helloFUTURE

MAY 22, 2023

In the world of product development, the only constant is change. The market is always evolving, customer expectations are constantly shifting, and your competitors are always on the move. As a corporate innovator, startup founder, or product manager, your task is to stay ahead of the game and churn out new products that not only…

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Digital Tonto

APRIL 28, 2024

Consider that, after decades of trying, skills like lean manufacturing, agile development and overcoming unconscious bias are woefully under-adopted in most organizations and you begin to understand the scale of the challenge. Seldom, if ever, is any rigorous social science research referenced. Change Isn’t About Persuasion.

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Leanstack

OCTOBER 30, 2018

I often get asked if one can or should model a non-profit using a Lean Canvas. He put together the following how-to guest post demystifying the process. The lean canvas makes defining how we create value for the donor explicit. The lean canvas makes defining how we create value for the donor explicit.

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Kainexus

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Policy deployment, known in Lean circles as Hoshin Kanri or Strategy Deployment, is a technique for ensuring that an organization's strategic goals and objectives drive activities at every level. There are four phases of strategy deployment.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 11, 2023

As a result, the senior leadership were becoming frustrated and stressed about how to communicate to the participants who had sent their ideas, or whether they should communicate at all. They asked me about how to prioritise the ideas when there was not enough people to complete the work.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

This is the second post looking more at collaboration and idealization and how and what has helped it evolve in this period. Hopefully, this change has enabled better value creation and learning how to innovate. Lean startup: Lean startup is a methodology that helps organizations validate their ideas early and often.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

How to Write a Team Vision Statement Consider these four steps when crafting a team vision statement: 1. Team Vision Statement Examples A vision statement depends on the team’s industry and needs, but these examples provide insight on how to craft a simple statement. Gather qualitative or quantitative input from all team members.

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Leanstack

OCTOBER 30, 2018

I often get asked if one can or should model a non-profit using a Lean Canvas. He put together the following how-to guest post demystifying the process. The lean canvas makes defining how we create value for the donor explicit. The lean canvas makes defining how we create value for the donor explicit.

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Matthew May

JUNE 26, 2015

After reading his 1999 book High Velocity Leadership , we invited Brian to guest speak about the Mars Pathfinder project, and he soon he became a regular fixture in the University of Toyota’s “lean” leadership curriculum. One of my all-time favorite stories is the one he told about the Pathfinder team’s approach to a “don’t fail” strategy.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

But how can an enterprise organization re-invent product commercialization? Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. Most companies have a product development process that is completely separate from their go to market strategy. It is the marketing, selling, distribution and support of the product.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 29, 2019

What can you learn about change from Baker’s Four Strategies of Influence? When thinking about the best way to persuade someone to come around to your way of thinking, consider leveraging this framework, often referred to as Baker’s Four Strategies of Influence. By UpBOARD. Still want to learn more?

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 8, 2023

The books range from old classics like How to Win Friends and Influence People, right up to modern bestsellers like Start with Why and Atomic Habits. With this new online Udemy course you can quickly absorb the key ideas and principles in best-selling busines books by watching short video lectures.

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Business and Tech

JUNE 21, 2023

We asked him about some of the keys to creating a better workplace environment, and how to overcome the growing pains inherent in running a successful business. ” How can a different attitude and environment affect small business owners? Is a business that’s more fun to work for more likely to succeed? Fun or not fun?

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Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

Innov8rs | Making strategy behind closed doors is a prescription for failure when disruptions are coming from all directions. Formulating and executing a sound organizational strategy is complex. Strategy is often made by elite teams and can thus be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces.

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Business and Tech

JUNE 24, 2022

As a startup entrepreneur, you wear all the hats — sales, marketing, fulfillment, invoicing, accounting, and business strategy, to name just a few. However, the time may come, several years into your business, when you are unsure how to achieve that next growth milestone. Carrie Santos CEO, Entrepreneurs’ Organization.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The Kanban system is a visualization strategy that helps you manage innovative development projects. Through this strategy, you can also develop permanent solutions for fixing some of your organization’s most pressing problems. But how did the Kanban system evolve into the progressive visualization strategy that it is today?

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 19, 2018

It’s that time of year again: the temperature is dropping, leaves are changing colors, and after a sleepy summer, companies are ready to reflect on how they are going to improve their operation for the new year. Learn how to reduce waste with Social Impact Programs in this 30-minute, AMA style event.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 14, 2016

Lean Experiment Techniques There are many techniques to consider when designing an effective lean startup experiment, so we decided to capture a few of our favorites below. Even better, see if you can recognize these lean startup experiment examples next time you’re using your favorite application or website.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Unfortunately, not all corporates know how to innovate consistently over time. At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, Jeffrey Phillips (Senior Strategy and Innovation Consultant) discussed what it takes to build an innovation capability for continuous innovation.

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Avoiding these repercussions requires a robust retention strategy that encourages team members to stick around long term. Below, we discuss the three key elements required in an employee-retention strategy. The 3 Elements of a Successful Retention Strategy. How to Achieve This. How to Achieve This.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 14, 2016

Lean Experiment Techniques. There are many techniques to consider when designing an effective lean startup experiment, so we decided to capture a few of our favorites below. Even better, see if you can recognize these lean startup experiment examples next time you’re using your favorite application or website.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Ingredients for Innovation Success Despite the renaissance in innovation approaches ushered in by luminaries like Steve Blank, Rita McGrath, Alexander Osterwalder, Janice Fraser, and Eric Ries, most innovation departments lack the basic ingredients of success- strategy, resources, scale and methods. You rarely win without a strategy.

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Digital Tonto

JULY 30, 2023

We can optimize operations, streamline our organizations and motivate our people, but eventually our square-peg business will meet its round-hole world and we will need to adapt, build new skills and shift our strategies. Unfortunately, the overwhelming evidence suggests that we will fail. You Need To Learn It.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

As I tell my executive education classes, business strategy is as much about what you don’t do as it is what you decide to do. Here are 12 strategies to use for innovation no matter what you’re doing: Simplify your product. Is innovation really all about breakthrough technology and big financial investments?

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Innovators Alliance

AUGUST 8, 2022

Driven by a passion to prove that social and environmental impact is a key business driver to achieve profit with purpose, he set out to build a social impact agency – designing social and environmental purpose brands, strategies, programs and campaigns. So a well defined purpose is critical to both deciding when to lean in and how to engage.

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CMOE

APRIL 19, 2022

Lean In : Consider the feelings, emotions, and perspectives of others and respond with fairness and logic. The bottom line is empathy has an impact on team productivity, innovation, strategy, profit, and success.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In addition, two-thirds of large organizations globally struggle to implement their strategies. But how to fulfill that objective is often the challenging part. Here’s your guide on how to set department goals. Consistent with the organization’s strategy and mission. The results? What Is a Department Goal?

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

These decisions include the portfolio needed to translate strategy into initiatives and how to drive and scale initiatives that create new revenue streams. Most of these systems trace back to the Lean Startup. Ultimately, companies with a superior innovation management system make better decisions.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them Corporate innovation is hard. Innovation not linked to company’s existing vision or strategy Innovation for innovation’s sake is a recipe for disaster. Figure out which parts of your company’s existing vision and strategy your innovation efforts can help out.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them. Innovation not linked to company’s existing vision or strategy. Figure out which parts of your company’s existing vision and strategy your innovation efforts can help out. Corporate innovation is hard. Failure to secure sustained funding.

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Collective Campus

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In this episode I talk through 8 steps detailing how to pull off your own lean marketing strategy to find new customers for new products.

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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 27, 2021

So many organizations are trying to figure out how to build strong, cross-functional Agile teams so they can scale beyond pockets of Agile. How to Build High-Performing Agile Teams. While most of the world’s largest companies are attempting a Lean-Agile transformation in one way or another, not all of them are succeeding.

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Kainexus

OCTOBER 18, 2022

All of that is important, but according to the book, The Balanced Scorecard by David Norton and Robert Kaplan, 90 percent of organizations fail to execute their strategies. The reasons for this alarming figure vary, but in many cases, the root cause is the failure to deploy the strategy thoroughly across the organization.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

When the focus is on survival, pausing to think about how to work smarter instead of harder seems outside of the scope of possibility. Not only are customized strategies imperative, but how we arrive at solutions to create value is extremely important. These challenges, while significant, can be overcome.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them. Innovation not linked to company’s existing vision or strategy. Figure out which parts of your company’s existing vision and strategy your innovation efforts can help out. Corporate innovation is hard. Failure to secure sustained funding.

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