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Innovation fails because humans have emotions

Idea to Value

This was the foundation for some of the most effective management principles of the 20th century, such as lean manufacturing and six sigma, where process performance was scrutinised to find every opportunity to remove inefficiency and improve output.

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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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The Secret Ingredient to Operational Excellence Success

Qmarkets

In contemporary operations management, the thoughts and feelings of employees are given relatively much more consideration. In his 2011 book, Design for Operational Excellence, Kevin J. Duggan outlines a much more modern approach: Design lean value streams from the time the order is received until delivery to the customer.

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The Secret Ingredient to Operational Excellence Success

Qmarkets

In contemporary operations management, the thoughts and feelings of employees are given relatively much more consideration. In his 2011 book, Design for Operational Excellence, Kevin J. Duggan outlines a much more modern approach: Design lean value streams from the time the order is received until delivery to the customer.

LEAN 40
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Our inabilities to adapt needs changing.

Paul Hobcraft

According to a survey by McKinsey in 2011, 72% of our transformation programs fail to deliver on their original targets. We are at a crossroads of determining if the management of innovation should change and if so, how. I refer back to my evolving hypothesis above of where, why and how this innovation management needs to shift.

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Top 10 must-read books on Innovation

hackerearth

Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works by Ash Maurya LeanStack Founder and creator of the Lean Canvas, Ash Maurya, tells you how startups can find the product/market fit by following a systematic process based on innovative approaches based on innovative approaches such as Lean Startup and Bootstrapping.

LEAN 12
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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Qualitative analysis shows that entrepreneurs actually use both logic at the same time, in contrast to the way larger organizations deal with innovation (in a more structured way). Klein & Bullock, 2006; Lewin, 2011; Von Mises, 1949). Koppl, 2008; Lewin, 2011). Entrepreneurial thinking. Neck et al. 2: The Strategic Paradox.