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10+ Lean Blogs That You Should Be Reading

Kainexus

For a topic with so many authors, students, practitioners, and leaders, it’s probably no surprise that there are a ton of blogs about Lean - Lean manufacturing, Lean enterprise, Lean thinking, etc. It’s hard to list just ten, but I have a longer “ blogroll ” list and a separate list of Lean healthcare blogs that I maintain on my site.

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Use a Strategy Uncertainty Map to Find Clarity in Disruptive Times

Leapfrogging

Some people think being agile is a mindset. Assess each of your opportunities using two categories: External Environment and Internal Capabilities. For each of these two categories, determine up to three specific variables that are the most important success criteria for your organization. Forget 10-year visions.

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The law of diffusion of innovation

Idea to Value

As you probably know based on your own experience, there will be different groups of people who are more or less willing to try out new ideas or products, depending on how new they are to the market. Remember that the size or wealth of a company or individual doesn’t determine what category they fit into.

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A policy playbook for school innovation, given continued struggles for students

Christensen Institute

Bearing in mind the American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) Rick Hess’s adage that “policy can make people do things, but it can’t make them do those things well,” there are a variety of ways to categorize policies that attempt to spark novel schooling arrangements.

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3 education innovations to watch in 2024 (hint: it’s not just about skills and AI)

Christensen Institute

Great examples of effective broker roles do exist, but they aren’t really a category of innovations in their own right. Instead, promising approaches are buried in the giant and amorphous category of ‘student support’ or ‘ advising ’ and flourishing inside smaller-scale mentoring programs beyond schools.

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Guest Blog Post: How to plan for creativity; The power of divergent and convergent ideation

Betterific

Trying to diverge and converge at the same time makes people crazy and sucks the juice out of the creative process, leaving you with pale, lifeless ideas. Associate: Deliberately create new linkages between objects, ideas, events, people, or processes. (If you hate acronyms, feel free to ignore it.). Divergence principles – SWAMI.

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How much of a Challenger Brand are you? 

Brunner

Step one : R ate where you want your brand to be on the Challenger Spectrum, where 1 is we are happy to follow what others do as long as we do it well and customers are satisfied, and 100 is we want to be a brand that defines the category and has passionate fans. . Challenger focus questions . . those they?identify?in