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Pirates in the Navy Book Excerpt

InnovationTraining.org

I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. And I have done it all – idea jams, hackathons, startup weekends, training workshops and innovation sprints. When you are trying to create a repeatable innovation process, you can’t just start anywhere by doing random activities.

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How Schibsted Media Group Used Empathy and Evidence to Validate New Ideas

Moves the Needle

From that information, we were able to plan out what a couple of sprints might look like in order to help employees and leadership understand the Lean Innovation process and increase the frequency of making decisions based on evidence. “ ” — Thais Cunha, Project Coordinator, Bomnegocio.com.

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The core principles of Leading FOR Innovation

Cris Beswick

Suppose we switch our focus and understand the value of building the capability and culture to deliver genuinely innovative solutions. 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. Is there a better way?’

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Office of Naval Research (ONR) Goes Lean

Steve Blank

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has been one of the largest supporters of innovation in the U.S. Now they are starting to use the Lean Innovation process (see here and here ) to turn ideas into solutions. The result will be defense innovation with speed and urgency. Lean Innovation is a Process.

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Balancing Innovation via Organizational Ambidexterity – Part 3

Integrative Innovation

There are two reasons for our suggestion: In our view, innovations are not successful just by the fact that they cleared all the stages within the funnel. In other words we have found that breakthrough innovations should be identified and implemented in iterative processes.

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How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right

Steve Blank

I took one look at the process they came up with and could have sworn that it was invented by the company’s competitors to throttle innovation. The new innovation process had lots of paperwork – committees, application forms and presentations, and pitches. There were no requirements for the innovator.

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Removing the Roadblocks to Corporate Innovation – When Theory Meets Practice

Steve Blank

His groups whole-heartedly adopted and adapted Lean. His innovators and stakeholders curated and prioritized their problems/idea/technology before handing them off. Karl’s innovation pipeline had hundreds of employees going through weekend hackathons. The division general managers have verbally given us their support.

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