Business and Tech

DECEMBER 21, 2021

From California to Kuala Lumpur, Ideanomics is accelerating the transition to commercial electric vehicles,” says Alf Poor, CEO of Ideanomics. If you’re a commercial fleet operator, your business and the problems you’re trying to solve are the same if you’re in Beijing, Berlin, or Boston,” says Poor. WAVE is working on a U.S.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Jeff Horing, cofounder and managing director of private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners, believes that the task of scaling up a rapidly growing technology company is so difficult and complex that it may require two CEOs. Of course, not all friction is bad. But they are manageable. They are real.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2020

While the visit unquestionably left an impression on him, the theory was actually only developed through the many conversations he had years after the visit with people who had also done research on the topic. The end result was an adhesive that was very weak but reusable as it peeled off without leaving stains. The Post-It note.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

…Accelerating Teams Through Assessment and Training. It’s a sad fact of organizational life that only a small percentage of teams achieve high function. Most teams muddle along, and get the essential things done — or not. And, all teams can improve, with training. Teams Improve With Momentum Training.

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Cris Beswick

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This is a piece about and for managers. They could be line managers, middle managers, or team leaders; in a way, the title is immaterial. But whilst the executive team can strategize and lead, they are rarely in touch with the day-to-day challenges, the people, or the customers.

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The first management principle, which goes back 1,000 years, says the things that we measure, we do something about. Traditional health benefits administrators have bad networks. Many software development companies have what’s called distributed teams, which means people working around the globe on products.

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Brunner

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Building a new way to measure marketing impact To deal with this challenge, a collaborative team at Brunner has started building a system to replace media performance reporting. We collaborate closely with Brunner’s media teams, who are running campaigns on various channels. You may have heard how generative AI can “hallucinate.”

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

For guidance on developing strategic thinking within your leadership team, you may find value in 10 ways to get your leadership team thinking strategically and building the best business strategies. To foster innovation: Implement systems for employees to submit and develop new ideas.

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Brunner

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

At Brunner, we manage paid search engine marketing (SEM) for clients of all types with significant monthly spends. We’ve seen strong performance from PMax, but poor performance, too — and without data insights to understand how and why. More than two years later, reviews are mixed. What could make it better?

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 14, 2016

We all are caught up in handling and understanding different management tools. There are management tools that have become ‘enshrined’ in organizations and many of the executives become settled on the ones they have bothered to learn or seemingly do the job. Tracking the trends on Management Tools.

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Anaqua

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

When it comes to product strategy and development at Anaqua, the key word is LISTEN. From this, we were able to develop a series of significant enhancements being introduced over the course of the year to the platform. 2 - Attorney workspace - portfolio management. 3 - Integration including budget management.

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Tullio Siragusa

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

While these committees cover everything from accounting to risk management, one important area is often overlooked — leadership accountability tied to employee satisfaction and engagement. Another study by Gallup showed that highly engaged teams result in 21% greater profitability than those teams that are not engaged.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

This shift was powered by the defining trait of our species, our human creativity, which is at the heart of all creative problem-solving endeavors, where innovation is the engine of growth, no matter, what the context.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 24, 2023

One famous case is the dismissal of the digital camera concept by an engineer in the 1970s. This lack of trust leads to poor collaboration, hampers problem-solving, and ultimately affects the overall success of the company. By spending time with parents and caregivers, they developed a deep understanding of their needs and struggles.

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KindlingApp

OCTOBER 19, 2015

A major challenge I regularly face in marketing Kindling is explaining the seemingly simple concept of "ideas" as they feature in idea management. For an illustration of the versatility idea management techniques can offer to even a small team, I polled around the Kindling office to see how our teams use Kindling internally.

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Innovation360 has identified are three levels of change management essential for creating a culture of innovation. The first is aimed at the macro/micro-scale of environmental volatility, using a management model invented by Magnus Penker called UPACS (Uncertainty, Paradoxes, Ambiguity, Complexity, and Speed). Introduction to UPACS.

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Huub Rutten

MARCH 9, 2021

Business people: I mean the Sales teams and their leaders. Well Huub, we are not confident to give these dates, because our experience tells us that we can’t trust the dates we get from Marketing and Product Management. It takes years to recover from a bad launch in my business. I ask “Why is that?”

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Huub Rutten

MARCH 9, 2021

Business people: I mean the Sales teams and their leaders. Well Huub, we are not confident to give these dates, because our experience tells us that we can’t trust the dates we get from Marketing and Product Management. It takes years to recover from a bad launch in my business. I ask “Why is that?”

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Huub Rutten

MARCH 9, 2021

Business people: I mean the Sales teams and their leaders. Well Huub, we are not confident to give these dates, because our experience tells us that we can’t trust the dates we get from Marketing and Product Management. It takes years to recover from a bad launch in my business. I ask “Why is that?”

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2024

A Shifting Reality for the Auto Industry Automotive companies are increasingly confronted with the intricate task of synchronizing software development timelines with deadlines for vehicle launches. Acquiring such comprehensive skills presents a formidable and resource-intensive endeavor.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Nuanced Art of Leadership: When to Step in and When to Guide When it comes to team dynamics and organizational behavior, leadership remains a constant beacon guiding the ship. But how does one lead effectively, ensuring team growth while also achieving the organization’s objectives? Leadership isn’t a one-size-fits-all endeavor.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Mentors see themselves as people developers. For example, a medical equipment manufacturer helped the engineers with new product ideas with their pitches. Many of the company’s engineers were not comfortable presenting their big ideas to the senior staff. A manager would work with them to develop the business case.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 6, 2017

Full of excitement and passion, I started hiring some great talent and jumped headlong into the role of leader, coach, mentor and manager. Like so many other organizational leaders in China at that time, I had a very young team and we needed to skill-up. Within 18 months or so, they had developed a solid Innovation Skillset foundation.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

The Engineering Stakeholder Interview. Project Management for Stakeholder Interviews. Engineering stakeholders. Try to speak with engineering management as well as the design engineer(s), if such a role exists; it’s seldom a good idea to involve the entire engineering team at this point.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Can we manage innovation the way many still are? They are struggling themselves to shrug this engineer only mindset for one that is thinking broadly, in new ways of complete product systems of hardware. Can we get them to re-think innovation in a broader domain for all innovation development work? I think not.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 19, 2016

Part 7 in The Lean Startup Series We interviewed the plant manager and he said that they didn’t have any problems with scale, but we know that they do! That’s what a team working on anti-scaling technology reported back early in the Lean LaunchPad process. All of them have different, sometimes competing, needs.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 15, 2022

People need these essential services and products during the good and bad times as well. All these step-by-step processes after idea generation eliminate bad design. It is deeply rooted in questioning, generating ideas, and developing the creation of innovation. After the development and prototyping, test it with your customers.

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Innovation 360 Group

AUGUST 25, 2019

And yet, when it comes to innovation, SMEs often do not have the resources and tools to manage a process that consistently delivers results. The EU funded-development project was launched in 2016 with 8.2 It brought together a coalition of regional business development organizations from Nässjö, Vaggeryd, Sävsjö and Jönköping.

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The Human Factor

MARCH 28, 2018

Do you wish your product manager could get more done? Product managers play a critical role in many organizations. When I ask these leaders why their product managers aren’t working out, most have a hard time explaining why, other than the obvious fact that they aren’t producing the desired results. Define a clear goal.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 3, 2021

Every company and every management team wants an occasional innovation. What management team doesn't want the next iPhone in their segment or industry? Rather, most companies are built to be efficiency engines, keeping a constant, steady state of efficient operations and predictable outcomes.

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Michael Roberto

AUGUST 26, 2022

Here's an excerpt: Zaid Khan, a 24-year-old engineer in New York, posted a quiet quitting video that has racked up three million views in two weeks. They have to address these organizational weaknesses if they want to prevent people from disengaging in this manner: Why are people disengaged? If so, that's deeply problematic.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Hayward City Manager Kelly McAdoo didn’t want to accept the status quo. “We We needed to be out talking to the people we serve, and developing programs that were unique to our city’s needs,” McAdoo says. The city created rules requiring developers to demolish vacant buildings instead of trying to secure them.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

A good 7 years after the visit, Darwin had just managed to narrow in on the key concepts, and had created a 35-page pencil draft of the theory. The end result was an adhesive that was very weak but reusable as it peeled off without leaving stains. The idea, however, wasn’t easy to implement. Nespresso capsules.

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IdeaScale

MAY 23, 2018

Elementary School Math aside, when the IdeaScale team approached us about doing a joint marketing effort, I got excited. With the reason being that we at Ever Evolving , LOVE this tool and their team. The focus of this article is on the challenge(s) beyond that final frontier of Innovation or Idea Management. Which is awesome!

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 16, 2018

Teams from several countries raced through blinding snow and ice to get to the North and South pole first. While who was managing the exploitation was changing, the nature and time frame of exploitation stayed relatively the same. In the late 1800s and early 1900s there were even competitions between explorers.

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Planview

MARCH 29, 2024

Traditional engineering metrics drive efficiency, not effectiveness Engineering leaders are under increasing pressure to deliver more value, but many struggle to make impactful change. In other words, they do not align engineering activities with business strategy. Efficiency : Are we working well?

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IdeaSpies

MARCH 16, 2018

As an engineer in Xerox’s long-range xerography unit, he saw that laser printing could be a huge business opportunity. His manager, however, was focused on improving the efficiency of the current product line, not looking to start another one. Google’s “20% time acts as a human-powered search engine for new problems.

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