Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

Ken Beer was the Director of Product Management and reported into the Marketing department. It was not unusual to find PM’s who reported into Engineering at the time, the two cases perhaps reflecting the above origin stories. It’s interesting to reflect that in 1997, the Agile Manifesto had not yet been published.

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Planview

MAY 5, 2023

Regional teams used different work methodologies such as Agile, waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma. Today, Planview’s platform is enabling Fresenius to reduce complexity, streamline and integrate existing tools and systems, increase collaboration, and standardize reporting across project types and work methodologies.

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Planview

MAY 20, 2022

Set expectations with stakeholders early on about how often you’ll be communicating, how quickly you’ll respond to change requests, and your reasoning for accepting or rejecting them. Reports and dashboards can show which deliverables and tasks need staffing attention. Plan for Change. Remember – less is more.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. The result will be: a new, Lean version of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Here’s how.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Elijah Eilert speaks to Andy Cars , the founder and CEO of Lean Ventures International, about the ISO standards for innovation management. 01:09) Introducing Andy Cars owner of Lean Ventures International AB. (03:52) 18:48) Changes in the organisation’s culture and insights start with an entrepreneurial mindset.

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Planview

MAY 14, 2018

Will our lives materially improve because of exponential change or will they spin irrevocably out of control in a kind of modern-day Hobbesian nightmare? In the same vein, it’s been well reported that the life span of the typical Fortune 500 firm has decreased markedly over time. Will we live like kings, like paupers, or not at all?

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

A company needs to make reasonable bets across the incremental, transformative and disruptive horizons in proportions that make sense based on competition and speed of change. The average time an executive is in a role in a corporation is about 3-4 years, and significant cultural change will take much longer.

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mjvinnovation

AUGUST 21, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis is a milestone and will leave behind a legacy of economic and social changes in the personal and professional spheres. EEven if the world returns to a more familiar state after the end of the pandemic, it will still undoubtedly change. Digital-first: Low-Touch Economy and the challenges of the new normal.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Yet sporadic innovation is not enough to keep up with changing markets and evolving demanding customer needs. Therefore, every corporate needs to build a capability to regularly innovate in several dimensions, across multiple product groups, and with a variety of outcomes, due to the amount of change and new entrants in the marketplace.

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100%Open

APRIL 2, 2019

100%Open Spring Union Report. No amount of digital, culture change or training programmes will really cut it. Adam Timlett, PPL: Agile techniques produce turbulence and transform easier. Adrian Wong, Decidedly: What to use instead of Lean Startup in the B2B market. Thanks @phillirose for the prototyped warm-up!

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 24, 2019

each layer of process reduces the ability to be agile and lean and — most importantly — responsive to new opportunities and threats … People who manage processes are not the same people as those who ‘create’ product …The process people dominate management, and the product people end up reporting to them.

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Brunner

MAY 11, 2020

Is it CNN ’s report on “ The Gulf spill: America’s worst environmental disaster ?” How about Sports Illustrated’s “ Punch seen ’round the world ” Or maybe it’s when USA Today reported “ Yahoo may be the biggest data breach ” of all time? Lean on us. The reality is, even if your crisis isn’t that big, it feels that way.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

20:00) On the use of Experiment Report Cards / Learning Report Cards. (23:00) Jael Kong is a Certified Professional Co-active Coach and accredited by the International Coach Federation and a certified Agile Team Coach. Get the Cheatsheet Topics and Insights . (00:50) 00:50) Introducing Jael and her company LevelUPPP. (03:00)

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The rate of technological change and adoption gives consumers more choice and power than ever before. His very lean progressive assembly process was the result. Eric Ries combined Customer Development with Agile, creating an elegant loop that connects customer learning with sprint-based product development: Build, Measure, Learn.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 20, 2022

We must be able to dynamically change our work based on new information. They think they’re practicing good lean innovation and they deserve some kudos for their efforts. Ultimately, if the endeavor is to be successful, the beneficiary must change their behavior to get the value. Understanding Metrics and Their True Purpose.

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mjvinnovation

AUGUST 21, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis is a milestone and will leave behind a legacy of economic and social changes in the personal and professional spheres. EEven if the world returns to a more familiar state after the end of the pandemic, it will still undoubtedly change. Digital-first: contactless 2.0 and the challenges of the new normal.

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Commodore Innovation

MAY 13, 2020

But the changes to your innovation strategy have probably been significant—that means you’ll need to invest significant effort in implementing those changes. How might innovation strategies change in response to COVID-19? As business school professors drill MBAs every day: if the environment changes, so must the strategy.

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

No matter how you get work done, whether it’s Agile, traditional waterfall, Lean, or something in between, organizations must be able to establish an innovation culture where ideas are collected, evaluated, prioritized, and then turned into amazing products, services, and efficiencies that your business and your customers want.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Put simply, Operational Excellence can be defined as a management principle which encourages the discovery and implementation of incremental changes, with the objective of optimizing processes to achieve a competitive advantage. Make lean value streams flow from one process to the other. Ignoring Your Most Precious Resource.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 29, 2021

When we mention process consulting, we are essentially talking about greater agility in the execution of activities and, mainly, saving time and resources by improving operational routines. Remember Agile? Increased capacity to promote scalable changes in processes. What does a process consultancy do?

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Planview

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are a number of benefits that come from following Lean Portfolio Management principles in your organization. That’s why over the last decade, it has become common for organizations to undertake Agile transformation initiatives to improve value delivery. 1: Obtain Business Leadership Support for Lean Portfolio Management.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

After a bit of gab about projects, Design Thinking, and other industry buzzwords, I promised to get back to him with a more thoughtful answer — and then I changed the topic! There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Put simply, Operational Excellence can be defined as a management principle which encourages the discovery and implementation of incremental changes, with the objective of optimizing processes to achieve a competitive advantage. Make lean value streams flow from one process to the other. Ignoring Your Most Precious Resource.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This article will change that. This is why project management and the processes which support it (such as multi-year planning, business cases, risk management, change management and financial governance) form the backbone of most management frameworks in large companies. No wonder that around 96% of innovation projects fail.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 8, 2019

Do you know how deep the changes he is introducing in the most diverse industrial organizations? Modularity: on-demand production takes on an even more powerful dimension, especially given the flexibility to change machinery tasks in a few clicks – even remotely. . Agility and flexibility. Keep reading to understand!

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

We think it is high time to change this. However, there are only few reports that ideas coming out from these approaches really moved the needle. We have too many stakeholders with diverse and frequently changing intentions’. They are based on lean / efficient and 0-mistakes principles. The time-to-impact is too long’.

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Wazoku

JULY 29, 2019

Business has changed and continues to change, and what was acceptable decades ago is not necessarily still relevant in today’s business climate. Flat structures allow for more cross-functional, collaborative approaches to working, with a project mentality underpinned by lean methodologies and an agile mindset.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. Independent reporting – They were independent of core corporate functions like R&D, Marketing, and Business Development.

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Planview

AUGUST 3, 2022

How can businesses stay relevant, prepare for future change, and survive in our rapidly changing world? With as much change as we’ve seen in recent years, it’s not enough for organizations to piecemeal new processes and ideas. Lasting and impactful change comes from a total transformation, a necessity for modern businesses.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Engine 1 supports a company’s steady pace of evolution, and is a critical enabler of the incremental changes that propel a business forward. Engine 2 efforts are disruptive and potentially game changing. Source: Accenture.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

The problem with this approach is that while you can be very good at identifying and executing the incremental innovations that will grow your business year over year, you are virtually certain to miss the disruptive innovations that can change industries. Conformity abhors change. Encourage people reporting to you to experiment.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Unless this changes it will continue to erode the clients’ confidence in these service providers and they will be seeking increasing internal solutions to tackle their problems. Also innovation itself is going through really a massive change. The external innovation consultant needs to change.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

In either case, companies are frequently forced to reinvent themselves by changing the way they have been doing business so far. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 5, 2019

SAFe is an agile framework for development that has been gaining a lot of prominence among developers and managers of software projects. Acronym of Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe is an agile development framework that provides a simple and lightweight experience for the team as it is divided into three segments: Time, Program, and Portfolio.

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Planview

JANUARY 26, 2023

As a project management leader, you’ve likely encountered the challenges of using multiple project execution methodologies (such as: waterfall projects, as well as collaborative and Lean-Agile work delivery). Specifically, how teams are empowered to do strategic work instead of having to spend time on manual reporting and tasks.

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Planview

JULY 22, 2022

As shown in this digital transformation in banking case study roundup, all businesses — including banks — have been forced to change and evolve with the times. For proof, look at how the banking landscape has changed over the past two-plus years. NatWest continues to transform, reaping the benefits of agile. Absolutely.

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