etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.”

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

It offers a straightforward way to understand, design, and pivot your business model. By mapping out each component, companies can identify areas for innovation and explore how changes in one area may impact others.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. What most companies get wrong about innovation processes.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

We can also see how these approaches were precursors to larger movements in lean startup, design thinking, and agile. The backstories of how great companies, services, and business models achieve success reveal a messiness that’s an inherent part of the innovation process.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. Interestingly, it looks like others support the idea of balancing and combining elements of both innovation approaches, too. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

These innovation-focused book recommendations will help teach you the skills and techniques needed to grow your business and improve your company’s innovation efforts. Looking for even more literary choices to help you innovate? Check out our list of design thinking books to read. The Lean Startup.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

In the innovation space there is endless discussion about frameworks. If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we? Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Which is best? Can I blend frameworks?

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi) is offering three public courses in late October and early November. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. This deep-dive immersive course in innovation could change the direction of your organization – or career. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking.

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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. We need to be more agile, iterative , to be encouraged to be experimenting and exploring.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwhile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

How much innovation is being left on the table by ignoring cross-domain concept blends? Innovation leaders and CEO’s leave breakthrough on the table because their innovation processes leave out deliberate combinations. Innovation Directors and CEO’s — why not? It’s deep idea exploration.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Because these innovation challenges are neither linear, just like breakthroughs (however the most used the stage-gate process is a more linear process). Breakthrough ideas will continuously change as you go through the Design Thinking Process?—?that This is how the original idea will evolve sprint by sprint.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. How can you innovate if you don’t actually know how it’s done? Maybe that’s one reason why 94% of managers are unsatisfied with innovation performance? Knowledge of frameworks like Lean, Agile, CPS and Design Thinking are essential.

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn. The Design Thinking Methodology of Empathy?—?Define?—?Ideate?—?Prototype?—?Test

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

From that information, we were able to plan out what a couple of sprints might look like in order to help employees and leadership understand the Lean Innovation process and increase the frequency of making decisions based on evidence. “ ” — Thais Cunha, Project Coordinator, Bomnegocio.com.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. Scaffolding and Experiential Learning Tools Are Innovation Framework Neutral. A framework is a scaffold.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should!

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

I added my punchline, “because if you’re not doing projects you’re not doing innovation.” 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!

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 7, 2015

Yesterday, I was quite delighted to see my post Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking ranked #11 of the Top 100 Innovation Posts 2014 at Innovation Excellence. “Either-or” was yesterday, today we need more integrative, “both-and” thinking. No one size fits all.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should!

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

When you are trying to create a repeatable innovation process, you can’t just start anywhere by doing random activities. As such, the first question for you to answer is – how ready is your company to support and nurture innovation? There is a difference. You have to first develop a deep understanding of your company.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 29, 2021

What does a process consultancy do? When we mention process consulting, we are essentially talking about greater agility in the execution of activities and, mainly, saving time and resources by improving operational routines. Remember Agile? Process review and redesign. Robotic process automation.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

This shaping of vague ideas into resource-worthy innovation projects is the final step of the MoshPit process. MoshPit integrates well with other innovation frameworks and methods. Once you have the project idea, organizations can use the framework they have in place to validate, improve, and implement.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Measurable processes and results, the data for on-going improvement. Cost savings by not paying outside consultants to facilitate innovation process.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t be held back by a restrictive innovation process model; be flexible on new ways to innovate. Once alignment is in place, broaden the innovation team to include more people from across the organization. Digital tech related ideation presents unique challenges to innovation project leaders and facilitators.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 11, 2019

The English term inbound open innovation refers to a type of innovation that happens when a company appropriates an innovative idea created by other entities, so that it can be transformed through its own innovation process, in order to generate value for itself. Open innovation benefits.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

More agile competitors are starting to eat into our business. How can we restart our innovation culture?”. What Drives Innovation? The strategy and structure for 21st corporate innovation will come from emulating the speed, urgency, agility and low-cost, rapid experimentation of startups.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 20, 2022

With an h/t to Tony Ulwick for his outcome-driven innovation process, Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) is a disciplined way of establishing customers’ needs in their quest to accomplish something, i.e., a job. It should be noted that there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all “innovation” framework. Define the Jobs.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

What started me on a given innovation “tack”was for a long time I have seen an awful lot of opinions, solutions, concepts that have been breaking down innovation into its many parts. The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.”

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Innovation Training. “Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. Approaches to the new challenges of Digital Technology Innovation are discussed.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Additionally, software systems like this do not replace people in the innovation process and cannot automate its management. This can lead to a much larger number of innovations being tested much more quickly, for a lower cost and at a lower risk than traditional management methods. 5 – Design Thinking.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Getting innovation teams and projects started and accelerated. The pro’s and con’s of deliberate processes and frameworks versus organic innovation. Power tools and techniques for identifying new markets (Design Thinking). Pitching ideas, prototyping, and resourcing innovation.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives.

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Board of Innovation

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Adventurous as the word innovation may sound, an innovation consultant’s job consists for a large part in de-risking the innovation process. The post Effectively shifting gears between the different phases of the innovation pipeline appeared first on Board of Innovation. Continue reading.

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Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

In working with this extended innovation funnel model we have made one more interesting observation: The chances for identifying and implementing successful breakthrough innovations are greatly increased if the individual stages are orchestrated by Design Thinking (see e.g. here).

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