Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

It’s interesting to reflect that in 1997, the Agile Manifesto had not yet been published. Also, while human-centered design certainly existed, the practices of “design thinking” reaching tech companies to any real degree was still a decade away. I had never heard of Agile. We were Waterfall. It’s merely released.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

For the enterprise world, the rallying cry is similar to the classic American Revolution meme, “Join or Die.” To effectively drive enterprise innovation requires effort at every level of the organization, and it requires alignment among many moving parts. Except in today’s age, the corporate chorus says, “Innovate, or Die!”

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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. Thus, if you hope to move the needle appreciably, you’ll need to design and validate an engine that will accelerate growth over time.

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Planview

JULY 26, 2022

But there is another way: By tying resources to initiatives and initiatives to business outcomes, and using software designed to enable dynamic planning , managers can make intelligent decisions about how to reduce costs with the least adverse impact to business outcomes. A more informed approach. Plan for tomorrow, today.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Breakthrough ideas will continuously change as you go through the Design Thinking Process?—?that The validation of the idea comes after based on business validation, customer validation and technology validation over a longer period of an agile innovation process where the team may experiment and learn week-by-week.

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Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

Here are five classic reasons innovation efforts fail in the modern enterprise: 1. Many innovation teams are so concerned with being agile and entrepreneurial that they spend precious little time understanding where to point their efforts. For corporate innovators, risk lies around every corner. Move straight to “solution” mode.

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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.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Here are some of the many ways you can use Instant Coffee: Brainstorming Incremental Planning Story Mapping Lean Coffee Impromptu Meetings PI Planning Retrospectives SWOT Analysis Standup Meetings. Although there are tools out there designed specifically for story mapping, they can be overly technical and hinder the brainstorming process.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

IDC predicts that by 2018 more than 50 percent of large enterprises – and more than 80 percent of firms with advanced digital transformation strategies – will create and/or partner with platforms. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof.

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Innovation Management Management LEAN Technical Review 100

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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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The exploration expertise brought by innovation teams is designed to overcome such uncertainty. BRANT COOPER, The New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Entrepreneur and Disruption Proof and CEO and founder of Moves the Needle, is a trusted adviser to startups and large enterprises around the world.

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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. You know what will get a customer to a particular state.

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Acuvate

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Below, we’ll have a look at some of the innovative use cases of AI, automation, and analytics that automotive companies must consider to become more agile and resilient and set the stage for continuous improvement in operations. Drive agility and efficiency with low-code app development. Enhance in-vehicle driver experiences.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2016

Keep opening the Enterprise to external knowledge. Design is increasingly to the fore in many organizations. We need to explore, experiment, prototype, adapt, become more agile, keep it lean, pivot on new learning and anything else that helps us to speed up the process and keep learning and churning. •

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Planview

AUGUST 12, 2022

A product-focused strategy and mindset can create agile organizations, increase productivity, and drive innovation. A product team might consist of designers, engineers, and product managers, among other roles. A 2018 Gartner survey found that 85% of companies prefer a product-centric model.

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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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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. This is Lean Startup. The result is choice. Let’s do it! Go scope it out.”

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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." 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."

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 9, 2016

There is this constant set of discussions about changing structures and models to become more adaptive, agile, lean, flexible and fluid; to react and deal with the increasing turbulence occurring all around us. They are opposites yet we need both to thrive in today’s world. An increased level of duality.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.” If we start looking through these archetypes as lenses we might begin to ‘flesh out’ the needs to think through when we look at a whole system design for innovation.

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Boxes and Arrows

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Teams moving to agile often struggle to integrate agile with best practices in user-centered design (UCD) and user experience (UX) in general. Fortunately, using a UX Integration Matrix helps integrate UX and agile by including UX information and requirements right in the product backlog. The feedback loop is broken.

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Software Review Agile Software Design 107

Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

Although every organization faces unique challenges, we see the same excuses repeatedly why established enterprises can’t do “real” innovation. To start, they need to be closer to their customers, be more agile, act bolder. Form a monthly meetup (like a happy hour) for all employees interested in design thinking and lean startup ideas.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

At Be-novative, we have worked with various enterprises on their innovation goals and processes. 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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Creativity eBook Tools LEAN 40

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.

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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.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

Although every organization faces unique challenges, we see the same excuses repeatedly why established enterprises can’t do “real” innovation. To start, they need to be closer to their customers, be more agile, act bolder. Form a monthly meetup (like a happy hour) for all employees interested in design thinking and lean startup ideas.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Traditional project management and financial management processes and principles are designed to produce robust plans for exactly how a project should run, and select only projects which are likely to succeed. Clear in design ( “we know roughly what the perfect solution looks like and how it needs to be configured “).

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 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.

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LEAN Software Review Crowdsourcing Knowledge Base 40

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

Then that constant investment in people, networks and relationships, that need to come together and, finally the structures, systems and governance that are flexible enough to make what we work upon as responsive, agile, adaptive, exploitive and exploratory, to end up with great new ideas, things and finally, winning successful concepts.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility. It is important for all companies in this day and age to maintain lean and agile methodologies to ensure that they are flexible enough to adapt to any change which comes their way.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 30, 2017

Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility. It is important for all companies in this day and age to maintain lean and agile methodologies to ensure that they are flexible enough to adapt to any change which comes their way.

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Disruption Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming LEAN 53

Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Great tools exist to track the current state of startup’s and enterprise innovation team’s business model assumptions. Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas and Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas come to mind. Similar tools have been around for ages, by the way; used in lean manufacturing processes, Agile, kanban, scrum, etc.

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Planview

OCTOBER 6, 2022

PI Planning in Agile is often held quarterly, bringing together multidisciplinary teams to lay out the product delivery cadence. When scaling agility to your whole organization, it’s important to have an overarching cadence to keep teams in sync. What is PI Planning in Agile? Challenges to Efficient PI Planning in Agile.

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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.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 5, 2019

SAFe is an agile framework for development that has been gaining a lot of prominence among developers and managers of software projects. Acronym of Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe is an agile development framework that provides a simple and lightweight experience for the team as it is divided into three segments: Time, Program, and Portfolio.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

IDC predicts that by 2018 more than 50 percent of large enterprises – and more than 80 percent of firms with advanced digital transformation strategies – will create and/or partner with platforms. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof.

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