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Yet the media telling of the story makes it sound as if ideation—the creation of ideas—is 90% of the work of innovation. Ideation has produced many inventions that never became innovations because no one adopted them. Many people are misled by stories that inaccurately equate...
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January 6, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Innovation
China wasn't even the first country to experiment with forcible population control. In the late 1970s, Indira Gandhi, then prime minister of India, introduced a program that involved the involuntary sterilization of many men and women.
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November 18, 2015 Bruce Benson
Requirements Management
Each container Driscoll’s sells in the U.S. and Canada has a code on the back that tracks variety, grower, and harvest date. Originally a food safety measure, it’s become a way for Driscoll’s to test the market. Consumers can enter their codes on Driscoll’s website...
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September 30, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
“Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.” — John Maynard Keynes
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September 24, 2015 Bruce Benson
Innovation
I found a great insight, that doesn’t show up that often, in the following article in my research archives. Robert Holler, the CEO of VersionOne (an Agile vendor) was quoted: “I think there might have been this anticipation five years ago that agile would take...
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July 28, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
I went into the house and deadpanned to my wife that I had just run a couple of 4 minute miles. Her response? “Wow!” She was serious.
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July 7, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
“You have to find a way to learn from winning,” said Brad Frost, women’s hockey coach at Minnesota.”It’s a lot easier to lose and learn.” Frost’s team racked up victory after victory in 2013. Without any losses to reflect on, though, Frost decided to rethink...
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June 15, 2015 Bruce Benson
Innovation
“There’s a creative moment when you think of a hypothesis, maybe it’s that interest rate data drives” currency rates, she says. “So we think about that first before we mine the data. We don’t mine the data to come up with ideas.” Lady Braga Steps...
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April 30, 2015 Bruce Benson
Metrics
Megaprojects in the past 70 years have consistently come in over budget while delivering less than half of their promised monetary benefit.
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April 14, 2015 Bruce Benson
Schedule
The key was that I knew what was normal, what a typical project looked like, how the typical project would play out. This included all the typical problems that would go wrong. Most importantly I knew that given just enough time in the overall schedule, we would have the time to fix any issues.
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February 19, 2015 Bruce Benson
Metrics
It is indeed ironic that Hadoop is picking up support in the general community about five years after Google moved on to better things. Hence, the rest of the world followed Google into Hadoop with a delay of most of a decade. Google has long...
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February 12, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
For advanced economies, innovation requires pushing on the frontiers of science and technology. That can’t happen without heavy government funding for basic research … The Internet and the Global Positioning System (GPS) are only two of the crucial technologies that originated as projects of the...
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February 10, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Ray Anderson went on to describe industry’s toxic legacy and evoked a future in which companies like his clean up their act, compelling others to do the same.
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January 6, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
We had all but eliminated the need for our test teams.
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December 2, 2014 Bruce Benson
Testing
These “gaming strategies” were used to make it appear that veterans were getting appointments within target times set by the department.
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November 25, 2014 Bruce Benson
Leadership
