Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design.

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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. They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes.

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Innovation Leadership Ideation Innovation Processes 113

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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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.

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Management Agile LEAN Guidelines 59

Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

It’s about introducing features, functionalities, or designs that meet emerging customer needs or tap into uncharted market segments. Employing user-centric design and iterative development processes, businesses can ensure their product innovations resonate with their target audience and stand out in the marketplace.

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Radical Innovation Innovation Disruption Competition 52

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. Innovation is advancing but most of it has been designed for a different time, the old era of stable markets, predictable solutions and having a clear sense of your competition.

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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.

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Software Innovation Innovation Management LEAN 52

mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

That is the case of Design Thinking , a structured approach to innovation. Keep reading to understand how you can implement an innovation culture into your company with Design Thinking! That’s because only the visible artifacts of organizational culture can be designed. Design Thinking applied to cultural transformation.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We do need to ‘lean in’ on many specialists and experts to help us, not just business consultants! Stay flexible, agile and adaptable, and have up-to-date contingency plans in place to adjust course if needed and, in a controlled manner, options to existing business strategy. As well, and ask, are we really interested?

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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. Will they demand it, stay engaged, and recommend it to their friends and family? Corporate philanthropy. Benefit corporations. Sounds ideal.

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Technical Review LEAN Innovation Social Innovation 100

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.

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Technical Review Innovation Innovation Processes Project 248

Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! At the time, most of the staff’s interactions with customers happened during the design phase, such as usability testing and design sessions. Click here to download.

Marketing 65

Marketing LEAN Case Study Study 65

Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. Facilitators need to adopt experiential learning tools in their sessions designs. Innovation Session Designs Need More Variety. When you design innovation sessions: Use a variety of experiences. Experiential Learning Accelerates Innovation. Do Improv games.

Learning 45

Learning Underperforming Technical Team Training Innovation 45

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

PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The 2020s will be remembered for many reasons, but I predict this will be the decade when building innovation ecosystems will become “the thing” to do — just as significant and powerful as the six sigma initiatives were in the 1990s and agile practices in the 2000s. Getting the Right People to Join In.

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Agile Innovation Collaboration LEAN 88

mjvinnovation

MAY 19, 2020

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. Design Thinking manages to understand the individual through a deep analysis that draws a panorama of all these vectors.

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Agile Design Thinking Technical Review Competition 52

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?” The concept of human-centered design sets out a counterbalance which puts the human and social imperatives first and foremost.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Innovation Design Software 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?

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Groups Case Study Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 45

Open Innovation EU

MARCH 30, 2016

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. Source: www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/when-toyota-met-e-commerce-lean-at-amazon.

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Entrepreneurship LEAN Case Study Agile 70

ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In last month’s blog , we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration, and described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed sustainable innovative workplace culture change.

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Innovation Collaboration Agile Disruption 59

Moves the Needle

APRIL 10, 2023

The term originated in the United States lean manufacturing movement of the 1980s and 1990s. The idea behind lean manufacturing was to maximize customer value while minimizing waste, resulting in increased efficiency and profitability. Measure: What does an active, engaged user do in the app over some time period.

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LEAN Agile Marketing Case Study 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

AUGUST 1, 2018

It’s designed to uncover unlikely, but useful, combinations of technologies, products, services, trends, and insights that lead to breakthrough innovation. The customized session design and associated proprietary tools in Digital MoshPit are only available through GFi. Discover Ideas for Long Term and Tactical Innovation Projects.

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Technology Internet of things Ideation Artificial Inteligence 50

Acuvate

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Moreover, organizations must adjust to changing customer expectations, ensuring they can deliver personalized and more meaningful customer engagement on every channel. Drive agility and efficiency with low-code app development. PowerApps gives citizen developers a best practice and model-driven design.”

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Industry Artificial Inteligence Analysis Data 52

ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Better adapt, respond to, and be agile in fast-changing circumstances, uncertainty, instability, and to random and unexpected Black Swan events, like the global Covid-19 Pandemic. How engaged and passionate are our people in problem-solving? What type of innovation do we strategically want to plan for and engage in?

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Technical Review Innovation Agile System 64

IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Even the most convinced and willing executives struggle if the innovation ecosystem is not designed appropriately. (21:00) 25:00) How difficult it is to lead change, innovation or transformation in organisations that are not designed to change much. 08:00) On Setting up an incubators and what not to do. (11:00) Show Transcript.

Underperforming Technical Team 59

Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Innovation Training 59

Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Efficiency Optimization Organizations have eliminated risk and variance in their operations through rightsizing, outsourcing, lean, and agile. However, they may lack training in innovative thinking, creativity, and design thinking. It's the kind of change that requires consistent communication and, again, executive engagement.

How To 59

How To Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture 59

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

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. Capture the customer's job-to-be-done.

Learning 40

Learning eBook Agile Software Engineering 40

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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Activities where innovation is continually replacing not just in products and new services but in designing radically different business models, searching to replace less adaptive competitors in the marketplace at faster rates. These statements are just covering up the serious cracks appearing in the design process for new products.

Change 100

Change Design Agile Competition 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.

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Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

In his 2011 book, Design for Operational Excellence, Kevin J. Duggan outlines a much more modern approach: Design lean value streams from the time the order is received until delivery to the customer. Make lean value streams flow from one process to the other. Ignoring Your Most Precious Resource.

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LEAN Software Review Crowdsourcing Knowledge Base 49

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! There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes.

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Project Training Design Thinking Innovation 74

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

This does require a transformation of how we design, structure and bring together all the relevant part of the innovation process. I was reading an interesting article from LEADing Practice® posted on the iGrafx site who offers a set of process design, analysis, optimization and management capabilities.

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Change Technical Review Marketing Management 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. We all need to think through the value of the pivot, prototype, the constructing of minimal viable products and rapid experiment and design.

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Innovation Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 150