Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The belief that lean management principles will get the innovation out of the door quicker, has been one of those management adoptions that often trick us into believing we are achieving more than we actually are. Leans slows down and becomes increasingly burdened by fat being layered on, further down the innovation execution process.

Innovation Processes 206

Innovation Processes LEAN Innovation Agile 206

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They may share insights on techniques for effective ideation such as design thinking, mind mapping, and leveraging technology for collaborative brainstorming sessions. Encouraging your team to think outside the box and challenging the status quo are central themes that innovation speakers address.

Innovation 113

Innovation Leadership Ideation Innovation Processes 113

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. Improves productivity.

Management 59

Management Agile LEAN Guidelines 59

Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

Lego: By integrating digital experiences with its physical building blocks, such as video games, augmented reality apps, and interactive playsets, Lego expanded its appeal beyond traditional toys, engaging children in both physical and digital creative play. It offers a straightforward way to understand, design, and pivot your business model.

Software 52

Software Innovation Innovation Management LEAN 52

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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Engagement Ideation Collaboration LEAN 53

Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. The original process showed how an idea should first follow design thinking principles, before being turned into a solution using agile development, and finally being piloted and launched.

Technical Review 248

Technical Review Innovation Innovation Processes Project 248

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. The obvious place to turn is innovation approaches such as design thinking , rapid prototyping , and open innovation. Will they demand it, stay engaged, and recommend it to their friends and family? Corporate philanthropy. Benefit corporations.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review LEAN Innovation Social Innovation 100

mjvinnovation

MAY 19, 2020

It will not think of networks as a future state. The Design Thinking methodology is in our DNA and is the foundation of our values. Design Thinking is the backbone for strategic reframing. Design Thinking is the backbone for strategic reframing. Promotes engagement. What really matters now?

Agile 52

Agile Design Thinking Technical Review Competition 52

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.

Innovation Management 100

Innovation Management Management LEAN Technical Review 100

Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Challenge: A giant problem in media (and in every industry, really) is that in many organizations, there’s not enough time and space created for employees to engage with customers on a consistent basis. Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. What’s an Innovation Sprint?

Groups 45

Groups Case Study Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 45

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve. Can we go that route in our organization design? So going a step further in my own design within this new innovation era.

Innovation 178

Innovation Design Agile System 178

Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. When you design innovation sessions: Use a variety of experiences. If you leverage these learning modes, participants stay mentally engaged. Design Thinking, Agile, CPS/Osborn-Parnes, Lean, TRIZ and other innovation frameworks all have some scaffolding built-in.

Learning 45

Learning Underperforming Technical Team Training Innovation 45

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 29, 2015

These have been advances in technology, methodology or design- thinking and we do need to stop and think about how we could do ‘things’ differently by asking “what is possible?” Lets take a look at each of these three questions above. What are we capable of?

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Innovation Design Software Review 100

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework.

Innovation 70

Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

The customized session design and associated proprietary tools in Digital MoshPit are only available through GFi. The session is engaging, highly kinesthetic, intense, fun, demanding — and highly productive. Coca-Cola, Georgia Pacific, P&G, Marquette University, and the United Nations are a sampling of past engagements.

Technology 50

Technology Internet of things Ideation Artificial Inteligence 50

Planview

APRIL 13, 2017

Lean is the top Continuous Improvement method. When it came to which method practitioners use to drive CI success most often, the Lean method topped the list, followed by Kaizen and Six Sigma. Employee engagement also made the list with 54% of respondents saying their CI programs also act as employee engagement tools.

Survey 45

Survey LEAN Report Agile 45

Planview

APRIL 13, 2017

Lean is the top Continuous Improvement method. When it came to which method practitioners use to drive CI success most often, the Lean method topped the list, followed by Kaizen and Six Sigma. Employee engagement also made the list with 54% of respondents saying their CI programs also act as employee engagement tools.

Survey 40

Survey LEAN Report Agile 40

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. Then there is that need for a constant investment in people , in our networks and relationships , that all need to come together.

Technical Review 174

Technical Review Innovation System Change 174

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Not Design Thinking?” After a bit of gab about projects, Design Thinking, and other industry buzzwords, I promised to get back to him with a more thoughtful answer — and then I changed the topic! Are you actively engaged in examining digital technology for innovation opportunities? ” “What!

Project 74

Project Training Design Thinking Innovation 74

Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

It goes without saying that innovation beyond incremental innovation requires new and different approaches, concepts, tools, and ways of thinking. Efficiency Optimization Organizations have eliminated risk and variance in their operations through rightsizing, outsourcing, lean, and agile.

How To 59

How To Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture 59

Inceodia

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

An Agile Business Strategy. Agility and the ability to iterate, test and refine strategic direction is the key to success. Agility and the ability to iterate, test and refine strategic direction is the key to success. Agile was software’s antidote to the inflexible waterfall system.

Learning 40

Learning eBook Agile Software Engineering 40

Innovation Architecture

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The second common reason given: “the leadership team sees no value in inquiry and engagement.” Design thinking. ” The employees soldier on in constrained circumstances. A culture of inquiry drives every transformative practice that organizations embrace to effect change. The business model canvas.

Culture 56

Culture Exercises Leadership Groups 56

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Suddenly this ‘process’ is getting challenged by novel, agile, adaptive concepts stealing the growth out of ‘our’ markets. These statements are just covering up the serious cracks appearing in the design process for new products.

Change 100

Change Design Agile Competition 100

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.

Innovation 150

Innovation Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 150

Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

We need to be agile.” For example, if you feel like in order to scale teaching design thinking or teaching Lean Startup experiments that you'd benefit from bringing in outside people, then that's fine. You're trying to get your stakeholders engaged, right? What does an engaged user look like?

Innovation Programs 52

Innovation Programs Innovation LEAN Culture 52

Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

They are designed to exploit the opportunities in defined markets, technologies and business models. They are based on lean / efficient and 0-mistakes principles. By definition, they’re designed to look further ahead and explore terrain that is not yet on the corporate map. They are driven by solid, near-term financial goals.

Ideation 61

Ideation Innovation LEAN Disruption 61

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

“Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking is comprehensive in its approach and provides compelling methods, insights, tools, and stories from master trainer, Gregg Fraley. Innovation Training. Why innovation?

Design Thinking 9

Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 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.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Big Data Innovation Technical Review 40

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

The other real forces of innovation change in this relatively short period have come from a greater explosion of Lean Management principles and incorporating Design thinking into our work. You see progress but it still seems maddeningly slow. Both being rapidly embraced within our organisations, large and small.

Innovation 100

Innovation Comparison Change Disruption 100

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

When should it be used: Any company which has or is thinking of building an Innovation Team / Department / Lab / Skunkworks should be aware of this concept of Dual Innovation and make sure your teams have the skills and permission to engage in it. 5 – Design Thinking. Suggested reading: .

Company 248

Company Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Design Thinking 248

Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It has led to the rise of product management, transformed support functions, influenced product design, and reshaped how organizations engage with customers. Their agility allows them to switch products or vendors overnight giving them more power than ever. Tackling Uncertainty: Lean Innovation takes uncertainty head-on.

LEAN 40

LEAN How To Agile Artificial Inteligence 40

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Consultants are not addressing many of the changes occurring and ignoring opportunities to adapt to different circumstances, they are simply not putting up a strong case of their engagement by redesigning their business models or opening themselves up to different forms of collaboration.

Innovation 60

Innovation Collaboration Technical Review Leadership 60

The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

In a world where Wall Street gives a premium to companies that are considered ‘innovative’, the incentive to engage in innovation theater is sometimes irresistible. It abounds in actions, but they are actions without substantial or lasting impact. But the CEO’s words to the shareholders often reveal a deeper truth.

System 53

System Innovation Groups Leadership 53

Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Approaches such as Agile , Design Thinking and The Lean Startup , can help equip your internal innovators to think differently and try new behaviors, which over time can help you develop an innovative company culture. because most things don’t go to plan! Start small and expand.

Culture 44

Culture Company Underperforming Technical Team Disruption 44

Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

In this paper [1], which is a “must read” for everyone engaged in this topic, Stanford University’s Charles A. For the specific case of business model innovation, our improved and advanced version of the Lean Canvas has proven its value since it allows an easy entry into more general business model canvas frameworks.

Technical Review 67

Technical Review Radical Innovation Innovation Marketing 67

Integrative Innovation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Design Thinking, Lean Start-up or Sprints). agility vs. predictability, mid-to-long-term vs. short-term focus, managing uncertainty vs. minimizing risk). Senior leadership alignment and engagement. the foundry in which Adaptation initiatives (e.g. As many companies have found, establishing this interplay is hard.

Innovation Management 40

Innovation Management Disruption Design Management 40

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

Sharing in collaborative arrangements enables the potential for improved operational productivity, and shared application development, tapping into a wider ongoing customer engagement and skill enhancements for all involved to gain from.

Collaboration 130

Collaboration Innovation Resources Industry 130