Moves the Needle

AUGUST 18, 2022

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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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I've been writing an occasional series on some of the fundamental building blocks for innovation success - at least those that I think are critical, intangible and often overlooked. All are important to understand and all are critical to successful innovation. There's another time that is also important.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

How do you know whether your Agile transformation is on the right track, or heading in the right direction? Understanding Agile transformation metrics for executives is key to proving the ROI of your Agile transformation. Read Next: Are these Agile transformation blind spots holding you back? Start with “Why”.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Is Agility compatible for many working in established businesses? “To To be agile” is often a badge of honor. Agility is today going far beyond just being responsive,it goes into constantly adjusting and being versatile, modifying to meet rapidly changing conditions. It is such a shock to the system.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Often our innovation activities face the same dilemma. Innovation needs time, it needs evolution and resolution but also speeding up. The need for innovation results has sped up considerably. Leans slows down and becomes increasingly burdened by fat being layered on, further down the innovation execution process.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Companies that embrace workplace innovation are better equipped to adapt, grow, and outperform their rivals. However, fostering innovation isn’t just about coming up with new ideas. To thrive, organizations need to adopt proven methodologies that nurture a culture of innovation. What is Innovation in the Workplace?

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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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eZassi

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Table of Contents What is Open Innovation? Types of Open Innovation Models Examples of Open Innovation Top 10 Best Practices for Open Innovation in 2024 What is Open Innovation? Open innovation is a forward-thinking strategy that emphasizes collaboration and external input to drive innovation.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 11, 2021

The Scaled Agile Framework is a methodology derived from agile methods, focusing on a project to disseminate agile thinking and practices in an organizational context, from management to teams. These are just some of the benefits of implementing a Scaled Agile Framework. How to implement Scaled Agile Framework?

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Qmarkets

JULY 29, 2024

An innovation pipeline acts like the lifeline of your company’s growth, channeling fresh ideas through a structured process to transform them into market-ready products. However, navigating the complexities of innovation processes requires strategic planning, expert involvement, and robust measurement techniques.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 20, 2019

This is where Lean Agile principles come into play. Keeping the Ball in Your Court: Understanding Lean Agile Principles. While being Lean means making the best use of what you have, being Agile means being able to adapt rapidly and flexibly to sudden changes. Lean and Agile principles complement one another.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Innovation within a large organization doesn’t happen by chance. In this article, we’ll explore several powerful innovation techniques—ranging from problem-solving frameworks and ideation methods to hackathons and structured innovation programs.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Innov8rs | Innovation departments are continuing to fail. Of course, innovation projects are supposed to fail in great numbers, but the idea of a corporate innovation department itself is under tremendous pressure. You can’t create winning innovations without people, money and time. You rarely win without a strategy.

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mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Where DT can’t reach, Agile can compensate and vice versa. Agile: Make Tangible and build. Since you have a well-defined idea (through Design Thinking), Agile will clear a path towards your idea by removing obstacles that stand in your way. Agile: you do not make Agile; you become Agile.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation. He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Drag is the resistance of air against a moving object.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

Choosing new innovative approaches to counter the fear of Business Contagion. What has been changing in how we approach innovation, and have we taken the opportunity to radically revise the innovation system and process accordingly? We need to put to use a different innovation model or approach. In my first post.”

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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! The result: development of a market-ready product ( lineup™ ) in a fraction of the time, and the confidence to apply their strengthened skill set to other areas of uncertainty.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Lean is Dead. Long Live Lean! Twenty four years ago, James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos introduced our world to a modern understanding of the concept of Lean Production. Lean Production was, and still is, a profoundly powerful management philosophy for the mass production of uniform goods.

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Qmarkets

MAY 29, 2024

Innovation is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge, yet many enterprises struggle with disjointed efforts that don’t deliver consistent results. The key to overcoming this challenge lies in leveraging an innovation ecosystem—a strategic approach that aligns all innovation activities with the company’s objectives.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This is especially true for venture and innovation teams, who let’s face it, many of whom had a very tough 2022. With the global economy stalling and fear of an upcoming recession, many companies have significantly slowed their investments into new innovation teams. Ensure everyone in the organisation still feels creative.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

“We want to be the OpenTable of X” (with X referring to a market outside of dining) became a familiar phrase in Silicon Valley following the company’s market success, and remains so today. Even though this was over 20 years ago, OpenTable’s “backstory” demonstrates tried and true practices for innovators that remain important today.

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Daniel Burrus

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Many employees and executives alike experienced and vividly remember the recession following the housing market crash in the mid to late 2000s. We want to be agile, reactionary, and cautious — It is a primordial instinct in many. But by combining it with anticipation, agility can and does serve a quantifiable purpose.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 14, 2024

Innovation is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge, yet many enterprises struggle with disjointed efforts that don’t deliver consistent results. The key to overcoming this challenge lies in leveraging an innovation ecosystem—a strategic approach that aligns all innovation activities with the company’s objectives.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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 do need to ‘lean in’ on many specialists and experts to help us, not just business consultants! As well, and ask, are we really interested?

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There are a few things I'd like to comment on about this announcement, but what is really interesting (at least from an innovator's point of view) is that we get to have a live experiment about the innovation capabilities and capacities of three sister businesses, all entering the market at the same time. We've got a doozy.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 3, 2019

For quite some time we've been hearing about how important it is to do things quickly, with many new adjectives placed in front of the word "innovation". What has worked in more traditional settings - manufacturing, process improvement, etc - is now being applied to innovation. That is, not everything in innovation should move quickly.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Do companies know how to innovate? Should innovation be part of an individual’s job title? Does a company even need to innovate? Most big companies think technology when thinking about innovation, regardless of whether or not they’re technology companies. Marketing tends to have their own way of talking about innovation.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 11, 2020

Is your company aligned with the new direction that the energy market is heading towards? Energy market: the future is knocking. To win over 100% of their digital consumers, companies must become increasingly agile and innovative. An Open Energy scenario arises in which micro markets become possible.

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Business and Tech

JUNE 24, 2022

As a startup entrepreneur, you wear all the hats — sales, marketing, fulfillment, invoicing, accounting, and business strategy, to name just a few. Your spouse and friends likely do not understand the depth of the issues you face; the pressures to compete, innovate, get funding, or simply meet payroll.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 29, 2019

Agile Frameworks help the business team experience an Agile mindset in practice. With Agile Frameworks, business processes become more dynamic, staggering business values and productivity. 5 Most used Agile Frameworks. Lean Startup. Different segments can benefit from Lean Startup. Where to apply.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

At its heart, business model innovation is about change. Business model innovation is about drawing a new map that shows the current landscape, with all its new opportunities and challenges. What Is Business Model Innovation? It’s a way for businesses to look at what they do and ask, “Can we do this differently?”

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etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.” The Proud Leader.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

The same is true for innovation within an organization. Innovation process models serve as navigational charts, guiding businesses from idea inception to successful execution. What is an Innovation Process Model? What is an Innovation Process Model?

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It advocates: Determine a Use Case for the new technology or approach Train people to be more proficient users of the new technology Start small - find small successes This advice was true for the following list of management concepts: ERP Lean Agile Six Sigma Doing business on the internet and I suspect many, many more.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Every successful company has one thing in common: a deep-seated commitment to innovation. It’s the secret sauce that has transformed startups into tech giants and turned traditional businesses into market leaders. Radical innovation is about making significant leaps forward, often creating new industries or reshaping existing ones.

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ITONICS

AUGUST 15, 2017

We offer a training to become an Agile Innovation manager in cooperation with our partners from Innovation Alliance. This modular training program ensures that you benefit from the Innovation Alliance’s many different fields of expertise and leads to the title of Agile Innovation Manager. You will ….

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ITONICS

MARCH 14, 2017

We offer a training to become an Agile Innovation manager in cooperation with our partners from Innovation Alliance. This modular training program ensures that you benefit from the Innovation Alliance’s many different fields of expertise and leads to the title of Agile Innovation Manager. You will ….

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