Digital Tonto

JULY 30, 2023

Consider that, after decades of trying, skills like lean manufacturing, agile development and overcoming unconscious bias are woefully under-adopted in most organizations. Today’s change management models simply aren’t based on facts or evidence, but rather the interpretation of case studies.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

2023 could turn out to be one of the hardest for innovation and leadership teams in decades… … or, with the right focused effort, it could be one of the best. Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like.

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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. To assess the current portfolio, adidas periodically deconstructs every project through the lens of the Lean Canvas model. Strategic Agility. Innov8rs |.

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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. Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. Recently, experimentation in innovation management is particularly facilitated by intensified use of (rapid) prototyping.

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Planview

MARCH 18, 2022

For this month’s blog spotlight , we are going to travel to Bangalore and follow Geetika to spend a day in the life of a Software Development Engineer Test manager. Here is what Geetika had to say: Explain your role as a Software Development Engineer Test Manager and a few of your responsibilities. A tough question!

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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.”

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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. 01:09) Introducing Andy Cars owner of Lean Ventures International AB. (03:52) 03:52) Discussing Andy’s contribution to the ISO standards for innovation management . (05:31)

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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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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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Kainexus

JULY 30, 2020

With Lean, we often associate waterfalls with the concept of a continuous flow of people, materials, and information. We also use project management methodologies that leverage a waterfall approach where we execute in phases and the value is finally achieved at the end (versus an agile approach).

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

Robert Cooper in the Journal of Product Innovation Management. However, our discussion with Dr. Cooper mainly focuses on three of those six practices: Effective Portfolio Management Lean Development Agile Stage-Gate. Addressing Agile-Stage-Gate PPM Implementation Challenges. DOWNLOAD THE DATASHEET.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

The original process showed how an idea should first follow design thinking principles, before being turned into a solution using agile development, and finally being piloted and launched. As Peter Drucker famously said: What gets measured, gets managed. The answer I received was painful: That’s not what the client asked for.

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CMOE

MAY 28, 2021

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. Who Fills the Leadership Role in Healthcare? Many individuals fill leadership roles in healthcare. Here are the five essential qualities for leadership in healthcare.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These words include adjectives such as "lean", "agile" and "rapid", to make the point that innovation should be stripped to its bare components, move as fast as possible and create minimum viable solutions. No amount of lean tools or agile methodology will change that. When can you move fast?

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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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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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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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Planview

MAY 5, 2023

Fresenius Medical Care: Streamlining Portfolio and Work Management Fresenius Medical Care provides products and services for individuals with renal diseases. Regional teams used different work methodologies such as Agile, waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma. These circumstances made managing the global product portfolio a challenge.

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Wazoku

JULY 29, 2019

At Wazoku we have a seven-strong executive and management team, which is collectively responsible for the major decisions the company makes. But not all businesses are run in this way and leadership comes in many different forms. The nature of modern leadership. As the CEO, I don’t have a desk. I’m approachable.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 4, 2021

They manage the processes that are inputs to manufacturing, such as materials supply chain partnerships, as well as processes of the business itself such as legal, human resources, operations, and facilities. Numerous resources exist to explore working this way, including those that teach agile, design thinking, and lean innovation practices.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Each category plays a critical role in a company’s growth and adaptation, offering unique paths to market leadership and resilience. Whether it’s adopting cutting-edge manufacturing technologies or streamlining supply chain management, process innovation helps companies optimize their resources and deliver value more efficiently.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

We all manage something or other, whether it’s other people, an entire organization, sales or even just ourselves. Managing suggests careful planning, a well-thought-out direction and a sense of control. What if we applied that definition of management to opportunity? Opportunity Manager Defined. Action, Not Reaction.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Leadership Innovation Manifesto. In today’s world, management must be two things: better and different. Find practical tools for measuring, managing, and accelerating the process, as well as strategies to reduce risk when launching something new. Find it here. Find it here. Find it here. The Innovator’s Method.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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. Founder of Mulberry Retreats – focusing on leadership development. 14:00) On bad leadership behaviour and how not to fund projects. (16:00)

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2018

In this article, you are going to learn exactly what Loss Aversion is, why is creates crippling fear in middle managers and decision-makers, and a simple model for how you can reframe your company’s thinking which encourages more innovation projects to thrive. Figure 3: why managers often stop innovation projects after initial failures.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Discussion on the role of leadership in driving these changes successfully. About the Guests Meet Peter LePiane , the accomplished management consultant with a track record of helping organizations transform how they validate and launch products and services.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 17, 2018

I’ve integrated my experiences to advance clients’ agenda in three areas: Creating value from information assets – next generation systems, business engagement platforms, data management, analytics. Area of expertise: Lean & Agile Management. Agile Engineering Practices. Leadership. DevOps Practices.

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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! IDENTIFYING EARLY ADOPTERS AND TESTING ASSUMPTIONS Through a multi-month Lean Innovation Accelerator , NCARB received weekly coaching and monthly onsite visits.

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Rmukesh Gupta

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

One of the key skills that organisations need to learn in a VUCA world is organisational agility. The only way that an organisation can build agility is when the flow of information is quick and as far as possible, unfiltered and bi-directional. As a leader, what is your leaning towards? They can do so by.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This new management method makes it nearly impossible for innovation teams to fail at delivering multiple challenging innovation projects faster, with less risk and lower required budgets. Most innovation experts often say that traditional management processes are not the way to run innovation projects. And this is true.

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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.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. There are three main elements that intrapreneurs need to think about before they start working; Leadership Support Organization Design and Innovation Practice. This is a lesson I learned from making many mistakes in my own work.

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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? What would happen if you could get the leadership in a room together to discuss innovation which would allow innovation dialogues to emerge?

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CorporateIntel

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sometimes I wonder if the advancing of age and a leaning toward old-fashioned values are a hindrance to relevancy in our contemporary workplace. It was bosses and colleagues advancing in age and leaning toward old-fashioned values. I think a bit of grounding is precisely what the doctor ordered. His name was J.D.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

He’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats. As a successful technology entrepreneur he has a broad perspective on business and always has ideas about how to solve thorny problems.

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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? What would happen if you could get the leadership in a room together to discuss innovation which would allow innovation dialogues to emerge?

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Planview

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are a number of benefits that come from following Lean Portfolio Management principles in your organization. That’s why over the last decade, it has become common for organizations to undertake Agile transformation initiatives to improve value delivery. The reason?

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