Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

These companies report a clear business impact from their innovation efforts, repeatedly- measured in revenues and/or transformation outcomes. Their systems work effectively and efficiently, but they are also agile enough to seize short-term opportunities. Most of these systems trace back to the Lean Startup.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

In response, a solution is to invest in growth initiatives that are developed and incubated externally, as a “Venture NewCo” that operates with startup agility, and then to eventually integrate successful ventures back into the core business. Let’s explore how that works in practice.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

By mapping out each component, companies can identify areas for innovation and explore how changes in one area may impact others. Lean Startup Methodology The Lean Startup methodology , created by Eric Ries, emphasizes the importance of rapid prototyping, validated learning, and other iterative product and service development techniques.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

According to Tom, streamlining our portfolio is the first thing to do in 2023 to increase customer satisfaction and speed up the overall innovation process. “If To assess the current portfolio, adidas periodically deconstructs every project through the lens of the Lean Canvas model. Strategic Agility.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Radical innovation is about making significant leaps forward, often creating new industries or reshaping existing ones. Disruptive innovation, a subset of radical innovation, specifically refers to the process by which smaller companies with fewer resources successfully challenge established incumbents.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve. We continue to push our innovation concepts inside an organization that seems determined not to listen.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

The importance of big data, the speed of technology adoption, mobile products, digital design, and technology platforms are at the heart of innovation. It will fundamentally change the type of resources innovation requires. This agility needs the tools of testing, feedback, and adaptation to accelerate the innovation process.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. Interestingly, it looks like others support the idea of balancing and combining elements of both innovation approaches, too. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 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 worthwhile 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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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies? What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? Innovation managers: Innovation managers use design thinking to drive innovation within the organization. What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies?

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Innovator’s Method. This book by Nathan Furr covers tips and techniques learned from design thinking, innovation, and the lean startup business model which has grown in popularity in the last few years. With an innovator’s method, one can use these tools to change how ideas are created, refined, and brought to market.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

From that information, we were able to plan out what a couple of sprints might look like in order to help employees and leadership understand the Lean Innovation process and increase the frequency of making decisions based on evidence. “ ” — Thais Cunha, Project Coordinator, Bomnegocio.com.

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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. Cost savings by not paying outside consultants to facilitate and manage your innovation process. REGISTER NOW.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

When you are trying to create a repeatable innovation process, you can’t just start anywhere by doing random activities. As such, the first question for you to answer is – how ready is your company to support and nurture innovation? In fact, there can be conflict for resources, which the core business inevitably wins.

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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. Modeling – organization, design or redesign of the process flow. Remember Agile?

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 11, 2019

According to the author, it is the use of intentional knowledge flows to accelerate internal innovative power and expand markets for external use of innovation. Once open innovation is adopted, the boundaries of the organization become permeable and allow resources to be combined with external collaborators.

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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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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. Projects change culture.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

More agile competitors are starting to eat into our business. How can we restart our innovation culture?”. What Drives Innovation? Startups have finite time and resources to find product/market fit before they run out of money. What We Now Know about Corporate Innovation. and how to price the product.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Your time, resources, and the complexity of your markets determine the size of your sandbox. 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. Define the Jobs.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

This shaping of vague ideas into resource-worthy innovation projects is the final step of the MoshPit process. MoshPit integrates well with other innovation frameworks and methods. Ideas are perfected using story telling techniques and paper prototyping.

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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. In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations.

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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 culture supporting innovation?

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 7, 2015

Yesterday, I was quite delighted to see my post Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking ranked #11 of the Top 100 Innovation Posts 2014 at Innovation Excellence. In fact, the real power lies in combining different innovation approaches to fit a unique context. No one size fits all.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

This is not as simple as it sounds because you’ll need resources and involvement across the silos in your organization to enable the projects. Don’t be held back by a restrictive innovation process model; be flexible on new ways to innovate. Have a cross-domain, diverse team.

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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.

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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.

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KindlingApp

AUGUST 19, 2015

This is why the principles found in lean methodology have been so widely accepted and applied; the ability to be agile and adjust are the characteristics of top-tier organizations. This can, at times, conflict with a true innovation process because of the preponderance of unknown factors inherently involved when one innovates.

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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. Co-Innovation and startup engagement.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

It builds awareness of the how and why of innovation programs. The focus is on the front-end-of-innovation, where challenges are identified, ideas are generated, refined, and pitched to management for further development and resourcing. Approaches to the new challenges of Digital Technology Innovation are discussed.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The latter requires speed and agility. Steve Blank, father of the Lean Startup movement, stresses that you will never know enough about your customers if you are holed up inside a boardroom. In many companies being an innovator is not an attractive career path. The former requires slow and careful decision making.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Even if they have agreed on the importance of innovation and have set up teams or departments to develop new value-adding, innovative products and services, these products may end up never being launched because nobody in the existing business units will take responsibility and take the risk of launching them.

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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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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Pitching ideas, prototyping, and resourcing innovation. Making innovation a continuous effort. Audiences of this talk walk away with highly strategic approaches to innovation, as well as practical, tactical tools for implementing innovation projects.

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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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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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