PMI Team Member
I love innovation. I have spent about half my career immersed in new product development, some in the hyper-change environment of start-ups. I hope you are inspired, moved, by the following qu ...
Situation: You Need to Better Manage the Processes Around Innovation at Your Organization.When the people heading up your PMO decide which projects get funding - Does innovation matter?I think that be ...
Situation: You want to create some interesting discussion around your PPM efforts... Enterprise PPM is all about driving positive business change - selecting the projects that will give your organizat ...
Situation: You Need a New Way to Deal with Project Requirements.Requirements are those tricky, slippery things that define the success or failure of your project. I recently ran across Jama Software, ...
From the Gartner PPM Summit 2007
If the first time your customers see a product is
during a focus group, then you have lost 70 percent of the opportunity to leverage them in the innovation process.
Projects are usually pushed to meet impossible goals. This INPD Coffee Corner is going to present Transactional Analysis (TA) concepts and show how they can be used by project teams to improve results.
Lateral Thinking is a dependable, systematic approach to creative thinking. It’s used as an igniter, striking the matches that lead to innovation in process, product, and problem solving. It gives people the tools they need to find profound solutions to the stubborn problems and roadblocks they encounter. Lateral Thinking provides unconventional techniques that help people escape from their usual patterns of thinking to produce enhanced results. The key is creativity. Innovation will never happen without creative ideas, processes, and thoughts. This webinar is a fast-paced, practical, interactive overview of Lateral Thinking.
Six Thinking Hats, a thinking skills course from Edward de Bono, teaches parallel thinking as an alternative to argument. Parallel thinking guides thought processes in one direction at a time so we can effectively analyze issues, generate new ideas, and make better decisions. Six Thinking Hats helps put our opinions and egos aside so we can focus on a way forward, without argument. This overview of Six Thinking Hats is fast-paced, practical, interactive, and immediately actionable.
This webinar provides key learnings in strategic initiatives. At the end you will learn: • What is a strategic initiative and what are the success factors? • How can you sell a vision? • What are some tips for making faster and better decisions? • Why program management is not project management on steroids • How leaders work with ambiguity and conflict • How strategic initiatives helped Domino’s Pizza Turnaround, “Driving Growth Through Innovation” at Royal DSM and Destination Disney • And much more
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"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man." - Chuang Tzu |
