The Innovator’s Challenge: Fighting Back

The Innovator’s Challenge: Fighting Back

Resistance to innovation is strong due to fear of change and the riskiness of innovative ideas. However, instead of viewing resistance as a negative, embrace it to stimulate healthy discussions and constructive feedback. This helps to strengthen ideas by pointing out negative aspects and soft spots. In addition, compete for resources by continuously generating new concepts and making people aware of them through visual images or small prototypes. Managers invest in projects based on track record and future potential, so innovators need to innovate continuously and have a healthy pipeline of new concepts to secure funding. Being an innovator is rewarding and necessary for success in any field.

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The Problem With Lean Startup... And Solution To Its Fatal Flaw

Integrated Venture Engineering (IVE) is an emerging practice that uses a three-step approach to engineer new business systems. This article explains how IVE can solve the flaws of the Lean Startup approach by designing a business as a whole system instead of starting small and building iteratively.

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4 Intrapreneurs on the Blues And Bliss of Big Company Innovation

4 Intrapreneurs on the Blues And Bliss of Big Company Innovation

Four intrapreneurs share their experiences in large companies, discussing their challenges, successes, and personal growth at the Intrapreneurship Conference in Stockholm.

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The Myth of Multitasking: Why IT Operations Needs WIP Limits

Multitasking is damaging to productivity, and Kanban helps minimize it by limiting how much work can be in process at one time. This article explains how IT Operations teams can use WIP limits to avoid multitasking and get more work done effectively.

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