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Time for Innovation Excellence

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Norbert Majerus and George Taninecz Lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System started an industrial revolution (at least for those who adopted it). Transformative events that began in the automotive industry spread into many other sectors (including healthcare, finance, even innovation).

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Will Blockchain Change How Financial Businesses Innovate?

IdeaScale

Blockchain will change finance, even if you never buy a bitcoin. Modern finance faces a growing problem in the form of crime and fraud. But increasingly the role of a bank is to provide the technology and the support, to be the pillar finance leans on. But yet, the system works. Fighting Fraud.

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Four (4) Skills That All Great Innovators Share

Innovation Excellence

Disruptive innovation, design thinking, open innovation, lean launchpads and on and on. Unlike marketing or finance, there wasn’t any one clear framework.

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Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. The result will be: a new, Lean version of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Here’s how.

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Eric Ries interview: 4 Seeds for planting lean startup in the enterprise

Moves the Needle

Perhaps the most common question we hear is, “How do you get started doing Lean Startup in the enterprise?” We always get a kick discussing enterprise lean startup challenges with The Lean Startup author Eric Ries, so welcomed the opportunity to do so during his recent Kickstarter campaign. It made such an impression on him.

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Navigating Uncertainty: Transforming Support Functions for the Digital Era

Moves the Needle

From HR and finance to legal, IT, and facilities management, these functions are the backbone of business operations. Finance departments should redefine budget management to reward outcomes, not merely output. Moving beyond a myopic focus on cost efficiency, these functions need to adopt a forward-looking stance.

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Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innovators Alliance

While many leaders invest in innovation when times are good, it’s valuable to learn lessons from the lean times and leverage them to help us move forward, regardless of the economic environment. For example, Sealed Air (makers of bubble wrap) profiles and uses their own employees for gaining quick feedback and input on early-stage ideas.