Moves the Needle

JUNE 29, 2023

In the complexity of the globally-connected digital world, uncertainties and the assumptions on how to overcome them, hinder organizations from achieving their objectives. Rapid experimentation holds immense value in generating evidence to support decision-making, inform strategies, and propel businesses toward success.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Offer strategies for effective prototyping and testing. These speakers can also deepen the understanding of an innovation culture by: Illustrating how to create an environment that nurtures innovative thinking. Demonstrating how to embrace failure as a learning opportunity.

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Planview

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As technologies evolve and disruptions become an ever-growing presence of the business landscape, one of the best ways to improve the quick delivery of high-value innovations is by embracing digital transformation concepts in product development. How do you pick the right ones? Where do ideas come from?

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 2, 2018

You can use Lean Innovation techniques -- Empathy, Experiments, and Evidence to ensure the driving force is sustained through the integration. Both are reasonable and both can use acquisitions as part of its strategy, but you must understand the underlying need, beyond the word innovation.

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The BMI Lab Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Alongside the series of episodes with entrepreneurs and innovation leaders, we recommend the first-ever ETL Research bonus episode which looks at one of the first empirical studies about lean startup , an approach that BMI Lab follows since day 1. If you want to find out more about our lean startup approach, check out our Launchpad.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By 2010, the Lean Startup methodology built upon these principles, emphasizing rapid experimentation and customer feedback to guide businesses towards sustainable business models. From Design Thinking to Autonomous Innovation In the 1990s, design thinking emerged, prioritizing empathy and iterative prototyping for user-centric solutions.

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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.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

The strategies employed were coping strategies rather than success. One of attendees during the Q&A essentially went on a rant about how “Agile is a developer process,” essentially suggesting that we UX folks know better and shouldn’t even be trying to make Agile work. Lean UX has its own challenges.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Their executives and management teams recognize the importance of innovation, and even include innovation as top three priorities or as a component of the annual strategy. How is it being used to help drive future revenues? Transparency - Product development and product execution are transparent.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This bias surfaces when we are faced with ideas for new offerings, business models or strategies that the company is not used to. These can be any type of concept – a strategy, a design, an idea for a new offering, etc. – Senior leadership needs to decide how to proceed. A set of concepts to be evaluated.

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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 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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ITONICS

AUGUST 15, 2017

Modul I A – From strategy to ideas / Foresight, scenarios, trends. Modul I B – From strategy to ideas / Immersion, white Spots, insights. get an insight into how Agile Innovation Management really works. find out how to develop market-relevant products from your ideas in a structured way.

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Planview

AUGUST 12, 2022

A product-focused strategy and mindset can create agile organizations, increase productivity, and drive innovation. In this article, we’ll take you through what it means to move from project to product and how to navigate your way through the journey. What Does Moving from Project to Product Mean?

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

In 1991, Don Reinertsen and Preston Smith introduced the world to the "Fuzzy Front End" of product development. In both cases, the work being described was work that preceded the formal product development process. Welcome to the Mid Zone of Innovation. Sept 27, 2015 | Anthony Mills.

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ITONICS

MARCH 14, 2017

Modul I A – From strategy to ideas / Foresight, scenarios, trends. Modul I B – From strategy to ideas / Immersion, white Spots, insights. get an insight into how Agile Innovation Management really works. find out how to develop market-relevant products from your ideas in a structured way.

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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. Going about this issue particularly entails.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

and how to price the product. for new product development that emphasize immediate returns. Talking to Bob I realized that at Acme Widgets (and in most large companies) the word “failure” was being used to describe two very different events: failure in execution of a known product in known market.

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Leanstack

AUGUST 17, 2017

In my first book, Running Lean , I outlined a Problem Interview script for uncovering problems worth solving. Inspired by the Scientific Method, the search for Problem/Solution fit starts with creating a model — specifically a business model using a Lean Canvas. Problem Interview Script 1.0

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

In this article, I’ll draw upon two decades of hard-earned experience in pioneering the development of innovation-focused cultures in organisations worldwide to share proven principles, strategies, and techniques. As leaders, this means being bold and asking the tough questions: ‘Why do we do it this way?

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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. Investors today don’t fund ideas, or product development, but traction. Steve interjects: “How much traction is enough?” “If Rome, after all, wasn’t built in a day.

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Michael Roberto

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

I'm a big fan of the concept of testing, prototyping and experimenting during the product development process. However, new research suggests one very important limitation to testing that involves going to market with a minimal viable product (MVP). One is that after Alice took place, the affected companies changed strategies.

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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. Going about this issue particularly entails.

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Integrative Innovation

JULY 21, 2014

On the other hand, by engaging with established firms, a startup acquires capabilities to develop and scale their business, e.g. supply chain and production capacity, sales and marketing channels and last but not least an existing customer base. And how to handle a startup after an acquistion?

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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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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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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Then a business downturn comes, or a new CEO with a different strategy and mindset, or a corporate re-org, or the leader of the corporate innovation group gets frustrated and quits, or any one of a myriad of other events happens. Most corporate business functions – new product development (NPD), quality, sales, R&D, marketing, etc.

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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. At its core, the framework is a collection of strategies and tools for finding inventive solutions to difficult problems.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

To make this happen the Outpost’s first employees must be technology connectors – people who understand the parent corporation’s strategy and can execute it tactically. And in turn connect corporate engineering with innovative startups and corporate strategy with regular updates on technology and market shift.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

To make this happen the Outpost’s first employees must be technology connectors – people who understand the parent corporation’s strategy and can execute it tactically. And in turn connect corporate engineering with innovative startups and corporate strategy with regular updates on technology and market shift.

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Matthew Griffin

MARCH 23, 2015

This article is my attempt to help those Entrepreneurs and business leaders among you who want to learn from some of the industries brightest stars how to boost your chances of success and it’s based on my first-hand knowledge and work with twenty three of the world’s largest hyper growth companies. The products are very easy to adopt.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

To make this happen the Outpost’s first employees must be technology connectors – people who understand the parent corporation’s strategy and can execute it tactically. And in turn connect corporate engineering with innovative startups and corporate strategy with regular updates on technology and market shift.

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Leanstack

AUGUST 4, 2016

I spend a lot of time at the intersection of “business modeling” and “lean startup” and have been looking for the right category label to describe this type of work. You create a quick sketch of your business model using a tool like the Lean Canvas. The third step is lean startup.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Could create and introduce new and disruptive products and/or services for new markets. To make this happen the Outpost’s first employees must be technology connectors – people who understand the parent corporation’s strategy and can execute it tactically. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The longevity and breadth of the Planview product portfolio, combined with all the customer usage, support, methodology documentation, and the Machine Learning (ML) models we have created over the years, add up to what we have been internally calling the System of Record for Digital Transformation.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Although product leaders can propose numerous ‘lean’ methodologies to experiment inexpensively with new concepts before fully engineering them, anything short of launching a product or feature and monitoring its performance over time in the market is, by definition, not 100% accurate.

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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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