The mindset for Open Innovation – at “Open Innovation in Action” SBC OI summit

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By Elisabeth Goodman and Lucy Loh We had the opportunity to lead a break-out session at the recent Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst (SBC) Open Innovation summit.  It was a day filled with interesting presentations, panel discussions, networking and break-out sessions. Open Innovation is all about people Our session was one of the last in the day, …

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The Future of Project Management – an evening with Paul Major

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The Eastern Branch of the APM held a very enjoyable evening seminar on the future of project management with Paul Major (@changemakerPM, http://paulmajor.wordpress.com) on Wednesday 7th November. I captured Paul’s main points, and the course of the discussion in a series of tweets, which I’ve reproduced here with some additional notes. Shifted from delivering transformational change …

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The needs of globally dispersed, innovative, teams

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In our August 2012 RiverRhee Consulting newsletter, my Associates and I wrote about our insights on working in virtual teams, so it was with some interest that I read about “10 rules for managing global innovation” in the October issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR)1. After all, that’s what most ‘virtual’, ‘dispersed’ or ‘far flung’ …

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Getting it right rather than ‘firefighting’…unless that’s your job!

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By Elisabeth Goodman Being a ‘farmer’ not a ‘firefighter’ Some years ago when I was first learning about Lean and Six Sigma, a colleague shared an article he’d found comparing farmers and firefighters. People in organisations are often singled out when they have worked all hours to deal with a crisis, and yet the people …

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Making Knowledge Work – Beyond Lessons Learned – Notes from APM #KSIGDDAY

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APM prospective Knowledge SIG Conference – 5th July 2012 Based on the @ecgoodman twitter stream tagged with #KSIGDDAY @APMProjectMgmt #KM Meeting kicking off – looking forward to it! The meeting started with some speed networking in which I met lots of great people from all sectors of work, the UK, sizes of organisation, and levels …

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Collaborative working – UkeIG 2012 post-AGM briefing (#ukeigagm)

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Tweets from a presentation by Angela Ashenden, Principal Analyst, MWD Advisors entitled: Building a collaborative culture: people, processes and technology (to be read from the bottom up!) @aashenden #ukeigagm #km #CM mwdadvisors.com/collaboration Collab tool strategy (2): identify & address resistance; incentivise collaboration; lead by example Collab tool strategy (1): clear business goals; sponsorship throughout org; …

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Banishing the Monday morning blues: Being Exceptional

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Holidays are an excellent time to catch-up with my reading, so I have just had a very stimulating week reading Rob Yeung’s “E is for Exceptional”.  I’ve previously enjoyed Yeung’s books on networking, and emotional intelligence, and picked this one up at random, not really knowing what to expect. It’s a gem!  Like his other …

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Failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA) a personal case study culminating in an aborted transatlantic flight

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I have just spent a very comfortable night in a Heathrow hotel, after a 5 hour round trip spent in the air somewhere between London and Boston.  Although eating airline food, watching a (not very good) movie, and having a doze mid-air might be one way to spend an afternoon in May, it would not …

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Contributors sought for new book on Knowledge Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry

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John Riddell and Elisabeth Goodman are writing a book on “Knowledge Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Enhancing Research, Development and Manufacturing Performance”. Whilst the book will be focused on the Pharmaceutical Industry, our aim is to discuss and demonstrate how Knowledge Management can be applied in a variety of environments. We hope that existing and …

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