Category: Technology
Legacy Systems & Resistance to Innovation
Legacy systems represent business models that are dependent on outdated technologies, products/services, networks, and/or value propositions that are no longer competitive. In many instances, these legacy systems started out as competitive...
Accommodation in Business Excellence Fatigue
The role of accommodation in business excellence involves understanding what wastes to remove, what opportunities to leverage, what problems need resolution, and when to pivot. It involves identifying what is important...
Personality Driven Planning: Innovation Lessons
As the saying goes, ‘the squeaky wheel gets the grease,’ which means the person or group with the loudest voice is often the one who is heard. This is not...
Practical Innovation: Finding a Solution
Practical Innovation as a Solution
Vanity Metrics in Innovation: Evaluating Impact
Vanity Metrics in Innovation limit industries’ ability to support, evaluate, and celebrate real innovation. One company may define innovation as merely pivoting to step 1.1 (from 1.0) where others may need...
Project Bid in Competitive Markets
The project bid process incorporates an ecosystem of players including government agencies, private employers, NGO’s, vendors, and recruiters. Submitting a project bid can thus occur at multiple points including directly...
Project Integration Management
Project integration management involves the management of several interdependent lines, strategies, resources, outputs, or deliverables to reach align goals. Although this sounds complex, and can be when planned at the...