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It creates and demonstrates concrete benefits and values.
It conforms to KPIs and measurement criteria and is effective, useful, and easy to control and manage.
It is supported by a clear and effective communication process.
It is implemented by a team with strong and relevant technical and soft skills, attitude, and competencies [1].

CONCLUSION
Innovation and projects are an inseparable pair. Innovation is a
value that combines content and form, strategy and tactic, and vision and pragmatism. In order to survive in the hypercompetitive,
continuously changing marketplace of today, organizations must
recognize, empower, and grow forward-thinking managers with
strong leadership skills. The managers must be ready to listen,
communicate, plan, share success and failures, negotiate, act, reschedule, work to improve all the organization's assets, challenge
stereotypes, and overcome the fear of the new. Innovation must be
pervasive, controlled, measurable, and implemented with strategic
attitude through an organizational project-management maturity
model and system engineering mindset. All this must be supported
by appropriate analysis models, processes, and tools that allow
managers to recognize and reduce offering costs, risks, and time
to market while enhancing the overall quality of the product..

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Figure 6.

Innovation processes and TRLs.

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Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) analysis
methods) [6]. The standards of project management and system engineering should be adequately tailored for innovation project use,
with spiral and fast prototyping approaches, maximization of communalities, reuse modules, and scalable and open architectures, as
well as exploitation of simulation and gamification techniques in
order to make the process more feasible and reliable but still rapid.
Other characteristics of successful innovation projects include the
following:
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It is consistent with the strategy plan.
It is correlated and integrated among all program pipelines
in order to avoid possible internal conflicts.

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