Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

As part of our recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed this (and more) with Frank Mattes (CEO at Lean Scaleup), Sean Sheppard (Managing Partner at U+), and Susana Jurado (Head of Wayra Builder at Telefónica). Why can it be so hard for corporates to launch substantial new businesses? Business Building: Pros and Cons.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 6, 2023

This high failure rate suggests a white space between ideation and scaling. Key Success Factors For Corporate Venture Building It is however possible for corporate ventures to be smoothly transitioned from ideation to scale. That's a lot of money being left on the table”.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

The learnings from that session instantly changed the way we run our ideation sessions -- both internally and externally with our clients.

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Planview

MAY 11, 2017

During an afternoon panel session on continuous improvement, Jill Waters, Lean Six Sigma Coordinator at Adventist Health, mentioned a key insight about achieving consistent engagement: “We make sure that we continue to communicate with the community. The reality is, it’s easy for employees to forget about your company’s ideation program.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

How do you integrate all this new fancy stuff into strategy and ideation to create actual projects? Innovating with digital technology requires a blended approach, truly diverse teams, training, and new ideation methods. Digital tech related ideation presents unique challenges to innovation project leaders and facilitators.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Today, serving as Chief Solutions Architect at Spigit, I have had the opportunity of late to interview our clients who have applied collaborative ideation with their front-line employees. To understand the connection that clients make between collaborative ideation, continuous improvement, and the customer experience. Retail employees.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. Senior team not aligned or embracing Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. Failure to secure sustained funding We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 4, 2023

Some examples of interdisciplinary skills that are important in cross-sector innovation collaborations include communication, leadership, creativity, strategic thinking, and project management.

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Innovation 360 Group

JANUARY 28, 2016

Operations, Ideation 360. Additional areas of expertise lie within entrepreneurial activities from starting and scaling up an international venture at one of Sweden’s most prominent business incubators by utilizing the lean startup methodology. Background. Areas of expertise. Strategy and Business Development.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and older frameworks like CPS (aka Osborn-Parnes) are all attempts to find the system, the process steps, that will assist in repeating innovation. Innovation frameworks are important, but something powerful is being systematically left out of the ideation step. This is why I created MoshPit Innovation.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Each category plays a critical role in a company’s growth and adaptation, offering unique paths to market leadership and resilience. Techniques such as Lean manufacturing and automation play a pivotal role in driving process innovation, enabling businesses to maintain operational excellence and agility.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

Hackathons’ or comparable formats are used to bring together external ideators with internal experts for drumming out disruptive ideas. They are based on lean / efficient and 0-mistakes principles. They are based on agile / lean start-up / test-and-learn principles. They are driven by solid, near-term financial goals.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 2, 2021

Lean Coffee: Focused Meetings Template. This remote template offers tools and activities designed specifically for these virtual meetings, from problem framing to ideation and more. This meeting template is structured to enable attendees to create their own topics and vote to determine the priority of discussing each topic.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

We dive into getting the fundamentals right during this month’s Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management. Assess your innovation culture in terms of leadership support, organization design, and innovation practice. As a taster, find an overview of some of the topics we'll discuss below.

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. And they delved into how to discover, ideate and prototype a solution, running through exercises to practice what they learned. Today, organizations routinely ask their people for innovation, and then prevent it from happening.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

He’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats. As a successful technology entrepreneur he has a broad perspective on business and always has ideas about how to solve thorny problems.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

At the heart of this transformation mindset is Lean Innovation. The first is to turn a talented group of people with diverse departmental backgrounds into a cross-functional, high-performance team that has embraced and internalized the 3 ‘s of Lean Innovation. But, that’s not all there is to it.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues. To get started: Run internal lean startup hackathons, where the process rewards iterative learning over solution building. “We need more big ideas!

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Planview

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

It’s in their nature to express their personal brand of leadership in that way. Some of the change agents refer to themselves as lean practitioners. The lean practitioner convenes the people who touch the critical flow to map out the value stream. The lean practitioner facilitates the creation of a value stream map.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

It’s in their nature to express their personal brand of leadership in that way. Some of the change agents refer to themselves as lean practitioners. The lean practitioner convenes the people who touch the critical flow to map out the value stream. The lean practitioner facilitates the creation of a value stream map.

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Innovation Architecture

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It’s in their nature to express their personal brand of leadership in that way. Some of the change agents refer to themselves as lean practitioners. The lean practitioner convenes the people who touch the critical flow to map out the value stream. The lean practitioner facilitates the creation of a value stream map.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

I say ‘Leading FOR Innovation’ instead of the usual narrative of ‘Innovation Leadership’ because it’s not about making the leaders themselves ‘innovative’ but about leaders being able to build and lead an organisation where genuine innovation (not innovation theatre!)

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

That’s where lean methodology comes up. By providing implementation tools, teachers could ensure professional learning and meeting time go beyond ideation and result in action. Transformational leadership is often practiced by those in the startup space. People need time and support to test those ideas.

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Innovation 360

JANUARY 25, 2017

Hypothesis-based Innovation and the Lean Startup. If the hypothesis-based approach to innovation looks familiar, it’s most probably because it is closely tied in with two of the principles of the Lean Startup by Eric Ries.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes. The information they gather is a necessary jumping off point for invention and ideation. Innovation requires a different mindset and approach than normal operations. Do your people know them?

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Innovation 360 Group

JANUARY 24, 2017

Hypothesis-based Innovation and the Lean Startup. If the hypothesis-based approach to innovation looks familiar, it’s most probably because it is closely tied in with two of the principles of the Lean Startup by Eric Ries.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Each cycle or project progresses from a blank page, to a platform question, to ideation, to convergence, to pitch presentations. If you don’t have a pipeline, start one, and test the idea as cheaply as you can before you advance to the next stage of development (as in Lean Product Development ).

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David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product. Everything the leadership of Nokia and Blackberry failed to do. Firstly, processes to validate assumptions so that decisions can be made based on facts (And not the identity of the ideator). But, as we know, this is not what happened.

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David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product. Everything the leadership of Nokia and Blackberry failed to do. Firstly, processes to validate assumptions so that decisions can be made based on facts (And not the identity of the ideator). But, as we know, this is not what happened.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Some informants raised concerns about product owners or developers thinking of design only in very tactical terms and not recognizing the value that UX brings to the product ideation process. Design needs to align earlier and sooner with the business owners to ideate and come up with a great design.”. Scrum masters. Product owners.

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David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product. Everything the leadership of Nokia and Blackberry failed to do. Firstly, processes to validate assumptions so that decisions can be made based on facts (And not the identity of the ideator). But, as we know, this is not what happened.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Even though it took 7 months for the founders to persuade Bosch leadership that their vision is doable, the startup developed a software with machine learning and analytics integrated within the networks of the retailer and the IoT application. The term comes from the English and is based on the Lean Startup Model by Eric Ries.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. The Innovation Intensive course outline: Approaches to innovation (Design Thinking, Lean, Agile, TRIZ, CPS, and blended systems). Contact GFi for pricing and registration information. . Why innovation?

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. Design Thinking is a popular framework that is viewed as best practice, but it’s only part of the solution.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

For example, nowadays, a global network of actors based on semi-finished products from several distinct steps can create an equivalent value by offering lower prices with attractive business models focused on specific activities or lean start-ups with plenty of venture capital prior to the market when opportunities begin to open up.

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