Idea Champions

JANUARY 23, 2024

Stevie Ray McHugh, Co-Founder of Idea Champions , is a seasoned expert in strategic planning, balanced scorecards, team building, lean manufacturing, and innovation.

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Creative Process Creativity LEAN Brainstorming 26

Innovators Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

While many leaders invest in innovation when times are good, it’s valuable to learn lessons from the lean times and leverage them to help us move forward, regardless of the economic environment.

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Technical Review Innovation LEAN Resources 59

Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

Factor 1: Forward-leaning orientation. This description of the forward-leaning orientation of prepared schools aligns with what the Tools of Cooperation theory describe as “leadership tools.” That groundwork is an essential precursor to having a forward-leaning orientation in a time of crisis.

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Technical Review LEAN Culture Agile 98

IM Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Peter recommends checking out Lean Change Management and gives a shoutout to Jason Little ! [05:23] 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.

Learning 52

Learning Analysis Agile Software Engineering 52

Innovation 360 Group

MAY 17, 2018

For over 18 years I’ve helped strengthen teams from large commercial insurance companies, investment firms, big commercial banks, and media & telecom agencies within continental North America, Europe and Asia. Area of expertise: Lean & Agile Management. Agile Engineering Practices. DevOps Practices. Business Strategy.

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Roadmap Agile Strategic Thinking 40

Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

He has worked in Retail, Finance & Banking, Telecom and Healthcare sectors. He has worked on technology projects and used Lean Startup and Design Thinking elements and principles to drive and transform process and project delivery and ensure they add value.

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LEAN Agile Brainstorming Design Thinking 40

IM Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Mention of financial models in sectors like banking and insurance that often require substantial upfront investments in unproven ideas. Transforming two of Canada’s big five banks to a culture of innovation and agility. Emphasis on the necessity of adapting organizational design, including funding models, to foster innovation.

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Learning Agile Culture Design 52

IM Insights

MAY 25, 2022

He has given keynotes, run workshops and worked as a consultant for several large organizations including Rabobank, American Express, Standard Bank, Unilever, Airbus, Pearson, Lufthansa-Airplus, The British Museum, Copenhagen Fintech and The Royal Academy of Engineers. He is also a regular contributing writer for Forbes. contact-form-7].

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LEAN Innovation Data Entrepreneurship 52

Your Ideas are Terrible

OCTOBER 16, 2016

You need to follow a Lean Startup process and test your idea with customers. Unfortunately the best prospects are recruited by consulting firms, investment banks, and hot tech startups. Nobody has “Lean Startup” or “Customer Development” skills. Running lean experiments & innovation sprints. Will customers pay?

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LEAN Software Engineering Innovation Design 96

Planview

JULY 22, 2022

As shown in this digital transformation in banking case study roundup, all businesses — including banks — have been forced to change and evolve with the times. For proof, look at how the banking landscape has changed over the past two-plus years. Banking Digital Transformation Case Study Examples.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Lean Innovation Definition At Moves The Needle, we define lean innovation as “reducing waste in the discovery, creation, and delivering of new value to customers." We base Lean Innovation principles upon the 3 E’s of Lean Innovation : Empathy, Experiments and Evidence. Where design thinking ends, Lean Startup begins.

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LEAN Examples Agile Design Thinking 105

IM Insights

APRIL 25, 2022

GroundControl works with clients such as DHL, Colgate Palmolive, Schiphol Group, and ABN Amro bank. MORE ABOUT THE COURSE Don’t miss an episode and sign up to our innovation blog for the latest on Innovation Accounting, Lean Startup and Innovation Ecosystem Design. contact-form-7].

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System Innovation Course LEAN 52

Mike Shipulski

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The best known method is the Lean Startup method. The Lean Startup is also quite good when money’s tight. And then there’s the VC/Lean Startup combo. A set of high potential projects run in parallel, each using Lean’s build, show, refine method to learn at light speed.

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LEAN Project Resources Learning 40

Open Innovation EU

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The Lean Startup (Ries). The Lean Enterprise. Citizen-Drive Innovation (World Bank). Please drop a comment if you would like one or more methodologies included in this overview. The list is almost random. Innovation Cycle (Avans). Focus stage: Growth Published: 2013 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2010 more….

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Open Innovation LEAN 81

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It is called Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution (L.I.V.E.) , and it is a completely new way to manage innovation projects & budgets which aim to provide a simple to understand and consistent way to assess progress for all projects in a company’s innovation portfolio. Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution).

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Project LEAN Management Innovation 241

Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

For example, many banks have gone completely online, while others, like Capital One, have created “cafes” instead of formal branches to interact with customers. Digital transformation has made it possible for organizations to create new products and services that meet the needs of their customers in new and innovative ways.

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Management Agile Software Design 52

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Are lean innovation and the Startup Way a failure in large companies?

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Disruption Technical Review LEAN Software Review 47

Brunner

OCTOBER 28, 2019

At the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia I worked on processing radio telescope signals from the 100m telescope, the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope. And I’ve been fortunate that along the way I’ve faced challenges that sharpened my research and problem-solving skills.

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Marketing Data Big Data LEAN 53

KindlingApp

JUNE 29, 2015

In his annual letter to shareholders , JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warned that “Silicon Valley is coming,” and that these hundreds of start-up companies are inevitably going to have a huge impact on traditional banking. However, each of the panelists had suggestions about how to drive change within the confines of a larger organization.

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Competition Comparison Industry LEAN 40

KindlingApp

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Startup swami Eric Ries’ essential book The Lean Startup defines a startup as “a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty”, which implies an essential element of innovation.

Entrepreneurship 40

Entrepreneurship Culture Competition Resources 40

Your Ideas are Terrible

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

In 2017 the corporate roster added Porsche North America and SunTrust Bank to the lineup from 2016, including Capgemini, Coca-Cola, COX Enterprises, InterContinental Hotels Group, and The Weather Company. The first BridgeCommunity cohort in 2016, which included 10 startups and five corporations, sparked nine pilots and proof-of-concepts.

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LEAN Meeting Training Leadership 51

Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 13, 2015

An organization begins to adopt lean startup and run rapid experiments. In one Lean Enterprise Accelerator Program we ran with a client, during the workshop an attendee said, “if compliance knew we were getting out of the building to talk with customers, they’d flip out.” ‘Talking to customers? What are you thinking?!’

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Guidelines How To Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 49

Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

Digital products in the hands of customers, such as banking, airline or music apps, represent the last piece of the digitization puzzle since many of the back-end systems and processes became computerized over the last several decades. Google Search Data for the phrase “digital transformation” from Google Trends.

Technical Review 74

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Technology Leadership 74

Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 27, 2016

He describes his evolution in this TED talk : The Dorchester Project is essentially a lean startup. Then a couple of years ago, for $1 he bought an abandoned bank building that was scheduled to be destroyed. Gates describes this project as “real-estate art”… Wait! Real estate?? This turned into a $3.5

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Culture Engagement 100

mjvinnovation

APRIL 11, 2019

For example, an app created by a startup can transform the client service of a bank. Here at MJV, we apply many methodologies, tools and approaches to the realization of open innovation projects – Design Thinking, Lean Startup/UX, Design and Agile Sprints, Digital Marketing, Hackathons, etc.

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Open Innovation Technical Review Innovation Innovation Processes 40

Qmarkets

MARCH 16, 2018

He began by working in Lean Manufacturing/JIT( Just in time) Kaizen group within the Boeing Company. To learn more about how Qmarkets can help you reinvent your business: About Steve: Steve has been helping companies with innovation for the last 20 years.

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Innovation Management Change Management Technical Review 69

Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

But in large enterprises, new leadership skills are required that empower an ethos of lean innovation, where employees are customer-focused, move with speed and agility, and seek market evidence for decision-making. Where does that leave us?

Underperforming Technical Team 83

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Disruption Marketing 83

Acuvate

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

However, the same investment may feel interminable for small incremental changes that may affect only a particular department or a small number of employees, especially if the organization strives to maintain itself as a lean company.

Industry 52

Industry Artificial Inteligence Analysis Data 52

Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using Lean methods. Two methods, Design Thinking and Customer Development (the core of the Lean Startup) provide the tactical day-to-day process of how to turn ideas into products. .

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Design Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Design Innovation 51

mjvinnovation

JANUARY 3, 2019

The Lean Method is vital to increasing productivity and delivering better value to the final customer. Find out how to avoid the 8 types of waste identified by the Lean Method below. A satisfied customer means money in the bank. Defects and Rework. Surplus Production. This is not really true however.

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LEAN Company How To Meeting 40

Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

But in large enterprises, new leadership skills are required that empower an ethos of lean innovation, where employees are customer-focused, move with speed and agility, and seek market evidence for decision-making. Stop hand-picking innovators and start spreading the entrepreneurial mindset. Where does that leave us?

Underperforming Technical Team 72

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture Disruption 72

Idea to Value

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This has been shown in research from academic tests in research labs where students without a time limit took significantly longer to complete the same tasks than those with a limit, logging crews who could be just as productive in two days as 7 days if that was the delivery window, and managers at banks.

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Project LEAN Creativity Examples 185

Qmarkets

AUGUST 12, 2022

Luckily, anyone can improve their creative output by leaning on a few tried and tested techniques. 8) Word Banks Similar to forced relationships, word banks are a tool that generates ideas by connecting words to one another. In doing so, the topic or problem will be broken down into bite-size chunks.

Idea Generation 98

Idea Generation Creativity Idea Management Ideation 98

Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

From start-ups to banks, design has never been more central to business. 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. Why is that fabled “seat at the table” so hard to find, and how can designers get a chair?

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Roadmap Design 94

Michael Roberto

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

CLS Bank International, made patenting software less effective. Andrea Contigiani, a researcher at the Mack Institute for Innovation Management and a Wharton doctoral candidate, assembled a fascinating dataset on the product development efforts at over 1,000 software startups.

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Product Development Software Study Marketing 20

The BMI Lab Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Lean startup, coined by Eric Ries and previously described in the book “The Four Steps to Epiphany” (2005) by Eric’s mentor Steve Blank, is singing from the same song-sheet. A study by the Danske Bank in 2018 showed that already 10% of all Nordic startups are so-called Impact-Startups, which address at least one of the SDGs.

LEAN 52

LEAN Innovation Technology Marketing 52

Qmarkets

AUGUST 11, 2022

Luckily, anyone can improve their creative output by leaning on a few tried and tested techniques. Word Banks Similar to forced relationships, word banks are a tool that generates ideas by connecting words to one another. You begin by creating a long list of words or terms that directly or indirectly describe a topic or problem.

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Idea Generation Creativity Idea Management Ideation 52