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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. A new book by Silicon Valley tech veteran and innovation advocate Ann Mei Chang, Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good explores the unique challenges that can deter social innovation. Corporate philanthropy. Benefit corporations.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

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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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Has there ever been a moment in time when so many new technologies are washing over us all at once? The elephant in the room is that the new technology requires a truly different approach. Innovating with digital technology requires a blended approach, truly diverse teams, training, and new ideation methods.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Here are some of the many ways you can use Instant Coffee: Brainstorming Incremental Planning Story Mapping Lean Coffee Impromptu Meetings PI Planning Retrospectives SWOT Analysis Standup Meetings. Although there are tools out there designed specifically for story mapping, they can be overly technical and hinder the brainstorming process.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

From our point of view, all of the issues pinned down at that time have gained significant importance, are being intensively debated and can still be considered cutting-edge for companies to stay ahead in managing innovation. This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

When you select a speaker whose expertise aligns with your company’s goals, you create a unique opportunity for growth and learning. They may share insights on techniques for effective ideation such as design thinking, mind mapping, and leveraging technology for collaborative brainstorming sessions.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

It is the lifeblood of our global economy, a survival skill and a strategic priority for any company worldwide. We looked at some of the most innovative companies and their unique practices and filtered out seven key habits that are applicable to business and beyond. Innovation. Adapt or die. Fail forward.

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CorporateIntel

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sometimes I wonder if the advancing of age and a leaning toward old-fashioned values are a hindrance to relevancy in our contemporary workplace. It was bosses and colleagues advancing in age and leaning toward old-fashioned values. That is the blessing and curse of igniting technologies. Of course things are different.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 19, 2020

We will dive into this through our material to demonstrate the urgency of repositioning your company and how it will generate value for your business! We will dive into this through our material to demonstrate the urgency of repositioning your company and how it will generate value for your business! MJV was born with this mindset.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

At ImagineNation we are celebrating 10 years as a global innovation consultancy, learning, and coaching company. Better adapt, respond to, and be agile in fast-changing circumstances, uncertainty, instability, and to random and unexpected Black Swan events, like the global Covid-19 Pandemic. Important to innovate – three elements.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 29, 2021

Because good process management is directly linked to how you promote innovation in your company. 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. What does a process consultancy do?

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Planview

JUNE 23, 2022

As technology solution providers emerge from the unprecedented volatility of the last couple of years, services leaders are asking what are the most important capabilities that they need to master? Ask yourself the following questions: Are you connected to your company strategy? Are you connecting your sales with opportunity planning?

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

Digital Transformation (also known as “DX”) is the phenomenon that virtually all companies are incorporating digital technology at some level. The digitization might be specific internal processes, tools, or operational components, or can refer to a complete revamp of a company’s products and services. They are not agile.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 15, 2021

Innovation has become a buzzword in all market segments, but many companies invest in innovation consulting to remain at the forefront. In this article, we will explain some important points about innovation consulting and show you what it can do for your company. Check it out! Where to start: what is innovation?

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Changing prices, new packaging, different marketing tactics, trying new sales scripts, improving support, partnering with or acquiring synergistic companies — there’s an endless list of things a company might do to protect or extend existing revenues. A source could be an acquired company that is still scaling toward H1 size.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 29, 2020

To dive into the new patterns of consumer behavior and the changes these new times have brought to companies, we prepared this article. Technology has only evolved – and very fast. The Economy is Digital; companies are born small, lean, lighter, and more innovative. Bonus 2: Agile Software Development.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 11, 2019

In his book, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (Harvard Business School Press – 2003), researcher Henry Chesbrough coined the term Open Innovation. The counterpoint relates to closed innovation companies, which innovate using only internal resources. The open innovation concept.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It doesn’t matter if the team is three people in a small business, or a cross-functional team of 20 at a Fortune 100 company — all teams struggle to excel. Patrick Lencioni’s model of team performance is reviewed and tools are presented on how to breakthrough conflict, establish trust, and move into high performance.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Lean Innovation Definition At Moves The Needle, we define lean innovation as “reducing waste in the discovery, creation, and delivering of new value to customers." We base Lean Innovation principles upon the 3 E’s of Lean Innovation : Empathy, Experiments and Evidence. Where design thinking ends, Lean Startup begins.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This is especially challenging when a company is trying to run multiple innovation projects simultaneously, but like every other company also has limited staff, resources and budget to allocate. Will the company derive long-term benefit from the solution? Is it possible for the company to actually accomplish this challenge?

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. Innovation leaders, review this list and get a sense of where you are with the fundamentals. This company-wide desire must be sustained through hard work and intimidating obstacles.

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Integrative Innovation

MARCH 16, 2014

The corresponding integration of incremental and radical innovation can basically be achieved in different ways: Building ambidextrous and lean startup capabilities. Mastering disruptive innovation in a large company requires: – different people. As outlined in earlier posts , organizations need to balance exploitation (i.e.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Rapidly changing customer behaviours, disruptive digital technologies, and the emergence of agile fintech start-ups means that disruption is an ever-present danger. To counter these challenges, companies are increasingly focused on creating a culture of innovation to achieve financial process improvement.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Simply put companies ‘die’ due to their inability to adapt to change and transformation projects fail because the message somehow fails to register and never gets completed to the original objectives. This requires technology to be central to this different thinking, alongside a radical shift in how we see innovation.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 8, 2019

is also called the “fourth industrial revolution” – the process initiated by England in 1760 was followed by major modernization movements: the “lean revolution” that occurred around 1970, the intensive globalization process in the 1990s and, more recently, the extreme automation started in the 2000s. Industry 4.0

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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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David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

src: [link] I recently had a chat with a senior director of a respected technology company making highly specialized products. He is in charge of the innovation and development in his company. The innovations required by a fashion retailer are not equivalent to those of a pharmaceutical or a telecom company. Say no more.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

Let’s sum up some relevant findings of these studies, making the case for dual innovation management: BCG: Most Innovative Companies 2014 . Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. In our experience, a dedicated environment is required to promote this kind of approach.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

From my point of view, all of the issues pinned down at that time have gained significant importance, are being intensively debated and can still be considered cutting-edge for companies to stay ahead in managing innovation. This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Theater often happens when the demands of Wall Street drive companies to show that they are innovative. It requires certain commitments and behaviors on the part of both company leadership and the strategic innovation group. One of the longest lasting corporate innovation groups is a small team from in a Fortune 50 company.

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CMOE

MAY 28, 2021

With the changing needs and demands of clinical care, technology, and spending, leadership in healthcare must stay agile to keep up with the shifting tides. In addition, there are for-profit and not-for-profit insurance companies, which pose another set of challenges to sort through. Who Fills the Leadership Role in Healthcare?

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mjvinnovation

JULY 1, 2021

Keep reading to understand why agile project management provides numerous advantages over traditional forms of project management. What is agile project management? Agile practices can be incorporated into project management, adding numerous benefits. We call this initiative agile project management. The answer is simple.

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Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

O’Reilly and Michael Tushman review and condense the research done so far on the subject. These may come from inside the company or from outside (open innovation). They may initially come from a customer insight or a technological discovery (market pull or technology push). More and more, Enterprise 2.0/Social

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Integrative Innovation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The – in the truest sense of words – ‘billion-dollar-question’ we are addressing is: How can companies generate more business impact from non-incremental innovation? On the other end of the process, companies have systems to grow material businesses and incrementally improve their performance over time.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

There is this sense that consultants are resolutely staying very internally driven, self-promoting, still trying to convey the story of innovation mastery, when clearly this is lacking in rapidly changing market and technology conditions and due to this staying ahead of the knowledge curve are actually failing the client.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Designers yearn for a world where companies depend on their ideas but usually work in a world where design is just one voice. In-house designers often have to advocate for design priorities versus new features or technical change. Agile teams can lose the long term direction by focusing on small sprints.

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