Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Executives need to talk about innovation, but also engage in innovation, check in with direct reports, better yet, go do some innovation work. By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma. Make it easier to take risks, to experiment, to test ideas and hypotheses.

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Innovation Culture Training Project 157

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

Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Efficiency Optimization Organizations have eliminated risk and variance in their operations through rightsizing, outsourcing, lean, and agile. Even so, they must establish the basic frameworks for innovation, such as funding mechanisms, scope definitions, targets, timeframes, metrics for reporting, and evaluation.

How To 59

How To Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture 59

Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Say you want to reduce customer churn or increase customer engagement. They think they’re practicing good lean innovation and they deserve some kudos for their efforts. This is so, even if the actual activity they do is similar, e.g. they must read a different report, or must engage in a new Slack Channel.

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Engagement LEAN Change Disruption 40

Planview

JULY 9, 2019

No matter how you get work done, whether it’s Agile, traditional waterfall, Lean, or something in between, organizations must be able to establish an innovation culture where ideas are collected, evaluated, prioritized, and then turned into amazing products, services, and efficiencies that your business and your customers want.

Collaboration 63

Collaboration Software Innovation Management Management 63

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

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. Drive lean & agile processes through digital transformation. Ignoring Your Most Precious Resource.

LEAN 49

LEAN Software Review Crowdsourcing Knowledge Base 49

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

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. Drive lean & agile processes through digital transformation. Ignoring Your Most Precious Resource.

LEAN 40

LEAN Software Review Crowdsourcing Knowledge Base 40

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes. But research and insight departments typically don’t invent , they report. Or do they hand off their report and forget about it? Do your people know them?

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Project Training Design Thinking Innovation 74

Wazoku

JULY 29, 2019

Flat structures allow for more cross-functional, collaborative approaches to working, with a project mentality underpinned by lean methodologies and an agile mindset. This enables faster decision-making and engages employees in the relevant processes early and meaningfully. The executive team and enhancing innovation.

Leadership 45

Leadership Collaboration Innovation Culture 45

Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

However, there are only few reports that ideas coming out from these approaches really moved the needle. They are based on lean / efficient and 0-mistakes principles. They are based on agile / lean start-up / test-and-learn principles. The business units of the core organization are operators and incremental innovators.

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Ideation Innovation LEAN Disruption 61

Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. This trend is even more pronounced among strong innovators, with those pursuing a centralized approach rising from 68 percent in 2013 to 71 percent in 2014. Accenture: 2015 US Innovation Survey. Source: Deloitte.

Disruption 100

Disruption Innovation Survey Study 100

Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 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.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Big Data Innovation Technical Review 40

The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Independent reporting – They were independent of core corporate functions like R&D, Marketing, and Business Development. They reported directly to the CTO. In a world where Wall Street gives a premium to companies that are considered ‘innovative’, the incentive to engage in innovation theater is sometimes irresistible.

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System Innovation Groups Leadership 53

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Consultants are not addressing many of the changes occurring and ignoring opportunities to adapt to different circumstances, they are simply not putting up a strong case of their engagement by redesigning their business models or opening themselves up to different forms of collaboration.

Innovation 60

Innovation Collaboration Technical Review Leadership 60

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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Agile Software Developers Software Development Roadmap 40

Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Employees who see their innovative thinking is not really valued (especially by middle-management to whom they report), will stop trying to create, stifling innovation. Encourage people reporting to you to experiment. Don’t try to kick-off 10 pilots or experiments at once or try to engage your entire organization in the effort.

Culture 44

Culture Company Underperforming Technical Team Disruption 44

Integrative Innovation

APRIL 7, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. This trend is even more pronounced among strong innovators, with those pursuing a centralized approach rising from 68 percent in 2013 to 71 percent in 2014. Accenture: 2015 US Innovation Survey. Source: Deloitte.

Disruption 40

Disruption Innovation Survey Study 40

Planview

JANUARY 26, 2023

As a project management leader, you’ve likely encountered the challenges of using multiple project execution methodologies (such as: waterfall projects, as well as collaborative and Lean-Agile work delivery). Specifically, how teams are empowered to do strategic work instead of having to spend time on manual reporting and tasks.

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Project Agile Report Tools 59

Planview

AUGUST 3, 2022

There are three basic types of business transformation: Agile, digital, and organizational. Agile Transformation Creates Flexibility. Agile transformation reaches beyond Agile software development practices to include transitioning an entire organization to nimble practices and mindsets. Evolve to Servant Leadership.

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Change Agile Handbook Culture 52

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

The upside for achieving greater growth and revenue comes from the experience of greater customer engagement. As you chase for engagement, you seek customer experiences and this leads you to expect and look for growing market share. Zara’s store managers and employees are doing more than simply reporting what customers tell them.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 133

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

The upside for achieving greater growth and revenue comes from the experience of greater customer engagement. As you chase for engagement, you seek customer experiences and this leads you to expect and look for growing market share. Zara’s store managers and employees are doing more than simply reporting what customers tell them.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 120

Qmarkets

JUNE 16, 2017

A recently published report by independent think tank RethinkX suggests that by 2030, 95% of U.S. For example, in 2016 Ford began working with award-winning innovation management software vendor, Qmarkets, to engage their workforce and overcome their business challenges. From Selling Cars to Selling Experiences.

Industry 56

Industry Technical Review Software Review Disruption 56

Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Although product leaders can propose numerous ‘lean’ methodologies to experiment inexpensively with new concepts before fully engineering them, anything short of launching a product or feature and monitoring its performance over time in the market is, by definition, not 100% accurate.

How To 105

How To Data Survey Analysis 105

mjvinnovation

JANUARY 4, 2021

has arrived, and Touchless technology is here to stay Conference rooms have gone digital, and many meetings have become emails Education has lean on and improved Distance Learning. Fintechs use user-centric business models and frameworks like Lean and Agile. Business 4.0 A new way of doing business! UX Design and UX Strategy.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review Data 40

Integrative Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

As the study is in German only, some of its identified key trends and conclusions are going to be shared subsequently in translated form (quotes from the study report in Italic ). Accelerators : Programs for identification, selection of external startups and their support in the (further) development and scaling of novel business ideas.

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Trends Technical Review Innovation Disruption 58