Viima

AUGUST 31, 2023

40 years later the Six Sigma methodology is as popular as ever, with new variants and adaptations, like the Lean Six Sigma, making it more versatile for other industries and types of organizations as well. Research says that Six Sigma has saved companies over $400 billion. One can only wonder: is this yet another gold rush?

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LEAN Tools Training Project 92

Kainexus

AUGUST 11, 2023

Lean manufacturing is a systematic approach to optimizing efficiency and eliminating waste by empowering employees and streamlining processes, ultimately delivering maximum customer value. Continuous improvement is the relentless pursuit of incremental betterment through iterative refinements and innovative adaptations.

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LEAN Engagement Innovation Leadership 72

Leanstack

APRIL 26, 2021

In this post, Alejandra shares her perspectives on when and how to incorporate lean, agile, and design thinking into your product lifecycle. I have been applying design-led strategies that combine agile and lean for almost 10 years, and while they work, they needed to provide more solid evidence for decision making.

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Design Thinking LEAN Agile Design 145

IdeaScale

JULY 24, 2023

All of these strategies fall under the Agile umbrella, and in this article, we will compare four of the most popular project management strategies. While the Agile methodology is really helpful for structuring teams and creating an efficient workspace, there are many different branches that each take their own approach to project management.

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Agile Project Management LEAN 130

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In this article, the authors outline five strategies to help you get back in touch with your gut instinct: 1) Lean on your team. It can be disconcerting to feel that your intuition isn’t working the way it should. What happens when, as a leader, you feel your intuition is suddenly failing you? 3) Stop multitasking.

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LEAN Strategy Strategy Leadership 115

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

AI already is being used in some areas of process improvement, and the usage of this technology — including generative AI — promises to grow. That’s because it can perform tasks faster and much less expensively than humans alone. But it will never fully replace people — and that poses management challenges.

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Generative AI LEAN Technology Management 121

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2024

By leaning into transparency, eschewing rebate schemes, and cutting out middlemen, this nonprofit is able to significantly lower the market price of insulin.

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LEAN Marketing 90

The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The ‘Lean Startup’ meme has permeated the business world in the past few years. The author points out several issues with the lean startup ‘mentality’ more than the process itself. The article is an antidote to the ‘feel-good’ Lean Startup literature out there. Original Article ». Not only for startups.

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LEAN Agile Company Innovation 40

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

As I read in a wonderful WIRED article : Remember Libra, Meta’s ambitious plan to enter the cryptocurrency market? Lean innovation validation & execution ). But this was not the problem. Or Lasso, Meta’s ambitious attempt to outdo TikTok? This is how you continue to fill your innovation pipeline.

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Project LEAN Resources Leadership 241

Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle. How Lean Innovation Re-Invents Product Commercialization Production As discussed above, in most companies, product development is considered “pre-commercialization.”

Product Development 75

Product Development LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Marketing 75

Innovation Leader

JUNE 29, 2016

Our 83-page downloadable report is filled with advice, case studies, articles, interviews, and results from our recent survey of Innovation Leader members on lean startup deployment.

LEAN 40

LEAN Case Study Survey Report 40

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. Your subtitle refers to “lean” principles; I’m assuming they respond to these restraining forces? Strategic Speed Constant Experimentation Accelerated Value Lean Process Esprit de Corps 6. But they are manageable.

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 130

Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Lean Innovation Case Study: Bringing a New Product to Market Don’t have time to read the whole article? This is the story of how Edmunds.com used Lean Innovation practices to make their mission a reality. Eventually, they determined that Lean Innovation principles would be the best way to tackle this uncertainty.

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LEAN Case Study Study System 58

Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Anyone who has ever attended Lean Startup Conference (previously known as Lean Startup Week) in the past knows that this annual event regularly features invigorating speakers that divulge the newest insights and innovations in modern management for a wide array of industries and company types. Click to Tweet.

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Conference LEAN Culture Learning 45

Moves the Needle

AUGUST 2, 2018

You can use Lean Innovation techniques -- Empathy, Experiments, and Evidence to ensure the driving force is sustained through the integration. Lean Innovation empathy work is a great way to understand the human side of acquisitions and again, this is from both sides of the table, acquirer and acquiree.

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LEAN Technical Review Innovation Culture 40

Qmarkets

JUNE 20, 2019

This is where Lean Agile principles come into play. Keeping the Ball in Your Court: Understanding Lean Agile Principles. This process can lay solid foundations for sustaining In the context of sport, something analogous to the Lean process would be to create new team compositions that compensate for the absence of injured players.

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LEAN Agile Resources Management 40

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers. Day, a Professor Emeritus at the Wharton School of the University of Pennslyvania, along with Gregory P.

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Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 318

Innovation Excellence

MARCH 27, 2019

Astrid Froment created Kangaroo Fund, an open innovation Fund for the 18,000 Pernod Ricard Employees, and an intrapreneurship program adopting experimentation & lean Start Up. Following my article on “Dare to be difference makers”, I.

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LEAN Learning Open Innovation Innovation 65

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2023

Lean on your mentors and colleagues and keep the naysayers at bay. If you feel like you can’t catch a win or move ahead on a project, it’s time to adjust your mindset. Celebrate even the smallest of wins. Remember that the tiniest win can catapult you ahead.

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LEAN Project 98

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

MARCH 8, 2024

Readers & Writers: To contribute your own content and to browse amazing content – including articles/blogs, books, interviews, podcasts and videos, from our opt-in B2B thought leader, analyst and influencer community – Join Thinkers360 today ! Thinkers360: Tell us a bit about your background and areas of expertise.

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Leadership Marketing Project Management 52

Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I thought that when I read the article entitled 3 Steps to Gear up for AI and the future of work. Training The article also advocates training. First, training is the first corporate expense to get cut in lean times. When everyone is doing them, it's time to make bigger bets. There are a couple of reasons for this.

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Training Tools Innovation LEAN 179

Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

By leaning into uncertainty, we have a better chance of reducing fear. More articles from Soren Kaplan. The paradox is that when we accept the fact that we don’t have full control over many of life’s events, we tend to feel like we’re in more control. Replace Pessimism With Calculated Optimism. We stay grounded and we make decisions.

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LEAN Marketing Disruption Study 130

Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

In this article, we’re going to explore why changing your business model is crucial in today’s world. Lean Startup Methodology The Lean Startup methodology , created by Eric Ries, emphasizes the importance of rapid prototyping, validated learning, and other iterative product and service development techniques.

Software 52

Software Innovation Innovation Management LEAN 52

Idea to Value

APRIL 12, 2022

For example, Scott Anthony (interviewed on the podcast here ), summarised his views in a 2012 HBR article about which companies might benefit from moving first: If you are what Professor Steven Spear calls a “high-velocity organization” that is always learning and improving, there are real benefits to moving first.

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Strategy Strategy Technical Review Innovation 257

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes. Enhance your understanding of the key topics covered by innovation keynote speakers by visiting our article on innovation keynote speaker key topics and content.

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Innovation Leadership Ideation Innovation Processes 113

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. jaguar/lean-production/.

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Entrepreneurship LEAN Case Study Agile 70

IM Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Peter recommends checking out Lean Change Management and gives a shoutout to Jason Little ! [05:23] Creating leading-edge Lean Innovation and Agile training content delivered across Canada and at Queen’s University School of Business. Understanding human behavior is therefore crucial.

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Learning Analysis Agile Software Engineering 52

Kainexus

JANUARY 23, 2024

This article explores the key benefits of business process improvement and provides guidance on implementation. How can businesses effectively balance innovation with the requirement for established, efficient processes?

Management 74

Management Competition Innovation LEAN 74

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers. The level of careful dissection of failures and cues from rapid prototyping, frugal experimentation, and lean methodologies was strong.

Innovation 130

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers. The level of careful dissection of failures and cues from rapid prototyping, frugal experimentation, and lean methodologies was strong.

Innovation 130

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

IM Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Connect with Matt Living Literature Review / Website / LinkedIn / Twitter: @mattsclancy Topics and Insights (01:00) Introducing Matt Clancy (01:30) Explaining this episode’s format that is guided by Matt’s articles/publications. Matt will summarise a finding before Elijah asks questions and discusses the content. (02:00)

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Entrepreneurship Policies Study Innovation 52

Planview

JULY 15, 2022

However, our discussion with Dr. Cooper mainly focuses on three of those six practices: Effective Portfolio Management Lean Development Agile Stage-Gate. Dr. Cooper suggests combining elements from Lean methodologies (value stream mapping) and Agile methods (incremental and iterative) in his paper.

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Product Development Agile LEAN Survey 52

mjvinnovation

JUNE 11, 2021

Read until the end of this article and learn our step-by-step system to implement SAFe in your company! Learn more about these and other features in our article What is SAFe and how it works. The objective here is to build a specialized hub that references organizations in relation to agile and lean management methods.

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Agile LEAN Training Management 52

IdeaScale

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Today, all modern lean manufacturing processes use this method in everyday operations. Kanban paved the way to modern lean manufacturing strategies in the automobile industry, and beyond. This article is a guest post by Joe Peters. In 1896, he implemented the first method into TPS: The autostop feature.

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System Crowdsourcing Ideation How To 100

Kainexus

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This article provides a comprehensive look at the most popular process improvement methodologies that are helping companies increase profitability, employee engagement, and customer satisfaction. Structured process improvement techniques have been developed to help organizations reach these critical goals.

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Study Competition Engagement Company 90

mjvinnovation

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile. In this article you’ll understand what Management 3.0 It is clear that the scalability factor, so contemporary of lean teams and popularized by startups, could not be left out of the Management 3.0 As the name implies, Management 3.0

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Management Agile LEAN Guidelines 59

Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues. To get started: Run internal lean startup hackathons, where the process rewards iterative learning over solution building. Don’t pitch solutions, pitch evidence.

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LEAN Company Underperforming Technical Team How To 75