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Browsing Archive: November, 2009

Innovation, the technical risk to IQ

Posted by Toby Elwin on Monday, November 16, 2009, In : Organization Behavior 

I see and read so much about offers to teach or facilitate innovation, but what is innovation?
  • Innovation is risk
  • Innovation is dialogue
  • Innovation is opportunity (also known as diversity)
Are you innovative:  Do you ask good questions or do you listen without judgment or without looking to interrupt?  Do you allow yourself and people around you to remain in the moment?  Have people told you that you are a good listener?  Are you known to cultivate, mentor, or develop others or are you surrounde...
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3 reasons for failure: change, participation, and risk

Posted by Toby Elwin on Sunday, November 1, 2009, In : Portfolio Planning 

An organization builds a culture of success when it can take a strategy, identify and prioritize the most important projects within the strategy, and consistently deliver projects on time, on budget, and within identified quality standards.

Charting success is not easy.  80% of all projects fail for three main reasons.

1.  80% of projects fail because of change.

Change renders strategies and plans irrelevant:

  • technology advances,
  • new regulations,
  • stress on process and performance from growth,
  • nim...

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