline is a common but serious complaint in new-product development departments. Pipeline gridlock leads to under-resourced development projects, which end up taking too long to get to market, and then often under-perform.

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Kainexus

MAY 31, 2019

Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Howard Earl Gardner is an American developmental psychologist and the former John H. and Elisabeth A. He has written hundreds of research articles and more than thirty books that have been translated into multiple languages.

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IdeaSpies

AUGUST 19, 2019

University Education – A New Model for a New Era. The consequence to the student is painful, and the cost to our economy is profound: these graduates are taking roles that someone without an expensive university education can easily fill. University education is currently focussed on the Knowledge Model. Healthcare.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Here’s what I’ve learned about designing at an innovation management company so far. I’m outnumbered by sales reps, account managers, and overseas developers. Besides my manager, there aren’t team members I can easily turn to for feedback and guidance. — Being the only designer can be rough.

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CMOE

OCTOBER 27, 2020

25 Podcasts for Managers. Manager Tools. We’ve entered the age of podcasts, and everyone can benefit from the distillation of the experiences of experts, including leaders and managers. Any leader can benefit from at least one of these podcasts for managers. 25 Business-Management Podcasts. Coaching for Potential.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 27, 2023

But a major body of work happening in K–12 education today boils down to organizational change. Competency-based education? Project-based learning? Learner-centered education? None of these ideas for improving education make a difference for students unless they are woven into the fabric of schools.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2024

In June 2023, the Supreme Court effectively ended race-based affirmative action in higher education in the Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) case. On the heels of that decision, newly empowered activists have brought a barrage of challenges against workplace DEI efforts.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Intersection of AI and Innovation Management Defining Innovation Management with AI Innovation management refers to the process and activities that organizations use to manage and nurture new ideas into marketable products and services.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 1, 2022

Everything was done to set up the project for success. Problems were discovered, priorities changed, enthusiasm dissipated and slowly what was once seen as an exciting new innovation gathers dust in a list of zombie projects somewhere. But innovations fail at the handover points.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

After all, the past century of business management education has taught us that in order to improve performance, you need to understand, improve and track the performance of your key performance indicators. As Peter Drucker famously said: What gets measured, gets managed. However, this is not what happens in reality.

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Planview

MAY 26, 2023

In this post, you’ll jump back into the story of a large biotech company undergoing transformation the intelligent way – by leveraging the principles of organizational change management. With the five steps outlined below, you’ll dig into the company’s organizational change management strategy and actionable tactics.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2023

Liz Ryan is the founder and CEO of Human Workplace , which aims to educate and empower working people to live their best lives and find their best careers. They want to know which projects you worked on and your role in each project. A job title doesn’t tell the reader very much.

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Acuvate

APRIL 27, 2023

Enter Energy Management Analytics (EMA), a game-changing solution dishing out valuable insights to help businesses raise the bar for sustainability indices. So, it’s time businesses invest in greener practices and embrace Energy Management Analytics to stay cool in the face of climate change.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 6, 2024

If change is so prevalent and competitors are constantly entering and leaving markets, we don't need to worry about change management, we need to be change agents and create change capacity in the business. They are the people that leaders turn to when they need an important project done.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 6, 2021

For many years, in writing this blog, and in leading innovation projects for my clients, I tried to advocate for the benefits of innovation. This means it can take a visionary leader to establish an innovation project or program, who may not be in place when the benefits are realized. And, are these costs significant?

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Business and Tech

JUNE 24, 2022

The HERO Scorecard is a free online educational, benchmarking, and research tool that advances HERO’s goal of improving evidence-informed best practices in the workplace. To learn more about these ongoing projects, reach out to the HERO team at [link]. Many strategies that can contribute to these goals (e.g.,

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Corporate Innovation

JULY 26, 2016

All of these changes are now converge towards a new model for creating and managing portfolios of innovation. In this manner, companies are now more symbiotic with new ventures and university research projects than ever before. The Problem in more detail: No Portfolio Management. But Here is a New Idea.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

For example, Lake Of Zurich High Technical School appeared was the fourth place University right behind Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College London in Times Higher Education World Reputation Ranking rating back in the year 2016. Educated workers. Focus on green economy. Switzerland ranked high for: knowledge-intensive employment.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 31, 2023

After tracking pandemic-related education trends starting in 2020, these final surveys not only collected responses from teachers and administrators, but compared these responses to those from previous years in order to reveal the trends and patterns continuing as schools reopened, as well as those poised to change.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 30, 2023

This reality creates a conundrum for education leaders and reformers. None of their ideas will succeed unless those ideas gain traction among the teachers who carry forward the work of education on a day-to-day basis. project-based or blended learning).

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Enter Dr. Mary Jo Madda, a Senior Program Manager, Growth + Engagement for Google’s Code Next program. If educators and career pathways providers construe tech social capital—or any other form of career-specific social capital—too narrowly, they won’t see the whole picture. The takeaway?

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

When I refer to diversity, I am speaking of a spectrum of concepts: different perspectives, different experiences, different educations, internal and external perspectives, perspectives from people who are new to the problem as well as from experts, and so on. Few managers like taking risks on team members in high profile projects.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

As a leader or manager, recognizing the signs and addressing the impact is critical to fostering a healthy workplace. Poor Leadership and Management Practices Leaders and managers set the tone for the workplace, and their practices can either contribute to or alleviate toxicity.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

This allows managers, executives, and consultants to focus on more strategic elements of innovation. Managers, executives, and consultants who embrace these AI advancements position themselves at the forefront of innovation, ready to leverage the full potential of improving design thinking with ai.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As members of the media have bemoaned the tragic results of students on the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—also known as the nation’s report card—many have been all too willing to jump into the game of who is responsible. So how do we do that?

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 7, 2023

For example, in Banga’s memo to employees, he writes about one of the Bank’s arduous and inefficient processes for financing projects which can take up to three years. This means that, in addition to investing in projects that can help lift people out of poverty, Banga’s World Bank must consider the climate implications of such projects.

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Wazoku

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

18 award winners include Department for Education for Smarter Working Project of the Year London, United Kingdom. 27 November 2020 – Some of the most innovative and forward-looking public sector projects were recognised last night at the Smarter Working Live awards 2020.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Portfolio Director Mark Wybraniec – Johnson & Johnson – Portfolio Management Organization, Director Allan Spina – Becton Dickinson – Portfolio Management and Innovation Education, VP R&D. Hiren and Mark of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) discussed their work on the company’s Global Finance Transformation project.

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IdeaScale

JULY 28, 2022

The goal of Teams is to put everything you need to finish a project on one platform. A “like” button serves as an informal polling mechanism among teams, especially if you’re managing a big group. Uses range from education and enterprises to personal creativity. Microsoft Teams.

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