Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These words include adjectives such as "lean", "agile" and "rapid", to make the point that innovation should be stripped to its bare components, move as fast as possible and create minimum viable solutions. No amount of lean tools or agile methodology will change that. When can you move fast?

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 20, 2024

Methodologies like Agile, Lean, or Design Thinking may be integrated into this component to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. Culture and Leadership A supportive culture and strong leadership are crucial for fostering innovation.

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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. Co-Founder of Yellow Cat – an innovation coaching, consulting and training company. Founder of Mulberry Retreats – focusing on leadership development.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

The original process showed how an idea should first follow design thinking principles, before being turned into a solution using agile development, and finally being piloted and launched. As Peter Drucker famously said: What gets measured, gets managed. People are afraid of challenging the status quo if they do not feel psychological safety.

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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. to work so well in agile.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

He trains other facilitators on his methods. He’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats. Time for Q&A and a discussion on how to adapt the tool to your needs. Gregg knows several innovation frameworks, including Design Thinking and Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving (aka “CPS).

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

What You Should Be Learning in Innovation Training. Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). A lot of innovation training is happy talk, or super-wonky detail talk. Much innovation training avoids talking about the pitfalls that will absolutely kill your program.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Put the right people in the right jobs, and give them the training and development they need to do good innovation work. Develop real training to build skills. By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma. How do we find people who are good at innovative work?

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. And I have done it all – idea jams, hackathons, startup weekends, training workshops and innovation sprints. Leadership Support : Without explicit and visible support from our leadership, most innovation programs are dead on arrival.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Leadership Innovation Manifesto. This book by Nathan Furr covers tips and techniques learned from design thinking, innovation, and the lean startup business model which has grown in popularity in the last few years. This simple how-to book will help you develop your innovative, strategic, and creative leadership skills.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Discussion on the role of leadership in driving these changes successfully. Transforming two of Canada’s big five banks to a culture of innovation and agility. Creating leading-edge Lean Innovation and Agile training content delivered across Canada and at Queen’s University School of Business.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In last month’s blog , we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration, and described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed sustainable innovative workplace culture change.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. An authentic desire to improve or invent.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Elijah Eilert speaks to Andy Cars , the founder and CEO of Lean Ventures International, about the ISO standards for innovation management. 01:09) Introducing Andy Cars owner of Lean Ventures International AB. (03:52) RELATED INNOVATION WORKSHOPS & TRAINING. About the Episode. Topics and Insights . (01:09) contact-form-7].

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Planview

MARCH 18, 2022

Outside of the PD teams I have regular one-on-ones, community meetings and leadership meetings. Also, I am associated with Planview’s Employee Resource Group (focused on the Diversity & Inclusion initiatives for our international group) and with the Women@Planview Lean In Circles in EMEA/APAC. Best career advice you have received?

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The top-level leadership needs to emphasize what is the most important long-term goal on innovation and that employees should look for challenges, problems to solve supporting these topics. A creative solution is subjective, there are at least a million possible great and terrible ways to solve a creative problem?

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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. However, they may lack training in innovative thinking, creativity, and design thinking.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Jael has recently stepped down from a full-time corporate innovator leadership role in a leading FMCG company and started her own consultancy LevelUPPP to dedicate more time to supporting teams, leaders, and individuals to better achieve their goals in a sustained manner. RELATED INNOVATION WORKSHOPS & TRAINING. Connect with Jael.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Are your people trained in innovation process? If projects are sporadic or based on reactions to emergencies, then you need to be start scheduling projects like a train. If there is not, now is the time to get that cranked up, and get that innovation train on a schedule. Are your people trained to do innovation?

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Innovating with digital technology requires a blended approach, truly diverse teams, training, and new ideation methods. Get this alignment and mandate, or, risk projects stopping dead in their tracks due to lack of top leadership support, or, watch projects fail because of incomplete understanding of need states and technical possibilities.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 7, 2023

Periodically observe behavior like agile ceremonies, without taking over. Offer training, additional coaching, or external expertise to help teams head in the right direction. Embracing Leadership, Not Project Management Delegation is not about becoming a project manager. Increase the frequency of check-ins.

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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. There has never been a more critical time for financial firms to prioritize innovation. TSYS deployed A+B’s methodology in three stages.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Which is best? Can I blend frameworks? If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we? Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor. There is also a lot of yakking about culture.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

New: A company cannot be faster or more agile than its core internal processes. In order for them to take advantage of new technology, new techniques, new leadership skills. In many ways, they can actually lead the effort, if given the right mindset and training. I call this Horizon Zero. This means finance. This means HR.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Between what we describe as a “true” fluid strategic, systemic and learning anchored approach, which truly enables and supports people to “fail fast to lean quickly” and a short term, episodic “methodical” training and functional based approaches to innovation where people don’t have permission and safety to “fail fast to learn quickly”.

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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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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

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. Because they are willing to take risks, team members are often more innovative and agile than others. A team that values learning has: Regular team trainings. Innovators. and What if?

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Innovation Training. This one day course consistently receives high marks from innovation executives and training professionals. This one day course consistently receives high marks from innovation executives and training professionals. The emphasis of this training is a firm grounding in innovation concepts and best practice.

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David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product. Yet, due to their training, knowledge and openness, the world physicists immediately grasped the significance of Einstein’s work, and ceased upon it. Everything the leadership of Nokia and Blackberry failed to do. Think of the following analogy.

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Qmarkets

JULY 11, 2024

Engage Leadership and Stakeholders in the Innovation Strategy For innovation to thrive, it requires strong support from leadership and active involvement from key stakeholders. This can be achieved by: Communicating the strategic importance of innovation to the leadership team. Fostering a culture of innovation is crucial.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Agile teams can lose the long term direction by focusing on small sprints. Lean startups like to talk about minmum viable product as the smallest amount of effort to validate an assumption, but it is odd that they jump right into coding. Get feedback in a train station. The fastest way is almost always making pictures.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

However, in every case, it is beneficial for a company to look inwards and see whether their people, processes and leadership are acting more as innovation enablers, or bottlenecks. bringing to light inefficiencies which leadership would not be aware of). 9 – Understanding the science of creativity.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

This investment, including the attention of senior leadership, is needed, because it bucks the natural tendencies of employees. Support your innovators Provide training in iterative, experiment-rich approaches to innovation and new product development. Conformity smothers creativity. because most things don’t go to plan!

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Planview

AUGUST 3, 2022

There are three basic types of business transformation: Agile, digital, and organizational. Agile Transformation Creates Flexibility. Agile transformation reaches beyond Agile software development practices to include transitioning an entire organization to nimble practices and mindsets. Evolve to Servant Leadership.

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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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