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.

Innovation Management 52

Innovation Management Management Handbook LEAN 52

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. This often needs different perspectives to form the final position. These are the foundation to build innovation capacities.

Technical Review 174

Technical Review Innovation System Change 174

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. An authentic desire to improve or invent. but projects teach you.

Innovation 70

Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Put another way, it’s arbitrary to declare a feature that takes 1 year to develop and release “an incremental improvement”, or declare engineering work that takes 5 years to achieve ROI “incremental innovation.” New: A company cannot be faster or more agile than its core internal processes. I call this Horizon Zero. This means finance.

Disruption 52

Disruption Technical Review Marketing LEAN 52

Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. A two-engine operating model holds particular promise for companies looking to achieve flexibility, as well as higher returns from their innovation investments. Engine 2 efforts are disruptive and potentially game changing.

Disruption 100

Disruption Innovation Survey Study 100

Moves the Needle

JULY 31, 2018

We had the pleasure of co-hosting this amazing event with six-time entrepreneur David Binett i and special guest Kent Beck (one of the original signatories on the Agile Manifesto ), and the discussions held by each of these three innovation powerhouses was a sight to see. This was the primary topic of David’s talk. What’s the ROI?

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Meeting Underperforming Technical Team Innovation LEAN 66

The Inovo Group

AUGUST 5, 2019

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. Lean Startup, for example, focuses on the Process and Mechanisms while Effectuation emphasizes Mindset and Behavior.

LEAN 40

LEAN System Company Tools 40

Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Disruption Marketing 83

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Companies are great at improving their existing business model and value propositions, but fall short when it comes to inventing entirely new business models, value propositions, and growth engines. The latter requires speed and agility. Bad Habit #6: Senior leadership too busy for hands-on innovation.

Company 28

Company Innovation Agile Competition 28

Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture Disruption 72

Integrative Innovation

APRIL 7, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. A two-engine operating model holds particular promise for companies looking to achieve flexibility, as well as higher returns from their innovation investments. Engine 2 efforts are disruptive and potentially game changing.

Disruption 40

Disruption Innovation Survey Study 40

ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

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. Bezirk , a startup of crack engineering team inside Bosch figured that retail IoT is a great market that needs personalization.

Company 57

Company Technical Review Software Review Innovation 57

David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Engineering and product management would cooperate to produce a product that builds on the strength of the companies and provide superior experience. Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product. Everything the leadership of Nokia and Blackberry failed to do.

Industry 40

Industry Innovation Management Management Technical Review 40

Planview

JUNE 16, 2022

To help drive change and advance strategic objectives, organizations turn to enterprise-wide portfolio planning and delivery solutions such as Planview Enterprise One ® , which enables strategy execution, project portfolio management, lean portfolio management, product portfolio management, and enterprise architecture. Lavanya J.,

Technical Review 59

Technical Review Agile Resources Project 59

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” This was a very large and established tech company; its engineering organization developed the core day-to-day capabilities of the organization. Engineering continually felt overwhelmed.

Company 65

Company Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Project 65

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The view offered in this article suggests four pillars to be put into place: 1) A Committed and Engaged Leadership, 2) A Comprehensive Innovation Strategy, 3) A Sustained Mindset Shift and 4) A Comprehensive Tool Kit. Achieving a Committed & Engaged Leadership. You are revealing and creating the future, rather than planning for it.

Innovation 157

Innovation Leadership Strategy Strategy 157

ITONICS

APRIL 4, 2018

Examples for improvements could be changes in your organization, in the leadership, directly in the value chain, in the value-adding network with partners or at the interfaces to the customer or to partners. Here, a good change management and adequate leadership are essential. As a result, you can develop resulting fields of action.

Technical Review 47

Technical Review Agile Roadmap Competition 47

Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The fact is, companies must be more agile, understand their customers deeply, and make bold moves in order to survive. At the heart of this transformation mindset is Lean Innovation. In this training they will learn the basics of lean innovation and the reasoning behind innovation coaching. But, that’s not all there is to it.

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System Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Training 77

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review LEAN Innovation Disruption 42

ImagineNation

JANUARY 28, 2021

Reinforcing and validating the importance and role of collaboration, where a range of new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed innovative workplace culture changes, have emerged. Transform creative discoveries. Capacity to change. Role of collective mindsets and behaviours.

Change 59

Change Agile Innovation Collaboration 59

Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. The engineers went crazy looking for any possible reason why the chips were below quality. Forbes says innovation training is one of the 12 factors a company needs, to establish a more inventive culture.

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Training Innovation Technical Review Culture 45

IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

And it’s been focused on the one hand coaching and advising leadership, how to develop innovation strategies, how to measure what they’re doing within the organisation, sort of the beginning of an innovation accounting system, etc, processes and so on and so forth. And your company’s called Lean Ventures, right? .

Innovation Management 40

Innovation Management Management Innovation Report 40