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Creativity and Innovation Management: The Value Of Due Diligence


Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation. There are other useful definitions, for example, creativity can be measured according to the number of ideas produced, the diversity of those ideas and the novelty of those ideas.

Creativity and Innovation Management: The Creative State


Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.

Creativity and Innovation Management: Incubation and Insight


Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.

How to Create Trust


People buy from you, offer help, and grant rewards based on trust. Here are ways to increase your success by creating trust. While we do most of these things, missing even one of them can ruin it all.

Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: Senior Management and Directional Change


This article relates to the Senior/Top Level management of an organization, and how a huge vision of directional change translates into the day-to-day operation of the company. AlphaMeasure defines senior management as the team of individuals at the highest level who have the day-to-day responsibilities of operating the organization. For many employees, this competency will target the managers occupying positions above their immediate supervisors. This competency covers topics such as strategic leadership, corporate vision, and corporate direction. Evaluating this competency can be especially useful in understanding how much your workforce favors the present direction of the organization.

The 70% Solution: Practical Testing and Version Control


"What do you mean you need to push back the launch date?" Says the CEO. Says the CFO. Says the user community. CTOs, CIOs, and all officers who oversee major development projects have had to deliver the dreaded message. But a deadline for the sake of a deadline is a dangerous pitfall that can consume an entire project and stymie it to the point that it never launches. Over the years I've come up with six simple rules that help deadlines become more meaningful, while keeping the developers, the user community, the CFO and the CEO all satisfied.

Get Down With OCP: Evaluating DBA Job Applicants in an OCP World


Not long ago, weeding through DBA applicants with a tech interview was a straightforward process. You'd ask candidates 200 or so technical questions. If they got 100 correct answers, you knew they'd been around the block; 150 or more and you knew you were on to superior talent. But once the Oracle Certification Program (OCP) became popular in the late 90s, the traditional tech interview lost its effectiveness. These days, candidates can answer 180 questions correctly and you still won't know whether they're talking from experience or simply regurgitating what they memorized at OCP a few weeks earlier. Although it has become increasingly difficult to determine whether you've found a seasoned, highly qualified DBA or a newly minted OCP Graduate, there are ways.

Strategic Outsourcing: Testing the Outsourcing Waters and Staying Afloat


Before Gertrude Ederle began her historic swim off of Cape Griz-Nez, France, she underwent extensive training for endurance and technique?even though she was already an accomplished record-breaking swimmer with Olympic medals to her name. Outsourcing IT may not garner the same attention as being the first woman to swim the English Channel, but it is no less important to gather as much experience and knowledge as possible on a small scale before diving in for the big swim.

Can What Someone Does Off-hours Affect Your Business?


Q: How much do I have to worry about what people who are part of my far-flung "virtual" corporation do when they're not working directly for me? I can't share too many details because the situation is touchy, as you might expect, but basically I have someone working for me as a writer, contributing material for my blog, and I have been hearing that he's writing some pretty far out, offensive material on other sites. Do I need to worry about it?

Conquering the Number One Problem in Business--Poor Communication


The Number One problem in business is poor communication: between coworkers, with clients, across functional areas, up the food chain. When I ask anyone I meet ?What?s the one thing that causes problems in your company?? the answer is always Communication: poor communication in relaying instructions, miscommunication because of irresponsible delivery, too little information when conveying changes in policies or procedures, not enough exchange of information when relaying new concepts or ideas.

Finding Proactive Solutions: A Key to Demonstrating Your Management Fitness


In my book Talking Points: 25 Tips for Clear, Credible Communication, Tip #17 states: ?Managers and professionals in positions of responsibility got there by finding solutions to problems. They didn?t rely on someone else to come up with the remedy. They worked to find solutions proactively.? Those of us in positions of responsibility can demonstrate our management fitness by looking for and adding a proactive step whenever we encounter potential problems. Adding that proactive step demonstrates our ability to take responsibility for the outcome of situations. Nothing speaks ?management? more than this.

The Few & the Many: Free Trade, Outsourcing, & Communication


Have you noticed that some sound ideas get bad publicity? Two I have in mind are outsourcing and free trade.

Communicating with Case Studies


A few weeks ago, a couple of colleagues and I discussed a new business idea. But, we had trouble expressing how this new business would provide value.

Optimizing Your Cash Flow With Proper Accounts Receivable Management


Businesses miss on growth opportunities and even close their doors every day, not because they aren?t profitable enough, but because they are strangled by poor cash flow. The problem is that while their profit and loss statement shows success, their bank account cries poor. Excessive money tied up in delinquent receivables, bad checks, and bad debt write-offs, rob businesses of valuable cash flow, handcuffing their ability to grow or even stay in business at all.

Business Innovation ? Core Competency and Competitive Advantage


Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.

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