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How A.I. can help you better lead projects and teams

Idea to Value

As I’ve just finished leading an 18-month project, I am reflecting on how project management and leading teams is changing as Artificial Intelligence becomes more common in the workplace. If you have a project or team needing leadership and management, book an appointment with me now and we can speak about how I could help you.

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Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment

Boxes and Arrows

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

Agile 108
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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using

Idea to Value

Brought to prominence by Professor Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma , this important theory provides an explanation as to why large, established companies eventually get overtaken by smaller ones, and it introduced the concept of disruptive innovation. If this doesn’t work, it is going to make me look bad.

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Do you have an Innovation Mindset? Do you want one…? Are you sure?

Idea to Value

Like so many other organizational leaders in China at that time, I had a very young team and we needed to skill-up. Within 18 months or so, they had developed a solid Innovation Skillset foundation. I needed to help my team and leaders cultivate an Innovation Mindset. But how to do that? And I found one.

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Implementing AI: The Paradox of Devotion and Detachment

Faisal Hoque

Let me share how we’ve integrated the principles of Devotion and Detachment into our AI strategy and implementations, leveraging the OPEN and CARE frameworks outlined in our upcoming book, TRANSCEND. Organizations must be willing to acknowledge their weaknesses to address them effectively. Adapted from my book TRANSCEND.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. His latest book, What a Unicorn Knows , is available on Amazon and reveals the secrets to building high growth startups. Here’s a Q&A with Matt that highlights the key points in the book. They are real.

Strategy 130
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Risk and Innovation frustrate me

Paul Hobcraft

Still I came away with a 50% achievement mark which was not so bad on the overall innovation intent I had set myself but one area was very frustrating to move forward upon- the subject of risk and how it is treated in innovation management. Blood pressure pills came in handy here also. It is going to be tougher than I initially imagined.