The 4Cs of Sustainable Innovation: Stage gates and KPIs for Project Managers

08/09/2020 6 min Temporada 1 Episodio 2

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Mahalo to Andrea Kershaw, my inspiring colleague and location head for IDEO Singapore, for the tutelage on KPIs, and Professor Leonard Lane, who gave me a tremendous learning experience at Fung Academy, which lead to my insights on managing a pipeline of innovation projects and informed the 4Cs of Sustainable Innovation: Clarity, Capability, Capacity, and Consent.

*The 5th C could be: 

Coolness - Is this cool, like really, really cool?
Craft - Does it extend our craft? Will we learn from it?
Coordination - Can we get everyone together?
Coincidence - Spooky cosmic alignments

00:00 - 01:01    Hey, are you writing this down? How do you expect to learn this? Thereʻs going to be a test.
01:02 - 02:08   What are KPIs? There are at least 4 types of KPIs.
03:43 - 04:27   Mahalos! (IDEO Singapore was a magical studio while it lasted.)
04:28 - 05:00  Test time (I told you there would be a test)
05:01 - 05:41    Tools for Clarification: Whiteboarding and A3 Thinking
05:42 - 05:54  23andMe did not sponsor this episode.
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