Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This alignment can result in a myriad of collaborative opportunities, from product development to new market entry. By integrating the agility and fresh perspectives of startups, established companies can adapt more quickly to industry changes and consumer demands.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Understanding Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) Defining Corporate Venture Capital Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) refers to the investment of corporate funds directly into external startup companies. By investing in startups, corporations can access new technologies, products, and services that can significantly enhance their competitive edge.

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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Intersection of AI and Innovation Management Defining Innovation Management with AI Innovation management refers to the process and activities that organizations use to manage and nurture new ideas into marketable products and services. It helps organizations to: Anticipate future trends and consumer demands.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking has become a cornerstone methodology in the worlds of innovation, business strategy, and product development. Teams can iterate designs with agility, supported by AI’s predictive analytics to forecast the success of design choices.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 7, 2024

They represent a radical departure from existing products, services, or processes, paving the way for new markets, industries, and value networks. It contrasts sharply with incremental innovation, which refers to minor improvements or upgrades to existing offerings. Here again, leaders have a critical role to play.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 23, 2023

Whereas disruptive innovation completely transforms the way we use or access products or services, incremental innovation refers to more frequent and iterative improvements to existing products, services, or processes. Incremental innovation has agility baked into it. It enables continuous learning.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The idea behind acceleration is not just to fund promising startups, but to compress years’ worth of learning and development into a few months. These experts offer guidance on a variety of topics, from product development and market fit to business strategy and operations.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

They mistakenly think the term innovation refers to only big, multi-year, heavy investment, ‘revolutionary’ changes. Which means they do not believe small changes over time, failing, learning and adjusting can or will have a meaningful impact. What mistake do companies often make when they talk about innovation?

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. When facing uncertainty, we need processes that allow us to optimize learning, not just execution. The process for determining this is based up on the framework known as the build, measure, learn loop.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Moreover, CVC initiatives can enable corporations to respond more swiftly to technological shifts by leveraging startup agility. This symbiotic relationship can lead to the development of breakthrough innovations that drive industry forward. Communication is key in this stage.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. Unfortunately the Build, Measure, Learn diagram is the cause of that confusion. Build, Measure, Learn sounds pretty simple.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

The result: development of a market-ready product ( lineup™ ) in a fraction of the time, and the confidence to apply their strengthened skill set to other areas of uncertainty. The list of work was developed based on internal assumptions of what customers needed. Is your Non-Profit looking to develop a new product?

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

And Agility For All. The first thing that you would notice about them is that people’s work revolves around a key concept, agility. Say, you are not an agile organization. If agility is, indeed, the oxygen to survive overtime, how can we inject more and more of it into your company? Or the accenture model.

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Boxes and Arrows

JUNE 29, 2009

The documentation needs are often based on the size of the project, launch date, team dynamics, audience, technology, and the product development process. Description of the Problem There are many product development processes and one that has garnered much attention is agile.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 15, 2016

I urge all worried or simply interested in understanding disruptive innovation to read these as an excellent point of reference. Distributed product development. It can become a really powerful starting point to look, explore and determine ‘your’ possible points of disruption.

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Strategos

MAY 5, 2016

While most of the client work that Strategos does is aimed at business model innovation, in recent years we have developed a principle-based approach to Management Innovation (see Mercy Salaz’s blog, Scope Creep ) and used this approach on several internal processes and practices such as product development. Engaging Employees.

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Leanstack

AUGUST 4, 2016

This build-first or investor-first approach is backward and what I refer to as the Innovator Bias. Metaphors are powerful because they help you transpose concepts from one domain to another, which is exactly what I did in describing a business model development process. The business model development process is no different.

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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. Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages.

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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. Develop, test and validate innovations outside of their core business. Integrate a number of the best innovations back into the core business in a reliable manner.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Just count the number of future-oriented sentences (not references to how innovative they are) in the CEO’s annual letter to shareholders (see sidebar). Most corporate business functions – new product development (NPD), quality, sales, R&D, marketing, etc. All too often, though, innovation theater is the result.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 12, 2015

For those who care about making data-driven business decisions, the challenge that presents itself is: How do we adhere to rigorous scientific standards in a world that demands adaptability and agility to survive? A type I error, or false-positive, refers to believing that a variable has an effect that it actually doesn’t.

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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. Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Nearly all that training is for dedicated innovation teams , or employees who are focused on new product development. And that’s a good thing. Who’s getting the training? END OF BLOG POST.

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