mjvinnovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

We all know that agile methodologies are not written in stone. In reality, we are talking about a set of practices that should be used to manage projects and demands to adapt to changes and gain efficiency quickly. Squads, Scrum, OKRs, Kanban, and Design Sprints are just a few. The practice is very common within agile logic.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like. And one of the most important ways to have facilitate this in your projects is to ensure you have clarity and alignment from the very beginning on what the definition of success is for all teams.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 29, 2019

Agile Frameworks help the business team experience an Agile mindset in practice. With Agile Frameworks, business processes become more dynamic, staggering business values and productivity. 5 Most used Agile Frameworks. Lean Startup. Different segments can benefit from Lean Startup. Extreme Programming (XP).

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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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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. Thinking Differently Takes Tools. At some point everybody needs to think differently.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

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. And this is where so often, promising innovation projects fail. As Peter Drucker famously said: What gets measured, gets managed.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Do Purpose First, Select a Framework, Then Do Projects. 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. It happens through projects. This wastes Time and Money.

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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. Grow structure.

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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. A couple of days after having had published my post, Paolo Lorenzoni from IDEO confirmed the complementary nature of Lean Startup and Design Thinking.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

Accelerate the Momentum of Work and Life Projects With Focused Creativity. MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma. A highly creative new method for solving difficult problems. Improvisation works for problem solving AND comedy.

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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.

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Partha Mallikarjun has more than 25 years of experience in leading, managing and delivering technology and process improvement projects in the Information Technolofy space. As a Quality Assurance & Process Improvement Lead, he was part of a strategic team that innovated the Agile SDLC framework within a highly regulated GxP environment.

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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. Delivering on your social mission requires just as much ambition, rigor, and agility as creating a thriving business. Benefit corporations.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Check out our list of design thinking books to read. This book by Nathan Furr covers tips and techniques learned from design thinking, innovation, and the lean startup business model which has grown in popularity in the last few years. The Lean Startup. New Releases in 2021. Find it here. Find it here.

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Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

Many innovation teams are so concerned with being agile and entrepreneurial that they spend precious little time understanding where to point their efforts. Having “the usual people” working on an innovation project is a surefire way for it to fall into committee and go nowhere. For a moment, let’s adopt a pessimist mindset.

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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. Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. Innovation Intensive will help you improve the effectiveness of innovation projects. Streamlined management of innovation projects. REGISTER NOW.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This new management method makes it nearly impossible for innovation teams to fail at delivering multiple challenging innovation projects faster, with less risk and lower required budgets. Most innovation experts often say that traditional management processes are not the way to run innovation projects. And this is true.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

I replied “you need to be thinking about project cycles and measures.” I added my punchline, “because if you’re not doing projects you’re not doing innovation.” Not Design Thinking?” My “projects” reply is a cocktail party answer. ” “What!

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. Creativity, and creative ideas, are essential ingredients, and, without other fundamentals , like projects and implementation — great ideas are a waste of time.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

Discover Ideas for Long Term and Tactical Innovation Projects. Chicago, IL, August 1, 2018 — The MoshPit Innovation Service is an innovation project discovery service marketed by GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation). Ideas for innovation projects emerge from the intensive sessions. GFi guarantees its work.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 17, 2015

His very lean progressive assembly process was the result. The Toyota Production System largely grew out of this dilemma, attempting to leverage the “leanness” of Ford’s production system is a world of increasing complexity and market differentiation. Projections are based on past experience. The result is choice. Let’s do it!

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Rapid Innovation in digital time

JANUARY 12, 2021

Michelle Gomes is a strategic thinker and experienced agile product manager. She brilliantly shares key success factors to lead an innovation project.

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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. Download This Case Study.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. Design Thinking, Agile, CPS/Osborn-Parnes, Lean, TRIZ and other innovation frameworks all have some scaffolding built-in. What’s new is the hard proof, and, using tools more deliberately.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

It’s the creative thinking that builds on that research, analysis, and insight that gets you workable innovation concepts, that turn into innovation projects, and ultimately market results. Knowledge of frameworks like Lean, Agile, CPS and Design Thinking are essential.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Jeffrey believes that there are at least five constraints to the ability of organizations to innovate more than occasionally and to move from periodic, project-driven to capability-based, continuous innovation: 1. However, they may lack training in innovative thinking, creativity, and design thinking.

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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. Project Management, Business Intelligence. Let’s dig in. In many cases, practitioners use multiple methods to drive success. Innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

How do you integrate all this new fancy stuff into strategy and ideation to create actual projects? Be certain that there is alignment from the top down around the desire to integrate digital tech and get projects underway. If you focus on the project, you’ll get through conflict by keeping the end in mind.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. Instead, innovators need to use an iterative process to design and test their ideas: Innovation Tools : Companies need to adopt the right tools for designing business models and testing assumptions.

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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. Project Management, Business Intelligence. Let’s dig in. In many cases, practitioners use multiple methods to drive success. Innovation.

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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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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management. It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. More efficient management of innovation projects, including smarter team formation.

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Inceodia

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I started my career as a software engineer in the ’90’s when waterfall was our go-to project method. We established an end goal for a project, typically 18+ months in the future, and set milestones along the way that served as the “falls” for tested code. An Agile Business Strategy. It was incredibly costly and inefficient.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

a wall decorated by employees, interactive lunches or team building events, flexible project teams. Organize workshops introducing lean, agile, design thinking, kanban, gamification, 6Sigma, 6Thinking Hats, random words and other creativity-enhancing methods or tools that people can build into their own processes.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 29, 2021

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? Design Thinking, the core business service of MJV, is at the heart of innovation processes. Click here!

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Creative Problem Solving Model: Most teams lack a common approach, or language, to resolve challenges and manage projects. It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. CPS is used extensively by companies like P&G, Clear Channel, and IBM.

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