Idea to Value

JANUARY 12, 2023

It was about her new book “ Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away “ , and there was one topic they spoke about which really stuck with me when thinking about innovation projects. She spoke about why people often find it so hard to walk away from or stop projects which are obviously failing.

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Project Management Groups Data 250

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Most project managers focus on planning and execution. But large projects rarely go in a straight line, and often that planning doesn’t take into account key assumptions, and the execution goes far in the wrong direction before the need for changes are recognized.

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Project Management Agile Tools 122

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Setbacks are common on projects — but project managers hold four key tools to understand why they happen and how to help their teams move past them. First, understand the neuroscience behind setbacks to encourage people to learn and grow. Second, openly acknowledge that a setback has occurred to prevent backsliding.

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Project Management Tools Learning 131

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2023

On a hybrid project, communication and coordination become both more critical and more challenging. Digital tools and meetings may be the only way some team members can keep in touch.

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Project Web Development Web Developers Management 134

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Traditional project management skills, such as project governance or project management methodology, aren’t sufficient to meet changing organizational needs.

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Sopheon

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In any project, the initiation phase is filled with optimistic budgets, benefits, and manageable risks. But the following statistics from the Project Management Institute might make project managers rethink that optimism:

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Project Management Innovation 105

Sopheon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Regardless of industry, digital transformation projects are a top priority today. According to IDC , global digital transformation spending will grow to an estimated $3.4 trillion by 2026. Digital transformations are necessary, but they’re also painful. And they fail at a rate of about 70%, according to McKinsey.

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Project Industry Management 105

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the biggest mistakes in project management is that simply telling someone to do something is enough for it to get done. In most cases, especially with longer and more complex projects, assigning work isn’t enough, explaining work isn’t enough, and even planning out work isn’t enough. But you have to do it right.

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Project Management Collaboration 129

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It’s best to start any new project by fostering the right conflict mindset among team members. As a great project manager, you need to foster awareness, understanding, and respect for the different perspectives around the table. Productive conflict requires that all parties appreciate the competing demands and necessary trade-offs.

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Project Management 131

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In the aftermath of a very public system failure or a project going significantly over-budget, a key question that’s often asked is: “Why didn’t anyone bring this to our attention?” Ultimately, the success of a technical project requires that issues are escalated as they arise.

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Project Culture System How To 136

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Projects are unique, temporary, and dynamic. At the beginning of a project, you can be proactive as you plan, schedule, source, and staff. Project success ultimately depends on maintaining project team alignment from inception to completion.

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Project Management Collaboration 138

Planview

JUNE 28, 2024

To pick up speed, several well-known companies—including Spotify, ING Bank, and Walmart—have implemented a product operating model over strictly working in a project-based model. Are companies converting all their project teams to product teams? Business leaders believe IT teams can deliver 10 times their actual capacity.

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Project Underperforming Technical Team Report Survey 68

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Introduction to Virtual Team Project Management In today’s globalized business environment, virtual team project management has become an indispensable aspect of organizational success. Be transparent about project timelines and deliverables to set feasible expectations.

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Project Management Software Review Technical Review 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Introduction to Virtual Team Project Management In today’s globalized business environment, virtual team project management has become an indispensable aspect of organizational success. Be transparent about project timelines and deliverables to set feasible expectations.

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Project Management Software Review Technical Review 100

Business Innovation Brief Submitted Articles

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

When it comes to the trifecta of innovative Project Portfolio Management (PPM), PPM, Continuous Innovation and Agile come together to create a complete framework for innovation success. Project Portfolio Management – The Burger. This is where Agile comes in. Agile – The Soda.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

No, today I want to talk about the differences and problems when companies focus on innovation as a discrete project, versus what they really need, innovation as a competency or capability. Plus, innovation as a project demonstrates some investment in innovation but controls for cost and risk.

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Project Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Training 209

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

According to Gartner, 80% of project management tasks will be run by AI by 2030. Indeed, AI is transforming every aspect of work, including our management of people and projects. To truly realize AI’s full project management potential, humans will ultimately be the key.

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Project Management Leadership Data 123

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This article describes how German automaker BMW and European airline Air France have developed new approaches to managing large projects aimed at creating fundamentally new products, ideas or that profoundly alter human behaviors.

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Project Management Change Innovation 97

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2023

There’s a popular fallacy that encourages big-project managers to forge ahead as quickly as they can, on the basis that the payoffs will likely be bigger than they imagine.

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Project Management Analysis Strategy 138

Sopheon

JUNE 4, 2024

Project managers are the unsung, behind-the-scenes heroes of an InnovationOps-based approach. Project managers orchestrate the intricate dance between creative ideas, tight deadlines and limited resources. Project managers orchestrate the intricate dance between creative ideas, tight deadlines and limited resources.

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Project Management Innovation Management Resources 59

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Hollywood films have long been made by teams of independent contractors and employees of different production companies brought together for short-term projects. Companies have embraced this model for transformations, with data showing that 45% of the people on these projects are not regular employees.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2023

There are unprecedented opportunities at the intersection of AI, project management, and sustainability. Unfortunately, without proper execution, projects to implement AI come with complexities, costs and a carbon footprint that undermine sustainability goals.

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Project Management Data Design 123

Sopheon

APRIL 4, 2023

Product managers and project managers are two distinct roles. Product managers set the vision for the product, gather requirements and prioritize them, but it’s the project manager’s job to act upon this vision and make sure that it gets executed on time and within budget.

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Project Management Product Strategy Product Development 98

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A key part of your job as project leader is to keep your team motivated and on track when things start to go sideways. In this article, the author outlines practical strategies to try if you need to boost your team’s morale: 1) Re-establish or re-define the project purpose, goals, and vision. 3) Help remove obstacles.

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Project Strategy Strategy Collaboration 126

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Managing the expectations of a wide range of stakeholders is one of the most challenging jobs of a project manager. Yet there’s no educational program or training for this skill because everyone’s expectations are unique and often deeply personal.

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Project Management Training Strategy 123

Sopheon

MAY 7, 2024

Looking to supercharge innovation project management? Implementing the Kanban methodology can give teams the efficiency they need to deliver quality projects on time.

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Project Software Management Innovation 59

IdeaScale

MARCH 22, 2023

Introduction to our SECRET project - native chatGPT Integration for Ideation We at IdeaScale are thrilled to announce the launch of our latest innovation – the integration of ChatGPT into our ideation software. This has been a TOP SECRET project that a small team of our best innovators came up with, refined, iterated perfected [.]

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Project managers who aspire to be CEOs are often surprised to learn that their skills, while highly valuable, do not directly align with those needed for positions of executive leadership. Why isn’t successful management of high-stakes projects and organizational resources sufficient to ascend to the top ranks of the business?

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Project Management Leadership Resources 129

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

There are five reasons that large projects fail. Wrong projects are ones that defy conventional business rationale, creating outputs that either few people want, that add little to no real value, or that undershoot the desired benefits because they are so difficult to achieve.

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