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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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. Read until the end of this article and learn our step-by-step system to implement SAFe in your company! What is SAFe?

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

A mission-driven, agile culture that prioritized relationships was also a common feature of prepared schools. The last two years have been tough for K–12 schools and educators, but these challenging times have not been without their bright spots—and there’s much to learn from them. Factor 1: Forward-leaning orientation.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like. And one of the most important ways to have facilitate this in your projects is to ensure you have clarity and alignment from the very beginning on what the definition of success is for all teams.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Learn more about design thinking in this guide. Lean startup method Lean Startup is another source of many activities and exercises in a customer-focused approach to innovation. In the same wheelhouse as design thinking (and agile), a lean startup approach offers a way to quickly ideate, test, and create prototypes.

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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.”

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 3, 2019

The Agile manifesto. In 2001, the “ Manifesto for Agile Software Development”, was published, which gave popularity to the term ‘Agile’ and marked the beginning of the application of light software development methods. Understanding Agile methods. The benefits of the Agile Methodology.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Of course, innovation projects are supposed to fail in great numbers, but the idea of a corporate innovation department itself is under tremendous pressure. Too many projects lack concrete outcomes and stubbornly refuse to discuss ROI. I am a strong believer and advocate of agile, design thinking, and lean startup.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

When you select a speaker whose expertise aligns with your company’s goals, you create a unique opportunity for growth and learning. Demonstrating how to embrace failure as a learning opportunity. Embracing Failure and Learning A culture that accepts failure as a stepping stone to success is more likely to innovate effectively.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

We all know that agile methodologies are not written in stone. In reality, we are talking about a set of practices that should be used to manage projects and demands to adapt to changes and gain efficiency quickly. The practice is very common within agile logic. Scrum is a framework used to manage projects or teams.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Experiential Learning Accelerates Innovation. New Study: Drawing is the Fastest, Most Effective Way to Learn. I read with interest an article stating that drawing accelerates learning. Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. Yes, drawing accelerates learning.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. Q&A from Accelerating Innovation: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic. Addressing Agile-Stage-Gate PPM Implementation Challenges.

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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. Moving quickly without important context is just failing faster, and failing without appropriate learning.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

Accelerate the Momentum of Work and Life Projects With Focused Creativity. As you learn more MCPS thinking tools, creative power grows. It’s easy-to-learn, immediately useful, and only gets more powerful as thinking shifts towards more focused, improvisational, and creative, problem solving. Everybody is creative.

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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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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

JULY 26, 2022

But then the pandemic happened, creating a domino effect of disruptions that we are learning to accept as part of daily life. We’ve learned to write our plans in pencil, and to keep our erasers nearby. What many companies learned is that “cutting all contractors” is not the same as cutting “unnecessary” expenses. Sound familiar?

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. He’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats.

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Inceodia

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The outcome from human centered innovation is increased learning about the customers you serve and how you can solve the problems they are facing. The Human Centered Innovation Learning Loop is an exploration into discovering customer problems and potential solutions, with knowledge as the desired outcome. An Agile Business Strategy.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Here are some of the many ways you can use Instant Coffee: Brainstorming Incremental Planning Story Mapping Lean Coffee Impromptu Meetings PI Planning Retrospectives SWOT Analysis Standup Meetings. Incremental planning is a process many organizations use to break longer-term initiatives into smaller, more actionable projects.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How can I learn design thinking? What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies? What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? How can I learn design thinking? These can be a good starting point to learn more about design thinking and its applications.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. The result will be: a new, Lean version of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Here’s how.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This new management method makes it nearly impossible for innovation teams to fail at delivering multiple challenging innovation projects faster, with less risk and lower required budgets. Most innovation experts often say that traditional management processes are not the way to run innovation projects. And this is true.

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Open Innovation EU

MARCH 30, 2016

The course was based on the following model: The following list is a selection of the business cases they found, mostly based on the Lean Startup, Lean Enterprise, Corporate Entrepreneurship and agile/Scrum – all available freely and online for use at your disposal, so I decided to share them with you.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. A new book by Silicon Valley tech veteran and innovation advocate Ann Mei Chang, Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good explores the unique challenges that can deter social innovation. Corporate philanthropy. Benefit corporations. Sounds ideal.

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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! NCARB teams learned how to proactively reach out to customers to deeply understand them and to design quick experiments for testing potential solutions before building them.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The lure of digital transformation, and the excitement over the Internet of Things, machine learning and so forth is tangible. What we should be talking about is simply transforming our businesses, from large, static, slow-moving, monolithic and unresponsive to agile, insightful, creative and responsive organizations.

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Planview

MARCH 24, 2016

Getting (and retaining ) buy-in from decision makers for innovation projects is often the stumbling block that many a corporate innovator and intrapreneur faces. GE managed to cut cost of market validation by 80% using the lean startup methodology. Measure Learnings, Not Dollars. Work Within Risk Boundaries.

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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. A couple of days after having had published my post, Paolo Lorenzoni from IDEO confirmed the complementary nature of Lean Startup and Design Thinking. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Even organizations large and small have learned how to be lean and agile while executing a strategy at a high level. To thrive in this new age of hyper-technological disruption and change, it is imperative to learn a new competency: Becoming Anticipatory. That may sound impossible, but it’s not.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation? These recent classics are just as useful and practical to professionals looking to learn innovative methodology and approaches. The Lean Startup. Find it here.

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Planview

MARCH 24, 2016

Getting (and retaining ) buy-in from decision makers for innovation projects is often the stumbling block that many a corporate innovator and intrapreneur faces. GE managed to cut cost of market validation by 80% using the lean startup methodology. Measure Learnings, Not Dollars. Work Within Risk Boundaries.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

After all, most (probably 90%) of all innovation projects undertaken in large corporations are reactive projects trying to respond to a market threat or competitive move. Next, find the best people to do innovation work and give them the skills necessary to lead and conduct innovation projects.

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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.). Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). But you probably are not!

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Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

Many innovation teams are so concerned with being agile and entrepreneurial that they spend precious little time understanding where to point their efforts. Having “the usual people” working on an innovation project is a surefire way for it to fall into committee and go nowhere. For a moment, let’s adopt a pessimist mindset.

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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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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 7, 2023

The problem is that it also makes the leader a project manager. The team ended up finding several “quick fixes” that improved onboarding time marginally, while also scheduling empathy interviews to learn what might drive more pronounced increases. This approach cultivates a culture of learning and growth within the team.

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