Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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Cris Beswick

MAY 1, 2024

This definition risks making innovation an end unto itself rather than an output serving the organisation’s strategic interests. At its core, the form follows function maxim postulates that the shape and design of any system should be an intentional product derived from its intended use rather than arbitrary aesthetic preferences.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

It truly doesn’t matter which definition you land on. The desired outcomes are more important than the definition. But leadership should be agnostic about how they achieve the desired outcomes. It is the integration of human-centered design, rapid experimentation, and working agile.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To get the outcomes the executives are expecting from innovation, they’d need to build an agile organization where innovation happens at scale. As so many organizations are embarking on this journey towards becoming more innovative and agile, there’s unfortunately a lot of fake agile and innovation theater out there.

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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. However, they may lack training in innovative thinking, creativity, and design thinking.

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Be-novative

JUNE 16, 2021

In the Organisation Design profession, we call this the principle of form follows function. Know what the work should look like and what the outcomes must be before you design how you are going to work on it together. How to steer the direction into something meaningful? Here are a collection of our wisdom and ideas we have offered: 1.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

During our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management, we asked Christian Stumpf (Co-Founder & Program Manager TenneT PowerLab at Tennet) these questions. However, there's no definitive solution or preferred way to measure them. How to make them work?

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Jim Collins’ definition of the Stockdale Paradox teaches us that our faith that we will prevail in the end must be balanced with confronting the brutal facts of a situation—and given the challenging reality that we have all been living through since early 2020, this idea now seems more relevant than ever. Institutionalize Agility.

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Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2019

Start-ups are more agile because fewer people decide. Tart-up strategies assert that a fix is definitely in order but it doesn’t have to be a big change. Tart-up strategies encourage people to design and embrace new products, services and processes. They can lead to cost leadership. Raising money is easier for them.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Part 1 of the episode is designed around three main questions: What is innovation? Measuring innovation becomes a key focus, with an emphasis on balancing leadership’s need for certainty with employees’ concerns about potential consequences. How should innovation be measured? 08:28] How Should Innovation be Measured?

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 26, 2020

Design thinking workshops can help your organization gain empathy, definition, alignment, and ideas from your own colleagues who make up the future of your workplace – in whatever form that may take. Contact us online to get started designing your training session, or browse through our online courses today.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Back then, unicorns by this definition were indeed as rare and magical as their mythical namesake. You use the term “ScaleUp” …how is that different than startup and why does it deserve a special designation? Required is a “grease and glue” model of leadership. It’s a much different situation today.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

12:57) The principles of The Agile Manifesto and their similarity to ISO 56000 is discussed as a set of principles rather than as a traditional standard the ISO establishes . (14:31) The definition nicely illustrates the general nature of the standard. ISO 56008 – Innovation Operation Measurements – Guidance, 2022(TBC). (07:05)

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Brunner

JUNE 3, 2020

With a global pandemic like none the world has seen since 1918, traditional designations for brands and businesses are set aside. In fact, these definitions have been blown to shreds, at least for now. Whether you are a leadership brand, a challenger brand, or a niche brand doesn’t matter. Is your brand up for the challenge?

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etventure

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

During the last couple of years the MVP has become the holy grail of agile product development – but there are still a variety of different interpretations about what “MVP” really means. The Challenges of Waterfall vs. Agile: Many companies have a careful method of product development – that is deeply embedded in their culture.

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Daniel Burrus

APRIL 21, 2021

Meanwhile, an overly quiet video conferencing company once considered merely useful in special circumstances became a commodity out of nowhere, and it most definitely came to the rescue. Change is a process of treading water and protecting and defending the status quo in a reactionary, agile way.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

From start-ups to banks, design has never been more central to business. Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. Why is that fabled “seat at the table” so hard to find, and how can designers get a chair? Is design just a service, or can designers* lead?

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

Evaluating breakthrough innovation cultures and organization s, BCG concludes in their annual 2014 study: By definition, breakthrough innovation is the introduction of new ideas that drive a different way of doing things. accounting for dual innovation in strategy definition. accounting for dual innovation in strategy definition.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

The Innovation Mindset The innovation mindset can most definitely be brought into and developed within an organization. Senior leadership must establish the mindset of, “We need to be entrepreneurial. We need to be agile.” For example, leadership might be a market segment, or one of the back office support functions.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

Depending on the companies’ objectives, these innovation centers are mostly autonomous, designed as corporate accelerators, incubators, Digital Labs or in a blended form. The tension comes from the largely incompatible designs and operating models of these two organizations, which are based on two completely different rationales.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

There also seems this perpetual dilemma of clients’ wishes that are hard to reconcile with operational realities to turn their organizations from being focused on effective and efficient into agile and adaptive ,required for innovation. The one real change that is occurring is in thought leadership from consultants.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 4, 2020

In this context, management will require leadership that is more prepared for scenarios of uncertainty and consequently be able to break traditional corporate mentalities and concepts. The issue is that there is no definitive manual that says if you check all these boxes then you can lead your team perfectly during volatile times.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 6, 2021

And if you want to start designing a future that is really aligned with the moment we live in, now is the time to tear up the old planning and start a new one, from scratch. Design Thinking can help a lot in this mission. Adaptability, flexibility, resilience and agility. Strategy definition. And it’s here to stay.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

They are quiet rightly suggesting “ with risks well-managed, companies can then use rapid experimentation and the techniques of agile development—an iterative process closely linked to customers and markets—to boost their chances of coming up with a truly profitable innovation portfolio”. More value, greater growth and impact.

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The Inovo Group

AUGUST 5, 2019

The most promising approaches are designed for the startup ecosystem. In digging further, they came to the realization that it was the stage-gate process itself (even with the new agile stage-gate modifications) that was the limiting factor. A Definition of Incubation (from an Innovation Perspective).

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

Instead of building a Playstation killer, they would design the first gaming console built for PC game developers. Thus, you stress that ‘ forward-looking organizations are adopting a new, more agile organizing principle. So, the Microsoft team shifted gears. The internal innovator is put at the central role for innovation’.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

For me, the process and management of innovation really does need to be definitely questioned. There is this growing redundancy of idle assets that are struggling to be reconfigured to take on new challenges and new purpose and failing to be agile, flexible and adaptive. Redesigning the consultants business model.

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Innovation Architecture

MARCH 5, 2018

By technique I mean how might the members apply practices such as design thinking, agile, the startup approach, etc.—each And yet, there seems, too, to be definite advantages to exploring these spaces that exist with one foot in the conventional corporate world and what foot in the world at large.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

Instead of building a Playstation killer, they would design the first gaming console built for PC game developers. Thus, you stress that ‘ forward-looking organizations are adopting a new, more agile organizing principle. So, the Microsoft team shifted gears. The internal innovator is put at the central role for innovation’.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 23, 2015

The innovation environment can be made-up of how well you collaborate and network, the level of group and individual interactions, the presence and commitment of leadership towards innovation, as well as the organizational set-up and structures. There are seemingly so many intervention points it can get bewildering. 7) Training.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 10, 2020

In this time of non-linear transformation, the ultimate winners will be those agile companies that are thinking now about their near-term survival AND their long-term advantage. The innovator’s toolbox is designed to allow one to think clearly about uncertain futures. Highlights. This is a time of non-linear transformation.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Large corporations have taken steps towards being more agile and adapting to the rapid pace of digitization by improving their oftentimes long innovation processes and giving more autonomy to employees. There is exclusively a communication gap between leadership and non-management employees. Adapt or die. Listen and say yes!

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

They are quiet rightly suggesting “ with risks well-managed, companies can then use rapid experimentation and the techniques of agile development—an iterative process closely linked to customers and markets—to boost their chances of coming up with a truly profitable innovation portfolio”. More value, greater growth and impact.

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mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Another common mistake is to design for yourself, based on your opinion and your consumption habit. PMF’s definition is directly linked to a clear understanding of the persona’s needs (Wow! Does anyone here remember Design Thinking?). How do data and design help you reach Product Market Fit? How to get around this?

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David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Should I design the assessments to be industry specific taking account of the peculiarities of each industry, it’s unique pressures, opportunities and technology? There are definitely merits to that approach. Everything the leadership of Nokia and Blackberry failed to do. We wished each other luck and concluded the call.

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Integrative Innovation

APRIL 7, 2016

Evaluating breakthrough innovation cultures and organization s, BCG concludes in their annual 2014 study: By definition, breakthrough innovation is the introduction of new ideas that drive a different way of doing things. accounting for dual innovation in strategy definition. Accenture: 2015 US Innovation Survey. Source: Detecon.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Lean Innovation Definition At Moves The Needle, we define lean innovation as “reducing waste in the discovery, creation, and delivering of new value to customers." And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. What is Design Thinking?

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