Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We seem confronted with rapid change, and it is primarily within the business world related to technology and market uncertainty that is driving this. We need to counter “fear” with a different approach, recognizing most of what we feel might be the ‘unknown’ is actually ‘known.’

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LEAN Industry Agile Analysis 195

Business and Tech

JUNE 24, 2022

Anyone who has taken on the risk of entrepreneurship and endured its frequent failures knows it can be a lonely path. This is precisely when entrepreneurs can most benefit from the connection, understanding, and wisdom of joining a network of fellow founders; the moment when an entrepreneur’s mindset should shift from “me” to “we.”

Entrepreneurship 246

Entrepreneurship LEAN Tools Agile 246

mjvinnovation

MARCH 13, 2019

She is the woman of the moment and can teach you a lot about agile project management! She is the woman of the moment and can teach you a lot about agile project management! In this article, in besides knowing better the Japanese sensation of the present, you will see what lessons she can bring us about agile project management.

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Agile Project Management Tips 64

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. She recognized the fact that many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies. Unicorns are privately held companies valued at $1 billion or more. They are real.

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 130

Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle. Who is involved in reimbursement decisions and how is approval achieved? But how can an enterprise organization re-invent product commercialization?

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Product Development LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Marketing 75

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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LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Project Technical Review 56

Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Yet lacking the first three ingredients, we all seem to focus on methods as the key to success. If we could only create the right mindset and skill sets in our teams, we would create the next billion dollar business. Innov8rs | Innovation departments are continuing to fail. You rarely win without a strategy.

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Training LEAN Innovation Resources 72

mjvinnovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

We all know that agile methodologies are not written in stone. In reality, we are talking about a set of practices that should be used to manage projects and demands to adapt to changes and gain efficiency quickly. The practice is very common within agile logic. What are Squads? What are the benefits of Squads?

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Agile Design Technical Review How To 52

The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The ‘Lean Startup’ meme has permeated the business world in the past few years. It is now being advocated for large companies who are trying to create internal incubation capabilities and be more agile. The author points out several issues with the lean startup ‘mentality’ more than the process itself. Original Article ».

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LEAN Agile Company Innovation 40

Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 26, 2014

Each panelist had made their mark on how design is done in start-ups: Laura wrote the influential O’Reilly book on UX for Lean Startups, and Todd penned the bestselling Rosenfeld Media Prototyping book. Mike founded an influential Lean UX community in San Francisco. . Below is Laura Klein expounds on these key themes of lean research.

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LEAN Design Learning Agile 103

Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

Although I was attending as a sponsor/exhibitor for Indigo Studio, I did manage to break away to go to the “There’s more than one way to skin a cat: Integrating UX into an Agile environment” session. It was kind of a “yeah, it’s painful, and we don’t really know what to do.” Enter the book.

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Agile LEAN Development Team Review Software Review 80

Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

One of my favorite quotes comes from Shaw, who said that all change in life originate from unreasonable people. For innovation and digital transformation, perhaps we should be a bit more unreasonable. We need to define what digital transformation is, or what we think it is. We need to be thinking bigger.

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Training Tools Innovation LEAN 179

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There are a few things I'd like to comment on about this announcement, but what is really interesting (at least from an innovator's point of view) is that we get to have a live experiment about the innovation capabilities and capacities of three sister businesses, all entering the market at the same time.

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Agile Innovation Culture Leadership 144

Idea to Value

JULY 1, 2020

This is why “lean” and “agile” have become buzzwords today. Do you see plenty who are really not up to their responsibilities? And we are not talking about nepotism or unfairness. This will at least minimize the evils of the Peter Principle, for as long as we do have hierarchies and we value experience.

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Report Big Data Leadership LEAN 148

Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

A mission-driven, agile culture that prioritized relationships was also a common feature of prepared schools. Factor 1: Forward-leaning orientation. This description of the forward-leaning orientation of prepared schools aligns with what the Tools of Cooperation theory describe as “leadership tools.”

Technical Review 98

Technical Review LEAN Culture Agile 98

Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 27, 2021

they may have listened to a friend of a friend who told them to buy Bitcoin, almost as if it was a fast-rising stock, in hopes that it would make them wealthy overnight. We are all good at reacting and responding, putting out fires, and managing crises. Moving Beyond Crisis Management.

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Disruption Artificial Inteligence Trends Agile 122

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. What has worked in more traditional settings - manufacturing, process improvement, etc - is now being applied to innovation.

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LEAN Product Development Innovation Agile 147

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. Then I remember who taught me the most about workplace navigation in the early years of my professional career. We all can learn from each other if we choose to listen.

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LEAN Policies Technical Review Learning 100

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. What is Management 3.0?

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Management Agile LEAN Guidelines 59

Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

It was not unusual to find PM’s who reported into Engineering at the time, the two cases perhaps reflecting the above origin stories. We were “pre-customer” and no, we didn’t IPO without customers. (We We were “pre-customer” and no, we didn’t IPO without customers. But don’t ask how many when we did.)

Management 52

Management Agile Software Design 52

Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 11, 2019

It's about that time of year where we begin to look back, to think about what we've accomplished and what lies ahead. Knowing that the end of the year is in sight, and the holidays are almost upon us, we anticipate work slowing down, and perhaps for just a few days we can actually think - really think - about what's going to happen in 2020.

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Artificial Inteligence Agile Disruption Company 147

Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 13, 2016

Unfortunately, we are reaching peak innovation offering, which means we'll soon see the dreaded hypenated innovation offering. This slight rant of mine was started when I saw a new software application talk about its ability to help its clients in agile lean innovation. Most are already lean, but not intentionally.

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LEAN Agile Innovation Software 100

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. Often this era of change is not as well-recognized or being faced up to, as you would expect.

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Innovation Radical Innovation Design Big Data 185

Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

During The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed these topics with Tom Waller (Senior Vice President of Innovation at adidas) and Tiffany Vasilchik (Chief Growth Officer at Board of Innovation). As innovators, it’s our job to understand what customers and what we can do to serve them based on what we’re qualified to do. “If

Innovation Management 52

Innovation Management Design Management Agile 52

Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

It’s a way for businesses to look at what they do and ask, “Can we do this differently?” In this article, we’re going to explore why changing your business model is crucial in today’s world. Let’s dive into some essential concepts to ensure we all understand the basics.

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Software Innovation Innovation Management LEAN 52

PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The 2020s will be remembered for many reasons, but I predict this will be the decade when building innovation ecosystems will become “the thing” to do — just as significant and powerful as the six sigma initiatives were in the 1990s and agile practices in the 2000s. It’s quality over quantity just as it is effectiveness over efficiency.

Agile 88

Agile Innovation Collaboration LEAN 88

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Demonstrate that innovation depends on finding the most innovative people, who by definition are rarely the more efficient people. Innovative people wonder why we aren't doing better or something new, or why we are sticking with these products long after they've been superseded in the marketplace.

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Innovation Culture Training Project 157

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma. ” IBM, Xerox, IDEO, Coca-Cola, and P&G are just a small sample of organizations who already use CPS. More focused creativity means more Momentum. Osborn wrote “Applied Imagination.”

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Creativity Training Tools Culture 98

ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

At ImagineNation we are celebrating 10 years as a global innovation consultancy, learning, and coaching company. At the same time, we know why innovation is transformational, and why, at this time, it is more important than ever to innovate. As well as to be resilient and adaptive to grow and flow in today’s chaotic BANI environment.

Technical Review 64

Technical Review Innovation Agile System 64

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! “ We used to be so focused on releasing good products that we didn’t validate if we were spending time on the right thing, which slowed us down.

Marketing 65

Marketing LEAN Case Study Study 65

Planview

MARCH 18, 2022

It is a time where we can reflect on all the powerful women who have and continue to advocate for equality and change. At Planview, we believe women in tech are the future and Geetika Gagneja is a part of Planview’s past, present, and future. Who do you typically collaborate with? March is Women’s history month.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Management 98

InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We used AI to identify the most frequently asked questions about design thinking. Then, we used another AI tool to answer the questions. We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies? Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers.

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Design Thinking Design Underperforming Technical Team Ideation 74

Planview

MAY 14, 2018

Will we live like kings, like paupers, or not at all? Will we live like kings, like paupers, or not at all? We see the harbinger of this world through the emergence of “on call” occupations made possible by ride-hire platforms such as Uber and Lyft. To say that the stakes are high would be an understatement.

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LEAN Artificial Inteligence Conference Trends 40

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

I firmly believe we are on the cusp of a new innovation era. When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. Now we have to weave them together. Of course, much of what we have will still remain.

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Innovation Design Agile System 178

Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 11, 2019

We are all good at reacting and responding – a knee-jerk reaction, so to speak. Even organizations large and small have learned how to be lean and agile while executing a strategy at a high level. Understanding the difference between Hard and Soft Trends allows us to know which parts of the future we can be right about.

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Trends Agile Disruption LEAN 53

mjvinnovation

AUGUST 21, 2020

Not long ago, we were all removed from our social life and hurriedly migrated from offices to home offices in light of the serious global health crisis – the biggest in a century. We are plunging headlong into the era of digital-first. Digital-first: Low-Touch Economy and the challenges of the new normal.

Agile 76

Agile LEAN Trends Marketing 76

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Don’t love the word “component” kicking off the first question – we aren’t talking about Ford’s pieces on an assembly line that have mostly been replaced by robots, we’re talking about human beings, usually working in knowledge and creative-based jobs, albeit toward a common goal.

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Collaboration Crowdsourcing Agile LEAN 100