Continuous Learning

Continuous Learning: Ongoing skill and knowledge enhancement for adaptability and growth in a rapidly changing business environment.

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Strategic Partnerships

Relationships between businesses formed to pursue common opportunities that neither company could achieve alone.

Gamification

Gamification: Applying game principles in non-game contexts to boost engagement and problem-solving.

Innovation Management Process

Innovation Management Process

Innovation management process is the system of tools and techniques used to foster creativity and convert ideas into successful products, services or processes.

Top Continuous Learning Resources

No thinking time left- help

Time-starved executives are struggling to find time for creative thinking in the midst of crisis events and remote work. Without dedicated time for innovation, humans risk becoming second-class citizens for thinking, losing personal experiences and relying on predictable social media algorithms.

Holidays and How to Plan Your Schedule Around Them

Planning around holidays is a minefield of risks for your project. Here are some tips.

Five Collaboration Techniques to Improve Team Performance

Enhance project team collaboration with traditional project management techniques and online collaboration software. Connect team members, create a team outline, recognize their efforts, and be transparent.

Putting Continuous Planning Types to Work

Learn about the different types of continuous planning organizations can use to adjust and react to new information and take advantage of emerging opportunities.

Do you have plans or planners?

Planning is vital for both innovation and strategy. While plans may be useless, planning itself creates value.

Using Guardrails to Guide Decision Making

Guardrails for decision-making can protect businesses from taking unnecessary risks. Netlfix’s context, not control mentality allows for decision-making guardrails that guide their employees toward good practices while giving them freedom to make independent decisions with responsibility.

Waging the War Against Burnout—Infographic

Super Project Managers can fight burnout and lead their teams to victory with these tips.

How Great Managers Can Drive Employee Engagement

Great managers can boost employee engagement by communicating effectively, leading by example, setting clear goals, focusing on strengths, providing opportunities for growth, letting employees make decisions, and celebrating successes.

Positive Ways to Handle Employee Resignations

Learn how to handle employee resignations with positivity and grace by following these tips from an innovation management blog.

The Ultimate Guide to Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement is a process that organizations use to continuously strive to be more efficient and effective. This article explains the benefits and challenges of Continuous Improvement, provides best practices for implementation, and highlights popular tools and methods.

Charisma is Important for a Leader, But There are Other Qualities to Consider

Charisma is important, but not the only trait a leader needs. Good leaders listen, surround themselves with smart people, delegate responsibility, never stop learning, and see the bigger picture.

Flow Load – Is Demand Outweighing Capacity?

Too much work in progress (WIP) can harm productivity in software development. Flow Load measures the number of items being worked on in a value stream, and tracking it can help teams optimize their workload.

Innovation dies at the handover

Handovers are a critical moment for innovation projects, and often lead to project failure. To prevent this, involve a diverse group of people early on in the project and plan for handovers in advance.

To Innovate We Must be Willing to Learn a Lot!

Learning agility is critical for innovative leadership. Agile learners are adaptable to changes and can learn from experiences. The concept is most often applied to leadership and has a profound impact on performance.

Here’s Why Consistency is Your Greatest Asset

Consistency is an undervalued asset in the workplace. This article explains why it is so important and how it will help you to build trust, prevent burnout, and achieve long-term results.

Epics, Stories, and Tasks

Learn how to make a seemingly impossible project manageable by breaking it down into smaller pieces.

Five success factors for the continuous improvement process

Five success factors for effective continuous improvement process: integrate CIP goals into corporate strategy, support employees, involve external partners, foster culture of continuous improvement, and utilize digital tools for collaboration.

Rethink Planning: Managing the Annual Plan Against Incoming Demand and Change

Experts recommend more frequent, ad hoc or monthly reviews of annual plans for successful planning and portfolio monitoring.

The Right Time will Never Come: 5 Steps to Execute Your Idea

Learn how to execute your idea and overcome procrastination by setting goals and taking action with these five steps.

Continuous Innovation: Advantages And Challenges

Continuous Innovation: Advantages And Challenges

Continuous innovation is essential for business growth and requires constant investment and commitment to stay competitive.

The Holiday Hangover

The Holiday Hangover

Project status reports are useful in tracking the health of work, but it's important to remember that there is more to it than pretty colors. Here are some reminders about each health color.

The Net Works

The Net Works

Networking is essential to success, but it is poorly understood. Sociologist Robin Dunbar's work on strong and weak ties has shown that we have an upper limit to the number of actual strong social connections we can maintain at any point in time. However, weak ties can help to increase innovation capacity. Trust is the force that makes networks work, and conversations should come first when building relationships.

Ways to Make your Innovation Culture Smell Better

Ways to Make your Innovation Culture Smell Better

If you are going to invest in the work to improve your innovation culture, you are investing in change.