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. There’s a time and a place for everything.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Even those who relish the status quo couldn't help but relax, laugh, and lean into their untapped creativity." - Maureen Toshner, Director, Organizational Development & Learning, Charter Manufacturing "Talk about out of the box thinking, it was out of this world!" - Eric Birnbaum, Sr.

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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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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 19, 2019

Learn more about what you can do right now to improve product portfolios and create a balance of near-term and long-term investment in new sources of growth. I enjoy the domain of innovation and product development and I think you can apply these practices across industries. Who are you? What do you do?

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

Although failure is a stigma to the corporate world, Eric Reis, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur-turned-VC-turned author and founder of Lean Startup Movement, encourages companies to embrace the concept of “failing fast”. They adhere to lean principles of product development. They are tech-savvy.

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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. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.” Highlights.

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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. Learn to embrace disruption through collaboration.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

They’ll talk about how the Growth Team needs to consist of creative people chosen for their ability to think broadly and seek out new things, while the Current Business team is expected to just keep turning the engine that generates profits through servicing existing customers and markets. Innovation is a Company-Wide Responsibility.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They want to learn new innovation tools but want to manage innovation within the comfortable confines and predictable outcomes of existing business as usual processes. What this leads to is "me too" innovation, where the innovations are indistinguishable from existing products. How is it being used to help drive future revenues?

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Put another way, it’s arbitrary to declare a feature that takes 1 year to develop and release “an incremental improvement”, or declare engineering work that takes 5 years to achieve ROI “incremental innovation.” Product development just doesn’t work that way. Continuous empathy work and testing in adjacent markets.

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Disruption Technical Review Marketing LEAN 52

Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Have you noticed that the Lean Startup concept has been getting more and more attention lately? Which is all a good thing really, as it creates the occasion for us to examine what is the "best" way to launch new brands, products, and companies. What's In Your Sandbox? Sep 04, 2014 | Anthony Mills.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

They’ll talk about how the Growth Team needs to consist of creative people chosen for their ability to think broadly and seek out new things, while the Current Business team is expected to just keep turning the engine that generates profits through servicing existing customers and markets. Innovation is a Company-Wide Responsibility.

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Mike Shipulski

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Another method to increase the probability of success is to increase the learning rate. The best known method is the Lean Startup method. The Lean Startup is also quite good when money’s tight. A shoe string budget fosters radical learning strategies and creates focus which are both good ideas when coffers are low.

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KindlingApp

OCTOBER 12, 2015

When students take a more active role in learning through collaboration they become invested in their education while at the same time working on their ability to solve problems as a team and to communicate better with one another. There are even venture capital firms like Learn Capital , focused entirely on transforming the classroom.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Yuan was Cisco’s vice president of engineering and in 2011 he pitched a new smartphone-friendly video conferencing system to Cisco management. There is a stark difference between the decision the executive leadership is leaning towards and how the rest of the company sees things. The idea was rejected.

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CorporateIntel

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

If you’ve spent any time with me in product development, you know I like to quote the sometimes overused phrase, “People in companies get stuff done in spite of org charts, not because of them.” I’ll confess to that in a moment, but the title of this article has likely already given away my leaning.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Disruption Marketing 83

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. Learn to embrace disruption through collaboration.

Disruption 40

Disruption Innovation Survey Study 40

Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture Disruption 72

Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

This world, too, has made its contributions – the startup enterprise, Eric Ries' lean startup model, the minimal viable product (MVP), and – very importantly – a massive ecosystem of startup communities around the world all supporting and rooting for one another. Engineering / Science / Technology.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 12, 2015

One of the riskiest assumptions for any new product or feature is that customers actually want it. Digital product teams don’t share many of the concerns of an aerospace engineering team and therefore need to calculate and quantify their own tolerance for risk. Expand capacity for learning. Insights should.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

And in turn connect corporate engineering with innovative startups and corporate strategy with regular updates on technology and market shift. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. Before moving to Stage 3, the Innovation Outpost must answer these 5 questions: Do we have corporate buy-in to build a product?

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 56

Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

And in turn connect corporate engineering with innovative startups and corporate strategy with regular updates on technology and market shift. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. Before moving to Stage 3, the Innovation Outpost must answer these 5 questions: Do we have corporate buy-in to build a product?

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 56

Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization. Developers build whatever UI they think is appropriate while a designer is working on design iteration or testing.”. Perception of UX as less valued than development.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

And in turn connect corporate engineering with innovative startups and corporate strategy with regular updates on technology and market shift. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. Before moving to Stage 3, the Innovation Outpost must answer these 5 questions: Do we have corporate buy-in to build a product?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

And take what it learns and regularly update the corporate engineering, strategy, VC groups and business unit heads, on technology and market shifts. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. Is the Outpost product officially part of a corporate Innovation Portfolio? What solution are we productizing ?

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Nearly all that training is for dedicated innovation teams , or employees who are focused on new product development. The engineers went crazy looking for any possible reason why the chips were below quality.

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