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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples

Moves the Needle

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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Are These Agile Transformation Blind Spots Holding You Back?

Planview

It’s common to encounter blind spots when you’re navigating an Agile transformation. They can show up as Agile practices that are meant to improve business agility but are applied so extremely that they end up making organizations less agile. I sat down recently (and virtually, of course!)

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GFi Innovation — Fall Training Course Schedule

Gregg Fraley

If you’re in the Chicago or Denver areas, check out these innovation training course offerings. Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi) is offering three public courses in late October and early November. Click on the course title to register. It’s fall and it’s time to go back to school. REGISTER NOW. REGISTER NOW.

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Are you Ready to use this Economic Downturn to Become Recession Proof?

Daniel Burrus

We want to be agile, reactionary, and cautious — It is a primordial instinct in many. But as I have mentioned to clients and colleagues many times over the course of my career: Agility will never set you ahead of disruption; it will only give you momentary peace of mind. Lego: An Exponential Thinker in Agility and Anticipation.

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The Lean Scale-Up: Innovation & Entrepreneurship for New Ventures

Open Innovation EU

Think about The Lean Start-Up (Ries), Agile, Business Model Generation (Osterwalder) and Customer Development (Steve Blank). In my quest to place these tools into perspective, I generated a new integrative model: The Lean Scale-Up – how to get from start-up to scale-up. Below you’ll find an overview of the model.

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An Answer to the Pains of Integrating Agile and UX

Boxes and Arrows

Although I was attending as a sponsor/exhibitor for Indigo Studio, I did manage to break away to go to the “There’s more than one way to skin a cat: Integrating UX into an Agile environment” session. Clearly, the problems of integrating UX practice into Agile are a common source of pain for UX people. Enter the book.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. Of course, not all friction is bad. Your subtitle refers to “lean” principles; I’m assuming they respond to these restraining forces? Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation. But they are manageable.

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