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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Project Management

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation.

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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. What Is Design Thinking? 5 Phases of Design Thinking.

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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. What Is Innovation? What Is Culture?

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Decision Making Tools for Group Decisions

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article I will give you a few tools to help you facilitate the process and direct your team’s efforts and energy in the right direction. 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.

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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. This post examines a widely held theory about how innovations are absorbed and accepted by people, and the implications for implementing strategy. Diffusion Innovation Theory Model.

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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. Yet where’s the focus on experiments, the learning process and trials for the next iteration? However, innovation and learning take conscious effort, forward planning and accountability.

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A Lean Innovation Management Process: Discovering and Creating Value

The Strategic Project Manager

Products and services, projects, and processes all need to add value to be strategically viable. 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. That is the domain of lean innovation.

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