Wie fördern Sie Innovationen im Netzwerkprojektmanagement?

Over and above project management itself, an organization needs an innovative mindset and culture. People should come to work every day to be innovative in order to satisfy customers and all stakeholders. With such a sustained 24/7 culture, the innovative mindset will naturally overflow into any and every project.

As an EA I would say defining the problem or drivers are key to anything. Also bringing your principles and other artefacts into this phase to underpin the rationale of the "problem", will help you define the goal (Architecture vision) which meets the various stakeholders concerns.

Problem framing is one of the best tools that a design leader has in their toolkit to bring about lasting change and innovation Use the pre-discovery phase to understand the problem using a 360 degree lens What are customers/users/service beneficiaries and the workforce saying about the problem? Hold off from any solutionising at this stage - as too early, and you risk solving the wrong problem and not having a full understanding of needs and requirements. It is human to try and fix as soon as possible (such as the ‘quick wins’ or the ‘low hanging fruit’) but this must be guarded against until you have been through discovery and definition. Even then it is time for prototypes and looking at a range of possibilities rather than one

One thing I find useful in any technical work such as network projects is understanding your audience/stakeholders. For example The Finance officer doesn't need a full run down of the VLANs, the network diagram, backhaul speeds. They need to know risk and costs and benefits, timeframes for example. So involve people yes you need too, but at the right level and the level of detail relevant to their role.

This is the time for stakeholder mapping and understanding who and what groups are in the ecosystem This should include views and perspectives from a 360 degree view including customers/users/service beneficiaries, the workforce and delivery partners Include them as early as possible- and use participative methods such as codesign or coproduction if your timeline allows Ask them how much they want to be involved and what level of decision making that they would require to be fully engaged Ignoring stakeholders will limit adoption - the best solution in the world will be ignored if engagement has been low Remember the IKEA effect - people are more likely to value something that they have been involved in building

hire some highly qualified engineers to act as consultants on your project. part of the consultants role should be to raise potential innovations think about the benifits but also the risks especially the risk of causing client outage during execution.

Allow time and space for everyone involved to ideate. Ask people to look at the worst possible solution to the network project as this ironically often unlocks the best as well as innovation Children when asked about what they can do with a paper clip can come up with endless possibilities- whilst an adult in analytical mode can come up with less than 5 Make sure your groups have as diverse perspectives and voices as possible. Unlocking a problem for someone with specific life challenges can often hold the key for wider useage and adoption. Avoid ‘tokenisation’ when you do this and use questions using the Socratic method in which everyone is able to give an answer from their own experience