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Who Exactly are the Crowd Workers?

IdeaScale

However, project managers might wonder exactly who these “crowd workers” are. Critics often assume that employed professionals don’t have time to participate in crowdsourcing projects. This means that crowdsourcing projects are generally a hobby or a second source of income. Who Are Crowd Workers? What Motivates the Crowd?

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6 Building Blocks for Innovation Department Success

IdeaScale

Allocating specific times for team members to work on ideas and projects promotes actual results. This may mean designating a specific project for team members to charge their time to while working with the team. Create an Environment of Psychological Safety.

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Innovation Project Governance Do's & Don'ts

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Despite its importance, innovation project governance is often handled ineffectively, slowing down rather than driving innovation. Innovation project governance is a decision-making discipline where organizational leaders decide which ideas to pursue, how to allocate the innovation budget, and how to assign resources.

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Embracing Agile Methodology to Spur Innovation

IdeaScale

Agile methods have since been adopted by a multitude of non-technology industries that are applying its principles and core values to project management initiatives. You wouldn’t tackle an entire project without breaking it down first. The Agile Method groups the individual tasks of a project into two- to three-week segments.

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Juggling Multiple Project Execution Methodologies? This is for you.

Planview

As a project management leader, you’ve likely encountered the challenges of using multiple project execution methodologies (such as: waterfall projects, as well as collaborative and Lean-Agile work delivery). You have to pick the right methodologies for your project, and the right tools that will support it.

Project 59
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Health Check: How’s Your Innovation Lifecycle?

IdeaScale

Institute a waiting period before committing to fund an expensive project, and allow yourself to go only a certain percentage over the budget. For more information about the innovation life cycle and other innovation strategies, request a demo. Most ideas don’t pan out as expected. Make some rules about going overbudget.

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Propel Your Innovation Strategy into Overdrive with Big Data

IdeaScale

Ready to learn more about harnessing big data for your innovation projects? Request a demo of IdeaScale today! If the trends point one way in your data, for example, but your customer actions are telling you something different, it’s worth asking why this discrepancy exists.

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