SaaS

SaaS refers to a software distribution model where a vendor hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the internet.

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Innovation Culture

Innovation Culture

The values, behaviors, and practices that support and encourage innovation within an organization.

External Factors

External factors are elements outside a company that can influence its performance and strategies, such as market trends and regulations.

Measuring Innovation

Measuring Innovation aims to find benchmarks and evaluate the performance and effectiveness of innovation initiatives within an organization.

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Delivering Rapid Innovation and Efficient Collaboration with Xtrac

Xtrac faced communication and information management issues due to outdated systems. Partnering with Planview AdaptiveWork improved efficiency and collaboration, and provided a single source of truth for all client information.

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Divide and Conquer

Division is one of the five innovation templates of the Systematic Inventive Thinking method. It works by breaking a product into its components and manipulating them to create new, innovative constructs.

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Divide and Conquer – How to Use the Division Technique

Creativity is a skill that can be learned using structured processes such as the division technique. This involves dividing a problem into smaller components and rearranging them to discover new solutions.

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Do You Have 5 Minutes? The True Cost of Context Switching

Using a Kanban board can improve communication and eliminate the need for status updates, resulting in increased productivity and reduced interruptions.

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Embracing a Continuous Improvement Practice for Effective Ideation

Continuous improvement can be challenging without a well-defined practice. Alan Robinson suggests an inclusive, idea-driven approach that embraces virtual teams and promotes cross-pollination.

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Open Innovation: Strategies and Best Practice to Manage Partnerships

Open innovation is a collaborative approach that taps into collective intelligence. It can help companies generate unique ideas, but careful management is needed to overcome challenges.

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Using Systematic Innovation on Digital Assets

Learn how to apply SIT innovation techniques to digital assets like websites, social media applications, and mobile apps to unlock more value for your customers and engage them more effectively.

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What exactly is Open Innovation?

Open innovation is the practice of sourcing ideas from outside of a company as well as from within. It can help companies develop new solutions and access a wider range of knowledge and expertise.

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What Great Leaders Know About Top Down Management – Planview AdaptiveWork

Leadership is crucial in determining productivity and morale. A great leader knows when to use the top-down and bottom-up management approaches.

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What has the inclusion of KM in ISO 9001 :2015 brought?

ISO 9001:2015 quality standards now includes a clause on managing knowledge, making it a requirement for certification. This has prompted organizations to invest and reap benefits from knowledge management practices.

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What is an Open Innovation Funnel?

Open innovation is a process for companies to gather ideas from external sources to drive innovation. An open innovation funnel is a key component of this process.

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What is the ambition matrix and how does it work as part of an innovation portfolio?

The Ambition Matrix is a tool that helps companies identify their innovation portfolio and execute their strategy on where to play and how to win.

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Where to innovate - Process Innovation explained

Process innovation involves the implementation of a new or improved method for production or delivery, resulting in cost reduction, increased efficiency, and better product quality.

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When to Use Self-organizing Teams?

Unlocking the full potential of a team through self-organizing structures is a significant topic for many companies today. Through innovation and a dedication to a common goal, self-organizing teams can increase effectiveness, morale, and results.

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Why Big Companies Are Losing When It Comes To Disruptive Innovation

Why is it difficult for big corporations to establish and maintain innovation strategies? The innovator's dilemma arises when companies have to focus on sustaining innovation rather than disruptive innovation. They need to find ways to transcend this dilemma and allocate resources to both sustain and innovate.

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Why Innovators Ought to Focus on Product Deconstruction

Innovation should not only focus on building new products and services, but also on making them easily deconstructable for reuse and recycling.

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Why You Should Stop Using Email to Manage Tasks

Email is not a productive way to handle tasks. Cloud-based project management tools can help by capturing tasks and listing them in order of priority, allowing for transparency across a team.

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WIP Limits: How to Journey Safely Into the Unknown (Part 1 of 3)

Limiting work in process (WIP) can improve flow and productivity, but it can be difficult. This article explores the benefits of applying WIP limits in knowledge work and why it's hard for us to do so.

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How Planview CloudLift Makes the Transition from On-premises to SaaS Easy

CloudLift is a program designed by Planview to help customers migrate from on-premises installations to the cloud, offering a range of benefits and tools to make the process smoother and more successful.

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Lessons from Lego: Low risk innovation tools for everyone!

LEGO's turnaround from bankruptcy to brand success was due to their low-risk innovation strategies which can be used by any company or startup, as explained in the book Innovation Tools.

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Making the Most of Your Resources With Task Unification

Theater director John Doyle found an innovative way to produce crowd-pleasing musicals on a tiny budget that earned him a Tony award.

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Competitive Advantages & Defensibility For Startups | Corporate Lab

Identifying competitive advantages and defensibility measures are crucial for startups to succeed in the long term.

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Future Trends of Innovation Management

Innovation management trends for 2020 include increased traceability and cloud capabilities, as well as a move towards expanded leadership support and resources.

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The Future of Database Technology

Disruptive database technologies are pushing retailers to innovate to stay relevant, with real-time data being crucial to enhanced user experience.

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The World of Work Today: Structured Versus Unstructured Work

Organizations face structured and unstructured work and require different methods and technology to complete tasks. Work and resource management solutions combine PPM and collaborative work management to enhance productivity by managing different types of work.

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Four Tools that Help Organizations Expand their Line of Sight and Move Ahead

Organizations must have tools, including dashboards, centralized document repositories, collaborative work management solutions, and task management to adapt to change and uncertainty to achieve business success.

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Holiday Innovation: The SIT Patterns in Christmas Gifts

Innovation patterns from Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT) can be found in America's longest running catalog, Hammacher Schlemmer, offering best, only, and unexpected gifts for 166 years.

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Innovation Marketplaces

Open innovation intermediaries, like IdeaConnection and InnoCentive, offer a great way for small companies to engage in open innovation, build skills and collaborate with experts.

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Innovation Sighting: Task Unification and CAPTCHA

Captcha, the system that protects websites from computer-generated spam, is also being used to digitize books. Professor Luis von Ahn invented the system and now uses it to scan and digitize printed words while proving users are not machines.

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Innovation Sighting: Task Unification and Drug Dispensing Contact Lenses

Researchers at Harvard Medical School have developed a new contact lens that may help glaucoma patients.

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Creating New Opportunities in the Digital Space

Creating New Opportunities in the Digital Space

The SIT method can be applied to digital assets such as websites, social media platforms, and mobile apps to create innovative solutions.

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Know About Type Of Open Innovation

Know About Type Of Open Innovation

Open innovation involves corporations and organizations sourcing ideas from external and internal sources. It can be classified into four levels of inclusion and is beneficial for maintaining relevancy and surviving in the market.

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Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge: A Guidebook for Training and Certification

Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge: A Guidebook for Training and Certification

Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge - examples of the specific ways in which fundamental principles are applied to a range of product and service development situations.

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Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

From a universal basic income to a 15hour workweek, from a world without borders to a world without poverty – it’s time to return to utopian thinking.

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Trend Analysis Template

Trend Analysis Template

Evaluate different trends and their potential market impact by using the trend profile as a structure for your data.

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Trend Mapping

Trend Mapping

Map the most important drivers of change that could influence your business and bring opportunities for innovation.

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