Moves the Needle

MARCH 10, 2020

We are here to help you leverage Lean Innovation skills to (remotely) harness customer empathy, run rapid experiments, and de-risk decisions quickly with evidence, to build confidence for solutions to the very real issues you’re currently facing.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

From climate change to food shortages, from pandemics to lack of trust in our leadership and institutions, there's a lot keeping us up on our way to 2023. What and how to adjust to better and faster speak to our customers and meet their needs? So the question is not "why meet customer needs?"; Strategic Agility.

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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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mjvinnovation

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile. refers to the third generation of project management models, considered more suited to current business requirements in the context of Digital Transformation – toting more agile, lean, and modern management values. Grow structure.

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Planview

MARCH 18, 2022

What type of meetings do you prepare for? Most of my meetings are internal collaborations. For example, I have meetings with Product Development teams in Austin and Bangalore on a regular basis. These meetings are based on automation strategy for the Enterprise One product. Who do you typically collaborate with?

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Planview

MAY 5, 2023

The AWS ISV Accelerate Program provides Planview with co-sell support and benefits to meet customer needs through collaboration with the AWS field sellers globally. Regional teams used different work methodologies such as Agile, waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Discussion on the role of leadership in driving these changes successfully. About the Guests Meet Peter LePiane , the accomplished management consultant with a track record of helping organizations transform how they validate and launch products and services.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Susie shares what good leadership behaviour looks like, the problems with short-term thinking and how to carve out the necessary space for a strategic approach to innovation. Founder of Mulberry Retreats – focusing on leadership development. 14:00) On bad leadership behaviour and how not to fund projects. (16:00)

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Each category plays a critical role in a company’s growth and adaptation, offering unique paths to market leadership and resilience. It’s about introducing features, functionalities, or designs that meet emerging customer needs or tap into uncharted market segments.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. An innovation sprint is a 3-5 day intensive, experiential engagement that focuses on teaching participants Lean Innovation methodologies while making impact on real business issues. And that’s where this story begins.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

He’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats. As a successful technology entrepreneur he has a broad perspective on business and always has ideas about how to solve thorny problems.

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CorporateIntel

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sometimes I wonder if the advancing of age and a leaning toward old-fashioned values are a hindrance to relevancy in our contemporary workplace. It was bosses and colleagues advancing in age and leaning toward old-fashioned values. I think a bit of grounding is precisely what the doctor ordered.

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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.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Inappropriate meeting behavior that shuts down others, hosing collaborative work. Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Knowledge of frameworks like Lean, Agile, CPS and Design Thinking are essential.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. There are three main elements that intrapreneurs need to think about before they start working; Leadership Support Organization Design and Innovation Practice. This is a lesson I learned from making many mistakes in my own work.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Industry borders are blurring, there are increasingly smaller, agile and highly disruptive companies working to change the existing into the new preferred. Can you list the existing best practice, clarify its desired effects but does it meet the real needs?

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Better adapt, respond to, and be agile in fast-changing circumstances, uncertainty, instability, and to random and unexpected Black Swan events, like the global Covid-19 Pandemic. Respond creatively to meet the increasingly diverse range of customer expectations and choices being made around value.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, Jeffrey Phillips (Senior Strategy and Innovation Consultant) discussed what it takes to build an innovation capability for continuous innovation. Yet sporadic innovation is not enough to keep up with changing markets and evolving demanding customer needs.

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etventure

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When you join a roadmap meeting and you hear people talking about the “MVP”, you better make sure they are actually talking basketball before you throw in your favorite Michael Jordan story. The Challenges of Waterfall vs. Agile: Many companies have a careful method of product development – that is deeply embedded in their culture.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 7, 2023

By providing this type of ad hoc coaching, leaders can address challenges, answer questions, and provide timely feedback, without calling a bunch of meetings. Periodically observe behavior like agile ceremonies, without taking over. Embracing Leadership, Not Project Management Delegation is not about becoming a project manager.

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Planview

JUNE 23, 2022

Disconnected services, systems, data, and people make it harder for services organizations and leaders to meet their goals. Leadership Buy-In and Adapting Processes Top Down is Critical. Difficulty capitalizing on market opportunities due to lack of alignment, lack of employee engagement and/or leadership, and cultural issues.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

Three years back I took a view on what to focus upon in my innovation activities to meet client needs, they did seem to make sense at the time. The basics of innovation still form around building engagement, leadership, involvement, in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed, so as to allow innovation to evolve.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. This includes the various meetings, steps, and processes that make innovation happen. Training is how you accelerate innovation.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

New: A company cannot be faster or more agile than its core internal processes. These groups must not only continuously improve the services they supply their internal customers, they must also sometimes reinvent their processes in order to meet the challenges of the new world. This means finance. This means HR. This means IT.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It is not their fault, this is just what several hundred years of management education has ingrained in leadership thinking. This usually happens at set meetings, which might have several months in between. This is why Agile is becoming so popular for teams which need to rapidly iterate, such as in software-development or design teams.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Industry borders are blurring, there are increasingly smaller, agile and highly disruptive companies working to change the existing into the new preferred. Can you list the existing best practice, clarify its desired effects but does it meet the real needs?

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Commodore Innovation

MAY 13, 2020

Changing approach to innovation, e.g., a greater emphasis on lean/agile and the experimentation-based approach those imply, which will enable faster learning about a dramatically changing landscape. Your measurement system gets critical feedback to leadership. Communicate changes to innovation strategy early AND often.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Rapidly changing customer behaviours, disruptive digital technologies, and the emergence of agile fintech start-ups means that disruption is an ever-present danger. After discussing these challenges with TSYS, Above + Beyond, conducted a thorough search for a software solution that could meet their unique requirements.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Businesses cannot afford to just keep adding to the "noise" with yet another motivational speech, yet another business presentation, yet another board meeting, yet another how-to book, or yet another best-practices conference. This is where a properly designed Corporate Innovation program and structure come into play.

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Legacy Innovation Group

JULY 22, 2021

Those who are attuned to the trends of their day know the right turns to make, as so well evidenced in Satya Nadella’s leadership of Microsoft now. It also allows the organization to experiment in a lean and agile manner. The organization never has to ‘bet the farm’ on any one experiment succeeding.

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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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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

What if we identified and acted upon opportunity much in the same way as we might manage a meeting, a project or some other form of responsibility? No matter how agile you might be in putting out fires, constantly reacting to problems and issues is not only exhausting, it can become an unending cycle. Action, Not Reaction.

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

To get started, pose these questions to yourself, in one-on-one discussions with team contributors, or in team meetings: What are some things you have valued in your role and throughout your career? As the team leader, you may want to start by sharing something you’re grappling with at work and then lean on your team to help you tackle it.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

Three years back I took a view on what to focus upon in my innovation activities to meet client needs, they did seem to make sense at the time. The other real forces of innovation change in this relatively short period have come from a greater explosion of Lean Management principles and incorporating Design thinking into our work.

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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. The term comes from the English and is based on the Lean Startup Model by Eric Ries. Adapt or die. The place to be.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a prototype is worth 1,000 meetings.” — saying at Ideo. Agile teams can lose the long term direction by focusing on small sprints. The fastest way is almost always making pictures.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Perhaps there is a real mismatch between clients’ needs in aspirations and budgets and the available innovation consultants’ ability to match and relate to specific industry practice and scale to meet client needs. The one real change that is occurring is in thought leadership from consultants.

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