Innovation Architecture

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I began running workshops around “building a culture of inquiry.” and its predecessor, The Dirty Maple Flooring Company , spoke to the power behind convening a group of people to identify and pursue the critical questions facing the group. Great Question! Great Question! It’s human nature. Who did not?

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

Digital is demanding so much in new processes that need to be more agile, responsive, reflective of new insights at increased speed and fluid in the design of those undertaking the solution to react. This agility needs the tools of testing, feedback, and adaptation to accelerate the innovation process.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 28, 2021

Reinforcing and validating the importance and role of collaboration, where a range of new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed innovative workplace culture changes, have emerged. Transform creative discoveries. Capacity to change. Discovering creative opportunities.

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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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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Therefore, every corporate needs to build a capability to regularly innovate in several dimensions, across multiple product groups, and with a variety of outcomes, due to the amount of change and new entrants in the marketplace. It's common for organizations to be so attached to their culture that they ignore and challenge anything new.

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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

MARCH 18, 2022

As a result, we will gain insights on how her teams collaborate, the Planview culture, and career advice for those seeking employment in the Product Development (PD) automation field. Planview offers one of the most collaborative cultures I have experienced. I have asked her a series of questions to get to know her on a personal level.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Suggested reading: 14 – Building a Culture of Innovation. What it is: Rather than a specific theory or methodology, this is a business impetus to make sure that the corporate culture actually encourages innovative behaviour, instead of stifling it. This should always be done instead of traditional brainstorming.

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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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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). If your innovation program doesn’t have a Project orientation there will be no culture change, or innovation. Happy to do that on the phone, or in a talk or discussion with your group.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

We have the wrong culture.” “We To start, they need to be closer to their customers, be more agile, act bolder. A culture of entrepreneurship snowballs. At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 4, 2021

Numerous resources exist to explore working this way, including those that teach agile, design thinking, and lean innovation practices. Leaders can use agile practices to balance the work. All workers should be members of agile teams. Agile teams close to the source of problems are better able to solve them.”.

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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. Become part of a group of innovation leaders to share, listen, learn and grow from and with your peers. Show Transcript.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 18, 2022

Over 200 recent studies concluded that inclusive cultures bring in greater profits. Inclusive business models bring more diverse ideas and perspectives, inspire innovation, allow for empowerment, and subvert group think. Are companies holding themselves accountable for their HR practices? And are they being heard?

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

We have the wrong culture.” “We To start, they need to be closer to their customers, be more agile, act bolder. A culture of entrepreneurship snowballs. At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator. When you have trained teams and leaders, you’ve got the basics in place for creating a broad and systemic organizational innovation culture.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Does your culture support innovation? They think, “that’s for R&D to do,” or, “that’s the innovation group.” Even in groups and teams that are nominally about innovation, a leader has to make sure the team is not faced with continuous stumbling blocks. Is your culture supporting innovation? Are you taking enough risk?

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Innov8rs

MARCH 6, 2023

Yet 87% of corporate ventures fail after the MVP stage, mostly due to cultural conflicts and non-effective governance frameworks to execute and turn that innovation into reality. This culture is incompatible with the corporate culture, where clear KPIs, processes, and gates must be met before innovation can happen.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

A truly innovative culture? If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. Friday October 26 at Catalyst Ranch , 8:30 to 4:00 pm CST. REGISTER NOW. How do you get there?

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

After numerous experiences (and by numerous we mean with over 70 organizations), we identified some common innovation barriers that most groups seem to face. Leaders can use their awareness of this common barrier as one of the cornerstones for creating a culture where everyday innovation takes place. Let’s go over one of them?—?it’s

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

At our company we have a culture that fears failure. More agile competitors are starting to eat into our business. How can we restart our innovation culture?”. Why Execution and Innovation Need Different Tools, Cultures and Organizations. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At What Drives Innovation?

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Fehmida Kapadia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

A bunch of us have gathered here as part of a writing group to work on our projects. has arrived and it is a revolution in manufacturing that is leading to the implementation of processes and optimizations like six sigma, stage gate, just in time and lean manufacturing. Companies today need to be agile, customer-centric and empathetic.

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The Inovo Group

AUGUST 5, 2019

A comprehensive incubation framework can be based on two complementary approaches – Lean Startup and Effectuation – along with other components that fill out the incubation system architecture. ” Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group. “If The most promising approaches are designed for the startup ecosystem.

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KindlingApp

OCTOBER 12, 2015

These elements of innovation have revolutionized industry and given rise to a multi-billion dollar startup culture, so why not try them on education? In fact, we’ve seen the most pronounced success where company culture supports collaboration and where innovation is a group effort spanning across departments, offices, and even continents.

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KindlingApp

OCTOBER 12, 2015

These elements of innovation have revolutionized industry and given rise to a multi-billion dollar startup culture, so why not try them on education? In fact, we’ve seen the most pronounced success where company culture supports collaboration and where innovation is a group effort spanning across departments, offices, and even continents.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. It requires certain commitments and behaviors on the part of both company leadership and the strategic innovation group. Highlights.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A strength could even go back to what the founders’ ethos, the DNA of the company is: what are the values and cultural mentality of the founders that’s still a driving force inside the company. Think of the group as a community. the capabilities of the group (technical, marketing, etc.), How to define the sandbox.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2016

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! How do we manage our legacy, what should stay, what can go? How do we set about this?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2016

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! How do we manage our legacy, what should stay, what can go? How do we set about this?

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Between what we describe as a “true” fluid strategic, systemic and learning anchored approach, which truly enables and supports people to “fail fast to lean quickly” and a short term, episodic “methodical” training and functional based approaches to innovation where people don’t have permission and safety to “fail fast to learn quickly”.

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Guide 4 Innovating

DECEMBER 28, 2018

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! How do we manage our legacy, what should stay, what can go? How do we set about this?

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ITONICS

APRIL 4, 2018

This will challenge your company’s culture and its willingness to embrace change. Transform your corporate culture slowly but steadily and involve all stakeholders, expand the roles and the skill portfolio of your employees, in particular. E = Experimentation: Fast pace on the markets require a culture of experimentation.

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Commodore Innovation

MAY 13, 2020

Changing approach to innovation, e.g., a greater emphasis on lean/agile and the experimentation-based approach those imply, which will enable faster learning about a dramatically changing landscape. Your measurement system can enable the innovation culture you need. Communicate changes to innovation strategy early AND often.

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

What kind of environment and culture do you thrive on? Note any commonalities during these discussions and find ways to incorporate them into your team culture. As the team leader, you may want to start by sharing something you’re grappling with at work and then lean on your team to help you tackle it. Confidence. Innovators.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Nimbleness and Agility : The ability to shift and re-think and re-learn in changing contexts , to quickly experiment, iterate and pivot to adapt and move forwards collaboratively through mindset flips to emerge creative ideas and innovative solutions that are appreciated, valued, and cherished. Walking the path forward. Vulnerability.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Setting up a lean but motivated central team that drives various innovation programs across the organization is critical for success. Agility is not an option. Design your innovation programs in such way they are swift and agile to meet the rapid pace of technology and changing consumer demands. Risk-averse culture.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

New: A company cannot be faster or more agile than its core internal processes. These groups must not only continuously improve the services they supply their internal customers, they must also sometimes reinvent their processes in order to meet the challenges of the new world. I call this Horizon Zero. This means finance.

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