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How a Top Telecom Company Adopted Demand Management Software and Streamlined Their Projects

Planview

Demand management software helps companies improve productivity, reduce bottlenecks, and make better-informed decisions. If employees don’t know how to use this technology, there’s no point in implementing it. According to Harvard Business Review, about three-quarters of organizational change efforts collapse.

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5 Tips for Adding Value to Agile Design

InnovationTraining.org

Design Innovative software” is not a concrete goal; it’s a vague directive. They don’t tell the team how to design, but they serve as virtual guardrails to prevent the project from careening off the road. Indeed, a thorough research effort can show the team specifically what to design and perhaps even how to approach the new design.

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Innovation SOP: Driving Corporate Innovation by Bettering Employee Engagement

Qmarkets

Qmarkets' Innovation Standard Operating Procedures (SOP): In this series, we will present different guidelines on how to bring innovation theory to practice. This week, we take a look at Employee Engagement - the benefits of employee engagement and how to successfully create employee engagement in your organization.

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A Real Life Example of the Power of Giving Feedback

Idea Champions

Feedback," for them, has become code for "With all due respect, let me tell you why your idea sucks". The first BIG IDEA pitch was excellent -- a compelling idea for a telecommunications platform of the future that was utterly mind blowing. Oh Mr. CEO of a very large and profitable telecommunications company. Impossible!"

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If You Want to Create Breakthrough Products, Get Meaningful Feedback Early in the Game

Idea Champions

Feedback," for them, has become code for "With all due respect, let me tell you why your idea sucks". The first BIG IDEA pitch was excellent -- a compelling idea for a telecommunications platform of the future that was utterly mind blowing. Oh Mr. CEO of a very large and profitable telecommunications company. Impossible!"

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Business Model Innovation is not a one-way road, but a crossroad.

The BMI Lab Blog

These companies teach us that business success and innovation does not only rely on technology, but also on a rational understanding of business models and how to improve them. When we read or hear about the most innovative businesses in the world, most of them are from the fields of IT, telecommunications or automotive.

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Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D

Corporate Innovation

I first met Steve Blank when he started his enterprise software company Epiphany. The change in corporate strategy forces a change in the structure of how a company is organized. Lets quickly review them and see what these past shifts can tell us about the future of corporate R&D. In the U.S. Institutional Adjustments.