Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Ingredients for Innovation Success Despite the renaissance in innovation approaches ushered in by luminaries like Steve Blank, Rita McGrath, Alexander Osterwalder, Janice Fraser, and Eric Ries, most innovation departments lack the basic ingredients of success- strategy, resources, scale and methods. You rarely win without a strategy.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The framework I developed and use with clients is called the Lean Innovation Validation & Execution management (L.I.V.E.) Ensure your portfolio is balanced according to your upcoming strategy. And this innovation portfolio will need to align to the new corporate strategy into a consistent innovation strategy.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We do need to ‘lean in’ on many specialists and experts to help us, not just business consultants! Stay flexible, agile and adaptable, and have up-to-date contingency plans in place to adjust course if needed and, in a controlled manner, options to existing business strategy.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. To figure out why, the consulting team had reviewed the company’s innovation lifecycle process, showing what happens to an idea in order to get implemented. So what can we do about it?

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mjvinnovation

MAY 29, 2019

Agile Frameworks help the business team experience an Agile mindset in practice. With Agile Frameworks, business processes become more dynamic, staggering business values and productivity. 5 Most used Agile Frameworks. Lean Startup. Different segments can benefit from Lean Startup. Where to apply.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

Although I was attending as a sponsor/exhibitor for Indigo Studio, I did manage to break away to go to the “There’s more than one way to skin a cat: Integrating UX into an Agile environment” session. The strategies employed were coping strategies rather than success. Enter the book.

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Planview

JUNE 16, 2022

To create interconnected products and services that move a company forward, business leaders must continually assess and evolve capabilities while directing cross-organizational coordination between strategy, work, people, technology, and outcomes. Business transformation initiatives depend on bringing strategy to life and fueling innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

Restaurants were the first vertical market, but the strategy at the time was staggering in scope. This wasn’t part of OpenTable’s original thinking or strategy. We can also see how these approaches were precursors to larger movements in lean startup, design thinking, and agile.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2018

Yet, when it comes to choosing which specific strategy to pursue, things get challenging because the truth is there is no single “right answer” and we’ve seen many strategies that work. At IdeaScale we help Kane is Able and many other clients achieve their continuous improvement strategies such as Lean, Kaizen or Six Sigma.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Overcoming Resistance to Change Insights into strategies for overcoming resistance to change when reshaping organizational design. Strategies for cultivating a culture that embraces experimentation and learning. Transforming two of Canada’s big five banks to a culture of innovation and agility.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 17, 2018

My experience spans across technology-enabled strategy and implementation to enable organizations (finance, banking, insurance, retail, telecom, logistics, healthcare) create value, take out cost, and develop competitive advantage. Area of expertise: Lean & Agile Management. Agile Engineering Practices. Consulting.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile. refers to the third generation of project management models, considered more suited to current business requirements in the context of Digital Transformation – toting more agile, lean, and modern management values. to work so well in agile.

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Innovation 360 Group

APRIL 30, 2017

Over the last 10 years, he has worked at leading cloud technology software companies consulting organizations on improving their strategy and operations through the usage of the latest cloud computing technologies. Lean / Agile / Scrum. Based in Toronto, Canada. Background. Shervin is a change agent. Areas of expertise.

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mjvinnovation

AUGUST 21, 2020

Because of this, a consultancy is ideal for retaining customers who need dedicated attention and personal interactions in order to take advantage of their points of contact. The ideal solution is to invest in a strategy that integrates the two experiences throughout the client’s journey to obtain the best results.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Co-Founder of Yellow Cat – an innovation coaching, consulting and training company. 54:30) The problem with “2 days strategy offsides”. (55:30) 55:30) No different from a product, an innovation strategy is a hypothesis, one big idea if you will. Find out more in Susie’s article Adaptive Strategy. (58:00)

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, Jeffrey Phillips (Senior Strategy and Innovation Consultant) discussed what it takes to build an innovation capability for continuous innovation. Strategic Alignment Innovation is not a strategy. Here’s a summary of his remarks.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

The sad part is that many of our existing consulting firms offer solutions that are unfit for todays need or ill-equipped for offering advice on tomorrow’s purpose and the designs necessary. 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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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

At its core, the framework is a collection of strategies and tools for finding inventive solutions to difficult problems. Some of the aspects of Lean Innovation Management include: Encouragement of lots of small scale, cheap experiments instead of full launches. Suggested reading: 6 – Business Model Canvas.

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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.

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mjvinnovation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

It is time to build a much more humanized strategy, structured on transparency and truth. Peter Drucker, management consultant, educator, and author, emphasizes the importance of a user-first strategy. Being invested in technology and innovation is a crucial strategy to win market share and customers. New business models.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Their executives and management teams recognize the importance of innovation, and even include innovation as top three priorities or as a component of the annual strategy. You need one really good and agile team able to do both incremental and disruptive work. Transparency - Product development and product execution are transparent.

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mjvinnovation

AUGUST 21, 2020

Because of this, a consultancy is ideal for retaining customers who need dedicated attention and personal interactions in order to take advantage of their points of contact. The ideal solution is to invest in a strategy that integrates the two experiences throughout the client’s journey to obtain the best results.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Above all, it is a mentality based on several principles, such as placing the user at the center of the strategy. At first glance, the path of Design Thinking may seem unconventional, but it is a structured process that offers space for new ideas, solutions, and strategies. If necessary, seek help from a specialized consultancy.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management. It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Cost savings by not paying outside consultants to facilitate innovation process.

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Planview

MARCH 24, 2016

In my forays into the battlefield, I’ve observed and helped innovators execute a number of different strategies aimed at securing buy-in from the top. Here’s a list of strategies you can begin testing today. Are there examples of similar organizations in the same industry successfully implementing these strategies (competitors maybe)?

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

To do this effectively, they say that traditional leaders typically play four different roles – the planner (developing strategy and translating it into a plan); the director (assigning responsibility); and the controller (making sure everyone does what they should minimize variance against the plan). Walking the path forward.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

All frameworks (Agile, Lean, CPS, Design Thinking, Stage-Gate) require people to come up with fresh ideas, and MoshPit has a new and better way to do that. About GFi: GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation) is a long established boutique innovation consultancy, based in greater Chicago.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Duggan outlines a much more modern approach: Design lean value streams from the time the order is received until delivery to the customer. Make lean value streams flow from one process to the other. Drive lean & agile processes through digital transformation. Ignoring Your Most Precious Resource.

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Planview

MARCH 24, 2016

In my forays into the battlefield, I’ve observed and helped innovators execute a number of different strategies aimed at securing buy-in from the top. Here’s a list of strategies you can begin testing today. Are there examples of similar organizations in the same industry successfully implementing these strategies (competitors maybe)?

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

It’s encouraging to see a couple of research studies, recently conducted by different well-known consulting firms, backing the ideas I’ve been passionately supporting for many years. Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Accenture: 2015 US Innovation Survey.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

He’d asked me what I did and when I told him I was an innovation consultant, his eyebrows raised. There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes. “Tell me what I should be thinking about.” We were at a social event. Do your people know them?

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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. There has never been a more critical time for financial firms to prioritize innovation. This criterion is what led them ultimately to Above + Beyond.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Duggan outlines a much more modern approach: Design lean value streams from the time the order is received until delivery to the customer. Make lean value streams flow from one process to the other. Drive lean & agile processes through digital transformation. Ignoring Your Most Precious Resource.

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Legacy Innovation Group

JULY 22, 2021

As part and parcel to this, these individuals are constantly attuned to the trends happening all around them – because they have to constantly be able to establish strategies that harmonize with , and build off of , those trends. It also allows the organization to experiment in a lean and agile manner.

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Innovation 360 Group

JANUARY 24, 2017

Hypothesis-based Innovation and the Lean Startup. If the hypothesis-based approach to innovation looks familiar, it’s most probably because it is closely tied in with two of the principles of the Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Through rapid and incremental iterations, startups grow more innovative, agile and disruptive.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Unless we create a strategy to transform, how can we re-imagine our innovation processes? It builds on the initial work of Eric Ries and his minimum viable product thinking within the lean startup thinking methodology. We talk so much about “innovation is critical” today and in our future, but is rarely achieved.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In other words, it is because sometimes innovation strategies fail to produce products/ services that the customers want. It could be done through in-house market research or be outsourced to consulting firms. Agility is not an option. In fact, there are companies that came later and captured a much bigger market share.

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