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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

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. Of course, not all friction is bad. Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation.

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Using Lean Innovation to Transform the Way the City of Hayward Solves Problems

Moves the Needle

Before and After Lean Innovation: Overview The City of Hayward, California wanted to break away from inefficient and ineffective processes for researching and launching programs, and remove organizational bottlenecks that stood in the way of serving citizens. Hayward City Manager Kelly McAdoo didn’t want to accept the status quo. “We

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Momentum — Team Effectiveness Training

Gregg Fraley

…Accelerating Teams Through Assessment and Training. It’s a sad fact of organizational life that only a small percentage of teams achieve high function. Most teams muddle along, and get the essential things done — or not. And, all teams can improve, with training. Teams Improve With Momentum Training.

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Going Lean, Again

etventure

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. I complimented the team on how calm the assembly line seemed to run – and how clean the workshop looked. The Proud Leader. Secret Worries.

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Digital transformation: Good ideas implemented badly or bad ideas implemented well?

etventure

But how can we know whether a solution developed in line with this principle would ultimately be used by the target group? We’ll ask the sales team what the customers would need. Lean startup is a suitable approach to begin the practical implementation in a streamlined way after the brainstorming.

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Episode 11 – Breathing Life into Organisations on Innovation Life Support

IM Insights

Co-Founder of Yellow Cat – an innovation coaching, consulting and training company. Founder of Mulberry Retreats – focusing on leadership development. 14:00) On bad leadership behaviour and how not to fund projects. (16:00) 14:00) On bad leadership behaviour and how not to fund projects. (16:00)

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5 Challenges of Virtual Facilitation & How You Can Solve Them

CMOE

Meeting facilitators and Learning & Development professionals must evaluate these challenges and identify the best practices to overcome them to create the most valuable experience for the participants. Back: You focus on the needs of your team members. You provide team members the opportunity to speak up and share their ideas.