David A Fields

OCTOBER 17, 2023

There are better (and worse) ways for your consulting firm to react when you find yourself facing competition for an important project. Sometimes your prospective clients make inexplicable decisions.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Indeed, research covered in HBR revealed that an incredible 80% of employees are juggling at least a few projects at any one time. The researchers examined projects done by a large multinational firm to understand who was responsible for what, how time was allocated, and the monthly targets the project adhered to.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 5, 2023

Innovation and creativity are important drivers of success for any business or organization. Here are some steps you can take to foster a culture of innovation and creativity within your team: Encourage open-mindedness and divergent thinking: Encourage your team to think outside the box and consider multiple perspectives.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For instance, a study from KU Leuven University and the European Central Bank found that large companies do understandably innovate more often and more successfully than SMEs. In relative terms, this may be a small number, but when set against the 20 million or so SMEs operating across Europe, it’s a vast number of innovative firms.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are innovative practices coming to light all the time that benefit business owners and encourage employees into more productive outputs, and agile project management is the recent one gaining traction. Key Features of Agile Project Management. Project Plans. Agile project management has a lot of good parts to it.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 2, 2024

Here are 24 innovative leadership goals for the new year – including metrics to measure your progress…. Measurement: Percentage of successful projects applying Agile methods. Increase Innovation: Develop programs like hackathons, innovation days, and community support projects that help team members think outside of the box.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

When I looked back into history to track the origins of some of the everyday innovations we take for granted today, I found that every inventor tended to embody some or all of these same traits. It's a good time to innovate. * * * Peter H. The moral of the story: discovery is thrilling, but a good idea is just the beginning.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 4, 2024

In their search for innovative solutions, businesses actively seek a variety of unique ideas. However, focusing on a specific set of ideas also means the company might miss out on fresh and innovative ones. In rapidly evolving industries like technology, narrowing the search for ideas may not lead to innovative breakthroughs.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

T HE INNOVATION WE PRIZE at successful start-ups is a mindset that is brought into the start-up and not necessarily the inherent quality of every start-up. Innovation isn’t something that just happens; we create the conditions for it. Big organizations can innovate like small start-ups. Creating an Innovation Strategy.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 18, 2022

Part of the success of projects such as the Good Judgment Project is that the best participants would often hedge their predictions in terms of probabilities. That was reaffirmed by a recent study from the London School of Economics, which examined the use of scenarios when pitching new innovations. Framing the idea.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 19, 2021

It’s a narrative that paints a picture of investors backing perhaps a single startup in an industry, but research from Wharton highlights how VCs increasingly hedge their bets across a number of startups, and what’s more, this practice actually improves the efficiency of innovation in that sector. Supporting innovation.

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General Leadership

MARCH 23, 2014

Greatness comes from dreaming great dreams, and creativity and innovation is the spark which ignites dreams into action. It seems fitting to honor two wonderful examples of innovation: our first American President, George Washington and our 16th, Abraham Lincoln. Leadership Through Examples of Innovation. Planting a garden?

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Article: Rethinking project risk: finding opportunity in the unknown Written by Prebagaran Jayaraman Monday 26 February 2024 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email It’s common to think of ‘risk’ as negative, but did you know that it can also be positive? Reduced competitive edge. Underused resources.

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Change Starts Here

MARCH 9, 2021

Are you implementing a change project, or are you implementing organizational change? Are you implementing a product innovation, or are you fostering an entrepreneurial spirit? It’s an important distinction that may impact the success of your initiative.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 14, 2023

In a recent article, I highlighted some of the challenges involved in translating investment in technology and innovation into productivity improvements across the economy. This is emphasized by the fact that only 12% of respondents reported to having achieved an outstanding result using innovative dissemination channels.”

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 7, 2021

Innovation is an inherently risky endeavor and failure is an inevitable bedfellow. New research from City’s Business School explores a number of approaches digital innovators can take to reduce their risk of failure. It’s an approach that also reduces the risk of a single large project failing.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Drawing from my background as a physician and scientist, I designed The Wisdom Research Project, which involved interviews with 60 wise adults to find common denominators in their approach toward life. Such leaders have vision and a sense of innovation. Curiosity is the component that enables a company to move forward and grow.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 4, 2022

” I wrote last year about the crucial role slack plays in integrating innovations into any organization, as new technologies will need to be tested, new processes introduced, training on the new ways of working delivered, and so on. A study from the Innovation Unit outlined a number of things that could help to create such demand.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation. Optimizing innovation: Improving the past.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 1, 2024

Research from Harvard Business School explores the matter in the context of innovation, and examines how we can best encourage it at work. With so much of the modern world powered by open source software, there has been an understandable interest in trying to encourage people to participate in such projects.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 21, 2021

ReInA (Rural European Innovation Area) aims to provide resources, attract investment, support startups, and ultimately create employment in rural communities. This, coupled with a decline in rural entrepreneurship is creating an innovation gap between urban and rural areas.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

While such an approach certainly has its merits, research from Bocconi University highlights how it could also harm innovation. They also examined what impact this might have on innovation within an organization. This could enable innovators to more easily build networks and allow them to execute projects more rapidly.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Are you leading in a way that taps into your team’s potential for innovation, engagement, and open communication, or are you inadvertently stifling it? By listening to this episode, you will: Learn how to create the conditions for employees to engage, innovate, and grow naturally.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 4, 2024

For example: “I care about __ (you, this team, this project) and I’m confident we can find a solution that we can all work with.” It’s Too Late to Change Course Now This phrase acts like quicksand for team progress, promoting a fixed and inflexible approach that could stifle innovation and adaptability.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To truly harness their potential and drive organizational success, leaders must employ innovative and thoughtful strategies. Through personalized coaching, I provide leaders with the tools to create an environment where these individuals can thrive, innovate, and contribute to their fullest potential.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

So to get the most out of innovation processes such as design thinking, truly creative leaders also need to master the social dynamics of… [wait for the punchline}…humor! We have witnessed that skilled leaders, those we call “Stand-Up Strategists”, understand the utility of humor to boost innovation.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 25, 2020

At the heart of their hypothesis is the notion that older adults have a variety of passions, and that these passions can feed into new ideas and innovations. What’s more, these innovations are often with the interests of the community at heart rather than any personal or commercial gain. “A

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 29, 2023

The latest project from MEA is Generations Over Dinner , which aims to inspire meaningful conversations across generations. Bringing generations together The project aims to prompt participants to bring as many generations as possible to the dinner table. The Generations Over Dinner App is now available in the Apple App Store here.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 25, 2021

The last decade has seen a gradual rise in the practice of open innovation, such that recent data suggested nearly all organizations engage in at least some form of it. The researchers compiled survey data from 2015 and 2018, with the surveys measuring innovation activity in manufacturing companies across Russia.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 17, 2022

The success of the VCUK consortium reflects how innovation can be accelerated through multiple non-traditional strategies,” the researchers explain. The project received support from over 100 firms who were able to get a new ventilator design signed off within 21 days, with large-scale production beginning a few weeks later.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

When it comes to innovation, it is no different. Jeff DeGraff writes in The Innovation Code , “ Your dominant worldview is your biggest strength —the quality that makes you stand out from other people.” DeGraff describes four basic worldviews or approaches to innovation : the Artist, the Engineer, the Athlete, and the Sage.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 27, 2016

An executive at a company I work with recently told me: “W e have very creative employees who want to be innovative but find many obstacles created by the cultural opposition to it. We spend a lot of time training and encouraging employees at all levels how to be more creative and innovation. Allow employees time to innovate.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A far better approach is to ensure that the originator of the idea is involved throughout the development of the project. If you’re working on something creative, you can certainly receive the project as a handoff, but it shouldn’t be too late in the process,” they say. Seeing it through.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 8, 2021

The challenges involved in measuring innovation are legion, and this can be especially challenging in public companies that have reporting requirements. New research from The Business School shows that relaxation in reporting frequency would help the long-term thinking that is so important for innovation to thrive. fewer citations.

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Kevin Eikenberry

AUGUST 14, 2013

This is the third Wednesday in a row I’ve written about innovation. Ask most people what they think about when they consider creativity and innovation, and most likely [.]. Creativity Innovation Leadership Learning Manage Projects Personal Development Idea problem solving' Read on. .

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Crowdsourcing educational projects is perhaps not what immediately comes to mind when one thinks of crowdfunding, but research from the University of Michigan highlights not only how popular it is but how effective it can be. Indeed, each funded educational project on the platform achieves up to a 1.6% increase in pupil performance. “We

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

These leaders are essential for driving innovation and maintaining a competitive edge. Agile decision-making allows them to respond swiftly to challenges and pursue innovative solutions. Catalysts for Change: These executives excel at building high-performing teams and fostering a culture where innovation thrives.

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