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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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These exercises are designed for innovative workshops and sessions. Innovation exercises are designed to help participants find creative solutions to life’s everyday challenges. Design thinking Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that puts the user at the center of the design process.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

If you cannot demonstrate that a project has the potential to win hearts, minds, and wallets, then park it or put it on a different path”. To assess the current portfolio, adidas periodically deconstructs every project through the lens of the Lean Canvas model. Strategic Agility.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Of course, innovation projects are supposed to fail in great numbers, but the idea of a corporate innovation department itself is under tremendous pressure. Too many projects lack concrete outcomes and stubbornly refuse to discuss ROI. I am a strong believer and advocate of agile, design thinking, and lean startup.

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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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Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

A mission-driven, agile culture that prioritized relationships was also a common feature of prepared schools. In partnership with nine organizations (including the Christensen Institute), NGLC explored this question through a project called What Made Them So Prepared? Factor 1: Forward-leaning orientation.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

He introduces Estimatic, his latest venture, software designed to model uncertain projects and ideas. Peter recommends checking out Lean Change Management and gives a shoutout to Jason Little ! [05:23] Peter’s experience working on web development and e-commerce projects. [16:15]

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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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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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. He’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats.

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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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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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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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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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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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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. Incremental planning is a process many organizations use to break longer-term initiatives into smaller, more actionable projects.

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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. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor.

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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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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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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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Planview

JULY 26, 2022

This example underscores the fundamental flaws with the “peanut butter” approach to cost reductions: Spreading budget cuts equally across projects or business functions. But Agile businesses apply this more frequently (dynamically) and learn from their own delivery performance to inform their next actions. A more informed approach.

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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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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. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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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

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.

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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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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Programs Innovation LEAN 100

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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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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Planview

MARCH 24, 2016

Getting (and retaining ) buy-in from decision makers for innovation projects is often the stumbling block that many a corporate innovator and intrapreneur faces. GE managed to cut cost of market validation by 80% using the lean startup methodology. Got some stories on how you secured buy-in for an innovation project?

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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. Looking for even more literary choices to help you innovate?

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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. If you’re not doing projects, start.

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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. REGISTER NOW.

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Planview

MARCH 24, 2016

Getting (and retaining ) buy-in from decision makers for innovation projects is often the stumbling block that many a corporate innovator and intrapreneur faces. GE managed to cut cost of market validation by 80% using the lean startup methodology. Got some stories on how you secured buy-in for an innovation project?

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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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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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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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