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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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

Startups are not smaller versions of large companies, but interestingly we see that companies are not larger versions of startups. I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using Lean methods. Customer Development versus Design Thinking.

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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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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As AI advances, we find ourselves heading towards a new era — one where innovation is not just constant but autonomous, as Board of Innovation's founder Philip de Ridder explains below. At each key step, we envision an element of human curation. Innov8rs | Innovation is undergoing a tectonic shift. That is Autonomous Innovation.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 20, 2019

Last Friday, we saw the dramatic conclusion of one of the most riveting sporting events of the year when the Toronto Raptors triumphed over the Golden State Warriors in the NBA finals. This is where Lean Agile principles come into play. Keeping the Ball in Your Court: Understanding Lean Agile Principles.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Part of what we do at Moves the Needle is to work with large enterprise organizations on corporate innovation strategy and providing education on how to shift away from a traditional management mindset to think and act in a new way. Who does that work? Startups, tech scouting, internal capabilities?

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. A couple of days after having had published my post, Paolo Lorenzoni from IDEO confirmed the complementary nature of Lean Startup and Design Thinking.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

At the helm of this radical evolution stand leaders who are pioneers, visionaries, and, most importantly, adept at catalysing novel ideas into reality. They are not always intentional or by design. Still, nevertheless, they exist because we either perpetuate or don’t see them.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Check out our list of design thinking books to read. This is a great one for those who want to help others learn and develop. This book by Nathan Furr covers tips and techniques learned from design thinking, innovation, and the lean startup business model which has grown in popularity in the last few years.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

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? Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2016

Finding time to read and extend our thinking is a real struggle and going that extra mile to read thought leadership views can be a step to far, I know but I can’t help myself, it is part of my job and certainly for me, many are really worth it. Beyond Design Thinking. Beyond Design Thinking – reflecting on its place.

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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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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. We need more big ideas!”

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The two I have decided to summarize are 1) Beyond Design Thinking and 2) Minimum Viable Transformation. Beyond Design Thinking. The key to design thinking is it begins by imagining a solution that does not exist yet, and then set about outlining a pathway to realizing it.

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Planview

AUGUST 25, 2017

People who apply a practice to their work—a design thinking practice or a lean practice, for example—talk about being on a journey. Practitioner communities at times identify people who are far along in their journey as “black belts” or “sensei.” lean on occasion, Six Sigma less frequently).

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

By the time we start working together, they are already fed up with their company. As much as we are keen to get started, it is also important to ensure that we are working on the right things. As much as we are keen to get started, it is also important to ensure that we are working on the right things.

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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. Squads, Scrum, OKRs, Kanban, and Design Sprints are just a few. What are Squads? What are the benefits of Squads?

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 7, 2015

Yesterday, I was quite delighted to see my post Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking ranked #11 of the Top 100 Innovation Posts 2014 at Innovation Excellence. However, we tend to build strong “advocate” communities, being inclined to praise “their tool” as the most powerful one.

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn. The Design Thinking Methodology of Empathy?—?Define?—?Ideate?—?Prototype?—?Test

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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? Management 1.0

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Our take from working with some of the best and brightest in corporate innovation: Start with the why and do everything you can to avoid some of the most common pitfalls as you navigate the how/who/what of your innovation program. The more invested leaders feel in the why, the better your chances of gaining true support in the how/who/what.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 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. .” “We’re not ready.”

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etventure

JANUARY 5, 2017

We are, after all, the experts and if we were to seriously confront the issues faced by their company, then oughtn’t we to know what should be done? Of course, we could do that – hold a brainstorming session and off we go. In that case, we’ll do it differently, is some people’s view.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Our take from working with some of the best and brightest in corporate innovation: Start with the why and do everything you can to avoid some of the most common pitfalls as you navigate the how/who/what of your innovation program. The more invested leaders feel in the why, the better your chances of gaining true support in the how/who/what.

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. I have worked with many teams who have come up against this barrier. We know everything our customer would say.” Today, organizations routinely ask their people for innovation, and then prevent it from happening.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

It does not tell leaders how to manage their organizations” An introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation Managers. “The key today is to think like a designer in the way you lead, explore, create and innovate” Some were provided before this over the last year or so, but I feel are worth exploring.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 10, 2017

Determine who will do innovation for you The old saw that everyone can innovate is true, but unless you train your teams and give them the freedom and recognition they need to take new risks, you can only really count on a small subset of your existing team to do innovation well. In this case it may be better to be late.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

This is why we need to change a few aspects of the traditional innovation management approach to encourage employees to become intrapreneurs and drive more breakthrough results. We created a short video for you on this topic. Breakthrough ideas will continuously change as you go through the Design Thinking Process?—?that

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Lean Innovation Definition At Moves The Needle, we define lean innovation as “reducing waste in the discovery, creation, and delivering of new value to customers." We base Lean Innovation principles upon the 3 E’s of Lean Innovation : Empathy, Experiments and Evidence. What is Design Thinking?

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Our take from working with some of the best and brightest in corporate innovation: Start with the why and do everything you can to avoid some of the most common pitfalls as you navigate the how/who/what of your innovation program. The more invested leaders feel in the why, the better your chances of gaining true support in the how/who/what.

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Planview

APRIL 13, 2017

Last year, we launched Spigit for Continuous Improvement , which enabled companies to get more out of their Continuous Improvement (CI) program by tapping into the collective intelligence of their employee base. Lean is the top Continuous Improvement method. Who do CI practitioners report to? Let’s dig in.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2015

I believe Innovation is becoming overwhelmed by all the changes we are applying into innovation activity and its management. Yet we are still expecting this deluge of change occurring to happily move our innovations through those past established, often manual processes, we have presently in place. I think not.

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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.)

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 15, 2021

In this article, we will explain some important points about innovation consulting and show you what it can do for your company. ” Another well-respected interpretation is that of Tim Kastelle. ” To conclude, we can summarize innovation as a process of creating value and applying new solutions to problems. Check it out!

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 13, 2019

Who is Marie Kondo? She is the creator of the KONMARI method, which, in a nutshell, synthesizes the organizational philosophy of Japanese society, so accustomed to dealing with small spaces in everyday life – we will go into detail later. . The KONMARI method has premises that closely resemble lean thinking and agile mindset.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

We must stay hungry and understand how to innovate over time”. Efficiency Optimization Organizations have eliminated risk and variance in their operations through rightsizing, outsourcing, lean, and agile. However, they may lack training in innovative thinking, creativity, and design thinking.

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Planview

APRIL 13, 2017

Last year, we launched Spigit for Continuous Improvement , which enabled companies to get more out of their Continuous Improvement (CI) program by tapping into the collective intelligence of their employee base. Lean is the top Continuous Improvement method. Who do CI practitioners report to? Let’s dig in.

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