Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation. He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput. But they are manageable.

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 130

Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 3, 2019

For quite some time we've been hearing about how important it is to do things quickly, with many new adjectives placed in front of the word "innovation". What has worked in more traditional settings - manufacturing, process improvement, etc - is now being applied to innovation. That is, not everything in innovation should move quickly.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

A shared vision for 21st-century student success enabled these schools to effectively utilize “leadership tools” to rally and empower school stakeholders to solve emergent challenges. A mission-driven, agile culture that prioritized relationships was also a common feature of prepared schools. Factor 1: Forward-leaning orientation.

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Technical Review LEAN Culture Agile 98

Cris Beswick

MAY 1, 2024

First, let’s unpack a Culture OF Innovation vs A Culture FOR Innovation. Innovation is not a monolithic entity that can be injected into an organisation’s cultural fabric. This definition risks making innovation an end unto itself rather than an output serving the organisation’s strategic interests.

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Culture Innovation Software Engineering Culture of Innovation 64

Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Do companies know how to innovate? Should innovation be part of an individual’s job title? Does a company even need to innovate? Most big companies think technology when thinking about innovation, regardless of whether or not they’re technology companies. Marketing tends to have their own way of talking about innovation.

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LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Groups 52

etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.” The Proud Leader.

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LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Project Technical Review 56

100%Open

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In today’s competitive business environment, organisations aspire to cultivate high-performance cultures that champion team innovation, agility, and the realisation of strategic objectives. Before delving into the imperative for innovation within a High-Performance Culture Development Programme, let’s first define our terms.

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Culture Creativity LEAN Agile 69

Daniel Burrus

OCTOBER 19, 2022

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. An Anticipatory Mindset Helps You Know When Agility Is Necessary.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In last month’s blog , we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration, and described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed sustainable innovative workplace culture change. Innovation teams are teams that don’t innovate!

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Innovation Collaboration Agile Disruption 59

Wazoku

JULY 29, 2019

But not all businesses are run in this way and leadership comes in many different forms. Let’s explore the nature of modern leadership in business, look at how extending crowdsourcing beyond the executive teams impacts a business and how this all ties into building and fostering a culture of innovation.

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Leadership Collaboration Innovation Culture 45

Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Every successful company has one thing in common: a deep-seated commitment to innovation. Innovation isn’t just about the next big idea; it’s a multifaceted strategy that businesses employ to navigate through the twists and turns of today’s dynamic markets.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

From climate change to food shortages, from pandemics to lack of trust in our leadership and institutions, there's a lot keeping us up on our way to 2023. How To Seize Opportunities For Innovation In 2023? In order to survive and grow, corporates need to innovate- or, as they say at Board of Innovation, "make what life needs next".

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Innovation Management Design Management Agile 52

InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation? Find it here.

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Innovation Tips Design Thinking LEAN 97

Planview

JULY 15, 2022

The bulk of the webinar is based on a recent research paper— Accelerating innovation: some lessons from the pandemic —published by Dr. Robert Cooper in the Journal of Product Innovation Management. Q&A from Accelerating Innovation: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic. Addressing Agile-Stage-Gate PPM Implementation Challenges.

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Product Development Agile LEAN Survey 52

Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 13, 2016

It's almost inevitable that innovation will grow to become an amorphous blob of ideas, techniques, processes, "experts", software and a host of other things. Unfortunately, we are reaching peak innovation offering, which means we'll soon see the dreaded hypenated innovation offering. Most are already lean, but not intentionally.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 22, 2019

For most corporations, leading in quality means continually pursuing organizational excellence. This means leaders have to make sure that the organization is fit for its purpose, stays that way, and keeps improving over time. Maintaining quality is much easier when the risks involved are lower.

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CMOE

MAY 28, 2021

Clearly, there are many opportunities for growth, and healthcare leaders are looking for innovative ways to capitalize on this potential. 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. Strategic Thinking. Delegation.

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Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Strategic Thinking Training 52

IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Elijah Eilert is talking to Susie Braam about what keeps innovators within large organisations going and what makes it really hard for them. Susie shares what good leadership behaviour looks like, the problems with short-term thinking and how to carve out the necessary space for a strategic approach to innovation.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Innovation Training 59

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts.

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Innovation Management Management LEAN Technical Review 100

Planview

MAY 5, 2023

Regional teams used different work methodologies such as Agile, waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma. Fresenius leadership issued a mandate to transform how the company works and collaborates globally. A complete overview of ongoing projects helps leadership make data-driven decisions.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

I've been asked a number of times, by companies large and small, how to create an innovation capacity that lasts. Note that what my clients are asking for is to create an innovation capacity that outlasts a product need, or market gap, or executive team member. First, make innovation important to the CEO and the executive team.

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Innovation Culture Training Project 157

Cris Beswick

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

That’s the question which I posted in a webinar which I was invited to present by ‘We are lean and agile’, a company whose vision statement is ‘making improvement easier for you.’ The post If you want innovation, start with the right breakfast! appeared first on Cris Beswick.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 10, 2020

We are here to help you leverage Lean Innovation skills to (remotely) harness customer empathy, run rapid experiments, and de-risk decisions quickly with evidence, to build confidence for solutions to the very real issues you’re currently facing.

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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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Marketing LEAN Case Study Study 65

mjvinnovation

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile. refers to the third generation of project management models, considered more suited to current business requirements in the context of Digital Transformation – toting more agile, lean, and modern management values. Improves productivity.

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Management Agile LEAN Guidelines 59

ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

At ImagineNation we are celebrating 10 years as a global innovation consultancy, learning, and coaching company. During this time, we’ve identified some of the common patterns that people demonstrate as a result of feeling uncomfortable, frozen, inert, stubborn, and resistant to innovation. Strategically deciding to innovate.

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Technical Review Innovation Agile System 64

IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Elijah Eilert speaks to Andy Cars , the founder and CEO of Lean Ventures International, about the ISO standards for innovation management. The aim is to create a long-term innovation strategy and transform an organisation’s culture into a value creation mindset. Topics and Insights . (01:09) Realization of value.

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Innovation Management Management Entrepreneurship LEAN 52

Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Innov8rs | Without a well-established innovation capability, continuous innovation is nearly impossible. Most corporates can innovate occasionally and be successful in doing so. Yet sporadic innovation is not enough to keep up with changing markets and evolving demanding customer needs. Here’s a summary of his remarks.

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How To Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture 59

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2016

A Question: If you could ask those that lead innovation, your senior organizational leadership, a series of question that might help unlock innovation blockages, now would that be valuable? Getting to a root cause of innovation blockage. So what does block innovation? It underpins innovation engagement.

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Innovation Leadership Management Culture 145

IM Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

About the Episode Elijah Eilert is talking to Peter LePiane about innovation within large organizations. Part one of the podcast, explores the core principles of innovation, the challenges associated with measuring its impact, and the formidable obstacles faced in corporate landscapes. Starting with the question of “What is Innovation?”

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Learning Agile Culture Design 52

Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

As part of our recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed this (and more) with Frank Mattes (CEO at Lean Scaleup), Sean Sheppard (Managing Partner at U+), and Susana Jurado (Head of Wayra Builder at Telefónica). Why can it be so hard for corporates to launch substantial new businesses? Easier said than done.

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Innovation Management Management Handbook LEAN 52

Moves the Needle

MARCH 4, 2021

It’s not that a company can divide itself into the cliched dual operating model of execution in the core business and exploration in the innovation silo. Numerous resources exist to explore working this way, including those that teach agile, design thinking, and lean innovation practices. New Leadership.

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Disruption Agile Leadership LEAN 52

Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With the rise of entrepreneurial activity after The Great Recession, Innovation Labs became all the rage in corporate environments. The word “innovation” became a popular buzzword that meant so many different things to different people, that it almost lost all meaning. Is innovation marked by # of patents or # of squirt guns?

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Disruption Innovation LEAN Competition 40

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2016

A Question: If you could ask those that lead innovation, your senior organizational leadership, a series of questions that might help unlock innovation blockages, now would that be valuable? Getting to a root cause of innovation blockage. So what does block innovation? It underpins innovation engagement.

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Innovation Leadership Management Culture 145

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. It is right that we all respond to these but we often forget much of the rest of what innovation needs to be built upon.

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Technical Review Innovation System Change 175

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

What You Should Be Learning in Innovation Training. Eleven Innovation Bullets to Dodge, in no particular order. Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.).

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Training Innovation Programs LEAN Innovation 58

Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. He’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats.

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