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

Idea to Value

You may know that in addition to my work on innovation and creativity , I work as a professional Project Manager. 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. Let’s dive in.

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How to Kill Innovation Projects

Destination Innovation

Starting exploration projects. Killing the weaker projects. They are all important but I believe that the most vital is #8 – the ability to kill off the weaker projects. Starting evaluation projects is harder but you need to start many because no-one knows which will succeed. It does not meet a real customer need.

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Innovation cannot succeed without dedicated time for team members

Idea to Value

Our team brings together individuals from multiple departments, each contributing a portion of their time—typically 20% to 50%—to the innovation project. The same meetings, goals, and projects persist, leaving little room to truly focus on innovation tasks. ” This is a common issue in innovation teams.

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Could your team cut down meetings to only two days a week?

Idea to Value

Is your team having too many meetings? Do you ever come to the end of a workday and feel stressed because instead of getting any productive work done, you have spent nearly the whole day in back-to-back meetings? 70% of all meetings prevent people being productive. These meetings may seem like the best time to do this.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Prepare your team to navigate seasonal peaks and meet specialized delivery expectations without missing a beat. 🔁 Effortless Complex, Project-Based Orders: Coordinate multi-vendor inventory and timelines for consistent customer satisfaction. .

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Maker’s schedules, Manager’s schedules and why meetings can destroy productivity

Idea to Value

Managers: Managers like to fill their calendar meetings from start to finish, in order to make important decisions quickly and help others progress on things that require their input or for them to unlock. Often, meetings can be short (30, 15 or even 5 minutes) but should be booked in the calendar.

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L.I.V.E. (Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution): A new, more effective way to manage multiple innovation projects

Idea to Value

This new management method makes it nearly impossible for innovation teams to fail at delivering multiple challenging innovation projects faster, with less risk and lower required budgets. Most innovation experts often say that traditional management processes are not the way to run innovation projects. And this is true.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Living With Technical Debt: Balancing Quality and Perfection

Speaker: Cliff Gilley, The Clever PM

Unexpected details pop up, as small as UX that needs clean-up, and as big as a previously unforeseen flaw in the infrastructure of a project. Are we willing to live with some level of technical debt in order to ship product and meet deadlines? Whether you like it or not - because it can’t be avoided.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.