Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

According to Tom, streamlining our portfolio is the first thing to do in 2023 to increase customer satisfaction and speed up the overall innovation process. “If To assess the current portfolio, adidas periodically deconstructs every project through the lens of the Lean Canvas model. Strategic Agility.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwhile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

By mapping out each component, companies can identify areas for innovation and explore how changes in one area may impact others. Lean Startup Methodology The Lean Startup methodology , created by Eric Ries, emphasizes the importance of rapid prototyping, validated learning, and other iterative product and service development techniques.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

Robert Cooper in the Journal of Product Innovation Management. The paper outlines six key practices for accelerating new product development and innovations based on examples from companies representing various industries. Addressing Agile-Stage-Gate PPM Implementation Challenges. DOWNLOAD THE DATASHEET.

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

Which is why “Innovation is rewarded but execution is worshipped!” While most innovation management software makes it possible for teams and organizations to gather and iterate on ideas, the question you must ask is, how do you ensure the best ideas become reality? Document management. This is a major plus!

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

We can also see how these approaches were precursors to larger movements in lean startup, design thinking, and agile. The backstories of how great companies, services, and business models achieve success reveal a messiness that’s an inherent part of the innovation process.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Process Innovation Process innovation focuses on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of internal operations. It involves rethinking and redesigning business processes to reduce costs, improve quality, or accelerate production times.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

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.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve. Innovation is hard work yet we seem to make it harder because we “freeze” our understanding of it.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

The important aspect of the theory which most discussions ignore though is that while it is happening, management at the established companies think they’re making the right decision to let the new companies take over the low-end of the market. 10 – Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Idea Management.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

You need to demonstrate that innovation is not "a" strategy, but is a way to accomplish strategies - growth, differentiation, new line extensions and so on. In fact, every strategy, every business and every product should have an innovation component. Demonstrate that innovation can be purposeful, and managed through a process.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! ” — Guillermo Ortiz de Zárate, Chief Innovation and Information Officer, NCARB. Click here to download.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies? What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? This can help teams to break down the problem into manageable parts and generate creative solutions. What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies?

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Leadership Innovation Manifesto. This June 2021 release from Dr. Kim Hires is especially for innovation leaders and would-be leaders. In today’s world, management must be two things: better and different. Organizations that fail to adapt and innovate are often left behind. The Innovator’s Method.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. Interestingly, it looks like others support the idea of balancing and combining elements of both innovation approaches, too. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As the author states: As companies and agencies get larger, they start to value the importance of “process” over the “product.”… The processes act as constraints or barriers on the company as it tries to respond to the disruption they are facing right now. He does give a hint however when he states.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This deep-dive immersive course in innovation could change the direction of your organization – or career. A truly innovative culture? This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. Streamlined management of innovation projects. How do you get there?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should!

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Training Accelerates Innovation. 94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. 70% of CEO’s see innovation as a key driver of growth. Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals? Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation .

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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. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should!

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Disruptive Innovation is not a linear process. This is why we need to change a few aspects of the traditional innovation management approach to encourage employees to become intrapreneurs and drive more breakthrough results. We created a short video for you on this topic.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

One of the most controversial, and perhaps even misunderstood topics in innovation are the roles of risk and luck for innovation success. Do you have to get lucky to innovate successfully, or can you make your own luck? Is it always inherently risky to try to innovate, or can you manage risk by making smart decisions?

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 29, 2021

“Innovation” used to mean the difference between dictating trends in your sector or following the trail of your competition’s success, but today the term refers to a fundamental condition of existence for businesses in the volatile and demanding Digital Age. What does a process consultancy do? How does process consulting work?

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

When you are trying to create a repeatable innovation process, you can’t just start anywhere by doing random activities. As such, the first question for you to answer is – how ready is your company to support and nurture innovation? The annual targets and review process for bonuses makes it difficult to celebrate failure.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management. It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Innovation team leaders and project managers learn what it takes to keep cycles spinning from year to year.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

And worse, even if someone does manage to start something new, our management structure has so many financial, legal and HR hurdles that every initiative needs to match our existing business financial metrics, processes and procedures. More agile competitors are starting to eat into our business. What Drives Innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Unless we create a strategy to transform, how can we re-imagine our innovation processes? We talk so much about “innovation is critical” today and in our future, but is rarely achieved. We are at a crossroads of determining if the management of innovation should change and if so, how.

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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. And when you think of innovation transformation, there are many pieces that need to come together. But, that’s not all there is to it.

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Inceodia

MARCH 2, 2017

Both Agile and Lean provide blueprints for organizational culture designed to innovate. With Agile, the outcome is focused on the goal, which in the small retailer example is to establish a relationship. It also allows management to focus on a strategy of enabling goals, rather than micro managing execution.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Studies show firms that treat innovation as a science and manage and measure it like any other business function are more successful. Takeaway: Choose an innovation process and continuously measure and manage it. Take the following innovation management process for example. Programme manager.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

What started me on a given innovation “tack”was for a long time I have seen an awful lot of opinions, solutions, concepts that have been breaking down innovation into its many parts. The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.”

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The buyer might be a local owner or manager, or could be a corporate finance person who manages purchasing for restaurant chains. With an h/t to Tony Ulwick for his outcome-driven innovation process, Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) is a disciplined way of establishing customers’ needs in their quest to accomplish something, i.e., a job.

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KindlingApp

AUGUST 19, 2015

This is why the principles found in lean methodology have been so widely accepted and applied; the ability to be agile and adjust are the characteristics of top-tier organizations. This can, at times, conflict with a true innovation process because of the preponderance of unknown factors inherently involved when one innovates.

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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.” They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. An Innovation Process and Pipeline.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 7, 2015

Yesterday, I was quite delighted to see my post Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking ranked #11 of the Top 100 Innovation Posts 2014 at Innovation Excellence. In fact, the real power lies in combining different innovation approaches to fit a unique context. No one size fits all.

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