A project team coalesces into one of four common forms. The most effective form within an the organization depends on the culture and interpersonal dynamics accepted and practiced across bounds of responsibility. Where team dynamics are the exception and not…
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The Best Kind of Project Team for Your Organization
Tagged with: cross-functional team, organizational structure, problem-solving, self-managed team, teams, virtual team
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Quality Management Across Profit Models: From Big Splash to Long Tails
Conditions for business success changed from the industrial shops to the manufacturing organizations operating today. One particularly important condition for success is quality management in the creation and production of new products. There exist numerous scarcity factors that impact quality…
Tagged with: long tail, manufacturing model, profit model, quality management, scientific management, service model, Taylor
Posted in Innovation Management, Technology Management
Posted in Innovation Management, Technology Management
Invest in Research to Innovate Successfully, But It’s Not the Kind of Research You’re Thinking
Directing resources away from research and development is a gamble for marginal and short-term revenue gains at the cost of eroding sound market foundations. Research and development are engines of technological innovation which is in turn much of the source…
Tagged with: Appropriating value, innovating example, market research
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Posted in Innovation Management
The Importance of Leadership Competence and Integrity
Competence Is Not Optional To develop confidence among stakeholders and team members, project managers must exhibit professional knowledge and acumen. When a team has reasonable questions about the competence of a project manager, they cannot predict what will happen when problems are…
Tagged with: ethics, integrity, leadership, management, professionalism
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Posted in Innovation Management, Technology Management
Detecting Faux Innovation
Don’t everyone fall down in disbelief but Snapchat is full of it. It’s singular contribution to enterprise is how to use tech naiveté and imprecise language to bilk investors and users. The Snapchat team is delivering a product that has…
Functional Advocacy: A Sense of Adventure in Strategy and Innovation
Part 4 of 4 in a series Set Your Course Turning it over in your mind, the functional advocate role seems to solve some very difficult problems. Failures of understanding across disciplines wastes time, energy, and materials. In these conditions,…
Tagged with: Business Innovation, collaborative innovation, functional advocacy, governance
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Functional Advocacy: A Sense of Resolve in Strategy and Innovation
Part 3 of 4 in a series Silos Isolate and That’s What They’re For So let’s talk about the need for a new role, the functional advocate. Within every functional organization, knowledge domain experts lead a group of progressively more…
Functional Advocacy: A Sense of Foreboding in Strategy and Innovation
Part 2 of 4 in a series Something has to change. There it is, out in the open. Of course, it’s a reality that wrings anxiety from the stoutest heart. Pushing expectations forward seems troubling, but what’s the alternative? More…
Tagged with: Business Innovation, functional advocacy, governance, innovation strategy, management innovation
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Functional Advocacy: A Sense of Absence in Strategy and Innovation
Part 1 of 4 in a series Turn your mind’s eye to the history of innovation implementations in your organization. Do you see a line of progressive success stories? Has each produced efficiency and value in the daily routines of…
Tagged with: Business Innovation, functional advocacy, governance, innovation strategy
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Posted in Innovation Management
How Agile Project and Critical Chaining Can Fit in Traditional IT
Previously, I encouraged the use of critical chaining estimation when creating project network models as opposed to traditional project pathing. The Agile Manifesto value to which that discussion pertains is: Customer collaboration over contract negotiation The ‘customer’ in this case…
Tagged with: Agile project, critical chain, critical path, project management
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