Category: Communication

Change Management Canvas
Change management involves a structure and collaborative approach if change is to be successful. Check out this interactive planning tool available at Innovate Vancouver.
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Earned Value in Construction Project Management
Earned Value in construction management involves evaluating how a project is performing. Comparisons are made against the project’s plan as resources are allocated, hours are deployed, and phases are launched....
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Operations Planning: Delivering Innovation
Strategic planning establishes the vision for the company but operations planning is responsible for ensuring that the goals are achieved. Each team (or department, etc.) is responsible for establishing what...
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Normative Models in Innovation Consulting
Espoused normative belief’s represent the collective ideas, assumptions, and beliefs a group or individual has about oneself. When these beliefs differ from the actual ‘held beliefs’ implemented the results can...
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Product Innovation: Ten Empathy Myths
Product innovation depends on understanding the customer. Although empathy represents society’s highest claim on understanding another person (culture, or group) the results often exceed best intentions. When new product innovations fail...
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Job Search Innovation: A Systems Approach
The days of searching through newspapers and filling out paper based applications is a thing of the past. The job search now includes signing up with complex databases and receiving...
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Brand Equity in Innovative Markets
Brand equity is the commercial value that derives from consumer perception of the brand name of a particular product or service, and not from the product or service itself (Shopify.ca). This...
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Interview Innovation: Creating Competitive Advantages
The interview process is full of pitfalls and misconceptions that can undermine the company’s competitive advantages. This is not unavoidable but the homeostatic mechanisms that reinforce the status quo, and...
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