Connecting Innovation Investments with Delivery

If you read part 1 of this series “The Complexity of Managing Smarter, More Connected Products,” it probably does not come as a surprise that while innovation investments are on the rise, business leaders are still struggling to align resources and money to their strategic targets. In part 2 of this series, we’ll look at...

Gray Space: How to Develop Valuable Ideas and Get Them Across the Finish Line

Ideating and selecting winning ideas – ideas deemed worthy of further development – is half the battle when it comes to crowdsourced innovation. The other half, which is arguably the most important part of the innovation process, is what you do after you’ve selected the top ideas from a crowdsourced innovation challenge. As you narrow...

How to Promote a Culture of Employee Engagement Through Innovation

Business2Community recently published an article written by Planview IdeaPlace’s CEO, Scott Raskin, discussing how a focus on crowdsourced innovation can help drive employee engagement. The reality is, having engaged employees in today’s competitive business landscape is important now more than ever. This is why companies invest so much money on improving employee engagement – over...

Spotlight: How to Activate Employee Ideas and Leverage Their Creativity

“Success is more of a bottom-up phenomenon than a top-down one.” This is a direct quote from a recent Forbes article written by Peter Georgescu, Chairman Emeritus of Young & Rubicam and author of Capitalists Arise!, where he explores how companies can activate employee ideas and leverage their creativity using Planview IdeaPlace’s platform. In the...

Getting Your Tone Right in Written Communications

Communication has always been a vital part of any manager’s skill set. From resolving conflict and promoting team unity to delegating effectively and ensuring team members are aware of their responsibilities, among many other key functions, being able to get your message across concisely and in a professional tone can go a long way towards...

UK Unemployment Has Dropped to 4%

Britain’s economy continues to show outstanding robustness in the face of the grave uncertainty surrounding the future of its economy after Brexit. Recent economic data has shown that unemployment in the UK has fallen to 4%, its lowest level for over 40 years, since the winter of 1974-75. This is quite remarkable considering the uncertain...

What’s Different About Agile Project Management?

The following content is taken from the popular whitepaper, “Agile Project Management: What’s the story?” written by Jerry Manas. It’s so good, we wanted to make it free to our readers and give it everlasting life on our blog for your enjoyment. There is no doubt that Agile project management, the adaptive methodology that spread...

To Transform to Have Agility, Don’t Do a Capital A, Capital T Agile Transformation

The concept of “flow” is a common thread in DevOps. Fin Goulding and Hayden Shaughnessy do a great job summarizing the concept of flow and how it relates to digital transformation in their book Flow: A Handbook for Change-Makers, Mavericks, Innovation Activists and Leaders: Digital Transformation Simplified. In a previous article, “Modular Architectures Make You...

Building a Culture of Employee-Led Innovation

In a recent HR Technologist article, Planview IdeaPlace CEO, Scott Raskin, made the case for why companies need to get employees invested in their innovation and improvement processes – and how to do it. At Planview IdeaPlace, our customers have seen a significant difference in how engaged their employees are when they’re able to collaborate...

3 Steps to Dominate Digital Disruption

Digital disruption is everywhere. It has infiltrated not only the ways in which people work, how organizations deliver products, and what is required to remain competitive in today’s market, but it has also vastly altered customer expectations and demands. Gone are the days in which customers merely anticipated the next product release—those days have been...