Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! ” — Guillermo Ortiz de Zárate, Chief Innovation and Information Officer, NCARB. Click here to download.

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Marketing LEAN Case Study Study 65

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Change is always difficult, and changing factors like informal decision making, beliefs and attitudes, risk taking and other factors is more difficult because it requires buy in at all levels and constant reinforcement. By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma.

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Innovation Culture Training Project 157

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor. Nothing wrong with desiring an innovation friendly culture, although talking about it isn’t going to make it happen. Which is best?

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In those types of organizations, most decisions are made by the HIPPOs in the room (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion), but are not informed by the goals of the customer, which on a good day may lead to waste, on a bad day, can lead to complete corporate collapse. And the current digital landscape doesn’t help this situation.

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Groups Case Study Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 45

Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

However, I do believe that as the Internet and globalization have democratized access to information and dramatically driven down the prices in many fields, the role of luck is now smaller than it has ever been. you don’t have talent capable of executing all parts of an innovation process.

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Innovation Competition Marketing Examples 188

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. Streamlined management of innovation projects. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking.

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Course Training Brainstorming Design Thinking 53

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

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. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Technical Review Innovation System Change 174

Commodore Innovation

MAY 13, 2020

Changing approach to innovation, e.g., a greater emphasis on lean/agile and the experimentation-based approach those imply, which will enable faster learning about a dramatically changing landscape. Communicate changes to innovation strategy early AND often. Is there a jump in forecast near term revenue from innovations?

Software Review 52

Software Review System Innovation Strategy 52

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks.

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Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Innovation team leaders and project managers learn what it takes to keep cycles spinning from year to year. Gregg is an entertaining teller of real-world innovation stories.

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Course Training Idea Generation Brainstorming 26

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

For example, Blockchain is typically thought of as a database technology, so the obvious applications are where databases are used now, like customer information, order entry, or patient medical records. This shaping of vague ideas into resource-worthy innovation projects is the final step of the MoshPit process.

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Technology Internet of things Ideation Artificial Inteligence 50

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Nine essential questions CEO’s should be asking about innovation. Are people empowered to innovate? Does your culture support innovation? Are your people trained in innovation process? Do you have the skills, the specific people, you need to innovate? Is your organization doing continuous projects?

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Project Training Design Thinking Innovation 74

Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The fact is, companies must be more agile, understand their customers deeply, and make bold moves in order to survive. At the heart of this transformation mindset is Lean Innovation. And when you think of innovation transformation, there are many pieces that need to come together. But, that’s not all there is to it.

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System Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Training 77

mjvinnovation

MARCH 29, 2021

What does a process consultancy do? 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? Process review and redesign. Ah, so you’re on the right track!

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review Resources 52

Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Rather, trends keep you informed where investment should occur in the short, medium, and long term to maintain your existing markets. With an h/t to Tony Ulwick for his outcome-driven innovation process, Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) is a disciplined way of establishing customers’ needs in their quest to accomplish something, i.e., a job.

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How To Trends Marketing LEAN 40

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

To get to this transforming point we need to build in a faster adaptation of business strategies and turn out faster innovation outcomes that meet these needs as key to this. More information, greater personalization is both unpredictable in what it yields and is an ongoing process. Now that really does become transforming.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 133

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

To get to this transforming point we need to build in a faster adaptation of business strategies and turn out faster innovation outcomes that meet these needs as key to this. More information, greater personalization is both unpredictable in what it yields and is an ongoing process. Now that really does become transforming.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 120

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

What started me on a given innovation “tack”was for a long time I have seen an awful lot of opinions, solutions, concepts that have been breaking down innovation into its many parts. The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.”

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System Innovation Design Resources 147

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 2, 2016

So I am exploring here each of these conditions that I believe are coming together for a really important transforming storm built around a new innovation management, increasingly making it the core to the future for growth. If we do recognize all the above forces are converging, then innovation does become central to what we do.

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Technical Review Innovation Collaboration Software Review 100

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Unless we create a strategy to transform, how can we re-imagine our innovation processes? We talk so much about “innovation is critical” today and in our future, but is rarely achieved. This does require a transformation of how we design, structure and bring together all the relevant part of the innovation process.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Nevertheless, many market participants still face the enormous challenge of figuring out the blend of all necessary elements and the right mix for a successful innovation process. Even fewer have persistently developed and implemented habits and processes that foster sustainable innovation.

Company 57

Company Technical Review Software Review Innovation 57

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

It also addresses the basics of why innovation is so important to an organization’s survival and growth. Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. Approaches to the new challenges of Digital Technology Innovation are discussed.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives. A well-suited way to govern this approach is to manage a portfolio of initiatives.

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Underperforming Technical Team Big Data Innovation Technical Review 40

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In this inspirational speech Gregg Fraley answers the Why Innovation question, and informs as to what innovation means to you and your group. It advocates that innovation is an exciting part of everyone’s job, not “extra work.” Staying in business means reinventing as markets shift.

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Design Thinking Innovation Project Idea Generation 51

Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

In other words we have found that breakthrough innovations should be identified and implemented in iterative processes. More and more we also see firms opening up their innovation funnel at this stage to allow for external concepts to be pulled into the innovation funnel.

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