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Innovation Success Requires Integrated Approaches

Integrative Innovation

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. A couple of days after having had published my post, Paolo Lorenzoni from IDEO confirmed the complementary nature of Lean Startup and Design Thinking. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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Why invest in innovation consulting?

mjvinnovation

In the book Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Peter Drucker defines innovation as “the specific instrument of entrepreneurship […] that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth” Scott Berkun, from Carnegie Mellon University, believes that “innovation is a significant positive change.”

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5 Excuses of companies that don't innovate (and how to overcome them)

Moves the Needle

What they need in order to be more competitive may or may not require technical innovation. To start, they need to be closer to their customers, be more agile, act bolder. A culture of entrepreneurship snowballs. Form a monthly meetup (like a happy hour) for all employees interested in design thinking and lean startup ideas.

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Three Tools I Use to Enhance Customer Engagement and Innovate Strategically

Fehmida Kapadia

We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn. It is time for us to start building our business model.

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5 Excuses of Companies that Don’t Innovate (And How to Overcome Them)

Moves the Needle

What they need in order to be more competitive may or may not require technical innovation. To start, they need to be closer to their customers, be more agile, act bolder. A culture of entrepreneurship snowballs. Form a monthly meetup (like a happy hour) for all employees interested in design thinking and lean startup ideas.

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Why Corporations Need “Coopetition” with Startups

KindlingApp

Startup swami Eric Ries’ essential book The Lean Startup defines a startup as “a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty”, which implies an essential element of innovation. Competition between individual entities then slowly shifts towards competition between networks.

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3 Acts of Courage (for innovation)

Innovation Excellence

My MBA start-up competition @hultbiz just finished. My best teams were awesome. Every team demonstrated plenty of inspiration and perspiration, but the best teams were willing to do a few very uncomfortable things that the average teams weren’t. Continue reading →