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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower Innovation

The Tactical Technical Advisor stays on top of the development team to ensure that they’re team is building the right thing in a high-quality, efficient manner. This is especially important with outsourced development teams. Are developers following best practices in their code and life cycle?

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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

Have you ever worked for a manager or boss who did not want to hear bad news? This can be especially dangerous when the problem they are avoiding is that they are being disrupted , other companies are out-innovating them, an important project is off-target or performance KPIs are falling behind. Volkswagen.

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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower Innovation

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? These are the worries that keep team leads up at night.

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Shaping the Future of Clean Commercial Fleet Operations

Business and Tech

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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Top Strategies to Prioritize Features for Innovation Teams

IdeaScale

Innovation team members have to deal with the needs of users, finances, and marketing all at once. Additional Tips to Help Your Team Prioritize Innovation Roadmap Features. In addition, it is also important to note here that solutions should be developed as a response to users’ needs. Innovation management is a tough job.

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Innovation is a team sport

Cris Beswick

At OUTCOME , we believe innovation is a system game, meaning it’s a team sport. The challenge is that many organisations have lost sight of the true definition of a team. 1] Let’s also differentiate between a department or group inside an organisation, as a group does not necessarily constitute a team. Pearson/Prentice Hall.

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What impact does time pressure have on creativity?

Idea to Value

Companies such as AT&T’s Bell Labs (leading to the transistor and the laser), 3M allowing people to have 15% of their time to work on projects of personal interest (leading to Post-It notes ) and Google. Simple steps you can take include: Blocking out time in your calendar to focus on and make progress on challenging tasks.