Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Anyone who has ever attended Lean Startup Conference (previously known as Lean Startup Week) in the past knows that this annual event regularly features invigorating speakers that divulge the newest insights and innovations in modern management for a wide array of industries and company types. Click to Tweet.

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IM Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

Elijah Eilert speaks to Paul Orlando about his book Growth Units to discover how to best calculate Customer Acquisition Cost and Lifetime Value. Paul tells us how to significantly improve common calculation methods and how to use those to make critical business decisions. 23:30) How to calculate Customer Acquisition Cost.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 22, 2016

Market research often falls short when it comes to innovation. 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.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

Here are the top 5 to be aware of and some ideas on how to overcome them. Obviously, it’s the product team’s. Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. It’s not my job.” They don’t. No one can.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Do companies know how to innovate? Marketing tends to have their own way of talking about innovation. Is it expansion of market share? It’s how to deal with uncertainty.”. But leadership should be agnostic about how they achieve the desired outcomes. It’s how to deal with uncertainty. All of the above?

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 24, 2018

Much of the last 30 years of management thought has been consumed with improving exploitation skill - Six Sigma, Lean, Outsourcing and right-sizing are all efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the exploiting portion of your business. Product development cycle times are now longer than shelf lives. Finally, do it now.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Rethinking how to do your business is an urgent demand to be aligned with this new user behavior. What makes us believe that developing digital products is not only a solution to overcome the crisis, but also to generate business value after it too. The Economy is Digital; companies are born small, lean, lighter, and more innovative.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

Here are the top 5 to be aware of and some ideas on how to overcome them. Obviously, it’s the product team’s. Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. “It’s not my job.” They don’t.

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Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

There’s no such thing as a bad idea – only an unfinished one. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Many innovation teams are so concerned with being agile and entrepreneurial that they spend precious little time understanding where to point their efforts. Bungle team composition.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Here’s how. —– 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.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2018

There is no way to ensure that customers are going to see the same value in what you are developing as you do, and most companies are terrible at actually being able to execute on an idea. After all, CEOs are supposed to encourage their teams to focus on big ideas and growth. How to overcome loss aversion?

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

What’s more, to develop real innovation, you need prototyping skills, problem analysis, and iterative work. Design Thinking is a problem solving and idea development strategy centered on human beings. Check out some tips to acculture your team around Design Thinking! People can relax and lean on the methodology. ?

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Planview

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Hyper Focusing on Agile Teams. Agile delivery teams are the execution arm of the Agile transformation. It’s natural for organizations to want their teams to be as efficient, productive, and successful as possible. But as Klaus points out below, hyper focusing on Agile teams can be short-sighted, if their work isn’t coordinated.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Chris was a Senior Product Manager at LexisNexis before founding his own firm and helped offer a firsthand account of fostering healthy collaboration between legal, product and innovation teams at LexisNexis when it comes to rapid experimentation. That is the role of legal, compliance, corporate marketing, IT and other functions.

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MSSBTI

APRIL 9, 2019

Operating in a Global Economy is not for the weak. This type of fitness will beat out all of your competitors’ outdated lean and Six Sigma principles. This type of fitness, being ready to take on your markets, can be organized into five focal areas that I wish my COO knew (and told me!) Organizations need to be fit.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In early-stage projects with a product that’s not in the market, projections are fiction. Because there is history of products in the market projections are more accurate (i.e. It is the development of options to be used under problematic circumstances. Bad times in the market are inevitable, yet often unforeseeable.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using Lean methods. Two methods, Design Thinking and Customer Development (the core of the Lean Startup) provide the tactical day-to-day process of how to turn ideas into products. . Here’s why.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

Research confirms: development of exploration in parallel to exploitation capabilities proves to be mandatory for established companies in order to compete successfully and sustainably. One way for established organizations to strengthen exploration is by developing internal capabilities in order to overcome their inherent inertia.

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Leanstack

AUGUST 11, 2016

Look for a job they are trying to get done (jobs-to-be-done) and study how they are getting it done (existing alternatives). If the job is adequately getting done, that’s bad news for you because it’s hard to displace an existing solution with a similar-sounding value proposition.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

While just like for startups, large enterprises benefit from the tumbling costs of developing digital products, they face deep-rooted problems that come from being large and successful. But enterprise organizations have been known to exhibit “not built here” syndrome, meaning, they don’t trust solutions that weren’t developed in-house.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

We are probably in the middle of the biggest disruptive change in the market since industrialization. The market structure, its nature and the key success factors are undergoing a shift where hypercompetition is putting many of today’s businesses at risk of exclusion from the market. 3 No pain, no gain.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Lean Innovation Definition At Moves The Needle, we define lean innovation as “reducing waste in the discovery, creation, and delivering of new value to customers." We base Lean Innovation principles upon the 3 E’s of Lean Innovation : Empathy, Experiments and Evidence. Where design thinking ends, Lean Startup begins.

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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Building the Team. They are not the people achieving the longest tenure.

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Taivara

JULY 30, 2019

For example, a Marketing department may hire a digital agency to create a custom-built application, outside of the company’s core-offerings, as a value-add for their customers. Many find their departments competing internally for IT resources just to stay relevant in the market. Risks of Shadow IT and how to avoid them.

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Leanstack

MARCH 29, 2018

Even though, his savings ran out 6 months ago, he has hit a comfortable groove using freelance consulting to keep his product development going. Maybe now he can get the support of his developer friends who failed to see his vision earlier? Hire 3 developers. By then, they would have cornered the entire market!”

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Let our team of non-conformists help you build your innovative company culture. A conformist company culture stifles innovation and breeds weakness. While middle management can keep the company strong in the near-term, the stifling of innovation makes the organization weak in the long-run. Contact Us. Challenge the status-quo!

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

The lens through which this profession – the "MBA crowd" if you will – sees the world is generally one of how to build a sustainable competitive advantage, something that can come from any corner of the business. Business Management. We begin with Business Management. Thank you, Business Management. Entrepreneurialism.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

But even participating in other firms’ ecosystems can be highly attractive, as demonstrated by e.g. several app developers. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Interactions are complex and unpredictable.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Lean, digital disruptors threaten their larger, more rigid corporate counterparts. Many in the C-suite view these innovations as not only a way to maintain market share with consumers, but also usher in new eras of productivity, efficiency and customer engagement. The key is to prioritize the end-users’ needs.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. When should it be used: Any organisation that wants to enable their staff who have an idea to “try it out” or do an initial market experiment.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

Not only that, it is how to related these to different market conditions, so as to offer thoughtful advice to a broad audience of practitioners and leaders within the corporate world. How these are fully integrated remains a challenge for most. Other real changing forces influencing innovation.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Digital technology, the accelerated pace of change, and the evolving relationship between businesses and their customers all have an effect on how organizations must operate in order to remain relevant in today’s shifting business landscape. At the heart of this transformation mindset is Lean Innovation.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Read on to understand how it works and how to implement it yourself. And companies regularly boast about how they are spending millions (and sometimes billions) of dollars into research & development to come up with innovative new offerings. However, why is it then that approximately 96% of innovation efforts fail ?

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IM Insights

APRIL 23, 2022

We provide insights on how to measure innovation , innovation , accounting , and managing the uncertain process of developing new , sustainable , and profitable business models. As always , we make sure to link all relevant information and how to get in touch with Esther and the show notes. Make sure to check them out.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Now that your company had decided to set up an Innovation Outpost, how do you do it? How do you staff it? What should the team in the Outpost be doing day-to-day? Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Now that your company had decided to set up an Innovation Outpost, how do you do it? How do you staff it? What should the team in the Outpost be doing day-to-day? Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

From setting a proper strategy and structuring and organization the function, to having clarity about who makes what type of decisions when, to understanding how to align with and involve business leaders - there's a lot of variables at play. Post Covid-19, leaders need to develop innovation as a key organizational muscle.

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