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Comparing Industry Frameworks for Maturing Innovation Management The fall conference season is winding down and this year I’ve had the privilege of attending and speaking at some great innovation events, sharing the newly launched Innovation Management Maturity Model™. From regional PDMA meetings in Dallas and Atlanta, to the national PDMA PIM conference, the Optimizing Innovation conference...
During a webcast with SPI Research called, Leadership in Large Professional Services Organizations: Dwell or Excel, we discussed the latest research on the topic of trends in project-based businesses and how executive leadership is influencing the priorities of delivery excellence and project automation. Something interesting happened when we polled the audience of more than 150...
Dr. Phil has the most awesome one-liners. “No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s always got two sides.” This is so true. “If you’re gonna debate me, you better not let your alligator mouth overload your hummingbird ass.” I can’t interpret this one, but I’m sure it was spot on at the time....
If part of being an effective manager is understanding who you’re managing, it makes sense to learn about the generation that identifies those workers. There are now three distinct generations in the workforce: Millennials, Gen X, and Baby Boomers. Each of these generations was raised in a different period of time, has a different view...
“Didn’t you get the memo?” First widely popularized by Mike Judge’s cult classic Office Space, the phrase ‘didn’t you get the memo’ is most often said to those who find themselves out-of-the-loop. The movie itself does an excellent job of illustrating how static and impersonal communication breeds dissatisfaction, distrust, frustration and can eventually engulf your office...
‘Collaboration’ is almost becoming one of those over-used marketing terms. These days it seems like every tool out there claims to solve enterprise collaboration challenges one way or another. Which begs the question, if it’s just a matter of picking the right tool how come we’re not all working in a nirvana of collaborative harmony? For the sake of...
I am excited to introduce the Innovation Management Maturity Model™. Earlier this year, more than 700 product development professionals across the globe evaluated their organizations using this model in the upcoming Fourth Product Portfolio Management Benchmark Study — scheduled to publish this November. The preliminary results from the Fourth Product Portfolio Management Benchmark Study state:The...
#4 & #5 Characteristics of Mature Organizations in the Areas of Capacity Planning and Resource Management I’m back to uncover two more characteristics shown by organizations that have mature capacity planning and resource management practices in place. A research study identified common features of best performing companies in these areas. These attributes can be used...
Board – swim lanes Activity – history Activity – comments Project overview – custom tab name New documents – improvements in the new document management: @-referencing when commenting Share document by e-mail Search – more accounts added for cross-project search What’s up next? This has been an interesting month. We are working hard on many things...
The September-October 2013 issue of Research Technology Management Journal includes a case study on portfolio management written by our own Dan Smith and yours truly: “From Budget-Based to Strategy-Based Portfolio Management: A Six-Year Case Study”. In it, we describe the journey of a life sciences company as it transitioned from a conservative, somewhat disordered investment...
