Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. They have helped businesses break through inertia and build game-changing products, but are still surprisingly uncommon when it comes to social good. And a new mindset is needed, Chang contends. Corporate philanthropy. Benefit corporations. Sounds ideal.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. They just wanted to know what the process should be, so we can’t change that.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Their talks can be a catalyst for change, encouraging your team to pursue innovation with renewed vigor. They may share insights on techniques for effective ideation such as design thinking, mind mapping, and leveraging technology for collaborative brainstorming sessions. Audience Feedback Reviews, testimonials from previous talks.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

They become fixed, rigid and locked into their established ways, not adapting to the changes occurring around them. If we can’t adapt to changing times, we simply struggle to survive, that is the growing reality operating in today’s environment. We hear far too much about the need to transform and change.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We also know exactly what transformative innovation involves, and how to enable and equip people to connect and collaborate in new ways to effect constructive and sustainable change in a world of unknowns. Problem-solving, cultural change, and improving people’s lives. Shaping the next normal. Strategically deciding to innovate.

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CorporateIntel

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sometimes I wonder if the advancing of age and a leaning toward old-fashioned values are a hindrance to relevancy in our contemporary workplace. It was bosses and colleagues advancing in age and leaning toward old-fashioned values. I think a bit of grounding is precisely what the doctor ordered. His name was J.D.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Innovation has been rapidly changing and much of its basics have been swallowed up by some newly defining frameworks that have raced up to the top of the innovation agenda. We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the perfusion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. In either case, companies are frequently forced to reinvent themselves by changing the way they have been doing business so far.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 29, 2015

In recent years our innovation understanding and its management have significantly changed, due to numerous factors that have been happening. These have been advances in technology, methodology or design- thinking and we do need to stop and think about how we could do ‘things’ differently by asking “what is possible?

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Innovation Design LEAN 100

mjvinnovation

MAY 19, 2020

The future has changed. It considers coming changes and our commonalities. It puts everyone on the same page, enabling a better understanding of the business, especially during this time of transition and challenges or changes in management. It starts with a week-long sprint in which all planning stages are dynamically reviewed.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 29, 2021

When we mention process consulting, we are essentially talking about greater agility in the execution of activities and, mainly, saving time and resources by improving operational routines. Remember Agile? Increased capacity to promote scalable changes in processes. What does a process consultancy do?

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Planview

JUNE 23, 2022

As technology solution providers emerge from the unprecedented volatility of the last couple of years, services leaders are asking what are the most important capabilities that they need to master? What ways have customer expectations changed and increased? What ways have customer expectations changed and increased?

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies? What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? This involves reviewing the feedback from the user testing, and making adjustments to the solution based on the insights gathered.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 15, 2021

In the book Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Peter Drucker defines innovation as “the specific instrument of entrepreneurship […] that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth” Scott Berkun, from Carnegie Mellon University, believes that “innovation is a significant positive change.”

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

Digital Transformation (also known as “DX”) is the phenomenon that virtually all companies are incorporating digital technology at some level. In fact, it has been around since the 1990s, when technology started to become commonplace in businesses, and email and the Internet emerged as ubiquitous productivity tools. They are not agile.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Changing prices, new packaging, different marketing tactics, trying new sales scripts, improving support, partnering with or acquiring synergistic companies — there’s an endless list of things a company might do to protect or extend existing revenues. Business model changes. Adding new features might enable you to take market share.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 29, 2020

To dive into the new patterns of consumer behavior and the changes these new times have brought to companies, we prepared this article. Technology has only evolved – and very fast. The Economy is Digital; companies are born small, lean, lighter, and more innovative. Bonus 2: Agile Software Development. Startup-up.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

Where does design thinking, lean management, the early thinking to focus more on changing the business model come in? Often we don’t allow ourselves the time, presently seen as a luxury, to call for a comprehensive review of our innovation infrastructure, yet we ought to. We lose precious time as we should be forward looking.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

Where does design thinking, lean management, the early thinking to focus more on changing the business model come in? Often we don’t allow ourselves the time, presently seen as a luxury, to call for a comprehensive review of our innovation infrastructure, yet we ought to. We lose precious time as we should be forward looking.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. Innovation leaders, review this list and get a sense of where you are with the fundamentals. The science and the technology, and, the ever-changing market and customers.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.” It so often, does not yield the impact we require from innovation; successful outcomes that accelerate growth or make for substantial change. So where was I going this Sunday morning?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

Innovation has been rapidly changing and much of its basics have been swallowed up by some defining issues that have raced up to the top of the innovation agenda and it is right to respond to these. Other real changing forces influencing innovation. The shifts taking place around innovation have been significant in their impact.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 11, 2019

In his book, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (Harvard Business School Press – 2003), researcher Henry Chesbrough coined the term Open Innovation. Usually, this happens with the incorporation of technologies developed by other companies. The open innovation concept.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 8, 2019

Do you know how deep the changes he is introducing in the most diverse industrial organizations? It is nothing more than the phenomenon of adopting innovative tools, resources and technological services to optimize the management of the most varied industrial aspects. Do you know this concept in depth? Keep reading to understand!

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Lean Innovation Definition At Moves The Needle, we define lean innovation as “reducing waste in the discovery, creation, and delivering of new value to customers." We base Lean Innovation principles upon the 3 E’s of Lean Innovation : Empathy, Experiments and Evidence. Where design thinking ends, Lean Startup begins.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This article will change that. This is why project management and the processes which support it (such as multi-year planning, business cases, risk management, change management and financial governance) form the backbone of most management frameworks in large companies. No wonder that around 96% of innovation projects fail.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Rapidly changing customer behaviours, disruptive digital technologies, and the emergence of agile fintech start-ups means that disruption is an ever-present danger. Changing entrenched ways of thinking – persuading tenured staff that implementing a bold new crowdsourcing approach can yield major results ?

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CMOE

MAY 28, 2021

With the changing needs and demands of clinical care, technology, and spending, leadership in healthcare must stay agile to keep up with the shifting tides. Keeping empathy front and center can be especially challenging in an industry where clinical and financial changes can cloud human emotion. How to Foster Empathy.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Large corporations have taken steps towards being more agile and adapting to the rapid pace of digitization by improving their oftentimes long innovation processes and giving more autonomy to employees. The term comes from the English and is based on the Lean Startup Model by Eric Ries. Adapt or die. Listen and say yes!

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Planview

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are a number of benefits that come from following Lean Portfolio Management principles in your organization. That’s why over the last decade, it has become common for organizations to undertake Agile transformation initiatives to improve value delivery. 1: Obtain Business Leadership Support for Lean Portfolio Management.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. Focus on innovation not changing others – They were not expected to “make everyone innovative” or change company culture.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the pervasion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. In either case, companies are frequently forced to reinvent themselves by changing the way they have been doing business so far.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Engine 1 supports a company’s steady pace of evolution, and is a critical enabler of the incremental changes that propel a business forward. Engine 2 efforts are disruptive and potentially game changing. Source: Accenture.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Unless this changes it will continue to erode the clients’ confidence in these service providers and they will be seeking increasing internal solutions to tackle their problems. Today I think part of the clients experimenting and learning internally is due to this disappointment with the consultant.

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mjvinnovation

JULY 1, 2021

We live in a time of profound change that has demanded an enormous capacity for flexibility and adaptation. Keep reading to understand why agile project management provides numerous advantages over traditional forms of project management. What is agile project management? We call this initiative agile project management.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In-house designers often have to advocate for design priorities versus new features or technical change. Did it instigate change? Agile teams can lose the long term direction by focusing on small sprints. Agency designers can create great visions that fail to be executed. Is design just a service, or can designers* lead?

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