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Embracing Positive Risk: A Path to Innovation

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We often think of risk as a negative force, something to be avoided or mitigated. If you ask most middle managers what their main job is, a majority will reflect that they manage the flow of work to their people and manage the risks of the work. We might prioritize rigid processes over flexibility or discourage experimentation.

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Balancing Operational Excellence with Innovation

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How many people struggle with juggling Business as usual (BAU) operations as well as delivering products to customers and well as investing in innovation? I have found that using metrics such as Innovation index are a good way to see the balance in an organization between operational excellence and innovation.

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Value Innovation Strategy For Strategic Project Managers

The Strategic Project Manager

This post dives into the profitable concept and practice of Value Innovation. It defines it, compares and contrasts it from similar approaches, and then looks at the impact of leveraging Value Innovation in the practice of strategy and project management – developing a Value Innovation Strategy.

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Is Your Leadership Ready to Pivot from Intuition to Innovation?

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In the rapidly evolving business landscape, the shift from intuition-based decision-making to innovation-driven leadership is not just beneficial—it's essential. Evidence-Based Leadership: Steering Toward Innovation EBM-based leadership takes this concept further by integrating evidence into the leadership ethos itself.

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Product strategy: where customer needs and technology align

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Roman Pichler’s work on the strategy stack depicts an important relationship beyond requirements for users to one of a symbiotic relationship between the product strategy and technology strategy. Technology’s role, importantly, is to provide a set of constraints for the product strategy.

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The Interconnectedness of Cyber Risk and Cyber Resilience

The IIL Blog

By Rick Lemieux – Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of the DVMS Institute October 16, 2024 Cyber risk and resilience have emerged as critical considerations for individuals and organizations. The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) is a voluntary framework that helps organizations manage cybersecurity risks.

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Five Steps to Mitigate Organizational Cyber Risk

The IIL Blog

By Rick Lemieux – Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of the DVMS Institute August 21, 2024 Organizations unveil grand strategies and meticulously crafted blueprints for success. Yet, amidst the fanfare of vision statements and market analyses, Peter Drucker’s timeless adage whispers a crucial truth: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”