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Scaling Agile Through Cascading Missions

Moves the Needle

I had a conversation recently with a few industry professionals who were expressing concerns about the idea of scaling agile. Their objection was that not everybody can be agile nor needs to be. The post Scaling Agile Through Cascading Missions appeared first on Moves the Needle.

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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples

Moves the Needle

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." We base Lean Innovation principles upon the 3 E’s of Lean Innovation : Empathy, Experiments and Evidence. And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. In this way, lean innovation and design thinking go hand in hand.

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We Can’t Stop Disruption

Moves the Needle

We must embrace disruption in order to make it work for all of us. At every level of the organization, people need to look at themselves and ask, “How do I disrupt myself in order to deal with the new reality?”. Leaders can use agile practices to balance the work.

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Using Lean Innovation in the Product Development and Commercialization Process

Moves the Needle

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle. Lean Innovation and Commercialization When applying Lean Innovation techniques to the commercialization process, companies identify areas of uncertainty around any aspects of product launch and commercialization. One of Amazon’s great disruptions in publishing was in book distribution.

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Digital Disruption and How Businesses Can Best Leverage It

Qmarkets

At some point, digital disruption comes for every organization. While some companies might be flexible and lucky enough to ride a wave of disruption and survive , if you are able to predict and prepare for it accordingly you might be able to use it to thrive. Unless well planned and executed, digital disruption – the inevitable deluge of new tools and processes that is part and parcel of refining digital business processes – can be akin to managing a natural disaster.

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Digital Disruption and How Businesses Can Best Leverage It

Qmarkets

At some point, digital disruption comes for every organization. While some companies might be flexible and lucky enough to ride a wave of disruption and survive , if you are able to predict and prepare for it accordingly you might be able to use it to thrive. Unless well planned and executed, digital disruption – the inevitable deluge of new tools and processes that is part and parcel of refining digital business processes – can be akin to managing a natural disaster.

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INNOVATION TEAMS DONT INNOVATE!

ImagineNation

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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Getting out of the Building, Going Cross-Industry for Seeking Out Radical Ideas

Paul Hobcraft

Industry borders are blurring, there are increasingly smaller, agile and highly disruptive companies working to change the existing into the new preferred. Just reflect on how the digital culture, globalisation, individualism, rising aspirations (and deepening discontent), our access to information, urbanisation, health and wellness, climate change and corporate leadership are all triggering points for making a change in something we can influence.

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How Innovation Labs Must Evolve

Moves the Needle

However, innovation labs and teams were never (or at least rarely) going to create breakthroughs or disruptive innovations. The future of successful innovation labs is NOT to take on the responsibility of invention or figuring out new business models that will disrupt their industry. However, there’s no evidence supporting the idea that non-technical companies, which are not inventing technology, need to do breakthroughs or disruptive innovation. Blog post Disruption Proof

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Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Steve Blank

In the 21 st century it’s harder for large corporations to create disruptive breakthroughs. Disruptive innovations are coming from startups – Telsa for automobiles, Uber for taxis, Airbnb for hotel rentals, Netflix for video rentals and Facebook for media. Over the last decade, Intel missed two important disruptive trends. Which brings us to the fourth reason it’s harder for large corporations to offer disruptive breakthroughs: startups.

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Incubation is the Hard Part Between Discovery and Success

The Inovo Group

A comprehensive incubation framework can be based on two complementary approaches – Lean Startup and Effectuation – along with other components that fill out the incubation system architecture. In digging further, they came to the realization that it was the stage-gate process itself (even with the new agile stage-gate modifications) that was the limiting factor. Lean Startup, for example, focuses on the Process and Mechanisms while Effectuation emphasizes Mindset and Behavior.

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the pervasion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation. Platform business models tend to affect – oftentimes disrupt – multiple industries over time.

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Balancing Large and Small Firm Capabilities

Integrative Innovation

The corresponding integration of incremental and radical innovation can basically be achieved in different ways: Building ambidextrous and lean startup capabilities. This focus, however, often hinders them to explore new businesses, to drive radical innvation and to respond to disruptive shifts in their environment. Mastering disruptive innovation in a large company requires: – different people.

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Creating effective KPI’s for 2023

Moves the Needle

We just don’t know what disruption might ripple across your specific industry or region. We must be able to dynamically change our work based on new information. They think they’re practicing good lean innovation and they deserve some kudos for their efforts. Agile team members should largely be responsible for that. Blog post Disruption ProofWe’re coming to the end of 2022 and ’tis the season to evaluate 2022’s performance and plan for 2023 targets.

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Reflecting on our innovation practices

Paul Hobcraft

Then, we have the investments in structures, systems, and governance , making sure these are flexible and robust enough to make what we work upon, as r esponsive, agile, adaptive, exploitative and exploratory. how it is influencing much that is surrounding innovation, as it continues to disrupt in faster, demanding ways, where it deconstructs and then, it is forcing us to reconstruct our innovation thinking, so as to gain from all this transformation occurring all around us.

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Getting out of the Building, Going Cross-Industry for Seeking Out Radical Ideas

Paul Hobcraft

Industry borders are blurring, there are increasingly smaller, agile and highly disruptive companies working to change the existing into the new preferred. Just reflect on how the digital culture, globalisation, individualism, rising aspirations (and deepening discontent), our access to information, urbanisation, health and wellness, climate change and corporate leadership are all triggering points for making a change in something we can influence.

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Are you having fun riding the innovation waves?

Paul Hobcraft

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. [link] – riding-the-wave.

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Our inabilities to adapt needs changing.

Paul Hobcraft

If it is then we are back in the land of incremental innovation where risk gets delegated down and we keep informed only to ‘what we think we know’ not what is changing. It builds on the initial work of Eric Ries and his minimum viable product thinking within the lean startup thinking methodology. Erosion is everywhere, it just seems inevitable, we somehow get caught up in the process of time and our organizations seem to ‘freeze’ before our eyes, then simply age.

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work – the Minimal Viable Product

Steve Blank

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. Then came the Build-Measure-learn focus of the Lean Startup.

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Dynamic Planning in the Face of Uncertainty

Planview

Market disruptions by startups; sure. But then the pandemic happened, creating a domino effect of disruptions that we are learning to accept as part of daily life. A more informed approach. We thought we knew about uncertainty. Shifting consumer behaviors? Part of the job.

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The Perfect Conditions for Entering A New Innovation Era in 2017

Paul Hobcraft

There is a time where each business has to become highly adaptive, agile, open and mutually dependent on others to deliver in this ‘connected’ world to exploit these conditions and explore the opportunities that will emerge. As we learn the value and power of these tools we become more fluid, more flexible and agile but equally more influenced. The Business Model seems to have a reduced shelf life, we are witnessing more disruption and transformation of existing formats.

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What Did the Pandemic Teach Us About New Product Development?

Planview

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. Addressing Agile-Stage-Gate PPM Implementation Challenges.

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New innovation approaches to counter the fear of Business Contagion

Paul Hobcraft

Recognizing complex acknowledges the volatility and disruptions that are constantly occurring. Choosing new innovative approaches to counter the fear of Business Contagion.

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Innovation - fast and slow, for the right reasons

Jeffrey Phillips

These words include adjectives such as "lean", "agile" and "rapid", to make the point that innovation should be stripped to its bare components, move as fast as possible and create minimum viable solutions. No amount of lean tools or agile methodology will change that.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

Digital is demanding so much in new processes that need to be more agile, responsive, reflective of new insights at increased speed and fluid in the design of those undertaking the solution to react. This agility needs the tools of testing, feedback, and adaptation to accelerate the innovation process. The design needs to be customer-centric, agile, experimental, lean, standard as much as it can be, with simplicity and adaptive as being central to this.

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Why being ambidextrous is not enough - looking ahead to 2020

Jeffrey Phillips

Incremental innovation will become a consistent focus, while transformative and disruptive innovation will be sporadic at best. To "move the needle" companies need an occasional transformative or disruptive innovation.

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4 Essential Change-Management Leadership Skills

CMOE

Employing a holistic set of processes and tools to lead others through transitions and periods of disruptive change. Lean into your curiosities and instincts and let them guide you toward new ideas. For more information on how to successfully coach, read about coaching in the workplace.

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Building a lasting innovation capability

Jeffrey Phillips

A company needs to make reasonable bets across the incremental, transformative and disruptive horizons in proportions that make sense based on competition and speed of change. By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma.

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SCALING UP: From Corporate Startup to Innovation Impact

Integrative Innovation

On the contrary: Teams are working with Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Business Model Canvasses or by applying agile development techniques. As a small Thank You , we will send you an information pack containing key thoughts from various parties and studies on the subject. More than three years ago, we noticed a pain point in corporate innovation: How should companies balance the different requirements in searching for tomorrow’s business and in running today’s business?

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Drift Happens: Strategic Drift and What to Do About It

Planview

Experimentation is intentional, informed, and controlled – it’s taking calculated risks to test a hypothesis, and is encouraged in an Agile environment.

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5 Digital Transformation Use Cases in the Automotive Industry

Acuvate

The automotive industry is on the brink of significant technological disruption. Today’s drivers expect real-time and contextually meaningful information at their fingertips while on the road. Drive agility and efficiency with low-code app development.

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How to Succeed at Opportunity Discovery

Moves the Needle

Well-researched trends don’t predict disruption (nothing really does). Rather, trends keep you informed where investment should occur in the short, medium, and long term to maintain your existing markets. You test whether these ideas positively impact the job, if the customer cares, and whether there’s a viable business model using rapid experimentation, e.g. Lean Startup. Opportunity discovery is the practice of figuring out where a business can find new growth.

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Digital transformation – the need to transform our innovation approaches

Paul Hobcraft

Our transformation journey needs to embrace the cloud, mobile, data and networks and relies on higher levels of analytics to interpret and translate information, into insights, into ideas, into innovation that delivers on the ‘needs’ the customer wants solutions too. I like this as a definition to tighten down digital but it opens us up to the darker side of digital transformation, the risk of digital disruption.

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5 Things I Wish My COO Knew (and told me!) About Our Supply Chain

MSSBTI

But…even without any of these disruptions, the complexity of today’s supply chain is evident and challenging in every transaction from purchasing, inventory management, planning, production all the way through logistics and transportation. This type of fitness will beat out all of your competitors’ outdated lean and Six Sigma principles. Organizations need to be agile and nimble to keep up with the demands of being successful in a global economy.

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Digital transformation – the need to transform our innovation approaches

Paul Hobcraft

Our transformation journey needs to embrace the cloud, mobile, data and networks and relies on higher levels of analytics to interpret and translate information, into insights, into ideas, into innovation that delivers on the ‘needs’ the customer wants solutions too. I like this as a definition to tighten down digital but it opens us up to the darker side of digital transformation, the risk of digital disruption.

Roadmap 120
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Understanding the ISO Standard for Innovation Management – Concepts & Benefits – Podcast Transcript

IM Insights

You can find links to the main topics covered in this episode, and information about the guests and hosts in the show notes, or go to our blog on innovationmetrics.co. So, when I started out becoming interested in lean startup and the sort of things, you were one of the big names, right. And your company’s called Lean Ventures, right? . They forced me to actually name it Lean Ventures International. Main Episode Page. Podcast & Show Notes. Episode Transcript.

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The only two measures that matter

David Marks

Chief among these are the Blue Ocean strategy, Business Model Generation and Lean Startup methodologies that deservedly attracted many followers. The Disruptability Curve presented in my previous blog , is a modest addition to this collection. The Disruptability Curve has two axes. On the backdrop of the boundless creativity of scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs (often one and the same) a cottage industry of management theories has emerged.

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Successfully shaping Digital Transformation

ITONICS

The digitalization of data and processes combined with delivery of excellent customer benefit along with digitized information and communication architecture will be an increasingly important strategic success factor for both established companies and young start-ups in the years ahead. A = Agility: Agility stands for the ability to be flexible, proactive and ready for continuous market change and transformation in order to adequately react. By Andreas Rusnjak.

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7 Habits of Highly Innovative Companies

ITONICS

Large corporations have taken steps towards being more agile and adapting to the rapid pace of digitization by improving their oftentimes long innovation processes and giving more autonomy to employees. Of course, failure can be damaging to daily business but only letting a room for risk can lead to disruptive innovation. The term comes from the English and is based on the Lean Startup Model by Eric Ries. Innovation.

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The Challenges being Faced by Innovation Consultants

Paul Hobcraft

When clients were pushing down prices it made sense to offer general solutions but the disruptive forces occurring in clients markets are requiring far more the return to crafting individual solutions. This sits less well in a time where demand for unique innovation is required to offset these disruptive forces coming from often unexpected sources.