etventure

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Product development is confronted with the constant challenge of supplying the customer with a product that exactly meets his needs. In our new blog series, etventure’s product managers provide an insight into their work and approach. The focus is on hypothesis-driven product development.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 29, 2023

In the complexity of the globally-connected digital world, uncertainties and the assumptions on how to overcome them, hinder organizations from achieving their objectives. However, the rise of Lean Startup methodologies, popularized by Eric Ries in his book “The Lean Startup,” brought rapid experimentation to the forefront.

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IM Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

Elijah Eilert speaks to Paul Orlando about his book Growth Units to discover how to best calculate Customer Acquisition Cost and Lifetime Value. Paul tells us how to significantly improve common calculation methods and how to use those to make critical business decisions. 23:30) How to calculate Customer Acquisition Cost.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

These speakers can also deepen the understanding of an innovation culture by: Illustrating how to create an environment that nurtures innovative thinking. Demonstrating how to embrace failure as a learning opportunity. Here’s how to ensure you make the best choice for your event.

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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. If you don't design the deal in a human-centered way, you're going to have a problem. Long story short, for successful M&A to happen, you must pay attention to the people.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

From Design Thinking to Autonomous Innovation In the 1990s, design thinking emerged, prioritizing empathy and iterative prototyping for user-centric solutions. To create a product for GenZ, Unilever worked with specially designed AI to analyze 6,000 perfume ingredients with 3.5 million potential combinations.

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Planview

MARCH 3, 2016

This was the mantra of Facebook in its early days, as is the case with most startups that subscribe to the iterative product development method popularized by the Lean Startup. The post How to Effectively Support an Innovative Culture Without Compromising Business Goals appeared first on Spigit. Methodologies.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

It was their job to ensure all aspects of the product development process were aligned and working together. Program management was steeped in technical processes, but also considered how product decisions would impact the product’s end users. Product Management reflected both of these facts.

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The BMI Lab Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Alongside the series of episodes with entrepreneurs and innovation leaders, we recommend the first-ever ETL Research bonus episode which looks at one of the first empirical studies about lean startup , an approach that BMI Lab follows since day 1. If you want to find out more about our lean startup approach, check out our Launchpad.

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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! The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards ( NCARB ), a national non-profit organization, develops standards for licensure and credentialing of architects.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

As sometime director of Design at Infragistics, I personally have had first hand experience trying to integrate UX into an existing, established Agile engineering process with large-ish teams. So I’m always interested in seeing how others are faring and what ideas they might have to address pain points. Lean UX has its own challenges.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 17, 2015

His very lean progressive assembly process was the result. Today, the cost and time it takes to build, launch, and deliver new products at scale is lower than ever. Design Thinking Centered around customer empathy and prototyping, design thinking is a compelling framework for ideation and the discovery of new value.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I've written before but it bears repeating, innovation, that is, thinking up, designing and creating something new and different that drives value for customers, isn't going to happen in your day to day business as usual environment. The efficient, effective environment isn't a good development platform for new thinking and new ideas.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 22, 2016

Here’s why: Modern market research methods, like Lean Startup, do a great job of focusing on customer-centric discovery. In our post, How to Innovate: What Innovation Really Is , we discussed how focusing on learning before executing is vital to innovation. Market research often falls short when it comes to innovation.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Once upon a time, in the heyday of the Industrial Age, a young marketing, design, or engineering student would graduate from college and go to work for a large corporation, slowly melding into the steady, rhythmic din of bureaucratically-managed, organizationally-structured execution work in product development.

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The Inovo Group

AUGUST 5, 2019

The processes, methods and tools used for New Product Development (NPD) are insufficient for strategic innovation [1] and strategic innovation is necessary for the accelerated growth that companies demand. The most promising approaches are designed for the startup ecosystem. An issue is how to adapt these to large companies.

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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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Planview

AUGUST 12, 2022

A product-focused strategy and mindset can create agile organizations, increase productivity, and drive innovation. In this article, we’ll take you through what it means to move from project to product and how to navigate your way through the journey. What Does Moving from Project to Product Mean?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I suggested the best place to start the conversation is with the 21 st century definition of a startup: A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Startups have finite time and resources to find product/market fit before they run out of money. and how to price the product.

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etventure

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

During the last couple of years the MVP has become the holy grail of agile product development – but there are still a variety of different interpretations about what “MVP” really means. So, what is a minimum viable product, and how do you go about creating one? Understanding MVP Development .

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

They are not always intentional or by design. In that case, we shift to a focus on fostering a culture where the seeds of originality are sown in every department, ranging from product development to HR, finance, and sales. How can you step into your customers’ shoes effectively? Is there a better way?’

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ITONICS

AUGUST 15, 2017

Modul III – From opportunities to market / Design, implementation, launch. get an insight into how Agile Innovation Management really works. find out how to develop market-relevant products from your ideas in a structured way. You will …. learn from experienced Master Black Belts and Innovation Managers.

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ITONICS

MARCH 14, 2017

Modul III – From opportunities to market / Design, implementation, launch. get an insight into how Agile Innovation Management really works. find out how to develop market-relevant products from your ideas in a structured way. You will …. learn from experienced Master Black Belts and Innovation Managers.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Then I asked: “Why is it so difficult to release the agreed products to the market in time ? But high level the challenge we have is to design and produce products that meet the latest demands of the market. In the first place we have to offer green products, products that are ready for the circular economy.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Then I asked: “Why is it so difficult to release the agreed products to the market in time ? But high level the challenge we have is to design and produce products that meet the latest demands of the market. In the first place we have to offer green products, products that are ready for the circular economy.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Then I asked: “Why is it so difficult to release the agreed products to the market in time ? But high level the challenge we have is to design and produce products that meet the latest demands of the market. In the first place we have to offer green products, products that are ready for the circular economy.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages. Source: Detecon. Conclusion.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

In 1991, Don Reinertsen and Preston Smith introduced the world to the "Fuzzy Front End" of product development. In both cases, the work being described was work that preceded the formal product development process. Welcome to the Mid Zone of Innovation. Sept 27, 2015 | Anthony Mills.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

In my experience, when product development is managed with an Agile development approach, user experience professionals are expected to find a way to work within the Agile framework to succeed. Informants were asked: “Thinking about how you and your UX colleagues are working with your scrum teams, what’s going well?”

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

These can be any type of concept – a strategy, a design, an idea for a new offering, etc. – The new product and business model is quite different than anything the company has previously done, and it has the potential to cannibalize at least some of the company’s existing business. Senior leadership needs to decide how to proceed.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. Some of the aspects of Lean Innovation Management include: Encouragement of lots of small scale, cheap experiments instead of full launches.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A system designed, over the long run, to produce more blockbusters than bombs. Most corporate business functions – new product development (NPD), quality, sales, R&D, marketing, etc. For some companies this can be up to 10% of their ‘creative’ budget (R&D, NPD, design, etc.).

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

The lens through which this profession – the "MBA crowd" if you will – sees the world is generally one of how to build a sustainable competitive advantage, something that can come from any corner of the business. Business Management. We begin with Business Management. Thank you, Business Management. Entrepreneurialism.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Skunk works differed from advanced research groups in that they were more than just product development groups. Decades before we were able to articulate the value of “getting out of the building” and the Lean Startup, the value in having skunk works controlling their own distribution was starkly evident. Here’s how.

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Integrative Innovation

APRIL 7, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages. Source: Detecon. Conclusion.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

How to break from conformity and build an innovative company culture. Support your innovators Provide training in iterative, experiment-rich approaches to innovation and new product development. ” This is a non-conformist, counter-intuitive view for sure! because most things don’t go to plan!

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Matthew Griffin

MARCH 23, 2015

This article is my attempt to help those Entrepreneurs and business leaders among you who want to learn from some of the industries brightest stars how to boost your chances of success and it’s based on my first-hand knowledge and work with twenty three of the world’s largest hyper growth companies. The products are very easy to adopt.

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