Tim Kastelle

JUNE 19, 2016

I’ve been running Lean LaunchPad programs for a couple of years now, and all along, I’ve thought that the number of customer development interviews that a team does is a good indicator of how successful they’ll be. Consequently, I thought that the magic in lean startup is customer development. I was wrong.

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Kainexus

JANUARY 28, 2019

Although the overarching objective of Lean management is to create an unhindered flow of value to the customer, another of its primary concerns is transparency. If you can see roadblocks, process irregularities, resources that aren’t at capacity, and poorly aligned goals you can do something about them.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.” The Proud Leader.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Ingredients for Innovation Success Despite the renaissance in innovation approaches ushered in by luminaries like Steve Blank, Rita McGrath, Alexander Osterwalder, Janice Fraser, and Eric Ries, most innovation departments lack the basic ingredients of success- strategy, resources, scale and methods. You rarely win without a strategy.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

The care within designing the narrative is you do not want contradictory narratives; they need to be in pursuit of complementary narratives. Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. The journey, by and large, is slow, linear, does not allow for change, and is governed by scheduling resources, versus based upon customer need or value creation. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

To assess the current portfolio, adidas periodically deconstructs every project through the lens of the Lean Canvas model. This way, the company can reallocate talent and resources and put more emphasis on what really matters to them. Recently, they’ve cut down the portfolio size by 50%.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The belief that lean management principles will get the innovation out of the door quicker, has been one of those management adoptions that often trick us into believing we are achieving more than we actually are. Leans slows down and becomes increasingly burdened by fat being layered on, further down the innovation execution process.

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Innovation Processes LEAN Innovation Agile 206

Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Lean Innovation Case Study: Bringing a New Product to Market Don’t have time to read the whole article? Online automotive resource Edmunds.com has a mission to make car buying easy. This is the story of how Edmunds.com used Lean Innovation practices to make their mission a reality.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of our innovative approaches or systems are based on very often just an internal perspective, restricted in available resources and limited knowledge and insights, often constraining the evolving new solutions and then limiting the impact and outcome. Connecting up and Deploying Collaboration Tools. Digital Transformation.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 20, 2019

This is where Lean Agile principles come into play. Keeping the Ball in Your Court: Understanding Lean Agile Principles. This process can lay solid foundations for sustaining In the context of sport, something analogous to the Lean process would be to create new team compositions that compensate for the absence of injured players.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 8, 2020

Cloud-based systems make conducting business borderless and flexible, but this distribution of resources can lead to issues with continuity. 1 The Devil in Design. Such tools enable digital design and high-fidelity prototyping, but they also have specific hardware and software requirements that come with their own issues.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Nonprofit organizations tackle critical and complex community challenges - lack of affordable and accessible food, shelter, health care, and safety - with too few staff and resources. This is the story of how SAY San Diego is using Lean Innovation to create real, powerful change in their community.

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LEAN Change Case Study Underperforming Technical Team 75

Planview

JULY 6, 2017

Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence. It’s in this spirit that several savvy leaders have made the connection between lean construction, which their firms have already embraced, and the practice of leveraging the intelligence and experience of every employee. They ask—and rightfully so: What’s in it for me?

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The challenge is that for all innovation projects, it is impossible to know what the final solution or target KPIs will be once all the investigation, design and iteration is complete. Therefore, it does not make sense to have the success criteria be a specific design, budget, business case or set of KPIs at the beginning.

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Planview

JULY 6, 2017

Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence. It’s in this spirit that several savvy leaders have made the connection between lean construction , which their firms have already embraced, and the practice of leveraging the intelligence and experience of every employee. They ask—and rightfully so: What’s in it for me?

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LEAN Meeting Underperforming Technical Team Project 40

Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

Factor 1: Forward-leaning orientation. As a result, leaders often waste their credibility, energy, and resources when implementing change. . This description of the forward-leaning orientation of prepared schools aligns with what the Tools of Cooperation theory describe as “leadership tools.”

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 2, 2018

A failed acquisition is detrimental for both the acquirer and the acquiree and results in a tremendous amount of waste, in terms of dollars, resources, time and opportunity costs. You can use Lean Innovation techniques -- Empathy, Experiments, and Evidence to ensure the driving force is sustained through the integration.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They may share insights on techniques for effective ideation such as design thinking, mind mapping, and leveraging technology for collaborative brainstorming sessions. They provide narratives on how rapid prototyping accelerates the innovation cycle, thereby reducing time and resources spent on product development.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

The care within designing the narrative is you do not want contradictory narratives; they need to be in pursuit of complementary narratives. Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers.

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Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

The care within designing the narrative is you do not want contradictory narratives; they need to be in pursuit of complementary narratives. Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers.

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Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. The obvious place to turn is innovation approaches such as design thinking , rapid prototyping , and open innovation. Thus, if you hope to move the needle appreciably, you’ll need to design and validate an engine that will accelerate growth over time.

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Cris Beswick

MAY 1, 2024

As an ex-designer, I think the pioneering “form follows function” principle, first articulated by architect Louis Sullivan around 120 years ago, holds the key to unlocking an organisation’s full potential to drive innovation-led growth.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

It offers a straightforward way to understand, design, and pivot your business model. Lean Startup Methodology The Lean Startup methodology , created by Eric Ries, emphasizes the importance of rapid prototyping, validated learning, and other iterative product and service development techniques.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Disruptive innovation, a subset of radical innovation, specifically refers to the process by which smaller companies with fewer resources successfully challenge established incumbents. It’s about introducing features, functionalities, or designs that meet emerging customer needs or tap into uncharted market segments.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

To understand more about what happens (and can happen) with the Logistics and Supply Chain area, let’s share some insights from our Future Design and Anticipatory Innovation team. It is quite obvious what we will talk about here, but it is necessary: resources are finite. Digital Economy: small, lean, light, and innovative.

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Design Technical Review Data Industry 52

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. 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.

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IM Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Elijah Eilert speaks to Tristan Kromer about the fundamentals of a VC-like funding approach for corporate innovation that releases resources over time in exchange for specific evidence. Discover the fundamentals of what Eric Ries calls Metered Funding and how to design an effective incremental funding approach for innovation. .

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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. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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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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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! At the time, most of the staff’s interactions with customers happened during the design phase, such as usability testing and design sessions. Click here to download.

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Marketing LEAN Case Study Study 65

Planview

JULY 26, 2022

When faced with the question of what impact a given resource reduction will have on the future, it’s anybody’s best guess. First, rather than seeing dynamic planning as a separate exercise, perhaps conducted annually, Lean-Agile businesses conduct dynamic planning on a continuous basis – both more frequently scheduled and ready on-demand.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 2, 2021

Use these templates to design and plan better meetings, events, and agendas. In our previous innovative meeting guide, we discussed how to design and build innovative innovation meetings that both inspire and accomplish your organizational goals. Lean Coffee: Focused Meetings Template. Looking for more resources and guides?

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

He introduces Estimatic, his latest venture, software designed to model uncertain projects and ideas. Peter recommends checking out Lean Change Management and gives a shoutout to Jason Little ! [05:23] Creating leading-edge Lean Innovation and Agile training content delivered across Canada and at Queen’s University School of Business.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

From challenges rooted in organizational design and financial models to the complexities of incentive structures and cultural mindsets, the barriers that can impede progress are dissected. Innovation frequently demands substantial investments in terms of time, resources, and capital.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.” Success to the Successful— Two or more efforts compete for the same finite resources. Yes, a system imbalance in what we are doing in our innovation work.We

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 16, 2024

Teach networking as a skill as part of your career services While career services offices may offer everything from career fairs to alumni directories for students to expand their professional networks, far fewer have the resources to teach students how to network. Most colleges aren’t shy about marketing themselves as hubs of connection.

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