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How to Kill Innovation Projects

Destination Innovation

Starting exploration projects. Managing the portfolio and stage-gates. Killing the weaker projects. They are all important but I believe that the most vital is #8 – the ability to kill off the weaker projects. If you start 20 projects it is likely that you are going to have to eliminate at least 17 or 18 of them.

Project 234
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Individual compentences for sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation

Norbert Bol

2019), show how individual sustainability competences can play a role in business projects and especially in building projects. The effort to successfully gather diverse disciplines in teams and broadly source knowledge, is shown to be an indispensable method to increase sustainability in their projects. Lambrechts et al.

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More Than Ideas: Learnings From Managing Intrapreneurship Programs

Innov8rs

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?

Learning 104
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Podcast S4E71: Dan Toma – Innovation Accounting and Key Performance Metrics

Idea to Value

We go through how companies should measure innovation performance, and which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) actually make sense for these types of projects. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:01:30 – Dan’s history in entrepreneurship. 00:03:45 – Why accounting is overrated.

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Reinventing the Entrepreneurship Game

ImagineNation

In my November blog I described how important it is to unleash the power of innovative entrepreneurship in our digital & connected world. I outlined some of my many mis adventurous occurring in the first ten years in the management consulting & learning & development space. From the second ten years 1998-2008.

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An Unconventional Approach to Manage Your Projects

Rmukesh Gupta

Almost everyone project manager that I meet wants to find out a way to do two things: Deliver their projects on-budget and on-time Be innovative in their approach while doing so. Yet, we know that most projects are neither on-budget nor on-time. So, why is it that most large projects fail?

Project 45
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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial thinking. That brings us to entrepreneurial thinking.