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How to Scale Your Innovation Program

IdeaScale

Scaling requires a schedule, training, and follow-up, just like any other company-wide project. Unexpected legal or internal policy issues. What happens to your brilliant Facebook poll if your organization has a standing “no social media” policy? Innovation strategy involves proactive planning.?.

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Constructing the innovation mandate

Paul Hobcraft

The basic needs of an innovation mandate should include: Innovation Mandate for [XXXX Organization Name] – an example Vision and Objectives : Our vision is to be a leader in innovation, delivering breakthrough solutions that create value for our customers, employees, and shareholders.

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Deepening the Thinking Around the Innovation Mandate – part two

Paul Hobcraft

It should articulate how innovation will contribute to achieving these objectives, and what specific goals and metrics will be used to measure the success of the innovation program. The innovation mandate should clearly define the value goals for the innovation program and how they will be measured and tracked over time.

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The Day the Enterprise Stood Still

PlanBox Innovation

Indeed, in this age of relentless change, the last thing any enterprise wants is a free-falling portfolio of innovative projects. 52% of projects veer off course —either going over budget, missing deadlines, or not meeting the set expectations. And, 19% crash land —either abandoned halfway or completed but left unused.

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Can project managers be innovative?

Values Centered Innovation

This year’s Project Management Conference in Dallas focused on all things innovation. Given my long-standing background with both project management and innovation, I was delighted to be on a panel that explored how project managers, their teams, and their company cultures could be more innovative.

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Calculating the ROI of an Idea: Ideas That Saved Time

IdeaScale

Calculating the ROI can serve as a valuable exercise to understand whether one of your open innovation campaign’s ideas should be developed into a project and whether a project should be developed into a minimal viable product, service or a national program. . Introduction to ROI.

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How the GSAs 10X Program Advances Government Innovation

IdeaScale

Every one of the 10x projects the GSA has launched started with a small commitment of resources, mostly money and time, to test the idea out thoroughly before launching. Yet while there are no guarantees, the “dark matter” policy discussed above ensures that there are no failures. Start Small And Build.