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Discovering the Diverse Sources Behind Innovation

Scrum.org

What Is Innovation Innovation refers to creating, developing, and implementing new ideas, products, services, or methods that bring something different and more effective into use. Innovation is necessary to adapt effectively; it enables us to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world. The only constant thing is change.

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Industrial Construction: Examples of Industrial Projects

ProjectManager.com

This is why industrial construction has special conveyance requirements, such as 24/7 shipping and receiving and accessibility to air and rail transport or major highways. Being able to manage all these elements, including scheduling and the costs involved in industrial construction requires project management software.

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How to Calculate Manufacturing Cycle Time (Formula Included)

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Finally, we show how project management software can help with manufacturing. Project management software can help manufacturers plan, track and monitor their cycle time. ProjectManager is award-winning software with kanban boards that visualize workflows. What Is Cycle Time In Manufacturing? Our dashboard is ready when you are.

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7 Logical Fallacies That Can Harm Your Decision Making (With Examples)

ProjectManager.com

Plus, being innovative requires taking risks and being aggressive. That means a retreat from innovation, which is bad business. Of course, we’re all ignorant of many things, even those things that revolve around the subject of the argument, but that doesn’t mean we throw up our hands and give up. Argument from Authority. Red Herring.

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Six Sigma: A Simple Guide for Project Managers

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Lean focuses on eliminating eight areas of waste: defects, overproduction, waiting, non-utilized talent, transportation, inventory, motion and extra-processing. As Agile methods continue to grow from the software development egg in which they were hatched, the style has found itself saddling up with Six Sigma. Six Sigma and Agile.

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Product Management Considerations for Project Managers

Project Pulse Journal

Dive into the complementary roles of product managers and project managers and explore how their collaboration can lead to desired outcomes by overcoming common challenges, making strategic decisions, and driving product innovation forward. Product teams can utilize a product roadmap showing iterations or incremental changes to the product.

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The “Big Tech” Threat to Automotive OEMs and Their Suppliers

Leading Agile

Innovators have already changed how we all view transportation in the past decade, including the shift from gasoline to battery-electric and from car ownership to transportation-as-a-service. How were these Apple/Google products better than the original OEM software? Here are a few ways: Better usability.