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Pirates in the Navy Book Excerpt

InnovationTraining.org

There are three main elements that intrapreneurs need to think about before they start working; Leadership Support Organization Design and Innovation Practice. Leadership Support : Without explicit and visible support from our leadership, most innovation programs are dead on arrival. Which stakeholders are the most difficult?

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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 Innovation Mosaic: Building Bridges Between the Many Perspectives on Innovation

Legacy Innovation Group

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. Finance & Accounting. Thank you, Finance.

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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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Podcast E11: Deeper Dive into Differentiation Transcription

Stephen Shapiro

” This is an important mantra to remember when creating an innovation program. You don’t innovate the same way for every opportunity in your business. In Episode 9, I talked about why you want to innovate where you differentiate. Although you might think of support as HR it or finance, it is not.

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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 one from Finance looked like this: The “Get to Yes” Collaboration.

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Getting to “Yes” for Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

I listened as Roberto listed the obstacles to the new innovation program at Sprocket, “We’ve created innovation teams in both the business units and in corporate. Our CEO is behind the program. Over the last 9 months his staff got innovation teams operating with speed and urgency. and apply the appropriate policy.