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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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Co-Authored by Heather Hiscox and Amelia Klawon Get the full case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. When the focus is on survival, pausing to think about how to work smarter instead of harder seems outside of the scope of possibility.

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Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 15, 2019

Spark is a simple, self-guided innovation kit built for business teams who want to collaborate to de-risk business ideas. Have you (or your team) ever had an amazing business idea, but you were afraid to invest in something uncertain? So, How Does Spark Work? This is why we created Spark.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

Here are the top 5 to be aware of and some ideas on how to overcome them. Obviously, it’s the product team’s. Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. It’s not my job.”

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using Lean methods. Two methods, Design Thinking and Customer Development (the core of the Lean Startup) provide the tactical day-to-day process of how to turn ideas into products. . Here’s why.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Susie shares what good leadership behaviour looks like, the problems with short-term thinking and how to carve out the necessary space for a strategic approach to innovation. Founder of Mulberry Retreats – focusing on leadership development. 14:00) On bad leadership behaviour and how not to fund projects. (16:00)

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Do companies know how to innovate? It’s how to deal with uncertainty.”. But leadership should be agnostic about how they achieve the desired outcomes. It’s how to deal with uncertainty. It’s how to deal with uncertainty. Lean innovation is an iterative approach to moving from the unknown to the known.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Rethinking how to do your business is an urgent demand to be aligned with this new user behavior. What makes us believe that developing digital products is not only a solution to overcome the crisis, but also to generate business value after it too. The Economy is Digital; companies are born small, lean, lighter, and more innovative.

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Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

There’s no such thing as a bad idea – only an unfinished one. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Many innovation teams are so concerned with being agile and entrepreneurial that they spend precious little time understanding where to point their efforts. Bungle team composition.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

Here are the top 5 to be aware of and some ideas on how to overcome them. Obviously, it’s the product team’s. Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. “It’s not my job.”

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2018

There is no way to ensure that customers are going to see the same value in what you are developing as you do, and most companies are terrible at actually being able to execute on an idea. After all, CEOs are supposed to encourage their teams to focus on big ideas and growth. How to overcome loss aversion?

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. They don’t know how to scaffold a learning experience. A teacher figures out where a student is, their “zone of proximal development” The teacher then scaffolds the students thinking, using various tools, to make new connections and learn. Learn How to Scaffold .

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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

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. The guide below is designed to help you overcome challenges that arise in virtual facilitation and elevate your capabilities.

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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. They require two separate teams.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

Research confirms: development of exploration in parallel to exploitation capabilities proves to be mandatory for established companies in order to compete successfully and sustainably. One way for established organizations to strengthen exploration is by developing internal capabilities in order to overcome their inherent inertia.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Hyper Focusing on Agile Teams. Agile delivery teams are the execution arm of the Agile transformation. It’s natural for organizations to want their teams to be as efficient, productive, and successful as possible. But as Klaus points out below, hyper focusing on Agile teams can be short-sighted, if their work isn’t coordinated.

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Leanstack

AUGUST 11, 2016

Look for a job they are trying to get done (jobs-to-be-done) and study how they are getting it done (existing alternatives). If the job is adequately getting done, that’s bad news for you because it’s hard to displace an existing solution with a similar-sounding value proposition.

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Boxes and Arrows

MAY 5, 2015

In the following article, I will give three areas in which we can focus our efforts: mentoring, client education, and our own team members. On a recent project, I was the designer paired with a recently-hired UX director, who was a little bewildered still by the new gig. Client mentoring as an investment.

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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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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 27, 2016

He describes his evolution in this TED talk : The Dorchester Project is essentially a lean startup. This had a bad impact on Dorchester. This has led to many new jobs, both for people directly employed in the projects, and also in businesses that have sprung up to support the new development. Start with what you’ve got.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Poor attendance. Teams without the right skills. How to guarantee your hackathon will fail. “If Eric Ries, The Lean Startup. We suggest making the goal a team sport so everyone buys into it. These numbers allow for every team to demo their projects to the judges. Irrelevant projects. Late starts.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Many companies are stuck with a legacy of fossilized architectures and all that entails, including the need for extensive maintenance and problems with development to keep up with changing markets. Often engineering-talented companies have invested in customized solutions, a development that is reflected for example in Industry 4.0

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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. What it is: One of the most challenging aspects of innovation for most companies is not the generating of ideas, or the development of new innovations.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

But even participating in other firms’ ecosystems can be highly attractive, as demonstrated by e.g. several app developers. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Let our team of non-conformists help you build your innovative company culture. A conformist company culture stifles innovation and breeds weakness. While middle management can keep the company strong in the near-term, the stifling of innovation makes the organization weak in the long-run. Contact Us. Let's talk.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

Not only that, it is how to related these to different market conditions, so as to offer thoughtful advice to a broad audience of practitioners and leaders within the corporate world. How these are fully integrated remains a challenge for most. This advisory world on ‘breaking practices’ is necessary yet often undervalued.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 12, 2009

Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design Register or Log In Search Stories Ideas Forums People Events Jobs About December Issue, 2008 Jens Jacobsen 32 Reputation points Jens likes writing for multimedia and loves tracking down usability issues. Your approach to creating audio should be similar to developing a large website.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Lean, digital disruptors threaten their larger, more rigid corporate counterparts. Here’s the problem: the team missed the insight that a bulky laptop is just as bad as a stack of papers out in the field, along with their need to access documents offline. Leadership wants to digitize the collateral into a web-based desktop app.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Read on to understand how it works and how to implement it yourself. And companies regularly boast about how they are spending millions (and sometimes billions) of dollars into research & development to come up with innovative new offerings. However, why is it then that approximately 96% of innovation efforts fail ?

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IM Insights

APRIL 23, 2022

We provide insights on how to measure innovation , innovation , accounting , and managing the uncertain process of developing new , sustainable , and profitable business models. As always , we make sure to link all relevant information and how to get in touch with Esther and the show notes. Make sure to check them out.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

From setting a proper strategy and structuring and organization the function, to having clarity about who makes what type of decisions when, to understanding how to align with and involve business leaders - there's a lot of variables at play. Post Covid-19, leaders need to develop innovation as a key organizational muscle.

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

The Key to Effective Value Proposition Development. They way you think about a problem & solution is often different from how a customer thinks of them. If you have an immediate problem to solve, we’ve found that bringing a cross-functional team together to tackle the problem head-on yields positive results fast.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. The biggest surprise for me was getting schooled on how extremely difficult it is to be an innovator inside a company of executors. Why Startups are Innovative by Design. —– What Have We Lost?

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Welcome to the Innovation Metrics podcast, where we bring you the latest on innovation management, we provide insights on how to measure innovation, innovation accounting, and managing the uncertain process of developing new, sustainable, and profitable business models. And your company’s called Lean Ventures, right? .

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Leanstack

MAY 21, 2015

Read on to learn how to effectively define, measure, and communicate progress with your internal and external stakeholders without drowning in a sea of numbers. Off to the Races Bob and Josh hire a team and spend the next several months tracking progress against the execution of their plan. They are both fired.

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? Airbnb and Ryanair originally designed a service with only B2C customers in mind. Now consider your product or service: how can you repackage it to make it attractive for businesses/consumers? Can you design services where no humans are involved?

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