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Design Thinking: Human Centered Design for Innovative Problem-Solving

Project Bliss

Design Thinking is a human centered approach to innovative problem-solving. His company works with clients to successfully solve problems using innovation and Design Thinking approaches. Anyone who wants to solve a problem can use Design Thinking to find innovative solutions.

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The Diffusion Innovation Theory Model Applied to Strategy and Project Management

The Strategic Project Manager

Innovation and new ideas are great – but how do you get the word out? This is a challenge, especially for implementing innovation strategies. Diffusion Innovation Theory Model. The diffusion innovation theory model was developed by in 1962 by E.

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10 Key Medical Innovations for 2022

Brad Egeland

Geoffrey Vince, PhD , Executive Director of Innovations and Chair of Biomedical Engineering. ” Here, in order of anticipated importance, are the Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2022: 1.

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Decision Making Tools for Group Decisions

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you make decisions as a group but you don’t have everyone on the same page, you will lack the basis for your work, and that will lead to a flawed decision. The Group Decision Process. Making a decision as a group is a 3-step process: Deciding whether you need your team. The first step in making a decision as a group is actually assessing whether you need a group at all! Group decisions can be tricky, even with appropriate instruments.

2019 219
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What Is a Business Model Innovation Capability?

The Strategic Project Manager

Today, it is often imperative to be capable of innovating Business Models – to change and reconfigure value chains. This post provides a framework – far beyond just a product and service innovation – for Business Model Innovation.

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How Smart Managers Create an Innovation Culture

ProjectManager.com

Likely with good intention, since it is culture that enables groups of talented but different people to come together in a way that allows a project to be completed, a team to grow and success to be sustained. Another popular word that gets tossed around often is innovation. In many cases, innovation is given the aura of the mythical and the inexplicable. What Is Innovation? Let’s begin by establishing a working definition of innovation. So will innovation.

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Innovation: Running Experiments and Learning

Leading Answers

In my last article on  Incubating Innovation , we explored the culture and mindset of accountable experimentation. However, innovation and learning take conscious effort, forward planning and accountability. Article: “ The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures ” by Gary Pisano.

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10 LinkedIn Groups every Entrepreneur & Project Manager should join

Taskque

Trust me, Entrepreneurs, business owners, and project owners cannot succeed without soliciting the help of a group(s) of people who have that experience and can guide them better. For years, LinkedIn groups were regarded as a hub of all the spam and self-promotional posts, but the recent changes in LinkedIn Groups empowered them to help project management professionals, Entrepreneurs, and small business owners. LinkedIn Groups for Project Managers.

2018 73
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5 Leadership Skills to Implement Innovation Project Management

International Institute for Learning

Effective leadership will create innovative products and services. Leadership is an important part of innovation project management. Leadership: Leadership in innovation project management can mean many different things to people.

2023 52
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4 benefits of an integrated group calendar

Resource Guru

Fortunately, there’s a smarter way to manage calendars across your team: two-way calendar integrations that connect multiple calendar systems into a single group calendar. Better capacity planning leads to happier employees Lean on a group calendar for greater accountability.

2022 84
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What is innovation?

Growing Agile

One of the topics discussed was what innovation actually is and how we can foster it. We encounter many companies who count innovation as one of their company values, and lots who have innovation labs or teams. Yet so few seem to really be innovating, it made me wonder a bit more about this word that we use all the time. I think that many companies are seeking disruptive innovation, which although valuable is potentially much more difficult to do.

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Lisa Bodell on Simplification and Innovation

International Institute for Learning

As closing keynote speaker at IIL’s Leadership & Innovation 2019 Online Conference , she delivered a powerful message on how complexity is holding most of us back, and what we can do to get back to the work that really matters. “If we get the work right, we get the culture right” – @LisaBodell #LeadershipCon19 #leadership #innovation pic.twitter.com/hiqPhawym5. — If yes – can you outsource it or give it to another group/person to do?

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Design Thinking: Innovation rethought

Inloox

A fast-moving world, a dynamic market environment and, last but not least, intense competition make it impossible to successfully implement complex innovation projects using traditional problem-solving approaches.

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How To Help Teams Make Group Decisions

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you make decisions as a group but you don’t have everyone on the same page, you will lack the basis for your work, and that will lead to a flawed decision. The Group Decision Process. Making a decision as a group is a 3-step process: Deciding whether you need your team. The first step in making a decision as a group is actually assessing whether you need a group at all! Group decisions can be tricky, even with appropriate instruments.

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A Lean Innovation Management Process: Discovering and Creating Value

The Strategic Project Manager

Lean innovation management originated from startups, but is applicable in helping bring a startup mentality to a variety of types of organizations. Let’s start be defining lean innovation. What is lean innovation, and why is it important? What is Lean Innovation Management?

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Employee-Led Innovation (5) – Innovation Digging for Fresh Ideas

Inloox

Innovation Digging was developed by Tamer Kemeröz and Benno van Aerssen. As the name suggests, it is a systematic 'excavation' of ideas that can help you to innovate both radically and continuously. This process can still be controlled in a systematic way, Innovation Digging can help bring order to creative chaos. In fact, you're not actually developing ideas themselves with Innovation Digging, but just look for search fields that serve as inspiration.

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Organizational Structures that Support Faster Innovation and Evolution

Leading Answers

Rather than try to funnel decision making and policy through a single hub, they spin-off and give authority to local groups. Other organizations use Skunk Works groups to explore new ideas. Please Innovate While We Micromanage You!

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Project Innovation – a Value Chain Approach

Tony Adams

We talk a lot about using innovation to create exciting and funky products, and to deliver a competitive advantage. Value chain thinking gives us a powerful toolkit to help pinpoint innovation opportunities within our project delivery practice. Exploiting these opportunities gives us a leg-up to deliver innovative business outcomes to the market, faster and cheaper than our competitors. Identifying Innovation Opportunities Across the Value Chain.

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Project Innovation – a Value Chain Approach

Tony Adams

We talk a lot about using innovation to create exciting and funky products, and to deliver a competitive advantage. Value chain thinking gives us a powerful toolkit to help pinpoint innovation opportunities within our project delivery practice. Exploiting these opportunities gives us a leg-up to deliver innovative business outcomes to the market, faster and cheaper than our competitors. Identifying Innovation Opportunities Across the Value Chain.

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Book Summary: Think Better – An Innovator’s Guide to Productive Thinking

Project Bliss

Learn how to think better by using productive thinking approaches with Tim Hurson’s book Think Better – An Innovator’s Guide to Productive Thinking. Everybody talks about creativity and innovation these days, but very few actually know how to put them into practice.”

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Grow a culture of innovation and learning with frequent Developer Huddles

Scrum.org

And more importantly, where developers can learn, innovate and experiment to become better at his craft? For example, two social psychologists hosted a session on decision-making in groups. Without skilled developers, the Scrum Framework is no more than lipstick on a pig.

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Book Review: Digital Project Practice - Managing Innovation and Change

Brad Egeland

The title is “Digital Project Practice - Managing Innovation and Change" and it is a collaboration of work from 13 top authors and experts in related fields. Most tech books are what they are: a boring logical take on a topic we've all covered a few times already. Disappointment at the hours you can't get back for the time you just spent reading a book that didn't really offer you anything new.

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The Rollercoaster of Group Dynamics in Decision Making

Scrum.org

However, I used to crumble, get frustrated, and fall victim to groupthink the moment whenever I was part of making a group decision. However, trying to reach a decision when tackling a complex problem with a group of people often feels different. Photo by Anne Nygård on Unsplash .

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Webinar Recap: How Innovation & Portfolio Management Office Underpins Corporate Success

MPUG

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Tad Haas’ How Innovation & Portfolio Management Office Underpins Corporate Success webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG webinar, How Innovation & Portfolio Management Office Underpins Corporate Success. Tad: The conversation today is built off a white paper called Innovation and Portfolio Management Office.

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Effective Collaboration for Outstanding Virtual Teamwork

Project Bliss

Group collaboration can produce wonderful solutions to challenges and problem. When you’re bringing a group of people together to reach a shared goal, you need to cultivate effective practices and behaviors. Virtual teams need to put forth extra effort for effective collaboration.

2020 177
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Employee-Led Innovation (6) – The Walt Disney Method for Idea Development

Inloox

Which means that they first act as dreamers, then the whole group moves onto the realist room and lastly, they all take on the critic’s role. As a result, people will be more open to voice ideas they ordinarily wouldn’t share, and you’ll get to collect a treasure trove of innovative ideas. Read more from the Employee-Led Innovation series: Advantages of In-House Idea Development. Innovation Labs and Open Innovation. Innovation Digging for Fresh Ideas

2019 101
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When Size Does Matter: How Your Team Size Impacts Productivity and Innovation

Leantime - Project Management

Having spent a significant amount of my career delivering complex projects, driving innovation and building teams I find that large companies continue to struggle to quickly innovate and get the most productivity out of their teams. There is so much innovation these days coming from very small teams with little to know cash flow. There are several reasons why startups currently drive so much innovation. Team size is an important factor in this innovation.

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Top 5 Idea Management Software to Stay at the Top of Innovation

nTask

Our mind is almost always filled with innovative ideas, acting upon which can be beneficial for us in the long run. Inspires innovation in all levels of the company be it a fresh employee or a trained professional.

2021 78
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Employee-Led Innovation (1): Advantages of In-House Idea Development

Inloox

Our latest blog series will focus on idea generation and management and we’ll present you with a number of methods which will help you offer your employees incentives to create innovation because your own employees often have the best ideas and the necessary know-how. What is innovation and creativity? Innovation is often defined as the (complex) new developments associated with technical, social and economic change.

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What Skills Will Make You a Top Manager in 2022?

Epicflow Blog

Analytical Thinking and Innovation . In 2022, analytical thinking and innovation will be even more important. Continue being a PM innovator and always look for new management ideas and techniques, as it will give you a considerable advantage. Today, leading projects throws new challenges at project managers: leading and influencing the group not only professionally but also socially. Read more: Top LinkedIn Groups for PM Networking and Social Influence.

2022 91
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33 Selected Blogs about Innovation, Project Management and 2.0: Vote for the Best!

Wrike

I’ve assembled a list of blogs that give me substantial food for thought when I write on innovations in project management. CloudAve – a group of bloggers, lead by Zoli Erdos and Ben Kepes “live and breathe cloud computing.” Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0 , written by an outstanding management innovator, is a perfect place to find thoughts on how the development of the technologies transform the traditional management discipline. What project management blogs do you read?

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6 Practical Tips For Improving Your Team’s Digital Skills

Scoro

We can and we must develop a flexible, sustainable approach to innovation in an era of constant change. Finding a way to integrate learning and work to cultivate a continuous study process could be your golden ticket to hacking innovation. Create a best practices discussion group for the whole team – where to find courses, which ones are the best, etc. Innovation Work management

2018 82
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Face to face ?? Online How did you change

Lynne Cazaly

What about group activities and collaboration? agility better ways of working hybrid innovation new ways of working productivityAs many face to face workshops and meetings shifted online over the past year, it’s curious to look back: What did you change? If you’d planned an agenda, how did things need to adapt? Did you change the duration? Or the time between breaks, or length or number of breaks? Did you change what was planned?

2021 40
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It's All About Innovation - Both Technical and Commercial

ActiveCollab

Our name Sentinelles du web [[link] means “The Web Sentries” and our mascot is the meerkat - an animal well-known for its sense of group solidarity. Like them, we are constantly on the lookout, but for innovation and challenges. _STORY WRITTEN BY MARINAE BERRIOT, ENGINEER AT SENTINELLES DU WEB _ HOW ARE YOU (YOUR ORGANIZATION) MAKING AN IMPACT ON THE WORLD? We are craftsmen of the internet.

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Why every leader should take an improv class

Lynne Cazaly

Magazine by Jason Hennessey And then sign up at your local improv troupe, group or club. communication creativity improvisation innovation leadership personal effectiveness speakingHave you? If that’s a no, put it on your development list, right near the top. And if you have, you know what I’m talking about. In this crazy world of change, no one teaches better, trains better or helps us deal like an improv class.

2021 40
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Why is Cognitive Diversity important? How to promote it?

Scrum.org

Your Scrum team has NO innovative idea to solve the customer problems in many Sprints? Nowadays, innovations, new values are the key to success. We can't have innovation just by saying. The innovations depend on many factors, must be nurtured, and have the know-how to nurture.

2022 189
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Professional Development Day 2022 – IGNITE!

International Institute for Learning

Facilitating Innovation in a Post COVID-19 World . Find out how to be a catalyst for change (facilitating innovation) and NOT an antagonist (frustrating innovation). This ineffective disconnect is highlighted when innovation, change and risk are present.

2022 98
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The Portfolio Management Dream: How to Stop it from Becoming a Nightmare!

PM That Works

So we've got an entire group of Nashville Songwriters, musicians in really looking to create a unique, I hate to even say gift but a unique moment or so it could be, you know, wedding, anniversary, birthday, anything like that. So there's a couple of other groups out there that do that, but they don't have the production level or certainly the talent that's available to us in Nashville. To get to the web page of the radio show, click here. To download the mp3 file, click here.

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Leadership Tips for Project Managers – Part 2

International Institute for Learning

This maximizes the amount of value they can produce and increases the capabilities and capacity of the group. Before joining PMI, Mike consulted and managed innovation and technology projects throughout Europe, North and South America for 30+ years.

2023 92
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A clever tool to help you problem solve

Lynne Cazaly

It's one of the reasons I give groups and teams this creative and innovation thinking tool to make problems bigger. It's a process that let's you look at creativity, innovation and problem solving by making it bigger before you get your hands dirty by doing something about it. collaboration innovation problem solving template thinking

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