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Nomination Wanted: 2015 Thinkers50

Matthew May

My three areas of focus — strategy, innovation, and lean — are all founded on the ground-level, everyday application of Roger Martin’s Play-to-Win framework (strategy), IDEO/Stanford d school-originated design thinking (innovation), and Toyota-born systems thinking (lean). Designer, The Play-To-Win Canvas.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

The Lean Startup (Ries). The Lean Enterprise. Human-Centered Design (IDEO). Updated Model of Design Thinking. Design Thinking Process (Stanford). Focus stage: Growth Published: 2009 more…. Design Competitions. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2009 more…. Design for Six Sigma (Idov).

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50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Open Innovation EU

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. Source: www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/when-toyota-met-e-commerce-lean-at-amazon.

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Value Stream Discovery: What to test & how to measure [Airbnb example]

Moves the Needle

Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas and Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas come to mind. Similar tools have been around for ages, by the way; used in lean manufacturing processes, Agile, kanban, scrum, etc. Like Lean Startup, the concept of a “value stream” also comes from the lean manufacturing world.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization. Both designers and user researchers shared techniques for keeping product owners and developers informed and aware of their progress. Their answers included the following themes.

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

Apple has refashioned consumer experience with its iconic branding, stylish design and a diverse product range, its own retail stores, and important partnerships with the competition. The climb has been quite an uphill task for the iconic toy designer. Lego has managed to wring sustainability by adopting the Lean startup approach.

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Business Model Innovation 2020? - From Lean Startups to Impact Startups.

The BMI Lab Blog

This thinking in “markets” and “technologies” changed with the rise of customer centricity, human centered design, and design thinking in the mid-2000s. Lean startup, coined by Eric Ries and previously described in the book “The Four Steps to Epiphany” (2005) by Eric’s mentor Steve Blank, is singing from the same song-sheet.

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