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Strategic Yet Agile: Leading with Innovation

The IIL Blog

My leadership journey across various sectors, including for-profit entities, non-profits, startup consulting, and workforce readiness initiatives, highlights the importance of innovation. In today’s business climate, leaders encounter a challenge: how to drive innovation while maintaining a forward-thinking vision.

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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

Private Sector Project Manager Selection The birth of modern-day project management is most frequently attributed to the engineering community, mainly aerospace and defense. Client/Stakeholder Collaboration In the early years of growth, the aerospace and defense contractors were marketing- and sales-driven companies.

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People Innovation: A New Vision to Innovate

International Institute for Learning

Nowadays, companies are very conscious that if they want to be competitive, they have to innovate. It is worth quoting a sentence of the father of the Open Innovation concept, Henry Chesbrough: “Most innovation fails. And companies that don’t innovate die” [1]. And companies that don’t innovate die” [1].

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The Leadership Gap: Signs, Symptoms, and Solutions

International Institute for Learning

The area of leadership may be the most studied and elaborate of all organizations and management areas; and yet, it is possible that we know the least about it. But we are here not to discuss what would make a good leader; but rather, to ponder about the gap , or rather gaping hole , we experience in corporate leadership.

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Project Management Mastery: Conquering Big, Hairy, Complex Projects (BHCP)

NimbleWork

Successfully navigating BHCPs requires a combination of strategic planning, effective leadership, and robust project management practices. Uncertainty: BHCPs face high levels of uncertainty, stemming from factors such as technological innovation, regulatory changes, and market dynamics.

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2022 Online and In-Person Events for Project/Resource Managers and Industry Professionals

Epicflow Blog

January 28-29 — International Conference on Software Project Management and Project Scheduling (Australia) is expected to bring together leading academic scientists and researchers to share their experience and research results, discuss recent innovations, trends, and concerns in the field of software project management and project scheduling. .

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Team Management: The Key of to Success

International Institute for Learning

In general, just to simplify and generalize, two Leadership approaches are possible: Autocratic and Democratic. Steve Jobs’ leadership style was autocratic; he had a meticulous eye for detail and surrounded himself with like-minded people to follow his lead [7]. Consultant and Trainer, International Institute for Learning.