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".

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. The platform environment is mostly characterized by a tension between collaboration and competition of the participating companies, often referred to as coopetition. Culture of experimentation (and speed).

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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. Team self-management. What are the benefits of Squads?

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 27, 2021

Moving Beyond Crisis Management. We are all good at reacting and responding, putting out fires, and managing crises. Banks and the financial industry viewed Bitcoin as a crisis that needed managing and nothing more. When your focus is on agility and reactionary responses, you will always be behind the curve.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

From HR and finance to legal, IT, and facilities management, these functions are the backbone of business operations. As a result, they’re often referred to as “corporate antibodies,” stifling innovation and hindering “risk-taking” that might lead to significant progress.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Disruptive innovation, a subset of radical innovation, specifically refers to the process by which smaller companies with fewer resources successfully challenge established incumbents. It involves implementing new management practices, cultivating a culture of innovation, and restructuring teams to enhance collaboration and agility.

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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. We can also see how these approaches were precursors to larger movements in lean startup, design thinking, and agile.

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Innovation System LEAN Agile 130

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. I go through a whole list of the psychology of why managers don’t like being asked for permission to innovate in another article here.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2018

In this article, you are going to learn exactly what Loss Aversion is, why is creates crippling fear in middle managers and decision-makers, and a simple model for how you can reframe your company’s thinking which encourages more innovation projects to thrive. What is Loss Aversion?

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Leanstack

AUGUST 4, 2016

I spend a lot of time at the intersection of “business modeling” and “lean startup” and have been looking for the right category label to describe this type of work. After much deliberation, I’ve settled on the label: “Innovation Management.” The third step is lean startup.

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Innovation Management Management LEAN Innovation 52

Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

We all manage something or other, whether it’s other people, an entire organization, sales or even just ourselves. Managing suggests careful planning, a well-thought-out direction and a sense of control. What if we applied that definition of management to opportunity? Opportunity Manager Defined. Action, Not Reaction.

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Management Trends Disruption Agile 44

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

For insights into how top innovation keynote speakers can enhance audience experience, refer to our in-depth analysis in top innovation keynote speakers audience experience. They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

These expectations serve as a reference point against which the actual performance of the innovation can be evaluated. 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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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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Marketing LEAN Case Study Study 65

mjvinnovation

AUGUST 21, 2020

In fact, both are inserted within the sales context and refer to the levels of contact that customers require in order to gain confidence and close deals. Unlike high-touch, the focus of these customers are the search for automated solutions and a preference for ARUs (Audible Response Unit), voice and chatbots that offer more agile service.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 19, 2020

It will not have rigid management that gives little autonomy to its employees. if you recognized the reference to Bruce Lee here, you are right!). Design Thinking manages to understand the individual through a deep analysis that draws a panorama of all these vectors. It will not think of networks as a future state.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Is it always inherently risky to try to innovate, or can you manage risk by making smart decisions? These are import considerations to understand, but for our context of innovation, risk is very much synonymous with uncertainty, and can simply be considered to refer to all kinds of situations where the outcome isn’t known in advance.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 29, 2021

“Innovation” used to mean the difference between dictating trends in your sector or following the trail of your competition’s success, but today the term refers to a fundamental condition of existence for businesses in the volatile and demanding Digital Age. Remember Agile? How does MJV’s Process Management Consulting work?

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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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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The CoE internally brands their work, removing “innovation” from the description, unless referring to mindset. BRANT COOPER, The New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Entrepreneur and Disruption Proof and CEO and founder of Moves the Needle, is a trusted adviser to startups and large enterprises around the world.

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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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mjvinnovation

AUGUST 21, 2020

In fact, both are inserted within the sales context and refer to the levels of contact that customers require in order to gain confidence and close deals. Unlike high-touch, the focus of these customers are the search for automated solutions and a preference for ARUs (Audible Response Unit), voice and chatbots that offer more agile service.

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ITONICS

APRIL 4, 2018

Your task, starting with the management levels, will be to ensure a common understanding about the need for digital transformation as well as the right mindset. A = Agility: Agility stands for the ability to be flexible, proactive and ready for continuous market change and transformation in order to adequately react.

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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. This concept helps organizations “manage for current performance while maximizing future opportunities for growth.”. The entire business must transition to a growth driven organization.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. And management of operations is all about control. Management that says they want an innovative culture and then don’t make any investment in training, are just paying lip service. END OF BLOG POST.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Some of my links and references are here if you find the time and opportunity to delve a little deeper into my views. This requires an important leadership mindset shift from operator/manager to investor/entrepreneur”. I value Rick’s different experience perspective, it freshens up my thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

We are at a crossroads of determining if the management of innovation should change and if so, how. In this fourth post of an extended series I explore the potential for changing the management of innovation, this looks at transformation, our willingness and capabilities, on being capable of “ moving towards a new way of managing innovation”.

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KindlingApp

AUGUST 19, 2015

This is why the principles found in lean methodology have been so widely accepted and applied; the ability to be agile and adjust are the characteristics of top-tier organizations. Essentially, if your emphasis on speed increases, you can expect your risk of mistakes or loss to increase, too. DDP vs. Stage-Gate.

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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. Let’s sum up some relevant findings of these studies, making the case for dual innovation management: BCG: Most Innovative Companies 2014 .

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

It is, therefore, a revolution, as simplicity and agility in development are the hardcore of this approach. It is also interesting to think about this phenomenon from the viewpoint of the change of mentality, both concerning the professional developers as well as the project and business managers. More agile digital transformation.

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

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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. Leaders need to incentivize taking risks and manage performance based on progress toward impact, not return on investment from the outset.

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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.

Change 40

Change LEAN Innovation Project 40

Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas and Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas come to mind. Similar tools have been around for ages, by the way; used in lean manufacturing processes, Agile, kanban, scrum, etc. Like Lean Startup, the concept of a “value stream” also comes from the lean manufacturing world.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 16, 2017

Referring to the over 1 million deaths and 15 million injuries caused by car accidents globally each year, Schmidt speaking to shareholders in 2016 bemoaned : "How could you accept that? ECU (Engine Control Unit) - the processor which manages operation of the engine. Click here to register your interest in attending!

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Integrative Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

What is really important, however, is that the newly acquired skills also become an integral part of the corporation and penetrate into existing organizational structures through Lean Change experiments and viral infection. Recommendations for action: Company Builders. Company builders need entrepreneurial talents of the highest caliber.

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