Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. As Peter Drucker famously said: What gets measured, gets managed.

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Technical Review Innovation Innovation Processes Project 248

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. ScaleUps, and those that invest in them, face the next-level challenge of growing revenue at scale; that is, exponentially relative to expenditures in capital, people, and technology. Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation.

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 130

Innovation Excellence

JUNE 15, 2020

The consulting industry was already being disrupted before the coronavirus. If you work with consultants or have your own consultancy, take note: Things are changing, fast. Remote work , lean budgets , and the need for contingency plans are three big trends impacting the industry. Consulting Services Stratification.

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Change Software Review Disruption Technical Review 54

CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

And today, on top of providing value, leaders are tasked with ensuring technical components go smoothly. Solution: Focus on the Facilitator Mindset Leadership consultant Dr. Flo Falayi encourages leaders to lean on what they call “The Facilitator Mindset.” Remember to keep calm and prepare with tech contingencies.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Meeting Groups 52

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

From my perspective I’ve been looking at a real challenge today, that many consultants offering innovation services are not providing real sustaining consulting value to clients, only ad-hoc services. In many ways, the consulting industry specializing in innovation is its own worst enemy.

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Innovation Collaboration Technical Review Leadership 60

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

mjvinnovation

MAY 29, 2019

Feedback meetings (review and retro) are held to evaluate the changeable points and the way to be followed in new sprints (plannings), which guarantees better prioritization and reduction of gaps. Lean Startup. Principles of Lean Startup: Build – create a prototype of a product that is simple and meets basic needs.

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Agile Learning Development Team Review Technical Review 40

The BMI Lab Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Start Listening Lessons of Innovation In Lessons of Innovation , Mohamad Zaraket hosts conversations with a diverse range of people from the innovation field: (corporate) innovators, academics, consultants, authors, entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs. If you want to find out more about our lean startup approach, check out our Launchpad.

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LEAN Innovation Tips Technical Review 52

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. It is this ‘raw’ power of technology that is transforming much. This often needs different perspectives to form the final position.

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Technical Review Innovation System Change 174

ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

At ImagineNation we are celebrating 10 years as a global innovation consultancy, learning, and coaching company. Become both human-centric to help people manage their transition through the challenges of the global pandemic and enable them to exploit the range of accelerating technological advances in the digital age.

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Technical Review Innovation Agile System 64

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

If you want to talk with Nick Skillicorn (founder of Improvides Innovation Consulting and creator of the L.I.V.E. This is why management is usually more comfortable selecting “safer” projects, and innovation projects are likely to be seen as more risky due to the fact they cannot show how they have worked elsewhere.

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Project LEAN Management Innovation 241

hackerearth

MAY 4, 2017

Eric Ries, Lean Startup. Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Toyota Production System, Quality Circles, and continuous improvement all stemmed from that quality approach. Had innovation been so much of an act of common-sense or of serendipity, why adopt so much of technology or management thinking?

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Management Innovation Technical Review Creativity 74

Outside Innovation

JUNE 30, 2015

Instead, ask customers to share their strategies and plans with one another for peer review. Build close relationships with your top business and technical execs. 2 Things Customer Advisory Board Members Hate: Demo's of products about to be launched that they weren't consulted about.

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Technical Review Meeting LEAN Tips 40

Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Patrick Lencioni’s model of team performance is reviewed and tools are presented on how to breakthrough conflict, establish trust, and move into high performance. It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. He’s lead entrepreneurial teams to success, in software, research, and consulting.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Training Software Review Collaboration 40

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Rapidly changing customer behaviours, disruptive digital technologies, and the emergence of agile fintech start-ups means that disruption is an ever-present danger. The word ‘innovation’ usually brings to mind cutting-edge new products or technologically streamlined services.

Software Review 40

Software Review Crowdsourcing Technical Review Project 40

Boxes and Arrows

MAY 5, 2015

After some wallowing, I realized I needed to discover a new way to think about the way I work and what really matters in my consulting career. My answer: The mark of a truly good consultant is investing in people. I hope that the reflection will help us all be better consultants and make better investments.

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Technical Review Design 86

Innovation 360 Group

JULY 25, 2017

Not long ago one of my clients, a very skilled former top consultant, now a seasoned industry leader, asked for “ Artificial Intelligence for Dummies ”. The technology matures but many of the promises that were made have been broken. One example how technology and coincidence most likely changed history is Enigma.

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Artificial Inteligence Innovation Management Management Technical Review 63

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Simply put companies ‘die’ due to their inability to adapt to change and transformation projects fail because the message somehow fails to register and never gets completed to the original objectives. This requires technology to be central to this different thinking, alongside a radical shift in how we see innovation.

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Change Technical Review Marketing Management 100

Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

It’s encouraging to see a couple of research studies, recently conducted by different well-known consulting firms, backing the ideas I’ve been passionately supporting for many years. Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Source: Deloitte.

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Disruption Innovation Survey Study 100

Integrative Innovation

APRIL 7, 2016

It’s encouraging to see a couple of research studies, recently conducted by different well-known consulting firms, backing the ideas I’ve been passionately supporting for many years. Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Source: Deloitte.

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Disruption Innovation Survey Study 40

Planview

JUNE 16, 2022

To create interconnected products and services that move a company forward, business leaders must continually assess and evolve capabilities while directing cross-organizational coordination between strategy, work, people, technology, and outcomes. Planview Enterprise One Reviews. IT Portfolio Management Senior Consultant.

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Technical Review Agile Resources Project 59

CMOE

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Lean on these 23 best learning and development blogs to gain insights on elevating L&D at your organization. Their team comprises learning and development consultants and team members. Go1 Blog Go1 Blog focuses on helping “achieve your L&D goals through the latest learning and development insights, trends, and technology.”

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Learning Tips Training Technical Review 98

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Companies don’t fail at innovation due to lack of ideas. They partner with Silicon Valley startups who have breakthrough technology when they really just want incremental innovation that delivers quarterly results. Business Insider and the Thinkers50 have named him one of the world’s top management experts and consultants.

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Culture Strategy Strategy Technical Review 130

CMOE

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

BetterUp BetterUp® leans on science and technology to identify a personalized coaching path for leaders and companies. Performance Consultants Performance Consultants is comprised of a global team of coaches, facilitators, and project managers across 23 languages. CoachFirm CoachFirm leans on the S.O.M.E.

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Leadership eBook Entrepreneurship Resources 52

Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

For example, nowadays, a global network of actors based on semi-finished products from several distinct steps can create an equivalent value by offering lower prices with attractive business models focused on specific activities or lean start-ups with plenty of venture capital prior to the market when opportunities begin to open up.

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Meeting Disruption Underperforming Technical Team How To 40

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

I have spent years researching what capabilities are actually required to facilitate and deliver innovative ideas, and have tested and refined these ideas with some of the world’s largest companies while I was an innovation subject matter expert at the world’s largest Management Consulting firm.

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Company Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Leadership 276

Qmarkets

JUNE 16, 2017

Over the last couple of decades, Silicon Valley has been responsible for inventing and reinventing all kinds of gadgets and technologies: the music player, the phone, the watch, the TV and the computer itself. In their view, cars are an old, inconvenient technology, destroying lives, polluting the air, and contributing to global warming.

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Industry Technical Review Software Review Disruption 56

Innovation 360 Group

MARCH 10, 2019

The classic example is Lucent Technologies and how managers went through a cauldron of internal critiques to find high growth projects after it separated from AT&T. Practitioners include Toyota’s lean manufacturing team and British Airways. The Spiral Staircase. The Fertile Field. Coley, S., & White, D.

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Leadership Radical Innovation Innovation Project 61

IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

So, when I started out becoming interested in lean startup and the sort of things, you were one of the big names, right. But I’ve had a close collaboration with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology here in Stockholm for eight years now. And your company’s called Lean Ventures, right? . And you continue being that.

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Innovation Management Management Innovation Report 40

Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 20, 2018

For those of us who have seen countless traditional businesses disrupted, such a lack of diligence is concerning. As a service to my fellow change agents, I would like to offer the following rundown of organizations that are nonetheless leading the charge of innovation and digital transformation, heading into 2019 as a due diligence tool.

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Software Review Technical Review Innovation LEAN 60

Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 20, 2018

For those of us who have seen countless traditional businesses disrupted, such a lack of diligence is concerning. As a service to my fellow change agents, I would like to offer the following rundown of organizations that are nonetheless leading the charge of innovation and digital transformation, heading into 2019 as a due diligence tool.

Software Review 40

Software Review Technical Review Innovation LEAN 40

Innovation 360 Group

OCTOBER 29, 2015

In 2008, I systematically started to collect, analyse and use data to understand, invest, consult and lead firms based on their capabilities for innovation, simply because innovation seems to be what best describes the disruptions we see. Technology is often developed by large successful corporations but they lack runways for landing it.

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Disruption Leadership LEAN Innovation 40

Integrative Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Infront Consulting and business magazine Capital recently published their second joint annual study (in German) on the Digital Innovation Unit landscape in Germany. Topics and technologies that drive digitization are constantly evolving. Themes / direction of impact. Involvement of the company.

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Trends Technical Review Innovation Disruption 58

Boxes and Arrows

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The company was composed of the founder, fresh from B-school; a technical lead also just out of school; a few engineers; and sales/marketing, which was already pitching to companies. One had been in marketing at large tech companies and wanted to combine publishing with social media. We want to test; they want to build.

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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 104

Leanstack

JUNE 7, 2018

Over the last nine years, I’ve published two best-selling books: Running Lean and Scaling Lean. Sure, each switch is grounded in new technology (invention), but the reason we switched (innovation) starts with old problems that may have been okay for a while, until they’re not. But the seeds had been planted. in 2 week sprints.

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