Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2024

Outside of Big Tech and a handful of other leading companies, machine learning initiatives routinely fail to deploy, never realizing value. This article presents a six-step practice for ushering machine learning projects from conception to deployment. What’s missing? A specialized business practice suitable for wide adoption.

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Artificial Inteligence Project Learning Data 129

Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Rutledge, CAE, president and CEO of the Construction Management Association of America, about the value trained and educated program and construction managers bring to projects, and how hiring the right pros can help improve U.S. For those investing in infrastructure (government bodies, private companies, etc.), infrastructure.

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Project Management Design Training 130

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

There are five reasons that large projects fail. Wrong projects are ones that defy conventional business rationale, creating outputs that either few people want, that add little to no real value, or that undershoot the desired benefits because they are so difficult to achieve.

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Project How To Leadership Management 140

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

One of the best ways to assess what proportions your company should allocate to different types of innovation projects is by looking at your current and desired innovation portfolio. Some companies, like technology companies which need to produce new offerings more quickly, might have a ratio that is more like 45-40-15.

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Project Innovation Report Software Review 289

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2024

Unfortunately, most companies lack these. Specifically, companies should invest in behavioral change, controlled experimentation, measurement of business value, data management, human capital development, and systems thinking. Once these capabilities are in place, companies should focus on picking the right projects for gen AI.

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Company Project Data System 138

Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Hi there, With 2022 almost behind us, a lot of companies and teams are planning their next steps for 2023. With the global economy stalling and fear of an upcoming recession, many companies have significantly slowed their investments into new innovation teams. Ensure everyone in the organisation still feels creative.

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How To Training Project Innovation 285

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

While the massive layoffs at meta are terrible, it sadly shows one of the major issues that companies struggle with when they try to grow and innovate too quickly … facebook tried a huge number of innovation projects which failed. Precious little of it has stuck, except for the headcount brought to work on these projects.

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Project LEAN Resources Leadership 248

Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

However, eventually as more employees join the company, the research shows that without management layers being added, employees become unable to organise themselves to actually deliver projects. Founders may even be able to all sit at a single table across from one another and collaborate this way.

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Project Creativity Innovation Ideation 315

Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This report is a follow up to the amazing InnoLead reports I have previously written and spoken about, including the one which outlined how over time companies planned to invest more and more in adjacent and transformational innovations. And the biggest drop is in what proportion of projects will be for transformational innovations.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Report Innovation 305

Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

It might seem like a straightforward question, but it is fundamental to whether a company will end up succeeding at innovation or failing. While many experts have argued for this in the past, in reality the research suggests it will depend more on the needs of each company. Companies that survive do both.

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Underperforming Technical Team Resources Innovation Project 291

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 23, 2024

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski When the fate of your company rests on a single project, who are the three people you’d tap to drag that pivotal project over the finish line? And to sharpen it further, ask yourself “Who do I want to lead the project that will save the company?” You now have […]

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Company Project Collaboration Change 110

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2024

The author analyze project teams across 257 firms to identify why only 60% of planned value is typically realized in change initiatives, focusing on four key factors: effective initial communication (“ACE the Memo”), ensuring resource accessibility and autonomy (“Master the Means”), employing mechanisms to align actions with goals (“Amplify with Mechanisms”), (..)

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Change Company How To Resources 145

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2024

Paper co-author Melotte, an experienced operations director, was selected to lead a pilot project to measure and subsequently lower the carbon embedded in its products. Melotte decided to follow the E-Liability Pilot Playbook, which divides a pilot project into four stages: Project Design, Data Collection; Data Analysis, and Action.

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Company Analysis Project Data 126

Idea to Value

JANUARY 4, 2022

This can be especially dangerous when the problem they are avoiding is that they are being disrupted , other companies are out-innovating them, an important project is off-target or performance KPIs are falling behind. The fear that froze the company came from two places.

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Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture Leadership 223

Idea to Value

JANUARY 15, 2024

A few weeks ago, I saw an article in Fast Company about the layoffs at IDEO , one of the world’s most respected Design Thinking firms. According to the Fast Company article, revenues have fallen from $300m in 2019 to under $100m in 2023, a more than 2/3 drop.

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Design Thinking Design Project Training 236

Idea to Value

DECEMBER 6, 2022

However, in general, investing in innovation can be a good way to drive economic growth and help a company or economy recover from a recession. Many successful companies have been able to weather recessions and even thrive during difficult economic times by investing in innovation and new products or services.

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Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT System Creativity 278

Idea to Value

JULY 13, 2021

And these skills are only going to become more valuable in the coming decades as companies realise that they are required for future growth. And trust me, any innovation project will have times when it feels like no progress is being made, or in some cases like you are moving backwards. Innovation requires working as a team.

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Innovation Project Creativity Brainstorming 321

Idea to Value

JANUARY 31, 2022

Over years, I specialised in helping companies deliver their largest transformation programs. Projects that would fundamentally change the company, and take them into the future. In reality, many of these projects were nothing more than incremental improvements. What I wanted was to help companies actually innovate.

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Creativity Project Disruption Company 255

Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

In 1998, the energy services company Enron built and maintained a fake trading floor on the sixth story of its headquarters in downtown Houston. Research into innovations happening at other companies. So be careful of being too deceptive in how well your own innovation projects are doing.

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Innovation Examples Project Brainstorming 303

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2023

With new breathtaking capabilities from generative AI released every several months — and AI hype escalating at an even higher rate — it’s high time we differentiate most of today’s practical ML projects from those research advances. This begins by correctly naming such projects: Call them “ML,” not “AI.”

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Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Company Project 135

Idea to Value

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As companies grow, it is inevitable that more hierarchies will be created. However, as layers of management build up on top of each other over time, there is a danger of developing a “ Ladder of No “ And this ladder of No can have a devastating impact on an innovation culture within companies. Project Manager ?

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Resources Project Management Culture 257

Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 18, 2019

And there, my friends, is one of the major reasons that we see so little innovation from established companies, and so much disruption from unexpected sources. Everything these companies have done over the last 30 years was focused on reducing risk and uncertainty. Risk has been eliminated from corporations. And we need it back.

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Technical Review Project Product Development Marketing 248

Idea to Value

DECEMBER 24, 2020

We speak about why a consultancy would bring in advertising people, and his experience in building creative capabilities within a large company. 00:06:30 – Some of the projects he has been involved with, including voice assist for hospitals. 00:04:00 – Why consultancies are bringing in creative talent from other industries.

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Creativity Project Industry Company 300

Idea to Value

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As the leader of a cross-functional innovation team within a large pharmaceutical company accelerator, I’ve noticed a recurring challenge: team members struggle to balance their innovation tasks with the demands of their regular roles. The same meetings, goals, and projects persist, leaving little room to truly focus on innovation tasks.

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Innovation Project Management Meeting 195

Idea to Value

JANUARY 21, 2022

When I was quite early on in my consulting career, I was tasked with evaluating all of the current projects which a client had. This is an example of a zombie project. Zombie projects are projects that just refuse to die. It may even start life as an innovation project or pilot. Or even worse, vampire projects.

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Project Resources Ideation Meeting 248

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2021

Why do so many companies keep making the “wrong” decisions time and again? And what impact does this have on innovation projects? So how can companies help to reduce the impact of this bias? It may be linked to a cognitive bias called the Ambiguity Effect bias. The impact of the Ambiguity Effect in innovation.

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Project Creativity Report Study 295

Idea to Value

APRIL 25, 2022

Over time, we don’t notice how our own company filters are getting clogged up. Like a well-oiled innovation pipeline, which allows certain projects to proceed and others need to be removed. As teams and companies grow, the amount of information which needs to be filtered can grow exponentially. of what it is now.

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Knowledge Base Project Leadership Data 263

Idea to Value

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many companies and leaders become afraid to make a decision because they are afraid it might not work out. It will not bring down the company or require massive changes to the fundamentals of the organisation. How can you determine if part of your business should be innovated on or not? At best, you stay at the status quo.

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Analysis Project Innovation Management Management 266

Idea to Value

MAY 21, 2021

While some private companies invest in cutting edge Research & Development , a huge amount of primary research is conducted through public funding , such as at Universities looking at fundamental new science and engineering opportunities. Now, this does not mean it is impossible for projects to get through this valley.

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Technical Review Innovation Technology Examples 286

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Researchers analyzed data from more than 1,000 customer-centricity transformation projects over the past 25 years. Most run their company or customer relationships based on a product-focused mindset, which puts the onus on finding a market to sell one’s products to, rather than orchestrating growth together with customers.

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