Christensen Institute

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

MacMillan, is a way to plan new ventures that allows for the uncovering, testing, and if necessary the reversal of assumptions made when starting a new project. Identifying these assumptions, and having discussions over assumption disagreements can help you adjust as necessary and plan better projects.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In this guest post, learn how to effectively implement a virtually-led design thinking project. There’s no question that teams are capable of great things when working remotely, and there is no shortage of project management tools, virtual whiteboards and prototyping software out there to help. Tips for getting great results.

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

We spoke with the couple about their experience fixing up a resort property — and attempting to open it during the COVID-19 pandemic — and got their best tips for homeowners looking to tackle their own DIY projects. What are some tips you’d give to a homeowner looking to take on a home renovation project; DIY or otherwise?

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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 9, 2020

You can use the techniques and tips in this course to help you approach challenges in new ways and to find better and even brilliant solutions. This course will inspire you to start on your creative projects. They are taken from six creative challenges included in my new course – Boost Your Personal Creativity.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2023

He shared some tips for aspiring and early-career tech professionals to help them get their first or next job in their ideal career path. Past projects are the most important thing to focus on in an IT resume. Greg Langstaff is a certified resume strategist and interview coach who helps people land the jobs of their dreams.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 2, 2020

Yet bringing your team out of their box of day-to-day tasks and larger projects to focus on innovation can feel daunting. The post Eight Tips to Improve Employee Engagement in 2020 appeared first on IdeaScale. Drawing together everyone should be the goal of any innovative organization.

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Braden Kelley

JUNE 1, 2017

Here is mine: If your change effort or project begins in a Microsoft Word document, you’re already in … Continue reading → Recently my colleague Daniel Lock collected and published points-of-view (POV) from 13 change management experts on implementing fast, dramatic and powerful change.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Empowering Your Leadership with Emotional Intelligence: Tips for Success As leaders, it’s not just about what we know, but also about how we interact with others and manage our own emotions. For example, imagine you’re leading a team meeting and one of the team members has a concern about a project.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Creating small pilot projects and other incubators in your most established businesses will allow you to foster innovation and give your team room to toy with ideas. The post Five Tips for Cultivating Creative Thinking on Your Team appeared first on IdeaScale. It’s easy for an established business to go on “autopilot.”

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 21, 2019

Since IdeaScale is an innovation management platform, it doesn’t have to be tied to a single project, but can continually work to bring innovations to fruition, since innovation never stops. The post IdeaScale CEO Shares Innovation Tips with SuperbCrew appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Destination Innovation

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Traditionally businesses developed all their new products in-house using ideas that came from their Marketing or R&D departments (or sometimes the MD’s pet projects). Here are ten top tips to help you grasp the benefits of OI for your company: 1. Define what you want to achieve. Assess in what areas you need more innovation.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 5, 2016

And he recently shared one tip for how to spend less time procrastinating and more time actually executing your ideas. But then they tell me they are frustrated that none of the projects ever seem to get finished. Warren Buffet is known as one of the most successful and generous investors of all time. actually deserve your attention.

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CMOE

JANUARY 20, 2021

Here are 10 tips for making working at home as productive as possible. It is important that you talk to your colleagues regularly to ensure that projects stay on track and the morale of the team stays high. The post 10 Productivity Tips for Working from Home appeared first on CMOE. Create a Schedule.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Failure in a funded project in a corporation is typically judged rather harshly, and over the last 3 to 4 decades with outsourcing, rightsizing, cost reductions, six sigma and more, we've trained a management cadre to dislike change, risk and uncertainty. Funding is both a blessing and a curse for corporate innovators.

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TechEmpower Innovation

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On a different project, we’d just used a Large Language Model (LLM) - in this case OpenAI’s GPT - to provide users with pre-filled text boxes, with content based on choices they’d previously made. Since LLMs can understand text as well as generate it, the tips could be interactive as well as personalized.

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Here are 5 tips for getting that done. The members are able to communicate seamlessly on the platform on project issues, and the social channels are used for friendly and non-work-related chats. The result has been improved project performance among remote workers. Communicate Better with #Slack. Example from Industry.

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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 2, 2021

In Conclusion: Transformation projects are hard to execute on. One of the things that I have experienced is that people who once opposed a change effort and have been won over are the best ambassadors for the change effort to be showcased. In my experience, they also become the most vocal supporters of the change effort.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 15, 2019

I'm just wrapping up another project that's focused on trend spotting and scenario planning, working to help a client company understand the emerging competitive conditions their business will face in the next 5-7 years. Instead innovators plunge in to create the products and services they believe customers need.

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Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Here are some key considerations and tips. Key tasks, projects and accounts have to be reallocated but some lower priority work should be dropped. This gives leaders a big challenge. You have recruited and developed a successful team. Now you have to chop it back. What should you do? Plan carefully. Reassign workloads.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Provide project opportunities that highlight purpose. Give employees time to work on projects that are meaningful to them. Our latest whitepaper shares tips and strategies that others are using to get there. Share positive customer stories. Consider realigning employees to emphasize strengths and interests.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

The TRIZ acronym comes from it’s original Russian name, and in English it is often referred to as a “theory of inventive problem solving” or TIPS. Companies which want a structured system to manage a funnel of ideas and projects (e.g. like P&G’s Connect and Develop platform). Business Model Canvas.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Harvard Business Review says some common ways of measuring innovation — outside of revenue production — include counting the number of ideas that were put forth and projects in the works and determining the scope of progress on these projects as well as their impact on the bottom line. A Legacy of Innovation.

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PlanBox Innovation

APRIL 5, 2022

As Aimee Reynolds, project liaison for Novartis’ Genesis Labs, said about the event (35:36): “We encouraged psychological safety with our colleagues who were willing to put themselves out there and propose what sometimes might seem like crazy transformative ideas on the platform. Encourage Inclusivity, Equity And Psychological Safety.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 30, 2020

Perhaps the most famous example of these practices is the Braintrust , a regular meeting where all the most experienced creative directors of the company meet to assess progress for each ongoing project. However, there are a couple of other tips that can really help to get the message through, and to get everyone onboard: Be transparent.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

For example, a project team with strong capabilities to deliver innovation can be prevented from succeeding by a management team with inappropriate governance processes. Lean Innovation Project Management: Putting in place a structure which teams can use to focus limited time and energy on progressing ideas quickly, and validating progress.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Here’s how to get your strategy in tip-top shape: Mission Statement : What’s your reason for waking up every morning? Resource Swag : Make sure you’ve got the budget, crew, and tech ready to power your creative projects. For more tips, swing by our guide on how to use innovation to turbocharge your business strategy.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Here are three tips that might help you change that attitude: Celebrate Failures. When you’re celebrating new ideas and projects that succeeded, share the stage with ideas that didn’t make it to the final round but showed a lot of promise. Well, you start by changing your organization’s attitude to failure.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 22, 2019

4 Tips for Intrapreneurs Who Want to Scale-Up While there are many supporting methodologies to start an innovation project (design thinking, lean start-up, business model canvas, blue ocean,…), Lean scale-up by Ash Maurya provides precious guidelines, and metrics, but was not conceived with the case of a corporate start-up / intrapreneur project in (..)

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Imaginatik

MARCH 1, 2018

Although the innovation group’s original charter was to focus on disruptive digital technologies, they quickly found themselves working on everything from small process tweaks in Customer Service operations, all the way up to incubating entrepreneurial projects trying to re-architect the company’s global billing processes on the blockchain.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 20, 2022

Unlike Horizon Planning where projects are prioritized based on “level of innovation” and “time to ROI”, Visibility Planning is based on evidence. Moves The Needle’s Project Prioritization board is a 2×2 poster that helps you visualize where to invest resources based on impact and evidence.

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Michael Roberto

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I came across a few excellent tips from Lauren Eskreis-Winkler , an assistant professor of management and organizations at the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University). She argues for more transparency when it comes to projects that do not achieve desired goals. Use attribution bias to your advantage!

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IdeaScale

MAY 4, 2017

Prescriptive problem statement: To promote prosperity for you and your neighbors, the city revitalization project must match your needs and your vision for our shared city center. Check back next week for tips on how to help your crowd generate fresh and novel ideas. What does a revitalized city center look like to you?

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Planview

MAY 20, 2022

In this post, we’re going to show you how to execute a project. You’ve initiated your project, created an in-depth plan, and secured stakeholder buy-in. Except that, as every PMO knows, project execution is the most challenging stage of the project life cycle, and it’s only gotten more difficult in a world of hybrid and remote work.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Some examples of goals that align with the vision and mission of the organization include: Improving project completion by X% by the end of October. This PM goal could focus on better streamlining projects and boosting efficiency by X%. For example, “improving project management” is a rather broad goal.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

We can create home improvement projects easy and fast. Air Tool Guy is where he shares tips, experience and passion to fellow DIY-ers. As we head towards a fully-automated future, w e can see many indicators of how technology changes our house. With technology, we can make our home a convenient place to stay.

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Be-novative

JANUARY 18, 2021

Be-novative Partner Hub 2nd Training How to create Results and Outcome driven projects? We share knowledge, inspire people and actively co-create new methods. We contribute to a better, more creative Earth. We organized a company-wide innovation competition with IQBusiness in 2020 May, due to Be-novative’s free workshops.

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