By definition a project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result. Every project creates a unique product, service, or result so it includes elements that make project tasks new to a project team. Innovation solutions help a project team deal with these new challenges by applying whole brain smarterware techniques. Smarterware is ...
This Harvard Business School video is about the top 2 ways to foster innovation in an organization: Creating a culture for innovation Establishing organizational habits that make innovation happen A couple of good examples are given and a case is made that success takes systematic discipline rather than chaotic disorganization to empower creativity.
Tom Peters has a new book The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence. One excerpt is explained in a video called Innovation Equality which reminds people to not think of innovation as something that applies only to new product introduction. Innovation projects are valuable in all parts of a business or organization.
Despite the flexibility of the OmniFocus todo list manager, one feature that is lamented by some as being missing is setting explicit priorities. I haven't found this to be an issue because there are so many attributes available to assign to todo list items (tasks). Two I have found to be very useful are flags ...