How To Stimulate Radical Idea Generation

• → Create an atmosphere where people are confident that how far and fast they move is constrained only by the limits of their → entrepreneurial creativity and drive and by their standards of personal excellence..

• Establish → guiding principles for quick evaluation of a proposed new course of action and develop a receiving capacity for innovation so that → creative people have a place to go with their radical ideas... More

Why Radical Project Management (RPM)?

→ Business Synergies Approach to Project Management

Improvisation-driven RPM

The improvisation-driven model is one approach to radical innovation project management. It works well when the unknowns are high and the players are seasoned. This model doesn’t discard structure, just as there is a clear structure to good → jazz.

→ The Jazz of Innovation: 11 Practice Tips

Rather than having it overlaid from the outside, though, the improvisational approach builds structure from the inside as it is needed. That’s why it requires a critical mass of experienced people to work.

The improvisational model is limited by three factors... More

Flexible Model

The → flexible approach overlaps phases rather than functions.

→ Project Management: 2 Approaches

The power in the flexible model is that the development process and tools are explicitly designed to support this overlap.

The requirements to make the flexible approach work are:

→  a multidisciplinary core of highly experienced → “architects”

→  the use of frequent prototyping and simulation

→  high level of vendor and customer inclusion

→  focus.³