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- - - Paul R. Williams featured in the October 2009 issue of PM Network magazine, the official publcation of the Project Management Institute, regarding the intersection of innovation management and project management - - - CLICK HERE to read the article!!!

Paul R. Williams named one of the "10 Innovation Experts To Whom You Should Be Listening" by InnovationTools.com!!!

 

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09/29/2009

The October 2009 issue of PM Network magazine has been released by the Project Management Institute!!!

Please click HERE to read the article, Innovate or Die, featuring Paul R. Williams and Think For A Change, LLC.

08/01/2009

Paul R. Williams has been selected to appear in the October 2009 issue of PM Network magazine, the official publication of the Project Management Institute, regarding the intersection of project management and innovation management.  Watch for article scans and links during the month of September!!!

05/21/2009

Paul R. Williams has been asked to present at the 2009 Business Innovation Conference from October 5-7th.  The conference, held at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Campus in Wheaton, Illinois, is a premier innovation-related event bringing academia, government, and business together to explore and learn the science of innovation, and accelerate performance through innovation.

Click HERE for more information regarding the conference, including how to register!

03/01/2009

Paul R. Williams and Think For A Change, LLC. Publish "The Innovation Manager's Desk Reference"!!!

The Innovation Manager's Desk Reference (First Edition) is a first of its kind collection of resources, best practices and thought leadership specifically written for today's busy Innovation Manager.  Within its pages, The Innovation Manager's Desk Reference explores many of the key attributes of innovation/creativity management such as:

  • Creative Problem Solving

  • Organizational Imagination

  • Leadership

  • Culture

  • Systems/Processes

  • Resources

  • Models

  • Other Useful Tools

Click HERE for more information

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01/01/2009

Paul R. Williams named as eMarketing Chair of the 2009 Product Development & Management Association (PDMA) Annual International Conference!!!

Think For A Change, LLC. again asked to serve as Media Partner for the 2009 Product Development & Management Association (PDMA) Annual International Conference!!!

More details to come!

12/15/2008

Paul Williams named one of the "10 innovation experts to whom you should be listening" by InnovationTools.com!!!

Click HERE for more information!

12/01/2008

Think For A Change, LLC.  releases new logo, web layout and blog design!!!

In an effort to keep things fresh, Think For A Change, LLC. has decided to enter the new year with some new colors and a new logo.

Enjoy!

10/01/2008

Think For A Change, LLC.  Announces The Launch of the "Innovation Road Map"!!!

Please visit the Innovation Road Map page to see the new product/service offering being produced by Think For A Change, LLC.

Think For A Change, LLC., the worldwide leader in innovation maturity assessments and consultation, is providing this road map as another service in its line of easy to understand and visual innovation process maturity concepts.  If you need help with your organization's innovation "journey", contact us today!!!

09/10/2008

Think For A Change, LLC.  Releases Its Updated Innovation Maturity Model!!!

Please visit the IM2-Innovation Maturity Model page to see the updated new model, along with an easy to follow innovation maturity map.

Think For A Change, LLC. is the worldwide leader in innovation maturity assessments and consultation.  If you need help with your organization's innovation maturity, contact us today!!!

Finally, if you will be at the 2008 PDMA International Conference in Orlando, Florida...please track me down for your own hard copy of the new model and maturity map.  Hope to see you there!

06/20/2008

Think For A Change, LLC. Selected As Media Partner for 2008 PDMA International Conference in Orlando, Florida!!!

For more information, including your opportunity to attend this year's PDMA International Conference with a 20% DISCOUNT, please click HERE

05/15/2008

Think For A Change, LLC. releases a new Continuous Innovation Model called, appropriately, the "Continuous Innovation Loop."  This new model view depicts the circular nature of a truly continuous innovation management program and its key people, processes and assessments.

Please click HERE to view the new Continuous Innovation Model graphic!!!

05/01/2008

NEW!!! --Organizational Creativity & Innovation Management Service Offerings and Packages-- NEW!!!

Think For A Change, LLC. is proud to announce a new approach to our organizational creativity and innovation consultation services. 

To make it easier for you and your organization, we have developed six distinct and specialized packages for you choose from when considering the areas you would like to engage with Think For A Change, LLC. as you to design and develop your customized innovation management program.

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Please click HERE to see our new detailed service offerings and packages

 

 

04/01/2008

Think For A Change, LLC. re-launches its Publications Page!!!

Think For A Change, LLC. now offering a great new assortment of Innovation and Organizational Creativity Related eBooks and eTools for purchase. 

CHECK IT OUT!!!

04/01/2008

Think For A Change, LLC. announces its 2008 Innovation Field Trip to Walt Disney World!!!

Click HERE for more information and your invitation...hope to see you there!!!

03/01/2008

Think For A Change, LLC. President and CEO, Paul R. Williams, has been chosen to speak at the 2008 ProjectWorld / World Congress for Business Analysts Regional Conference in San Diego from June 24th through the 27th at the prestigious Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines and put on by the fantastic conference organizers at the Institute for International Research!!!
Here is an abstract of the presentation:

Integrating Innovation Strategy and Project Portfolio Management

Innovation is the successful implementation of an idea.  Project management is the consistent process set for delivering projects that solve a problem. The two logically and strategically align themselves, but most organizations do not make the connection. This presentation "connects the dots" between innovation strategy and project portfolio management by:

  • Designing and managing your innovation/idea pipeline
  • Integrating innovation and project management techniques
  • Establishing project portfolio management processes
  • Ensuring project portfolios align to business strategy
  • Measuring and managing the "mix" of incremental projects and breakthrough projects
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As a Project Management Professional (PMP), it has been my career goal to change problems into solutions through an orderly set of management processes.  My experience has mostly been with complex information technology hardware and infrastructure projects, although I have honestly lost track of the number of process improvement, strategic, people-change management and other types of projects I have managed over the past 15 years.

As my passion for creative problem solving and innovation was set ablaze, it was logical for me to apply my formal education in project, program and portfolio management to this new set of problems.  What is amazing to me, is that it seems most organizations don't make the same logical connection.  They attempt to manage their ideas and innovation systems as "one-offs" or special events, when they should be managed as an orderly set of processes.

Each step along the overall process requires management of a set of tasks, resource availability/time, issues and risks, decision points, etc.  In essence, project/program/portfolio management skills.  If you have ever worked with a good project manager, you know that they are worth their weight in gold.

Now, when we marry the skills of a project manager with the skills of an idea generator, we have the ingredients for successful innovation.  A dreamer...matched with a doer.  Additionally, when we match the discipline of project management with the free-wheeling excitement of idea generation, we have increased the odds of innovative success.  Unbridled enthusiasm...matched with a set of tasks leading to an end.

Those organizations who already have successful project management programs in place are miles ahead when it comes to matching their innovation efforts to an Innovation Portfolio Management Program.  There are a number of things to consider, however, when establishing an Innovation Portfolio Management Program and this presentation will explore each of the key attributes in detail.

You can download a copy of the conference brochure HERE.

For those interested in attending, there is usually a speaker discount provided that I can pass along to a select number of people.  Please let me know if you'd like to take advantage of this discount and I'll find out how many discounts I can offer! 

01/01/2008

Think For A Change, LLC. hosts stop on the Post2Post Virtual Book Tour!!!

Think For A Change, LLC. will host a stop on the Post2Post virtual book tour.  Our stop on the tour will take place on Monday, February 11, 2008 and we'll be discussing the great new book "Creativity Today" with one of its authors,  Ramon Vullings.  See our BLOG for more details on how to participate!

12/01/2007

Think For A Change, LLC. sponsors innovation-related discussion group!!!

Think For A Change, LLC. becomes founding sponsor of the LinkedIn Innovation Management Group and the corresponding Google Discussion Group.

11/01/2007

Think For A Change, LLC. creates a "Publications" page to offer our new selection of eBooks!!!

Please CLICK HERE to visit the Publications page.

10/01/2007

Think For A Change, LLC. announces the release of its first eBook!!!

Think For A Change, LLC. today released a free eBook (pdf version) titled, "Introduction to IM2 - Innovation Maturity Model" as a guide to clients and guests alike on progressing or maturing through the key behaviors, systems and attributes of a successful innovation management program.

To download your copy today, please CLICK HERE or visit the IM2 Maturity Model webpage.

We are actively writing additional eBooks so look for more in the very near future!!!

09/01/2007

Think For A Change, LLC. reaches marketing milestones...

Effective September 1st, 2007, Think For A Change, LLC. reached a number of marketing milestones and goals:

  •  Listed on the blogrolls of ten (10) prominent Innovation/Corporate Creativity Blogs
  •  Surpassed 10,000 unique web site hits in one calendar year
  •  Surpassed 25,000 unique blog views in one calendar year
  •  Recorded at least one web or blog hit on each continent and over 35 countries

Thanks to all of you!!!

02/01/2007

Think For A Change, LLC. announces the release of IM2, The Innovation Maturity Model

    Please click HERE to learn more about the Think For A Change IM2 Model

01/01/2007

A recommended reading list has been added to the website.  This reading list mirrors the current Think For A Change, LLC. library

    Please click HERE to link to the Recommended Reading page

12/01/2006

** EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 1ST, 2006....

    I have decided to publish weekly blog "conceptlets" instead of the quarterly article. 

Please click HERE to view the Think For A Change Blog

 

11/01/2006

Paul R. Williams and Think For A Change, LLC. were recently featured in two very prominent innovation-related websites.  Check it out!!!

InnovationTools

Fortune's Business Innovation Insider

10/01/2006

Fall 2006 Article Released...Click HERE to Read The Article

09/01/2006

Think For A Change, LLC Releases "Web Exclusives" for clients and presentation guests.  Please click HERE to access the web-only exclusive material and thank you again for participating at a recent Think For A Change, LLC sponsored event!!!

08/01/2006

Think For A Change, LLC Announces the Release of the Continuous Innovation Model

        Please click HERE to learn more about the Think For A Change Continuous Innovation Model.

07/01/2006

Summer 2006 Article Released...Click HERE to Read The Article

05/01/2006

Think For A Change, LLC Announces the Release of "TIG"SM

Please click HERE to learn more about the "TIG"SM (Tactical Idea Generation) concept of corporate idea systems.

04/01/2006

Exciting News!!!

Paul Williams to speak at the 2006 Project World/World Congress for Business Analysts national conference in Orlando, Florida in November, 2006

        Please click HERE for more information

Recent Media Coverage of Think For A Change, LLC and Paul R. Williams:

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"What Is YOUR Innovation Maturity Level???"

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