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Discovering the Diverse Sources Behind Innovation

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To truly capitalise on the potential of innovation, we must explore deeply within our teams, expand our perspectives across entire organisations, and even look beyond, to outside influences. When Nadella took over as CEO in 2014, he immediately began shifting the company culture towards one that embraces innovation and continuous learning.

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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

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Many studies have found that psychological safety has a positive influence on team effectiveness (Edmondson, 2014). We’ve always found the following sentences useful to complete for work agreements in this area: “We encourage each other to maintain a sustainable pace by …”. A., & Mesmer-Magnus, J. Edmondson, A. C., & Lei, Z.

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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

The desire for a project management framework that sustains deliverability, supports the required cadence, and remains faithful to an adaptable methodology is now within reach. Understanding the influence of external factors allows modification of the chosen approach to meet external challenges head-on. & Burgan, D.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

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Another approach is to track many organizations over time as they adopt Agile methodologies, while also measuring anything else that could influence their results other than agility itself. 2014 ; Young & Jordan, 2008 ; Russo, 2021 ). But how can one feasibly do that? It would be wonderful to have such data!

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Tailoring Your Project Management Approach: A Beginner’s Guide

Project Pulse Journal

Tailoring, as a continuous effort, sustains relevance and value in project management practices. Involving stakeholders, particularly those with high deciding power and influence on the project, must be a habit throughout the project lifecycle, specifically when tailoring the management approach. Retrieved from: [link] Whitaker, S.

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Agency utilization rate: 9 steps to increasing billable time

Resource Guru

Read: How to find the best resource planning tool Factors impacting agency utilization rates Agency utilization rates are influenced by many internal and external factors. A rising, sustainable rate might signal it’s time to outsource work, hire more staff, or expand services. Make it a priority. Know it, measure it, improve it.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

“A Taxonomy of Threats for Complex Risk Management,” Centre for Risk Studies, Research Programme of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, June 2014. “A 1, March 2014. 1–10, 2014. A Risk Management Methodology for Project Risk Dependencies,” Tak Wah Kwan and Hareton K.N.,