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?

Innovation 145

Innovation Leadership Management Culture 145

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?

Innovation 145

Innovation Leadership Management Culture 145

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.

LEAN 40

LEAN Collaboration Crowdsourcing Innovation 40

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.

Learning 40

Learning Innovation LEAN Collaboration 40

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?

Innovation 74

Innovation Management Learning Culture 74

Technology Created

DECEMBER 23, 2015

As a father, I can tell my daughter many facts about riding a bike: put your foot on the forward pedal to start, look straight ahead, lean into the turn, steer to keep your balance. Why isn’t it deeply bred into the company’s culture where innovation would happen as a matter of course? Lean into the turn? I’ll certainly crash!”

Innovation 40

Innovation LEAN Course Company 40

Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They help develop sound financial policies and track metrics that inform operational decisions. Policies and processes will literally be codified. The uncertainty surrounding these functions demands a paradigm shift — one that propels support functions into a dynamic, agile, and customer-centric domain.

Agile 52

Agile Policies Technical Review Disruption 52

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review LEAN Innovation Disruption 42

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

A canonical Lean Innovation process inside a company or government agency would look something like this: Curation. The framework has the team talking not just to potential customers but also with regulators, and people responsible for legal, policy, finance, support. As the head of the U.S. Lessons Learned.

Company 65

Company Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Project 65