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International Institute for Learning
JANUARY 30, 2020
We are excited to bring you this blog post on Innovation Project Management, which is adapted from Dr. Harold Kerzner’s new book of the same title. Below, he explains why this topic is so important, the types of challenges that innovation project managers face, and much more.
The Strategic Project Manager
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
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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Leading Answers
JUNE 19, 2019
If success goes to those who can innovate the fastest, how do we nurture innovation? To innovate faster than our competitors, we need to maximize our learning potential. Yet when searching for an innovative solution, we want all these extra brain circuits engaged. Obviously, it is not as simple as “happy people are the perfect innovators.” Summary Smart companies know the future belongs to the best innovators.
International Institute for Learning
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
Nowadays, companies are very conscious that if they want to be competitive, they have to innovate. It is worth quoting a sentence of the father of the Open Innovation concept, Henry Chesbrough: “Most innovation fails. And companies that don’t innovate die” [1]. In a nutshell, we can agree that innovation is all about bringing improvement and efficiency; and affecting the development of a company in a positive manner. By Luigi Morsa, Ph.D. .
Speaker: Dustin Smith, Sr. Product Manager, Incubator
The classic product story goes like this: A small team puts a great idea to work. Said idea becomes a wildly successful app. Team makes lots of money and attracts talent from all over the globe, quickly dotting the map with international offices. In a matter of years, a very small company becomes a global superpower. Romantic notions aside, the story neglects to mention the most essential variable to product success: scalability. If a product can't withstand a growing user base and diverse team, it'll never leave the think tank. Whether you're running a small startup or trying to get your idea to take off in a large corporation, you'll need the right tools and the perspective to scale your product. Join Dustin Smith, Senior Product Manager of the Innovation Incubator at Indeed, and learn how to scale your product for greatness.
Project Bliss
JANUARY 30, 2020
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.
Brad Egeland
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
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.
ProjectManager.com
AUGUST 2, 2018
Another popular word that gets tossed around often is innovation. In many cases, innovation is given the aura of the mythical and the inexplicable. But in my research, I’ve found that, like most things, innovation can be planned with software and encouraged with positive mindsets. Therefore, creating an innovation culture for your organization can be the key difference between an organization that innovates and grows and one that does not. What Is Innovation?
Henny Portman
JANUARY 13, 2021
The Continuous Innovation Framework (COIN) is designed to help large organizations to successfully and continuously develop, scale, and embed innovations and thus create a continuous Return on Innovation. Capture innovative ideas from internal and external sources?
ProjectManager.com
AUGUST 20, 2018
Everyone in business is talking about innovation, but how does one actually innovate? Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you practical steps you can take to innovate by using co-creation and project management techniques. In Review – Project Management Best Practices for Innovation and Co-Creation. An innovation, she said, is a new method, idea or product. Pro-Tip: There are many ways to promote innovation on your project.
Speaker: Laura Klein, Principal at Users Know and Author of UX for Lean Startups
We all have to make quick decisions about product interfaces, and there's not always a designer around when you need one. That doesn't mean that you're doomed to failure, though. Learn a few really common user experience design mistakes and how to avoid making them. Join UX designer and product management expert Laura Klein for a no-holds-barred Ask Me Anything session on UX design. Laura—principal of Users Know and author of Build Better Products and UX for Lean Startups—has over 20 years of experience helping companies innovate responsibly and improve their product development processes.
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The Strategic Project Manager
JANUARY 26, 2022
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.
MPUG
NOVEMBER 10, 2019
Without a constant flow of innovation, no company can expect to prosper – or perhaps, even survive. Traditionally, the department managing the flow of projects, including innovation initiatives, is the Project or Portfolio Management Office (the PMO). One that allows for the flow of innovation to align with the structure of the traditional PMO. There is an opportunity to create an Innovation Project Management Office (IPMO). Articles Innovation PMO
Henny Portman
DECEMBER 24, 2021
The book Cycles – The simplest, proven method to innovate faster while reducing risks , written by Bryan Cassady with the collaboration of 22 co-authors, offers not only the ‘ why’ and ‘ what’ but also the ‘ how’ of innovation. English Post innovation QRC review
Growing Agile
JULY 6, 2017
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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these innovative features become more commonplace, they’ll earn placement on this chart—and today’s. visualizations—which used to feel modern and innovative—have become commoditized. MONETIZING ANALYTICS FEATURES: Why Data Visualizations. Will Never Be Enough.
The Strategic Project Manager
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Innovation is an important topic these days simply because it is becoming critical to survival – for companies, governments, and people. Innovations are usually not completely new, a single stroke of genius, or just about a product. Innovation from a Strategic Perspective.
Leading Answers
JUNE 21, 2019
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. It furthermore places emphasis on the experiments—the inputs for learning and innovation. In the article “ The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures ,” Gary Pisano describes how killing bad ideas is critical.
Musings on Project Management
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
"They say" that competition fuels innovation (necessity is the mother of invention, etc)."They They say" that without competition, there's no motivation to innovate."They They say" that without innovation, societies stagnate and fail; they do not advance. Innovation Project ManagementThey" may have it somewhat wrong, or perhaps it's better to say "they" may have it somewhat incomplete.From historyRenowned historian Niall Ferguson --.
The Strategic Project Manager
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
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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innovative—are now table stakes. If they’re innovating their analytics while. Updating your application’s dashboards and reporting features. may feel optional—until suddenly it’s not. Watch for these 5 signs. that you’re at risk for an analytics emergency. Early Indicators.
Susanne Madsen
DECEMBER 27, 2018
I recently spoke at Dubai International Project Management Forum ( DIPMF ) and was struck by the innovative theme of the conference. Already when I prepared for my presentation the organisers said, “Innovation is a big thing down here”, and indeed it is. The Hamdan Bin Mohammed Award offers 8 awards with the aim of encouraging and promoting an innovative culture in project management. But apart from my books, how innovative have I really been? Innovation
International Institute for Learning
MAY 10, 2019
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. — The post Lisa Bodell on Simplification and Innovation appeared first on The IIL Blog.
Musings on Project Management
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Andrews and Chelsea Lensing at Coe College are working on another study, about the importance of coffee shops to innovation. The same happened when Dunkin’ Donuts, Peet’s Coffee and other chains arrived (*)Yes, InnovationLooking at the expansion of Starbucks from its base in Seattle starting in the 1980s, their preliminary results suggest that patenting activity increased when Starbucks came to town.
International Institute for Learning
MAY 15, 2020
The post The Effective and Innovative Virtual Team Leader appeared first on The IIL Blog. By Frank P. Saladis, PMP, LIMC MCCP, PMI Fellow. Virtual teams have been a part of the business, public, and not for profit environments for many years.
Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic
In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in their own ecosystem. He'll also go over metrics we can use to measure the health of our ecosystems as we build more resources for innovators.
Arras People
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Is your PMO the hub of innovation in your organisation? People are free to innovate, with the PMO’s framework of processes and templates at the core of all new activities. That way individuals and teams feel a part of the new plans and processes, will understand the benefits of adapting to new practices, and are able to add value and innovation within the new framework. Are you aiming for your PMO to be the hub of innovation?
ProjectManager.com
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Where it once implied daydreaming, now it is the realm of innovative businesses and forward-thinking leaders. While cloud storage has become a given for both personal and business use, before exploring how organizations are using the technology in innovative ways, it’s important to take an unbiased look at the service. Companies that Innovate with Cloud Storage. It was a risk that paid off handsomely for the company, but it involved innovative thinking.
Inloox
JANUARY 29, 2019
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.
Tony Adams
MAY 5, 2018
A new paradigm for commercial success is emerging, grounded in speed to market, innovative thinking and the ability to reimagine the customer experience. Snowden and Boone’s (2007) Cynefin framework highlights complex organisational characteristics as flux and unpredictability, competing ideas, creative and innovative approaches to problem-solving and pattern-based leadership. Leadership Complexity Innovation Monash University
Speaker: Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies
Innovation is both a process and an outcome. The best way to begin innovating your products is by innovating your internal process. We'll explore the challenges, solutions, and hands-on techniques for becoming a successful "agent of change" within a well-established product culture. We'll examine the importance of UX and user-centric feature analysis, the adaptation of Agile Methodologies to the creative process, as well as a way to drive successful culture change for setting expectations and winning approvals with cross-functional stakeholders. Innovation and Leadership go hand in hand. Join Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies, as we assess some case studies to see how to lead with a clear strategy well-defined tactics, and an unbiased understanding of the fundamental question: "why are you innovating?"
International Institute for Learning
MAY 10, 2019
Efosa Ojomo is Senior Research Fellow and Lead of Global Prosperity Research at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation. As a keynote speaker at IIL’s Leadership & Innovation 2019 Online Conference , he shared impactful theories and models that left us thinking about innovation in an entirely different way. Of the three types of innovation [market-creating, sustaining, efficiency], how do you determine which one to focus a team’s energy?
Tony Adams
APRIL 20, 2019
How do we plan with certainty when we are working in an disruptive environment that requires rapid, innovative thinking? How does an organisation’s business and innovation context affect the way it approaches project management? Shenhar and Dvir (2007) pose an interesting argument about innovation in a project management context. Their thing is the idea that different types of innovation require different approaches to project management.
Tony Adams
APRIL 20, 2019
How do we plan with certainty when we are working in an disruptive environment that requires rapid, innovative thinking? How does an organisation’s business and innovation context affect the way it approaches project management? Shenhar and Dvir (2007) pose an interesting argument about innovation in a project management context. Their thing is the idea that different types of innovation require different approaches to project management.
Leading Answers
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Again, free from some of the normal scrutiny and controls that aim for efficiency, these insulated groups can innovate quicker. Please Innovate While We Micromanage You!
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Every company wants to be a leader in innovation, but how can you tell if your company is really innovating or just going through the motions? See the 5 signs you might be faking innovation and what to do if you are.
Scrum.org
AUGUST 6, 2020
The focus of this article is on one of the most important things giving lifeblood to the Product Backlog and promoting its characteristic of long-living artifact, the Innovation. When is the right time to think about innovation for a Scrum Team? .
Tony Adams
MAY 15, 2019
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.
Tony Adams
MAY 15, 2019
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.
The IIL Blog
JUNE 28, 2018
Companies are recognizing that brand loyalty accompanied by a higher level of quality does not always equate to customer retention unless supported by some innovations. According to management guru Peter Drucker, there are only two sources for growth: marketing and innovation [Drucker, 2008]. Innovation is often viewed as the Holy Grail of business and the primary driver for growth. The question, of course, is “How do we manage innovation needs?”.
Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager
Businesses everywhere are trying to “get business agile”—but it’s not easy to adapt to becoming this adaptive. How can conventional organizations succeed in this transformation? In this webinar, Peter Taylor will walk through the change process step by step, and look at a tried and tested transformation roadmap: benefits are outlined, solutions to common challenges offered, and tried and tested methods and tools provided. It will be a guide towards a decentralized and management style that offers more successful decision making through collaboration.
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