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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

Most organizations aren’t good at project management , and fewer still have a well-defined and structured protocol for engaging and managing agile talent other than contractually. We suggest a number of possible approaches for organization leaders to consider: Assign a roving chief technology officer or project manager.

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A Hands-Off Approach to Open Innovation Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

That doesn’t sound all that unreasonable, perhaps, but consider this: Only 38% of those who took this approach said they believed the innovation partnership had achieved its strategic goals. More than 65% of the hands-off companies put much heavier emphasis on creating their own financial performance index specifically for the project.

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Team Building Agenda: Kick-off Program for IT Leadership Team

Mike Cardus

Measurement Each IT Director will have working knowledge of the ‘ 7 Steps to High Performance Teams ’ this will be illustrated through content discussions about the model and each director determining where an existing team in on a project and steps to move the team to the next step. How does this fit into the larger strategic goals?

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Answering Your Questions About P&G and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

June's Harvard Business Review features a story by Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown and me on " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate." First, some of the ways that P&G reduces risk on individual projects are generally good innovation practices for everyone.

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Reversing the Curse of Dominant Logic

Harvard Business Review

Immediate and radical change within small teams spearheading projects from the bottom up. From the bottom up, Local Growth Teams (LGTs) should: Establish radical goals: Harman built an LGT in India to design a new auto infotainment system to provide all the functionality at half the price and one-third the cost.

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The One Unbreakable Rule in Business Writing

Harvard Business Review

A good way to keep yourself honest is to create a scenario that meets your stated goals but fails in other ways. If you hem and haw and equivocate, then you need to drill deeper and make sure you figure out what other goals must be included in this scenario for you to be satisfied with the result. Question 2: Who am I writing this for?

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Advice on Running a Government Agency Like a Startup, from Someone Who’s Tried It

Harvard Business Review

Godbout was executive director at 18F before departing to become chief technology officer for the EPA. The real goal, the transformation goal, should be the larger service. But that goal wasn’t there up front, because when we started , people were telling us, you can’t hire quality people.

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