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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. There’s been this tendency to kind of munge agile together with lean manufacturing and lean startup or lean innovation.

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Fears of those unknowns

Paul Hobcraft

We seem confronted with rapid change, and it is primarily within the business world related to technology and market uncertainty that is driving this. We need to counter “fear” with a different approach, recognizing most of what we feel might be the ‘unknown’ is actually ‘known.’

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The Failure of Innovation Training

Innov8rs

Yet lacking the first three ingredients, we all seem to focus on methods as the key to success. If we could only create the right mindset and skill sets in our teams, we would create the next billion dollar business. Innov8rs | Innovation departments are continuing to fail. You rarely win without a strategy.

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Beware conventional wisdom in innovation and digital transformation

Jeffrey Phillips

One of my favorite quotes comes from Shaw, who said that all change in life originate from unreasonable people. For innovation and digital transformation, perhaps we should be a bit more unreasonable. We need to define what digital transformation is, or what we think it is. We need to be thinking bigger.

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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. Who is involved in reimbursement decisions and how is approval achieved? But how can an enterprise organization re-invent product commercialization?

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The Right Way to Do Lean Research

Boxes and Arrows

Each panelist had made their mark on how design is done in start-ups: Laura wrote the influential O’Reilly book on UX for Lean Startups, and Todd penned the bestselling Rosenfeld Media Prototyping book. Mike founded an influential Lean UX community in San Francisco. . Below is Laura Klein expounds on these key themes of lean research.

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The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

It was not unusual to find PM’s who reported into Engineering at the time, the two cases perhaps reflecting the above origin stories. We were “pre-customer” and no, we didn’t IPO without customers. (We We were “pre-customer” and no, we didn’t IPO without customers. But don’t ask how many when we did.)