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). If Frank refers to them as “red shirts”, Sean calls them "stage-relevant people". Easier said than done.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

The platform environment is mostly characterized by a tension between collaboration and competition of the participating companies, often referred to as coopetition. Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. Interactions are complex and unpredictable. Winner-takes-all dynamics play out.

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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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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! IDENTIFYING EARLY ADOPTERS AND TESTING ASSUMPTIONS Through a multi-month Lean Innovation Accelerator , NCARB received weekly coaching and monthly onsite visits.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The CoE internally brands their work, removing “innovation” from the description, unless referring to mindset. Leadership changes, but the new way of working endures. The team demonstrates how exploration increases the efficiency of execution and shines a light on successes. The core business wants more.

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Disruption Innovation LEAN Competition 40

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. Established players that continue to choose the familiar are at increasing risk of missing out.

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Moves the Needle

JULY 31, 2018

If you answered yes, you know exactly the type of occurrence we are referring to. This is commonly referred to as Product-Market fit. All too many times, David said, a “big idea” emerges, and you’ll gather your people, draft the business plan, bring a powerpoint to the finance team or leadership, only to hear them say, “Sounds great.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Lean Innovation Definition At Moves The Needle, we define lean innovation as “reducing waste in the discovery, creation, and delivering of new value to customers." We base Lean Innovation principles upon the 3 E’s of Lean Innovation : Empathy, Experiments and Evidence. Where design thinking ends, Lean Startup begins.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

The digitization might be specific internal processes, tools, or operational components, or can refer to a complete revamp of a company’s products and services. They are not agile. Leadership Mindset A company’s leaders are paramount in driving the organization forward. The term is not new.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

And we have to accept the fact that a byproduct of our pursuing lean, agile, capital-efficient experimentation like this in our Horizon 2 and 3 work will be a certain amount of technical and organizational debt that we'll have to work out later on, just as with any other new endeavor.

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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. To learn more, refer to our Engagement Page , or drop us a line here… Contact Page.

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Trends LEAN Marketing Learning 52

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. Established players that continue to choose the familiar are at increasing risk of missing out.

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Industry Trends LEAN Change 100

The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. It requires certain commitments and behaviors on the part of both company leadership and the strategic innovation group. Highlights.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

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. AO Innovation Leadership Starter Pack–Get Yours Today via Amazon. What do I mean when I refer to an opportunity manager? That’s an inescapable part of the job.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2018

In psychology and economics, loss aversion refers to people’s tendency to prefer avoiding losses to acquiring equivalent gains. To challenge things even more, for real innovation projects it is almost impossible to predict how likely the project is to succeed, as there is usually no point of reference to compare it to.

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Management How To Project Underperforming Technical Team 115

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes. Reference Doblin’s Ten Types chart and get a sense if your innovation projects are over-balanced in a particular set of types. Do your people know them?

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

The first time I was advocating the idea of a dual innovation approach, here also referred to as organizational ambidexterity, is now more than 5 years ago. Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Accenture: 2015 US Innovation Survey.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

The TRIZ acronym comes from it’s original Russian name, and in English it is often referred to as a “theory of inventive problem solving” or TIPS. bringing to light inefficiencies which leadership would not be aware of). Develop, test and validate innovations outside of their core business.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

The platform environment is mostly characterized by a tension between collboration and competition of the participating companies, often referred to as coopetition. Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. Interactions are complex and unpredictable. Winner-takes-all dynamics play out.

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Integrative Innovation

APRIL 7, 2016

The first time I was advocating the idea of a dual innovation approach, here also referred to as organizational ambidexterity, is now more than 5 years. Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Accenture: 2015 US Innovation Survey. Going about this issue particularly entails.

Disruption 40

Disruption Innovation Survey Study 40

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. Some of my links and references are here if you find the time and opportunity to delve a little deeper into my views.

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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.

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Technical Review Agile Roadmap Competition 47

Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Creative Problem Solving, aka “CPS” refers to the Osborn-Parnes model of Creative Problem Solving. And that’s a good thing. Who’s getting the training? Osborn was the inventor of brainstorming.

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Innovation 360

JANUARY 25, 2017

Hypothesis-based Innovation and the Lean Startup. If the hypothesis-based approach to innovation looks familiar, it’s most probably because it is closely tied in with two of the principles of the Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Through rapid and incremental iterations, startups grow more innovative, agile and disruptive.

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Innovation 360 Group

JANUARY 24, 2017

Hypothesis-based Innovation and the Lean Startup. If the hypothesis-based approach to innovation looks familiar, it’s most probably because it is closely tied in with two of the principles of the Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Through rapid and incremental iterations, startups grow more innovative, agile and disruptive.

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Change LEAN Innovation Project 40

mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Manage it with DevOps and Agile. But when it comes to listing methods to manage operations that double each year, references are becoming increasingly scarce. During this trajectory, two of our expertise areas were fundamental in keeping operations on track: DevOps and Agile Methodologies. Business Agility.

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