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PMO Case Study Roundup: Improve Efficiency, Reduce Costs

Planview

In anticipation of International PMO Day, we began curating the stories for this PMO case study roundup several weeks ago. PMO Case Study Examples The following PMO case study examples highlight how Planview products help companies be agile and adaptable while increasing efficiency and contributing to cost reduction.

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Anchoring: The bias which affects our ability to estimate & negotiate

Idea to Value

For example, take a sales negotiation for a used car. Since this landmark study, there have been numerous studies that have confirmed the anchoring bias. In another study by Northcraft and Neale in 1987 , participants were asked to negotiate the price of a car. You want to pay as little as possible (say $1000).

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The Sunk Cost Fallacy

Idea to Value

If you or your company has invested in an innovation or project, and it just is not working, when is the right time to stop it? For example, the NHS Connecting for Health system was originally planned to cost GBP 2.3 They were then asked whether the $1 Million should be spent on the research project (Yes) or not (No).

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4 Companies With Jaw-Dropping Innovation Case Studies

PlanBox Innovation

These innovation case studies will uncover a secret weapon that your organization might not be leveraging to its fullest! Innovation Case Study #1: Unbossing the Environment at Novartis. Partnering with Planbox truly helped us advance UNBOSSED innovation at Novartis.” – Aimee Reynolds, Genesis Labs Project Liaison, Novartis.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.

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The Key to a Fulfilling Career? Variety.

Harvard Business Review

Organizations can nudge people into diversifying their experiences, for example by regularly rotating people into new projects or positions. But individuals also have the power to dehabituate by finding different work opportunities, studying new skills, or trying new hobbies.

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Procrastination can (sometimes) make you more creative

Idea to Value

The researchers wanted to see if there was a link between people delaying themselves starting work on a project, and that time being used to incubate ideas, resulting in output which was deemed to be more creative. In order to test this, the researchers conducted three sets of experiments in the USA and Korea.