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How to Kill Innovation Projects

Destination Innovation

Starting exploration projects. 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. Starting evaluation projects is harder but you need to start many because no-one knows which will succeed. It does not meet a real customer need.

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20 Ways to Make Your Meetings More Effective and More Fun.

Destination Innovation

Meetings are unpopular. A study by Steven Rogelberg, of the University of North Carolina surveyed 182 senior managers in a range of industries: 65% said meetings keep them from completing their own work; 71% said meetings are unproductive and 64% said meetings come at the expense of deep thinking. Have Meeting Free Days.

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Could your team cut down meetings to only two days a week?

Idea to Value

Is your team having too many meetings? Do you ever come to the end of a workday and feel stressed because instead of getting any productive work done, you have spent nearly the whole day in back-to-back meetings? 70% of all meetings prevent people being productive. These meetings may seem like the best time to do this.

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Innovation Project Governance Do's & Don'ts

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Despite its importance, innovation project governance is often handled ineffectively, slowing down rather than driving innovation. Innovation project governance is a decision-making discipline where organizational leaders decide which ideas to pursue, how to allocate the innovation budget, and how to assign resources.

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Living With Technical Debt: Balancing Quality and Perfection

Speaker: Cliff Gilley, The Clever PM

Unexpected details pop up, as small as UX that needs clean-up, and as big as a previously unforeseen flaw in the infrastructure of a project. Are we willing to live with some level of technical debt in order to ship product and meet deadlines? Whether you like it or not - because it can’t be avoided.

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L.I.V.E. (Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution): A new, more effective way to manage multiple innovation projects

Idea to Value

This new management method makes it nearly impossible for innovation teams to fail at delivering multiple challenging innovation projects faster, with less risk and lower required budgets. Most innovation experts often say that traditional management processes are not the way to run innovation projects. And this is true.

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Meet KIS: A Longstanding IT Firm That Truly, Strictly Prioritizes Its Clients

Business and Tech

For the bigger college, we’ll mainly do project-based implementation services. The post Meet KIS: A Longstanding IT Firm That Truly, Strictly Prioritizes Its Clients appeared first on Business and Tech. But we always look at where we can add more value for all of our clients — and then we execute.”

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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.