Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 6, 2017

Like so many other organizational leaders in China at that time, I had a very young team and we needed to skill-up. Within 18 months or so, they had developed a solid Innovation Skillset foundation. I needed to help my team and leaders cultivate an Innovation Mindset. But how to do that? And I found one.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies? How can design thinking help with product development? This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. Prototype: In this step, the team creates a rough model of the solution to test and evaluate.

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Planview

APRIL 6, 2023

This debunks the perspective that business agility and successful transformation are limited to companies of a certain profile. I am not just referencing improvements via Agile and DevOps, although they are a piece of the puzzle. How Do You Appreciate the Value of Business Agility? I saw customers experience outstanding success.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Poorly defined innovation ensures innovation groups are not aligned to corporate strategy. . It is the integration of human-centered design, rapid experimentation, and working agile. Agility helps teams balance the execution work on the known with continued exploration work on the unknown. . I’ll tackle that next time.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Yesterday’s post on using a new type of SWOT analysis to stimulate bolder strategic conversations in strategy meetings garnered quite a bit of attention. In this case, the letters in the SWOT analysis name still stand for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Need to get your strategy developed quickly?

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Above all, it is a mentality based on several principles, such as placing the user at the center of the strategy. What’s more, to develop real innovation, you need prototyping skills, problem analysis, and iterative work. Design Thinking is a problem solving and idea development strategy centered on human beings.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

How could developing a fail fast culture help organizations unfreeze, survive, flow and flourish with the current levels of fear, ambiguity, uncertainty, volatility and instability in 21 st century organizations? What does fail fast mean in its original context? How can failure be perceived as feedback and learning? Be-ing wrong and judged.

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hackerearth

AUGUST 10, 2017

The team calls itself a curiosity driven research group at Stanford, trying to invent novel technologies with clinical applications with a current focus on resource-poor settings. In their book A Beautiful Constraint: How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's Business , Morgan and Barden, say. “By

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The Inovo Group

MAY 23, 2017

“This new mode of organization—a ‘network of teams’ with a high degree of empowerment, strong communication, and rapid information flow—is now sweeping businesses and governments around the world.” – Gen. Work is organized by programs and projects and done by purpose-built teams. Sense and sort signals – strong and weak.

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Integrative Innovation

MARCH 16, 2014

development of existing business) and exploration (i.e. In fact the people a large firm needs for this kind of innovation looks suspiciously like startup founders and the processes needed look like Customer Development [and Lean Startup]. Teaming up with small firms or startups. Two empirical truths support this strategy.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

Too often the team gets all the way through building the product to find out they can’t explain the product. Teams can often go heads down on building the thing because explaining it is too hard, only to find that they can’t explain it after it is built. Every product has at least one scary question to answer: Is it viable?

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

At its core, the framework is a collection of strategies and tools for finding inventive solutions to difficult problems. What it is: One of the most challenging aspects of innovation for most companies is not the generating of ideas, or the development of new innovations. If this doesn’t work, it is going to make me look bad.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. Design thinking is a step above “customer development” because it takes a real human approach to getting to the root of an intrinsic problem. While agile focuses on build velocity, lean focuses on customer traction velocity.”

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 6, 2021

.” | In the study, companies like Apple and Coca-Cola outperformed the rating agency Standard & Poor’s by 228%, which indicates the industry’s average performance. Not to mention the improvement in productivity and the reduction of rework costs, especially in the development process. This is crucial.

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Leanstack

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Many experiments invalidate a bad idea and leave you stuck. The challenge, of course, is that truly good ideas are rare and often indistinguishable from bad ideas at the outset. We have successfully applied LEAN Sprints internally in our team and across several dozen entrepreneurial teams at startups and large organizations.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Welcome to the Innovation Metrics podcast, where we bring you the latest on innovation management, we provide insights on how to measure innovation, innovation accounting, and managing the uncertain process of developing new, sustainable, and profitable business models. But did you did you not write this great piece on the Agile Manifesto?

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 19, 2018

We will make implicit how to build an effective innovation strategy based on your external market context and unique areas of excellence. They are likely to lead you down a dark path to a dead end unless you are properly prepared to evaluate the answers in line with your strengths and strategy. they start with “Why?”. Operating models.

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Innovation 360

JUNE 20, 2018

We will make implicit how to build an effective innovation strategy based on your external market context and unique areas of excellence. They are likely to lead you down a dark path to a dead end unless you are properly prepared to evaluate the answers in line with your strengths and strategy. they start with “Why?”. Operating models.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2015

We were once a scrappy, agile and feared organization with a “can-do” attitude. The founders get out of building and rapidly turn the hypotheses into facts by developing a series of incremental and iterative minimal viable products they test in front of customers in search of product-market fit. before you run out of money.

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 29, 2014

By establishing a constant stream of non-biased opinions and open lines of communication which are immune to politics and ever-shifting strategies, research keeps design and development efforts grounded in what should already be the application’s first priority–the user. Different from analytics.

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