Harold Kerzner
AGILE SCRUM Featured in Dr. Harold Kerzner's Newest Book, INNOVATION PROJECT MANAGEMENT
08 September 2019
Agile Workflows
Scott M. Graffius's Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions is featured in Dr. Harold Kerzner's newest book, Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects.
The following content from Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions heads up the section on Agile Innovation (page 36) of Kerzner's book:
"Shifting customer needs are common in today's marketplace. Businesses must be adaptive and responsive to change while delivering an exceptional customer experience to be competitive. Traditional development and delivery frameworks such as waterfall are often ineffective. In contrast, Scrum is a value-driven agile approach which incorporates adjustments based on regular and repeated customer and stakeholder feedback. And Scrum's built-in rapid response to change leads to substantial benefits such as fast time-to-market, higher satisfaction, and continuous improvement—which supports innovation and drives competitive advantage."
— Scott M. Graffius, Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
About Dr. Harold Kerzner
Harold Kerzner, Ph.D., is Senior Executive Director at the International Institute for Learning, Inc., a global learning solutions company that conducts training for leading corporations throughout the world. He is a globally recognized expert on project, program, and portfolio management, total quality management, and strategic planning. Dr. Kerzner is the author of bestselling books and texts, including the acclaimed Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, Tenth Edition. Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects is his newest book.
For more information on Dr. Kerzner, visit his Wikipedia page.
About Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects
The following includes content from the product description for the book.
Conventional project management methods are oftentimes insufficient for managing innovation projects. Innovation is lost under the pre-determined scope and forecasted environments of traditional project management. There is tremendous pressure on organizations to innovate, and the project managers responsible for managing these innovation projects do not have the training or tools to do their jobs effectively. Innovation Project Management provides the tools, insights, and metrics needed to successfully manage innovation projects—helping readers identify problems in their organization, conceive elegant solutions, and, when necessary, promote changes to their organizational culture.
There are several kinds of innovation—ranging from incremental changes to existing products to wholly original processes that emerge from market-disrupting new technology—that possess different characteristics and often require different tools. Best-selling author and project management expert Harold Kerzner integrates innovation, project management, and strategic planning to offer students and practicing professionals the essential tools and processes to analyze innovation from all sides. Innovation Project Management deconstructs traditional project management methods and explains why and how innovation projects should be managed differently. This invaluable resource:
- Provides practical advice and actionable tools for effectively managing innovation projects
- Offers value-based project management metrics and guidance on how to establish a metrics management program
- Shares exclusive insights from project managers at world-class organizations such as Airbus, Boeing, Hitachi, IBM, and Siemens on how they manage innovation projects
- Explores a variety of types of innovation including co-creation, value-driven, agile, open versus closed, and more
- Instructors have access to PowerPoint lecture slides by chapter through the book’s companion website
Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects (ISBN-13: 9781119587293) is an essential text for professional project managers, corporate managers, innovation team members, as well as students in project management, innovation and entrepreneurship programs.
The book is available at Amazon and other retailers.
About Scott M. Graffius
Scott M. Graffius is a technology leader, project management expert, consultant, international speaker, and award-winning author.
Scott is a Principal Consultant and the CEO of Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions™, a professional services firm, where he helps clients strengthen their project management capabilities and realize their strategic objectives and business initiatives. The consultancy provides advisory, training, and facilitative consulting services related to project, program, portfolio, and PMO management. The firm’s expertise spans agile, traditional waterfall, and hybrid approaches. While every engagement is unique, outcomes typically include getting more projects done, faster delivery time, improved on-budget performance, improved customer and stakeholder satisfaction, and more. Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions™ confidently backs its services with a Delighted Client Guarantee™.
A fantastic agile transformation experience and result with a client organization in the entertainment industry was the inspiration for Scott’s first book, Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions (ISBN-13: 9781533370242). It helps technical and non-technical teams develop and deliver products in short cycles with rapid adaptation to change, fast time-to-market, and continuous improvement—which supports innovation and drives competitive advantage. The book has garnered 17 first place awards from national and international competitions. Scott and Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions have been featured in Yahoo Finance, the Boston Herald, NBC WRAL, Informa, Innovation Management, the Dallas Business Journal, Computer Weekly, the PM World Journal, BookLife by Publisher’s Weekly, NHD Podcast, Learning Solutions, Harold Kerzner’s Innovation Project Management, and additional media outlets and publications. The trailer, high-resolution images, reviews, a list of awards, and more are available in the digital media kit for the book.
His second title, Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change (ISBN-13: 9781072447962), was named one of the best Scrum books of all time by BookAuthority. The trailer, a list of awards, and more are presented at the book’s website.
Scott is a former vice president of project management with a publicly traded provider of diverse consumer products and services over the Internet. Before that, he ran and supervised the delivery of projects and programs in public and private organizations with businesses ranging from e-commerce to advanced technology products and services, retail, manufacturing, entertainment, and more. He has experience with consumer, business, reseller, government, and international markets, as well as experience spanning 20 countries.
Scott has a bachelor's degree in Psychology with a focus in Human Factors. He holds seven professional certifications: Certified Scrum Professional - ScrumMaster (CSP-SM), Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner (CSP-PO), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (LSSGB), and IT Service Management Foundation (ITIL). He is a member of the Scrum Alliance, the Project Management Institute, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Within the IEEE, Scott is a member of the Computer Society, the Consumer Electronics Society, the Broadcast Technology Society, the Internet of Things (IoT) Community, and the Consultants Network.
He has been actively involved with the Project Management Institute (PMI) in the development of professional standards. He was a member of the team which produced the Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures—Second Edition. Scott was a contributor and reviewer of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge—Sixth Edition, The Standard for Program Management—Fourth Edition, and The Practice Standard for Project Estimating—Second Edition (scheduled to be published in December 2019). He was also a subject matter expert reviewer of content for the PMI EMEA Congress 2019, and he is a member of the review team for the Scrum Alliance’s Global Scrum Gathering—New York City 2020.
Scott regularly speaks at conferences and other events around the globe where he delights audiences with presentations on agile, traditional, and hybrid project, program, portfolio, and PMO management. He integrates content on professional standards, best practices, and his first-hand experience with successful implementations. Scott uses everyday language and vibrant custom visuals to make complex topics clear and understandable, and he provides audiences with practical information they can use. Attendees have said “Scott is an amazing speaker,” “fantastic presentation,” and “highly recommended!” Appearances are listed at the public speaker section of his website.
Scott resides in Los Angeles, California.
About Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
Shifting customer needs are common in today's marketplace. Businesses must be adaptive and responsive to change while delivering an exceptional customer experience to be competitive.
There are a variety of frameworks supporting the development of products and services, and most approaches fall into one of two broad categories: traditional or agile. Traditional practices such as waterfall engage sequential development, while agile involves iterative and incremental deliverables. Organizations are increasingly embracing agile to manage projects, and best meet their business needs of rapid response to change, fast delivery speed, and more.
With clear and easy to follow step-by-step instructions, Scott M. Graffius's award-winning Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions helps the reader:
- Implement and use the most popular agile framework―Scrum;
- Deliver products in short cycles with rapid adaptation to change, fast time-to-market, and continuous improvement; and
- Support innovation and drive competitive advantage.
Hailed by Literary Titan as “the book highlights the versatility of Scrum beautifully.”
Winner of 17 first place awards.
Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions is available in paperback and ebook/Kindle worldwide. Some links by country follow.
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- 🇦🇹 Austria
- 🇧🇪 Belgium
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
- 🇩🇰 Denmark
- 🇫🇮 Finland
- 🇫🇷 France
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- 🇬🇷 Greece
- 🇭🇺 Hungary
- 🇮🇳 India
- 🇮🇪 Ireland
- 🇮🇱 Israel
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
- 🇲🇽 Mexico
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- 🇳🇴 Norway
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- 🇦🇪 UAE
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- 🇺🇸 United States
- 🌏 More countries
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Highly Recommended Agile Project Management Books
22 February 2022
Agile Workflows
2022 Update
Books can be a great way to advance your agile project management development. This article highlights 11 highly recommended publications. Two of which are multi award-winning books by Scott M. Graffius.
Prices are in U.S. Dollar, current as of the date of this article. Names, marks, images, and content are the property of their respective owners. Books are presented in alphabetical order—by title.
Agile Estimating and Planning
Agile Estimating and Planning
- Author: Mike Cohn
- ISBN-10: 0131479415
- ISBN-13: 978-0131479418
- Paperback: $36.22
- Link to book on Amazon
Agile Game Development
Agile Game Development
- Author: Clinton Keith
- ISBN-10: 0136527817
- ISBN-13: 978-0136527817
- Paperback: $43.49
- Link to the book on Amazon
Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
Author: Jim Highsmith
ISBN-10: 0321658396
ISBN-13: 978-0321658395
Paperback: $46.99
Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
Author: Scott M. Graffius
ISBN-10: 1533370249
ISBN-13: 978-1533370242
Paperback: $34.99
Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices
Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices
- Author: Robert C. Martin
- ISBN-10: 0135974445
- ISBN-13: 978-0135974445
- Hardcover (paperback not available at the time of this article): $71.99
- Link to the book on Amazon
Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change
Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change
- Author: Scott M. Graffius
- ISBN-10: 1072447967
- ISBN-13: 978-1072447962
- Paperback: $5.95
- Link to the book on Amazon
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
- Author: Robert C. Martin
- ISBN-10: 0132350882
- ISBN-13: 978-0132350884
- Paperback: $25.33
- Link to the book on Amazon
Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects
Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects
- Author: Harold Kerzner
- ISBN-10: 1119587298
- ISBN-13: 978-1119587293
- Hardcover (paperback not available at the time of this article): $78.37
- Link to the book on Amazon
The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey To Mastery
The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey To Mastery
- Authors: David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
- ISBN-10: 0135957052
- ISBN-13: 978-0135957059
- Hardcover (paperback not available at the time of this article): $30.19
- Link to the book on Amazon
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
- Author: Martin Fowler
- ISBN-10: 0134757599
- ISBN-13: 978-0134757599
- Hardcover (paperback not available at the time of this article): $50.49
- Link to the book on Amazon
Retrospectives Antipatterns
Retrospectives Antipatterns
- Author: Corry Aino Vonge
- ISBN-10: 013682336X
- ISBN-13: 978-0136823360
- Paperback: $29.99
- Link to the book on Amazon
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11 Highly Recommended Books on Agile: Update for 2023
17 January 2023
Agile Workflows
2023 Update
Books can be a great way to advance your understanding of and perspective on agile. This article highlights 11 highly recommended publications, two of which are multi-award-winning books by Scott M. Graffius.
Prices are in U.S. Dollar, current as of the date of this article. Names, marks, images, and content are the property of their respective owners.
When you see a product you're interested in and you click through from our site to a retailer to get it, we may earn affiliate (such as Amazon Associates) commissions. This helps support our work, but it does not affect what products we cover or how we assess them, and it does not affect the price you pay.
Now, on to the list! Books are presented in alphabetical order—by title.
Agile Estimating and Planning
- Title: Agile Estimating and Planning
- Author: Mike Cohn
- ISBN-10: 0131479415
- ISBN-13: 978-0131479418
- Paperback: $51.99
Order your book today.
Agile Game Development
- Title: Agile Game Development
- Author: Clinton Keith
- ISBN-10: 0136527817
- ISBN-13: 978-0136527817
- Paperback: $49.99
Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
Title: Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
Author: Jim Highsmith
ISBN-10: 0321658396
ISBN-13: 978-0321658395
Paperback: $54.99
Order your book today.
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
- Title: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
Author: Esther Derby and Diana Larsen
ISBN-10: 0977616649
ISBN-13: 978-0977616640
Paperback: $18.49
Order your book today.
Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
- Title: Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
- Author: Scott M. Graffius
ISBN-10: 1533370249
ISBN-13: 978-1533370242
Paperback: $34.99
Order your book today.
Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices
- Title: Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices
- Author: Robert C. Martin
- ISBN-10: 0135974445
- ISBN-13: 978-0135974445
- Hardcover (paperback not available at the time of this article): $88.22
Order your book today.
Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change
- Title: Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change
- Author: Scott M. Graffius
- ISBN-10: 1072447967
- ISBN-13: 978-1072447962
- Paperback: $5.95
Order your book today.
Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
- Title: Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
- Author: Rory Sutherland
- ISBN-10: 0062388428
- ISBN-13: 978-0062388421
- Paperback: $18.99
Order your book today.
Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects (Second Edition)
- Title: Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects (Second Edition)
- Author: Harold Kerzner
- ISBN-10: 111993124X
- ISBN-13: 978-1119931249
- Hardcover (paperback not available at the time of this article): $93.65
Order your book today.
Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
- Title: Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
- Authors: Mary Poppenkieck and Tom Poppendieck
- ISBN-10: 0321150783
- ISBN-13: 978-0321150783
- Paperback: $53.79
Order your book today.
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
- Title: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
- Author: Martin Fowler
- ISBN-10: 0134757599
- ISBN-13: 978-0134757599
- Hardcover (paperback not available at the time of this article): $50.49
Order your book today.
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‘Innovation Project Management’ (Second Edition) Features Content from Agile Expert and Author Scott M. Graffius
18 February 2023
Agile Workflows
Innovation Project Management features content from agile expert and author, Scott M. Graffius.
As shown below, material from Graffius' Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions (Chris Hare and Colin Giffen, Technical Editors) heads up the Agile Innovation section of the second edition of Harold Kerzner's Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects.
About Scott M. Graffius
Scott M. Graffius, PMP, CSP-SM, CSP-PO, CSM, CSPO, SFE, ITIL, LSSGB is an agile project management practitioner, consultant, multi award-winning author, and international keynote speaker. He has generated over $1.75 billion of business value in aggregate for the organizations he has served. Graffius is the founder, CEO, and principal consultant at Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions™ and subsidiary Exceptional Agility™. His expertise spans project, program, portfolio, and PMO leadership inclusive of agile, traditional, and hybrid approaches. Content from his books (Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions and Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change), workshops, speaking engagements, and more have been featured and used by businesses, professional associations, governments, and universities including Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Gartner, Deloitte, Project Management Institute, IEEE, SANS Institute, U.S. Soccer Federation, English Institute of Sport, Ford, Qantas, Atlassian, Wrike, Bayer, National Academy of Sciences, United States Department of Energy, United States Army, New Zealand Ministry of Education, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Tufts University, Texas A&M University, Warsaw University of Technology, University of Waterloo, National University of Ireland Galway, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, and others. Graffius has spoken at 82 conferences and other events around the world, including Armenia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States. Thinkers360 named Graffius a global top thought leader and influencer in four domains: Agile, Change Management, Digital Transformation, and GovTech.
His full bio is available here.
Connect with Scott on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
About Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
Shifting customer needs are common in today's marketplace. Businesses must be adaptive and responsive to change while delivering an exceptional customer experience to be competitive.
There are a variety of frameworks supporting the development of products and services, and most approaches fall into one of two broad categories: traditional or agile. Traditional practices such as waterfall engage sequential development, while agile involves iterative and incremental deliverables. Organizations are increasingly embracing agile to manage projects, and best meet their business needs of rapid response to change, fast delivery speed, and more.
With clear and easy to follow step-by-step instructions, Scott M. Graffius's award-winning Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions helps the reader:
- Implement and use the most popular agile framework―Scrum;
- Deliver products in short cycles with rapid adaptation to change, fast time-to-market, and continuous improvement; and
- Support innovation and drive competitive advantage.
Hailed by Literary Titan as “the book highlights the versatility of Scrum beautifully.”
Winner of 17 first place awards.
Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions is available in paperback and ebook/Kindle worldwide. Some links by country follow.
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- 🇦🇹 Austria
- 🇧🇪 Belgium
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
- 🇩🇰 Denmark
- 🇫🇮 Finland
- 🇫🇷 France
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- 🇬🇷 Greece
- 🇭🇺 Hungary
- 🇮🇳 India
- 🇮🇪 Ireland
- 🇮🇱 Israel
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
- 🇲🇽 Mexico
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- 🇳🇴 Norway
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- 🇦🇪 UAE
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- 🇺🇸 United States
- 🌏 More countries
About Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change
Thriving in today's marketplace frequently depends on making a transformation to become more agile. Those successful in the transition enjoy faster delivery speed and ROI, higher satisfaction, continuous improvement, and additional benefits.
Based on actual events, Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change provides a quick (60-90 minute) read about a successful agile transformation at a multinational entertainment and media company, told from the author's perspective as an agile coach.
The award-winning book by Scott M. Graffius is available in paperback and ebook/Kindle worldwide. Some links by country follow.
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- 🇦🇹 Austria
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
- 🇩🇰 Denmark
- 🇫🇮 Finland
- 🇫🇷 France
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- 🇬🇷 Greece
- 🇮🇳 India
- 🇮🇪 Ireland
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
- 🇲🇽 Mexico
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- 🇺🇸 United States
- 🌏 More countries
About Harold Kerzner
Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. is Senior Executive Director at the International Institute for Learning (IIL). He is a globally recognized expert on project management and strategic planning, and the author of many best-selling books including Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects.
For 50 years, Dr. Kerzner has shared vital guidance for making project management a strategic tool for competitive advantage and helping companies around the world build a powerful foundation for organizational improvement and excellence.
Dr. Kerzner has an MS and Ph.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Utah State University. He is a former Air Force Officer and spent several years at Morton-Thiokol in project management. Kerzner taught engineering at the University of Illinois and business administration at Utah State University, and he taught project management at Baldwin-Wallace University.
To learn more, visit here.
About Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects by Harold Kerzner
The following information includes excerpts from the product description provided by the publisher.
The newly revised second edition of Innovation Project Management offers tools, processes, and metrics needed to successfully manage innovation projects, providing value-based innovation project management metrics as well as guidance for how to establish a metrics management program.
The highly qualified author analyzes innovation from all sides; through this approach, Innovation Project Management breaks down traditional project management methods and explains why and how innovation projects should be managed differently.
The second edition has exclusive insights from world-class organizations such as IBM, Hitachi, Repsol, Philips, Deloitte, IdeaScale, KAUST, and more. It includes six all new case studies, featuring a dive into brand management innovation from Lego.
Some of the ideas discussed in Innovation Project Management include:
- Continuous versus discontinuous innovation, incremental versus radical innovation, understanding innovation differences, and incremental innovation versus new product development.
- Identifying core competencies using strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis and nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements.
- Implications and issues for project managers and innovation personnel, active listening, pitching the innovation, and cognitive biases.
- Measuring intangible assets, customer/user/stakeholder impact on value metrics, customer value management programs, and the relationship between project management and value.
- With its highly detailed and comprehensive coverage of the field, and with case studies from leading companies to show how concepts are applied in real-world situations, Innovation Project Management is a must-have title for practicing project managers, as well as students in project management, innovation, and entrepreneurship programs.
To learn more, visit here.
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