Strategic Planning

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IdeaPlace’s 12 Days of Innovation: 9 Innovation Thought Leaders from Around the Globe

Happy holidays, innovation enthusiasts, and welcome to Planview IdeaPlace’s 12 Days of Innovation! This 2014 spotlight series features hand-picked resources, upcoming events, webcasts, thought leadership pieces, and more to give you an inspirational boost for the coming year. Enjoy! *** On the 9th day of innovation, we’d like to share with you: nine compelling innovation thought leaders worth knowing...

IdeaPlace’s 12 Days of Innovation: 8 of Our Favorite 2014 Blog Posts

Happy holidays, innovation enthusiasts, and welcome to Planview IdeaPlace’s 12 Days of Innovation! This 2014 spotlight series features hand-picked resources, upcoming events, webcasts, thought leadership pieces, and more to give you an inspirational boost for the coming year. Enjoy! *** On the 8th day of innovation, we’d like to share with you: eight of our favorite innovation blogs we’ve...

IdeaPlace’s 12 Days of Innovation: 7 Favorite Features

Happy holidays, innovation enthusiasts, and welcome to Planview IdeaPlace’s 12 Days of Innovation! This 2014 spotlight series features hand-picked resources, upcoming events, webcasts, thought leadership pieces, and more to give you an inspirational boost for the coming year. Enjoy! *** On the 7th day of innovation, we’d like to share with you: our seven favorite features offered in our...

IdeaPlace’s 12 Days of Innovation: 4 Customer Stories

Happy holidays, innovation enthusiasts, and welcome to Planview IdeaPlace’s 12 Days of Innovation! This 2014 spotlight series features hand-picked resources, upcoming events, webcasts, thought leadership pieces, and more to give you an inspirational boost for the coming year. Enjoy! *** On the fourth day of innovation, we’d like to share with you: four of our favorite customer stories —...

Innovating with Purpose

Let’s talk about an oft-maligned buzzword…innovation. By definition, it’s “a new method, idea, product, etc.” Be honest, how difficult do you find it to innovate and truly create something new and impactful in today’s world? If you feel like you’re lagging, you are not alone. The reality is that it takes time and resources to...

“Alright Stop, Collaborate and Listen”

Ahh, the sage words of Vanilla Ice. The man may have known little about 90s hairstyles and fashion, but he (perhaps unknowingly) nailed it when it comes to advice for the new order of IT organizations. However progressive, proactive and well-oiled we think we are, I’m going out on a limb and predicting that a...

The New Planview IdeaPlace Predictions Module: Forecasting the Value of Ideas Using Crowd Input

Crowdsourcing ideas is quickly becoming the standard procedure in enterprise innovation. The diversity of ideas and input that large groups of people can provide makes innovation programs more agile and predictable. This makes gathering and selecting ideas faster and more fruitful, but leaves the financial impacts out of the picture. However, it turns out that...

Planview IdeaPlace Sponsors the Chicago Innovation Summit 2014

This year, Planview IdeaPlace is proud to sponsor the 2014 Open Innovation Summit in Chicago, taking place this week on October 30th and 31st. With an incredible lineup of speakers and attendees, this year’s event promises to showcase how the “accumulation of technological advances and exponentially accelerating innovation can open the door to great opportunity.” What...

Business Capability Planning in the Enterprise Intelligence Age

Troux’s CTO, Bill Cason, hosted a webinar that looked at capability-based investment planning. The 20-minute session reviewed how decision makers use capability modeling to better integrate business and strategic IT planning for improved operations, competitiveness and value. The webinar and its takeaway, 6 Capability Maps Your Business Will Love, garnered a great deal of interest,...

The Persuasive Innovator: Influencing People to Collaborate

When you introduce the practice of collaborative innovation to your organization, you make the case to your colleagues that the approach will benefit them more than the status quo. Why might they agree with you? Have you developed your campaign of persuasion? Innovation architect Doug Collins shares his thinking on how you might influence people...