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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. Competition aside, both face opposing physical forces that must be overcome to win. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput.

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Using Lean Innovation in the Product Development and Commercialization Process

Moves the Needle

Companies that successfully bring new products to market rapidly, benefit from having a leg up on their competition while diminishing the negative effects of shrinking product life cycles. Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. But how can an enterprise organization re-invent product commercialization?

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It’s Time To Upgrade Your Innovation Management System

Innov8rs

Their systems work effectively and efficiently, but they are also agile enough to seize short-term opportunities. Most of these systems trace back to the Lean Startup. But as even Steve Blank, the father of the Lean Startup movement, notes- if you apply the Lean Startup in the corporate context, you will only get innovation theater.

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The Failure of Innovation Training

Innov8rs

I am a strong believer and advocate of agile, design thinking, and lean startup. Aside from my personal experience, I have now worked with over 82 companies (not counting workshop attendees) including 63 multinationals, 42 accelerators, 14 government agencies, and 14 non-profits in over 65 locations.

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When Building a Culture For Innovation, Form Follows Function

Cris Beswick

In today’s relentlessly competitive landscape, conventional modes of operation erode productive capacity. These encompass divesting antiquated business units, sapping resources, redefining roles and reporting hierarchies, restructuring governance models, and recruiting vital new skill sets.

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New innovation approaches to counter the fear of Business Contagion

Paul Hobcraft

These interlocking conditions are prompting this potential shift in our approaches to undertaking business, how we engage with government and institutions, our place in society and where we as individuals can adjust and thrive in a different environment we will be facing. .” I focused briefly on the four interlocking conditions.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive. The platform environment is mostly characterized by a tension between collaboration and competition of the participating companies, often referred to as coopetition. Cases in point: Lego and Burberry.