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Going Lean, Again

etventure

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.” The Proud Leader.

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Are Legacy Approaches to Talent Inhibiting Your Innovation Efforts?

Swarmvision

Innovation Talent Varies Widely in the Workforce For example, we studied a group of 250 employees in a leading industrial company. Does it mean candidates need to know Lean Start-Up and Design Thinking? Today companies are still falling back on legacy talent approaches that harken back to the early days of the industrial revolution.

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The Innovation Generation Has Arrived

Legacy Innovation Group

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. Oct 04, 2014 | Anthony Mills.

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Is What’s Good For General Electric Good For America?

Digital Tonto

Morgan merged Thomas Edison’s electric company with other firms, it was one of the original components of the Dow Jones index and signaled America’s industrial rise. American industry followed suit, cutting investment in R&D, lobbying hard for cuts in government spending and corporate taxes, hollowing out the US industrial base.

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

The BMI Lab Blog

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. One of the big problems of cities and many industries (e.g. Enevo’s system architecture for intelligent and resource-saving waste management. Source: Enevo.

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

“The iPod certainly raised the awareness of Apple and opened up the brand to consumers that may have had misconceptions about the Mac and may not have considered it in the past,” said industrial analyst Ross Rubin. Lego has managed to wring sustainability by adopting the Lean startup approach. His book Brick by Brick is a must read.).

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Business model creation and innovation in China: not just copycats.

The BMI Lab Blog

Lean value” focus: This approach is supported by the nature of the market. The success cases for every company on this list illustrate the points above: experimentation and iteration, creative adaptation, “lean value focus,” and global ambition. In 2010 Taobao had close to 80% of the C2C market in China, entirely displacing eBay.