Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We can also find out which leaders will adopt innovative measures, and change the cultures of their businesses, and which will "stay the course". As change accelerates and there's an increasing need to be agile or nimble, getting smaller and faster is key. All business must be fast, agile and innovative. We've got a doozy.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 3, 2019

The change of culture made within the company, coupled with the correct application of this approach has the power to generate a greater impact on the delivery of value through technology, leading to the success of the enterprise. The Agile manifesto. Understanding Agile methods. The benefits of the Agile Methodology.

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Cris Beswick

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Does culture still eat strategy for breakfast? That’s the question which I posted in a webinar which I was invited to present by ‘We are lean and agile’, a company whose vision statement is ‘making improvement easier for you.’ The post If you want innovation, start with the right breakfast!

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

Their systems work effectively and efficiently, but they are also agile enough to seize short-term opportunities. These systems are based on a teachable process and the leadership and people/culture infrastructure, which engage staff and foster collaboration. Most of these systems trace back to the Lean Startup.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

For companies, embracing incremental innovation means fostering a culture of continuous improvement where even the smallest changes are valued for their cumulative impact over time. This type of innovation challenges conventional wisdom about revenue streams, cost structures, and customer engagement strategies.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

We are seeing blurred boundaries, digital is raising the stakes and fear of missing out, it is upping the speed at which others are competing with new concepts, ideas, and engagement with customers. The encouragement of having open feedback loops, both internally and externally, engaging the customer needs exploiting.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In these cases, innovation is a one and done activity, in order to respond to a new product or service, and aren't meant to be retained in the culture or processes or consciousness of the organization. Next, focus on the corporate culture. If you have an innovative culture, deeply embedded, it will respond to any adversity.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

What all recognized innovation leaders have in common is that, at some point, they have transformed their culture. How do you transform something as integrated as a business culture? Keep reading to understand how you can implement an innovation culture into your company with Design Thinking! What is organizational culture?

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation. These communities stimulate social engagement around the product through participation in forums, sharing, collaboration or even user-driven innovation by co-creating new products.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In last month’s blog , we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration, and described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed sustainable innovative workplace culture change. These behaviours include: Curiosity. Customer obsession. Empowerment.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Engagement serves as a sanity check for what’s important. Engagement with front line staff through collaborative ideation gives leaders the ability to scan the (true) horizon by receiving a steady stream of ideas and insights that front-line staff gain from working with a wide swath of customers. Clients observed to me the following.

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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. Sounds ideal.

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Innovation Architecture

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I began running workshops around “building a culture of inquiry.” serves as the “how to” complement to the story of how the leaders of the Dirty Maple Flooring Company pursued a culture of inquiry as the means of navigating the Digital Age which had arrived at their shore. Great Question! Design thinking.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 7, 2023

By trusting their teams to self-organize, leaders foster a culture of trust that not only helps build morale and employee engagement, but also frees the leader to focus on obstacles to growth. Instead, our leader delegated the outcome of increasing user engagement x% and left the team to determine the way of getting there.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The 2020s will be remembered for many reasons, but I predict this will be the decade when building innovation ecosystems will become “the thing” to do — just as significant and powerful as the six sigma initiatives were in the 1990s and agile practices in the 2000s. Getting the Right People to Join In.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Building an Innovative Company Culture. The reason: before you can disrupt an industry, you need to disrupt your own company culture first. Let our team of non-conformists help you build your innovative company culture. A conformist company culture stifles innovation and breeds weakness. Contact Us.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Efficiency Optimization Organizations have eliminated risk and variance in their operations through rightsizing, outsourcing, lean, and agile. The seven factors are: strategic alignment, motivations and metrics, structure, governance, culture, environment, and common language (which ties all other elements together).

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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. Problem-solving, cultural change, and improving people’s lives. Shifting the culture: Where are we today? What are some of our strengths?

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Planview

MAY 20, 2022

Many of us struggle with demand chaos – a culture of never saying no, especially to external stakeholders. Embracing agile work methods can also help with realistic scheduling. Part of that autonomy is supporting how teams want to work, from traditional projects, lean-agile work, or a hybrid mix of approaches.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Invest in Frameworks, But First, Establish a Culture Where Innovation Thrives. For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. It’s about the cultural basics underlying them, and all innovation. Culture is key. Projects change culture.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 19, 2020

Promotes engagement. Since these new uncertainties demand agility, the proposed format aims to revisit and pivot current business plans quickly. It combines Design Thinking and Agile Methodologies to optimize and facilitate the definition of complex themes and subsequent decision making.

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

No matter how you get work done, whether it’s Agile, traditional waterfall, Lean, or something in between, organizations must be able to establish an innovation culture where ideas are collected, evaluated, prioritized, and then turned into amazing products, services, and efficiencies that your business and your customers want.

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Wazoku

JULY 29, 2019

All these things help to create a culture that people buy into and such a flat structure is fundamentally important to what we are and what we are trying to achieve. Flat structures allow for more cross-functional, collaborative approaches to working, with a project mentality underpinned by lean methodologies and an agile mindset.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The basics of innovation still form around building the engagement, leadership, and involvement , in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed , so as to allow innovation to evolve and thrive. These are the foundation to build innovation capacities. It has moved well into the “how” from the “what, why and where”.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Does your culture support innovation? Is your culture supporting innovation? It’s a cliché, but you have to get the culture right. There are several ways to thoroughly assess if you have an innovative culture, but let’s keep it simple here. Is it a “pitch” culture where ideas for projects get a chance to be put into play?

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

We need to be agile.” Embedding a Culture of Innovation In order for innovation to thrive, you need to build an environment within an organization where it is safe to experiment and fail. It's sort of slow going, but this is what starts culture change. You're trying to get your stakeholders engaged, right?

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

51:00) Innovation culture and the proposition that not everybody has to innovate. (54:30) To deal with this, organisations need more agile strategies, collect data early and admit if something is wrong. She has a natural and engaging style and her refreshingly candid approach makes her a popular speaker. Show Transcript.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2016

If you could ask a series of question that might help unlock innovation blockages it would make such a difference to our innovation performance and engagement. It underpins innovation engagement. Changing a culture to become more innovative can be a massive step in structure, organization and policies. How do we set about this?

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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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Guide 4 Innovating

DECEMBER 28, 2018

If you could ask a series of question that might help unlock innovation blockages it would make such a difference to our innovation performance and engagement. It underpins innovation engagement. Changing the culture to become more innovative can be a massive step in structure, organization, and policies.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2016

It underpins innovation engagement. To ‘hone’ an organization into a lean efficient and effective ‘machine’ is one thing, to allow diversity and conflicting signals to pervade and challenge this is extremely uncomfortable territory, so ring fencing often seems to this keep it at bay! It gives confidence to any innovation undertaking.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Suddenly this ‘process’ is getting challenged by novel, agile, adaptive concepts stealing the growth out of ‘our’ markets. The changes that are occurring all around us are those sudden switches from the predictable markets are creating interruptions to that constant reassuring rhythm of the one, three and five-year business plans.

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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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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

Digital transformation is just as much about changing the company culture as it is about the technology. They are not agile. One way to combat this is to use the process of Lean Innovation to alleviate some of the uncertainty and guide the strategy based on evidence (data + insights). Culture comes out of structure.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

The basics of innovation still form around building engagement, leadership, involvement, in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed, so as to allow innovation to evolve. The shifts taking place around innovation have been significant in their impact. Other real changing forces influencing innovation.

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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. Doing so can help you build a more-engaged workforce that consistently improves clinical outcomes in patients. Unique Demands Healthcare Leaders Face. Communication.

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