Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Before and After Lean Innovation: Overview The City of Hayward, California wanted to break away from inefficient and ineffective processes for researching and launching programs, and remove organizational bottlenecks that stood in the way of serving citizens. Download this case study to show to your colleagues, board of directors, or boss.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 20, 2023

Qmarkets is pleased to announce a new partnership with US-based innovation consultancy Accel IQ Digital to provide comprehensive strategic innovation services to joint clients across the United States, Brazil, and the Middle East. About Qmarkets Managing innovation at large company is never easy. But it doesn’t have to be so hard.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 28, 2024

Books discussed in the video: If you would like to watch us have this conversation, you can do so here. Figuring out where to leverage AI tools and where to use HI ( Human Intelligence ) will become a key differentiator or skill of an effective leader. You can connect with him on LinkedIn here.

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Flying Fish Lab

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

by leaning into Category Expertise. He kept employees engaged and contributing by not shooting down suggestions. It allows us to see success while being practical about what it would take to achieve it. Contact us via the button below, and we'll guide you through the transformative journey. So how do others do it?

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

We have an artificially imposed time constraint on innovation activities, forced upon us by the financial reporting mechanisms of the stock market. But what about lean startup, rapid sprints, agile But aren't there entire methodologies that are meant to get to good ideas faster? There's another time that is also important.

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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.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Lean startup method Lean Startup is another source of many activities and exercises in a customer-focused approach to innovation. In the same wheelhouse as design thinking (and agile), a lean startup approach offers a way to quickly ideate, test, and create prototypes. Learn more about design thinking in this guide.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

I would like to quote some of his writing here as it gives me, and I hope you, the reader, a richer understanding of narratives and why they are so important to us. They are a call to action and engage those listening to the narrative to make a difference. They help us to orientate and can profoundly inspire us to shape the future.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

I would like to quote some of his writing here as it gives me, and I hope you, the reader, a richer understanding of narratives and why they are so important to us. They are a call to action and engage those listening to the narrative to make a difference. They help us to orientate and can profoundly inspire us to shape the future.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

We need to put to use a different innovation model or approach. We are at the cusp or already into significant changes to how the world, society and we as individuals will manage or engage going into the future. Knowledge flows are constantly changing and often surprise us and need adaption to what this means.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Body language says a lot about how engaged you are. Eye contact, as an example, gives us the clearest read not just on where a person’s attention is, but also their body language and their non-verbal signals. Of course, some of us struggle to make eye contact, out of shyness, for example. Pay Attention To Non-Verbal Cues.

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Christensen Institute

MAY 2, 2024

Loneliness is killing us. My colleague Julia Freeland Fisher recently argued that because of the incredible influence of smartphones and the now-ubiquitous emergence of AI into daily life, “prioritizing prosocial behavior, investing in deeper family engagement, and leaning into the power of real-world” experiences are no longer nice-to-haves.

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Innovators Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

While these moves may make sense in the short-run, a big risk nevertheless exists – that as the downturn shifts to an upturn, our myopic focus will blind us to new opportunities. Smart companies however, respond to leaner budgets by deploying non-traditional methods that are both cheaper and tend to engage customers in creative new ways.

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Econic

APRIL 13, 2022

Our first impact report With the recognition that what we do is interconnected with people, communities, and our planet, we have learned that considering impact requires us to embrace complexity and nuance. Much like our consulting practices, we leaned into a loose framework to build a customized approach to transformation.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 16, 2016

Part 6 in The Lean Startup Series The day before we started our first Lean LaunchPad program with the CSIRO, Bill McKeague and I talked strategy over coffee. At one point, I said to Bill “Well, I’ve got no idea how this will go, but as they used to say in those old Mickey Rooney movies, ‘Let’s put on a show!'

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Planview

MAY 9, 2017

At some point the lean practice came to make sense to you. You began your lean journey. Today, you find yourself with practical understanding of the value of the lean approach, along with its limitations. You have experienced both success and failure in using the methodology. You seek continuous improvement.

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Kainexus

MAY 16, 2019

For those of you who aren’t familiar with him, Mark is an internationally-recognized expert in the field of “Lean Healthcare” and the author of LeanBlog.org and author of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award-winning book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. After all, the past century of business management education has taught us that in order to improve performance, you need to understand, improve and track the performance of your key performance indicators.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. While the world around us continues to change at an astonishing pace, the efforts to feed the hungry, house the homeless, and right injustices seem not so dissimilar to a decade ago. Will they demand it, stay engaged, and recommend it to their friends and family?

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 29, 2019

Are you using the right persuasion tactics to influence the people you engage with? Every minute of every day, individuals engage in various forms of persuasion in order to get what they want. Every minute of every day, individuals engage in various forms of persuasion in order to get what they want.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 24, 2018

For us at IdeaScale, Open Nation is always our favorite week of the year. For those of us in the weeds every day, they represent a refreshing opportunity to take a step back and reflect on how the work of our customers is making people’s lives better, every day. First up was Michael Contreras, president and CEO of Ensemble Consultancy.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! “ We used to be so focused on releasing good products that we didn’t validate if we were spending time on the right thing, which slowed us down.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 21, 2021

Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, innovation-leaning clients to upgrade the impact of their (on-site) brainstorming sessions -- just in time, as some of our clients, post-pandemic, begin gathering together, in the flesh, again. Client testimonials.

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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

Solution: Focus on the Facilitator Mindset Leadership consultant Dr. Flo Falayi encourages leaders to lean on what they call “The Facilitator Mindset.” With participants live on camera, you can see levels of engagement and how participants are reacting to your facilitation. This mindset encompasses five parts.

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 27, 2021

Several of us likely remember the Bitcoin boom around the end of 2017, when thousands of individuals bought Bitcoin, seeing the value of their dollar skyrocket for a brief period. Anticipation sets you ahead of the curve by using Hard Trends to your advantage. This couldn’t be more wrong! And yet, here we are.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

MARCH 8, 2024

Thinkers360: Tell us a bit about your background and areas of expertise. Most days, I get home, watch some news, eat dinner with my husband and then write for a couple of hours on various projects, prepare for a speaking engagement, or schedule some social media posts. Once I joined the Navy, I went to boot camp.

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn. It is time for us to start building our business model.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

Extremely engaging and enlightening brainstorming sessions." - Karen Lazan, Marketing Director, Pfizer. Your session definitely helped us generate lots of great ideas to activate our positioning around the world." - Charlotte Oades, Director, Brand Marketing, The Coca Cola Company. President, Fox National Cable Networks.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2015

You become alert, you tune into lean management, having a start-up culture, and you seek to move beyond the boundaries, you are encouraged to think out of the box, you are asked to imagine the unpredictable. So what are they for us to practice? Ones to put in place to make us more agile and adaptive.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

In 2000, Netflix approached Blockbuster with an offer to sell their company to Blockbuster for US$50 million. Employee Engagement The benefits of employee engagement are no secret, especially to organizations who want to drive business success and longevity. What are the Various Approaches to Innovation in Business?

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The basics of innovation still form around building the engagement, leadership, and involvement , in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed , so as to allow innovation to evolve and thrive. Then there is that need for a constant investment in people , in our networks and relationships , that all need to come together.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 20, 2022

History shows us, for example, if you measure innovation by the number of ideas or the number of patents, that’s what you get–ideas and patents. Say you want to reduce customer churn or increase customer engagement. They perhaps split-test various implementations, using data as evidence. Think about sales people.

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Open Innovation EU

MARCH 30, 2016

The course was based on the following model: The following list is a selection of the business cases they found, mostly based on the Lean Startup, Lean Enterprise, Corporate Entrepreneurship and agile/Scrum – all available freely and online for use at your disposal, so I decided to share them with you.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Have you noticed that the Lean Startup concept has been getting more and more attention lately? Which is all a good thing really, as it creates the occasion for us to examine what is the "best" way to launch new brands, products, and companies. What's In Your Sandbox? Sep 04, 2014 | Anthony Mills. Why is this?

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Your Ideas are Terrible

OCTOBER 16, 2016

You need to follow a Lean Startup process and test your idea with customers. Nobody has “Lean Startup” or “Customer Development” skills. Given the popularity of Lean Startup you may try hiring experienced people to run innovation experiments. These are the skills your team needs to engage customers and get problem insights.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

A potential client reached out to us. He was a client team member on a customer experience strategy engagement several years ago. We exchanged emails right before the holiday that they are leaning toward going with a different outside partner that does both brand strategy and execution. They’d be the smart choice over us.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve. Each of us has a part to play in innovation. Yet does it need to be like this? Impact and Intensity becomes the new mantra.

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