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Drive Disruption with Design THINKING

Fehmida Kapadia

An hour into the activity, we take a short break to discuss what we are working on and the following conversation ensues “I am writing about design thinking” “Oh! Are you a designer?” “No, No, I am not a designer and that is exactly what I am writing about. Design thinking has become a buzzword today.

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

Open Innovation EU

Roca wrote a pretty good article about that a while ago: from the sandbox to the hive ( Model for Organization Design, Roca ). Many popular tools are based on this process view on organization design. Think about The Lean Start-Up (Ries), Agile, Business Model Generation (Osterwalder) and Customer Development (Steve Blank).

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Innovation Success Requires Integrated Approaches

Integrative Innovation

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. A couple of days after having had published my post, Paolo Lorenzoni from IDEO confirmed the complementary nature of Lean Startup and Design Thinking. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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Episode 14 The Fruit Tree Analogy: Cultivating Business Value at Microsoft Garage

IM Insights

He has led company-wide change management programs in innovation, design-thinking, and agile methodologies that have helped over 25,000 employees earn raving fans for their products. During his engineering career, Ed has researched AI, worked on Microsoft Office, and democratized parallel computing.

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Episode 15 The Fruit Tree Analogy: Cultivating Business Value at Microsoft Garage

IM Insights

How the Innovation Accounting Program led to Ed changing his title from Entrepreneurship at Microsoft to Director of Business Value at the Garage [00:17:00] Modeling Business Strategy – Ed shares his experience of modelling his boss’s business strategy as a funnel, using innovation accounting.

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Why invest in innovation consulting?

mjvinnovation

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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The 5 Jobs to Address Uncertainty

Moves the Needle

They may be design thinkers, agile developers, or people who have worked in startups before. Some people call it agile. Some, design thinking, human centered design, or lean startup. Here are 5 jobs to get you on the path. . Job 1: Find Your Champions. See who shows up! But what is this new mindset?

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