Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

That’s what creates competitive advantage. Two decades ago, OpenTable proved out these five important innovation lessons. We can also see how these approaches were precursors to larger movements in lean startup, design thinking, and agile.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Note that what my clients are asking for is to create an innovation capacity that outlasts a product need, or market gap, or executive team member. After all, most (probably 90%) of all innovation projects undertaken in large corporations are reactive projects trying to respond to a market threat or competitive move.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive. Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation. Cases in point: Lego and Burberry.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. Interestingly, it looks like others support the idea of balancing and combining elements of both innovation approaches, too. It really seems to have hit a nerve! Act on the learning.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Innovation is advancing but most of it has been designed for a different time, the old era of stable markets, predictable solutions and having a clear sense of your competition. It is often an environment that we must encourage to become a ‘feeding frenzy’ of experimentation, learning and being adaptive, fluid and agile.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

From that information, we were able to plan out what a couple of sprints might look like in order to help employees and leadership understand the Lean Innovation process and increase the frequency of making decisions based on evidence. “ ” — Thais Cunha, Project Coordinator, Bomnegocio.com.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies? What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? Increasing innovation: Design thinking promotes creativity and out-of-the-box thinking, which can help teams to come up with innovative solutions to challenges.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Using real world examples, the book outlines five discover skills that distinguish innovative executives from ordinary managers – with advice on how to use those five skills to generate ideas, collaborate with a team, and sharpen your organization’s competitive edge through implementation. The Innovator’s Method.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Encouragement, reward and validation This is why it makes sense to create an alternative innovation competition inside your company: A 3-month-long or a 6-month-long competition on who can create the innovation challenges with the most impactful outcome is a perfect starting point.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. Scaffolding and Experiential Learning Tools Are Innovation Framework Neutral. A framework is a scaffold.

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

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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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 20, 2022

What is the product’s competitive advantage or differentiation and why is it important to the customer? Competitive advantage might be product quality (durability) or green technology. It should be noted that there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all “innovation” framework. What “problem” or “need” is the product addressing?

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 29, 2021

“Innovation” used to mean the difference between dictating trends in your sector or following the trail of your competition’s success, but today the term refers to a fundamental condition of existence for businesses in the volatile and demanding Digital Age. What does a process consultancy do? Remember Agile?

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

Seeking combinations and applications where other aren’t looking is how competitive advantage is created. This shaping of vague ideas into resource-worthy innovation projects is the final step of the MoshPit process. MoshPit integrates well with other innovation frameworks and methods.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Then it becomes a mad scramble to transform ourselves, often with damaging consequences of deteriorating performance, battling more competition that are sensing our weakness, never capable of returning to those previous highs. Unless we create a strategy to transform, how can we re-imagine our innovation processes?

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t be held back by a restrictive innovation process model; be flexible on new ways to innovate. Once alignment is in place, broaden the innovation team to include more people from across the organization. If you don’t your competition will. Have a cross-domain, diverse team.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Some of the most important principles of Design Thinking are: Use of analytical, intuitive, and empathic thinking Problems are examined very precisely Interdisciplinary collaboration Failing fast Rapid prototyping Thoughts are visualized to promote a common understanding There are no good or bad ideas, only starting points for innovation. ?

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

What started me on a given innovation “tack”was for a long time I have seen an awful lot of opinions, solutions, concepts that have been breaking down innovation into its many parts. The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.”

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive. Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation. Cases in point: Lego and Burberry.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The latter requires speed and agility. Steve Blank, father of the Lean Startup movement, stresses that you will never know enough about your customers if you are holed up inside a boardroom. Unfortunately, many companies are more obsessed by their competition than their customers. Bad Habit #9: Innovation is career limiting.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Additionally, software systems like this do not replace people in the innovation process and cannot automate its management. This can lead to a much larger number of innovations being tested much more quickly, for a lower cost and at a lower risk than traditional management methods.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 2, 2016

We will see a significant acceleration of more innovation ecosystems, we are increasingly recognizing all the different collaborative tools increasingly at our disposal, we are exploring both platforms and forming ecosystems to radically alter the competitive edge previously seen to reside inside the single company. It needs a base.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

We need to recognise digital does transform; it means lots (and lots of change) to get innovation repositioned. We need to ask can this lead to disruption, ours and others for competitive advantage? Innovation & Digital Transformation eventually get joined at the hip. To achieve this you have to go digital.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

We need to recognise digital does transform; it means lots (and lots of change) to get innovation repositioned. We need to ask can this lead to disruption, ours and others for competitive advantage? Innovation & Digital Transformation eventually get joined at the hip. To achieve this you have to go digital.

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Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 120

hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Leaving innovation to chance is more often a gamble where odds are not always in your favor. Studies show firms that treat innovation as a science and manage and measure it like any other business function are more successful. Takeaway: Choose an innovation process and continuously measure and manage it. Guest innovator.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Taking risk in an uncertain environment can lead to better-than-expected outcomes, and without innovation, you have a 100% probability of going out of business. Would Michael Jordan have become the star he was without being as determined and competitive, as well as putting in thousands and thousands of hours of dedicated practice ?

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