Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As we move through the beginning of 2024, parent power, rethinking assessments, and career and technical education (CTE) for every student are some of the trends rippling through K–12 education. Many of the microschools that have popped up are small co-ops that a single teacher, who is disaffected with their public school, decided to create.

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Open Innovation EU

JANUARY 22, 2016

Think about The Lean Start-Up (Ries), Agile, Business Model Generation (Osterwalder) and Customer Development (Steve Blank). In my quest to place these tools into perspective, I generated a new integrative model: The Lean Scale-Up – how to get from start-up to scale-up. Below you’ll find an overview of the model.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Lean Startup Week - this year known as Lean Startup Conference - has traditionally been a staple in the innovation industry for bringing both startups and enterprise companies alike into the same sphere in order to discuss advancements in strategy, tactics, ideas, and social impact. Warm-Up Week: November 5th, 6th and 7th.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Anyone who has ever attended Lean Startup Conference (previously known as Lean Startup Week) in the past knows that this annual event regularly features invigorating speakers that divulge the newest insights and innovations in modern management for a wide array of industries and company types. Click to Tweet.

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Innovators Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

We often jump to cost-cutting in an effort to preserve profits and cash flow. The logic is simple: we need to stay afloat. As a result, we focus internally, at the expense of forward-looking innovation. And its iPad was introduced during the 2008 downturn.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Of course, innovation projects are supposed to fail in great numbers, but the idea of a corporate innovation department itself is under tremendous pressure. Yet lacking the first three ingredients, we all seem to focus on methods as the key to success. Innov8rs | Innovation departments are continuing to fail.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We serve many diverse customers. Customers are anyone for whom we need to create value and impact. Customers are anyone for whom we need to create value and impact. What is especially challenging is that we solve different problems to create value for each of our different stakeholders.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

Overall I found Lean UX to be an incredibly insightful and helpful compilation of principles and suggestions for practice/improving process and collaboration as outlined in my review of the book. Since others may have these same questions, we appreciate Jeff Gothelf agreeing to answer them for Boxes and Arrows.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 4, 2016

Part 2 in The Lean Startup Series Why do new ventures fail? There are three areas of risk when we launch something new: Technical (or product) risk: can we build it? Cash (or business model) risk: if people want it and we build it, can we make enough money from it? Market(or customer) risk: does anyone want it?

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 4, 2024

Despite these growing proof points, efforts to improve education lean on mental models, theories of change, and investment strategies that routinely ignore the social side of opportunity. I think that’s because in most conversations about education innovation today, skills are the “what”, and tech-enabled efficiency is the “how.”

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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. 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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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 2, 2018

You can use Lean Innovation techniques -- Empathy, Experiments, and Evidence to ensure the driving force is sustained through the integration. Using M&A as a Successful Innovation Play A common question is “Should we do acquisitions to be more innovative?” But of course, the real question is, “What do you mean by innovation?”

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IdeaSpies

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We encourage looking at startups as lead indicators for the more established scaleup players. Enabling Innovation In our experience you will get there quicker (problem solving), and cheaper, when working with a partner who’s already solving the problem. new tech, hardware, thinking, business model, etc.)

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

So, what can we do, especially when—despite all the past pledges and promises—COP events don’t seem to be moving the needle in a significant way. What if world leaders pledged that there would be no major climate conference in 2023 unless certain climate goals are met after this year’s conference? First, many governments are fickle.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 11, 2016

Hypothesis Testing for Lean Startups - Part Four in the Lean Startup Series Every social activity that we undertake is subject to underlying assumptions. Comparable resources can be taken for granted by anyone who writes for the conventional twelve chromatic tones.) Here’s another example: money has no inherent value.

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 2, 2022

“We have to create kind of an infrastructure for the world,” Khan said. There should be a strategic education reserve of systems and processes that in an emergency time a lot of people can lean on.”. There should be a strategic education reserve of systems and processes that in an emergency time a lot of people can lean on.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Applying innovation theory lenses to the trends, patterns, news bites, and field data gathered over the course of 2022, here are our education researchers’ favorite blogs that either they or their colleagues have written this year, and the reasoning behind their picks. Do you have a favorite blog or report from this year?

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

05:00) Introducing the report and who it is written for. (07:30) 19:00) How the recommended metrics in the review may not be perfect but enables us to improve the current way we are measuring innovation and set up a system for continuous improvement. (20:30) 24:30) Who may have read the report. (26:30) MORE ABOUT THE COURSE.

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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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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? The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, along with the rapid rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, are the two trends that define and that will decide the course of our world for generations to come.

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Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 20, 2022

They can assign advisors or mentors to students who are struggling. They lean institution-centric, rather than student-centric. Mapping who students know. How might schools go about discovering who students know? Who’s in your community? Who’s in your neighborhood? Who are your caregivers’ friends?

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Christensen Institute

JULY 13, 2023

With the Supreme Court expected to announce its ruling on the legality of President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan tomorrow, debates around who should pay for the country’s crippling level of student debt—amounting to more than $1.7 trillion—continue to flood the national discourse.

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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. What does Wall Street want?

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IM Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2021

If innovation accounting techniques are applied we can quantify where exactly the uncertainty lies. 10:00) On the term “scale gates”, what it implies, the fact that Elijah may be the only one who has adopted it and broccoli flavoured ice cream is mentioned! . (16:00) Ideally, each decision point or gate is dictated by uncertainty.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

It is also useful for everyone in a company who might generate ideas (which in my view should be everyone) to have a basic understanding of what the principles are. When should it be used: Any organisation that wants to enable their staff who have an idea to “try it out” or do an initial market experiment.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 7, 2016

Part 3 in The Lean Startup Series Facebook currently has 1.55 Their markets looked like this: When you launch something new, you need to have a handle on a couple of things: what the overall potential market is, and who your first niche will be. million monthly active users. Here’s an example. Do you need a driverless car today?

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2018

It’s a great question and organizations we work with frequently want to make sure they’ve got a best practice methodology in place before implementing an idea management solution. At IdeaScale we help Kane is Able and many other clients achieve their continuous improvement strategies such as Lean, Kaizen or Six Sigma.

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Innovation Agile Design Thinking Guidelines 124

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. Momentum Creative Problem Solving (MCPS) is a powerful new method for solving difficult problems.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 21, 2021

All across our businesses, we face new challenges, as what used to work no longer achieves desired outcomes. The self-awareness of admitting what we don’t know is the first step toward figuring out new best practices. Leaders often say, “we don’t have time” or “we must hit our numbers,” etc. See who shows up!

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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 Lean UX? Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers.

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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. Of course, this shift requires really big changes in strategy, operations, the organization and in each individuals orientation.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Without a Clear Purpose, Innovation Drifts Off Course. It may seem obvious but unless you know who you are, and what your purpose is, as an organization you will flounder. If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we? Do Purpose First, Select a Framework, Then Do Projects. Which is best?

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Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

We have the wrong culture.” “We We acquire innovation.” Although every organization faces unique challenges, we see the same excuses repeatedly why established enterprises can’t do “real” innovation. Go ask some of your co-workers who they think is responsible for innovation. Of course not. We need more big ideas!”

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Matthew May

DECEMBER 4, 2015

There’s nothing wrong with operational excellence of course, but in my view, that’s merely one aspect of organizational fitness. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it completely ignores the raison d’etre of any organization: the consumer. It demands a mental discipline that few people are equipped to handle alone.

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Innov8rs

AUGUST 22, 2023

It’s easy to say “we need a growth engine”. To succeed with corporate venture building, lean on one of the main resources you already have: your people. The Five Traits of a Corporate Venture Builder Most corporate venture teams don’t include natural entrepreneurs and great investors who “see around corners”. They: · Are doers.

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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

Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2015

The idea I'd like you to contemplate until my return is that we are all making innovation far too complicated, and we need to stop dressing up the activity with lots of talking points and stop working ourselves and our management into a tizzy about commitments and investments. Of course all of these are important.

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