Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Companies that successfully bring new products to market rapidly, benefit from having a leg up on their competition while diminishing the negative effects of shrinking product life cycles. However, moving a product from lab to market is a process that in itself could use re-invention. What is Commercialization?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

It’s the secret sauce that has transformed startups into tech giants and turned traditional businesses into market leaders. Innovation isn’t just about the next big idea; it’s a multifaceted strategy that businesses employ to navigate through the twists and turns of today’s dynamic markets.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

These structures, while effective for the incremental growth of billion-dollar core businesses, often kill potentially disruptive innovations at their inception, as Pilot 44’s Andrew Backs suggested during a recent Innov8rs Learning Labs session. How do we separate the disruptive venture from the delivery of core business P&L?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

Business model innovation involves changing these aspects significantly to respond to shifts in the market, technology, or customer preferences. This innovation disrupted traditional media consumption, shifting from physical rentals and purchases to unlimited on-demand digital content, and significantly impacting the cable TV industry.

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Planview

JULY 26, 2022

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. But Agile businesses apply this more frequently (dynamically) and learn from their own delivery performance to inform their next actions. Part of the job.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 11, 2019

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. I think there will remain a focus on innovation, but with different agendas and motives.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 29, 2023

However, the rise of Lean Startup methodologies, popularized by Eric Ries in his book “The Lean Startup,” brought rapid experimentation to the forefront. By doing so, businesses can optimize execution, discover market opportunities, and find new growth. It is a mindset that should permeate the entire organization.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Disruptive Innovation is not a linear process. this will drive more disruptive innovation as a cultural change. Disruptive innovation initiatives are best to be evaluated on the potential impact they would create: How it fits into your innovation strategy and long-term goals? We created a short video for you on this topic.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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. When can you move fast?

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

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. Defining digital disruption. Clues for early identification.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Marketing tends to have their own way of talking about innovation. Is it expansion of market share? Other possibilities could be acquisition, market expansion into emerging countries, retooling existing products for adjacent markets, partnerships, and so on. The desired outcomes are more important than the definition.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

The memo that started it all sounds more like modern product marketing than product management, but your mileage may vary. The primary function was to serve as the bridge between Engineering and Marketing. Ken Beer was the Director of Product Management and reported into the Marketing department. I had never heard of Agile.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 30, 2017

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. Defining digital disruption. Clues for early identification.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

Our ability to perform differently will provide new avenues of innovation discovery and eventual value to offset or bridge the need to make a change we will be forced to make in these different market and society conditions. Recognizing complex acknowledges the volatility and disruptions that are constantly occurring.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

The information collected in these Q&As will act as valuable assets for anyone wanting to make clear the real need for more adaptive product development and to show that an accelerated process is still highly possible, even in the face of consistent disruptions. Addressing Agile-Stage-Gate PPM Implementation Challenges.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the perfusion 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.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 13, 2016

It's the natural order of economics that when an opportunity is available, everything rushes in to fill the vacuum, and as the market becomes crowded various offerings must differentiate themselves from the others to demonstrate value. Lean is about stripping away unnecessary assets to focus on doing the most with the least.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

” This guide takes readers through the process of bringing new solutions from the drawing board to the market itself by acknowledging that innovation is a team sport that requires everyone to play with skill, inspiration, and team spirit. Mapping Innovation: A Playbook for Navigating a Disruptive Age. Find it here. Find it here.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

We need to short-circuit our innovation development process, we must have as much visibility (and controls) into our value chain, we need to develop a riskier mindset to explore, validate and experiment to bring our products and services to market. It does seem we all need to pursue disruptive and radical innovation designs.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. The result will be: a new, Lean version of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Here’s how.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 10, 2023

This includes all the activities done to develop, market, sell, deliver, and support the product outside of product creation, like manufacturing. The term originated in the United States lean manufacturing movement of the 1980s and 1990s. Product-Market fit is not a hurdle that once you cross it you’re done.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes. Implementation and Execution The final phase of the innovation process is where ideas are executed and brought to the market.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

As part of our recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed this (and more) with Frank Mattes (CEO at Lean Scaleup), Sean Sheppard (Managing Partner at U+), and Susana Jurado (Head of Wayra Builder at Telefónica). Why can it be so hard for corporates to launch substantial new businesses? Business Building: Pros and Cons.

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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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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

But at the same time, you must consider products or markets that are in decline and how you might replace that revenue. Adding new features might enable you to take market share. In the extreme, this means an idea that increases revenue or market share may not be enough to justify investment. Or a new marketing channel?

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

However, this typically means adding new people, learning new processes and the uncomfortable reality of two teams aiming at the same markets, one incremental and sustaining in nature, another disruptive and creative in nature, almost always at conflict, with two different goals or purposes.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

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.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

There’s a pervasive myth that suggests that all big companies need to get better at disruptive or breakthrough innovation. Most big companies struggle to compete in existing markets. To start, they need to be closer to their customers, be more agile, act bolder. Do we care whether the $90 million came from disruptive innovation?

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Planview

JUNE 3, 2022

Experimentation is intentional, informed, and controlled – it’s taking calculated risks to test a hypothesis, and is encouraged in an Agile environment. In the Lean/Agile world, we often talk about the cost of delay: a way of communicating the impact of time on the outcomes we hope to achieve. Strategic drift is not malicious.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Note that what my clients are asking for is to create an innovation capacity that outlasts a product need, or market gap, or executive team member. After all, most (probably 90%) of all innovation projects undertaken in large corporations are reactive projects trying to respond to a market threat or competitive move.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Yet sporadic innovation is not enough to keep up with changing markets and evolving demanding customer needs. Building An Innovation Capability: Limits To Overcome Innovation is about bringing something new to the market that has value for customers and (hopefully) generates profit for the business. Here’s a summary of his remarks.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 29, 2020

From internet access to today, it has been responsible for a multitude of disruptions in business models. In uncertain scenarios, it is just technology that can promote the disruptions necessary for businesses to gain competitive value and even create new markets. Reach new markets. Bonus 2: Agile Software Development.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

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. What we design in organizations is far too rigid and not highly adaptive and that is the not reflecting the needs we are facing in our more volatile markets today.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 15, 2021

Innovation has become a buzzword in all market segments, but many companies invest in innovation consulting to remain at the forefront. All markets have become increasingly competitive, with more demanding consumers who are aware of their choices. Fly or Die: Lean validation cycle for a new product in the telecom area.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 29, 2015

I believe until we know what solutions we feel we need or the market wants, we will more often than not, end up disappointed in our innovation solutions. If we do we fail to ever achieve innovation that is truly a ‘breakthrough’ or ‘disruptive’ We should have aspirations, as humans we need these.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

The market is changing faster than ever, and an organization’s ability to move at the speed of the Internet is the only chance at surviving and thriving. Understanding customer problems requires developing customer empathy, and customer empathy requires new forms of market research methods and avoiding market research method traps.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

The race is on for companies to find big, explorative or even “disruptive” innovation ideas. Disrupt yourself or someone else will’, it has been said. Hackathons’ or comparable formats are used to bring together external ideators with internal experts for drumming out disruptive ideas. So, what is going on here?

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