Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. His latest book, What a Unicorn Knows , is available on Amazon and reveals the secrets to building high growth startups. Here’s a Q&A with Matt that highlights the key points in the book.

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Tim Kastelle

JUNE 19, 2016

I’ve been running Lean LaunchPad programs for a couple of years now, and all along, I’ve thought that the number of customer development interviews that a team does is a good indicator of how successful they’ll be. Consequently, I thought that the magic in lean startup is customer development. I was wrong.

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

A brief history of the Continuous Innovation Framework The early scaffolding for the Continuous Innovation Framework was described in my first book: Running Lean. March 9, 2012 - Running Lean Meta-Process - Lean Canvas Continuous Innovation Framework 2.0?—?June Version History Continuous Innovation Framework 1.0?—?March

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Ever since Eric Reis published his bestselling book, The Lean Startup, the idea of a minimum viable product (MVP) has captured the imagination of entrepreneurs and product developers everywhere. The idea of testing products faster and cheaper has an intuitive logic that simply can’t be denied.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Lean is Dead. Long Live Lean! Twenty four years ago, James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos introduced our world to a modern understanding of the concept of Lean Production. Lean Production was, and still is, a profoundly powerful management philosophy for the mass production of uniform goods.

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Kainexus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

James Womack and Dan Jones are the founders of the Lean Enterprise Institute and the Lean Enterprise Academy (UK), respectively. Their book, Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation , is considered by some to be the bible of Lean manufacturing. A department can't exist as a silo.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 26, 2014

StartX , a nonprofit startup accelerator, recently devoted an entire day to the role of design in early-stage companies. Each panelist had made their mark on how design is done in start-ups: Laura wrote the influential O’Reilly book on UX for Lean Startups, and Todd penned the bestselling Rosenfeld Media Prototyping book.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Today was one of those times when an email dropped into my inbox stating that Palgrave Macmillan, the publisher of my latest book Charting Change is offering it at a ridiculous Cyber Week Sale price of $9.99 Every so often something comes through your inbox that seems too good to be true. on the USA.

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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.”

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

If you have an event and are planning to book an inspirational speaker , ensure that the topic highlights how creativity can be enhanced, at any age. The challenge is that for all innovation projects, it is impossible to know what the final solution or target KPIs will be once all the investigation, design and iteration is complete.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

Overall I found Lean UX to be an incredibly insightful and helpful compilation of principles and suggestions for practice/improving process and collaboration as outlined in my review of the book. Are there ways of, for instance, breaking into smaller teams for Lean UX while still tackling larger solutions that you have seen work well?

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 23, 2017

If you are new to Value Proposition Design, think of it as the third leg of a stool consisting of Lean Startup and Design Thinking as the other legs — all three are similar in intent and each provides valuable tools, arguably with Alex’s tools being most valuable to product managers who think like product leaders — or in my words, product masters. (..)

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Leanstack

JANUARY 10, 2019

A question I get a lot is: Why isn’t the Lean Canvas laid out more logically? Lean Canvas The main reason for this particular layout was legacy. Lean Canvas was derived from the Business Model Canvas. To compensate for usability, I published a suggested fill order in my first book: Running Lean.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

That is the case of Design Thinking , a structured approach to innovation. Keep reading to understand how you can implement an innovation culture into your company with Design Thinking! That’s because only the visible artifacts of organizational culture can be designed. Design Thinking applied to cultural transformation.

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IM Insights

MAY 25, 2022

Whether a sceptic or a fan of well told stories, the question arises, how do we best design a system that fosters evidence-based storytelling? Tendayi’s Books. Tendayi’s Books Connect with Tendayi. Tendayi recommends the book Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert.) . (08:00) Website / LinkedIn / Twitter.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 17, 2024

In the book, we’ve captured and summarized insights and takeaways from the 80+ online and in-person sessions we’ve hosted from September 2022 to August 2023. Here's what they shared. Here's what they shared. It's free, but great value.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 29, 2023

However, the rise of Lean Startup methodologies, popularized by Eric Ries in his book “The Lean Startup,” brought rapid experimentation to the forefront. To download this board click here Designing Experiments for Success All products ask people to change their behavior.

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Rapid Innovation in digital time

JUNE 24, 2021

Design tech products customers love, and that will work for your business! Inspired by Marty Cagan guides you in your way to attract the right people, to build the right product with the right process.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. The obvious place to turn is innovation approaches such as design thinking , rapid prototyping , and open innovation. Thus, if you hope to move the needle appreciably, you’ll need to design and validate an engine that will accelerate growth over time.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

It tied in quite nicely with the book I’m reviewing here. As sometime director of Design at Infragistics, I personally have had first hand experience trying to integrate UX into an existing, established Agile engineering process with large-ish teams. Enter the book. Lean UX has its own challenges.

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Innovation Architecture

MARCH 21, 2018

Of late, many have embraced the practice of collaborative innovation, with its application of social media to sourcing crowds and ideas, and design thinking, with its structured approach to vetting hypotheses about new business opportunities. The lean practitioner innovates their way to True North. I love these people. In the What Is?

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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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Christensen Institute

JUNE 2, 2022

There should be a strategic education reserve of systems and processes that in an emergency time a lot of people can lean on.”. There should be a strategic education reserve of systems and processes that in an emergency time a lot of people can lean on. But our infrastructure that has been in design for quite some time really thrived.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma. The creator of MCPS is Gregg Fraley, the author of the creativity book, Jack’s Notebook. Register now for the training , and stay tuned for the white paper and book about this new approach.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

The first business plan focused on creating a platform for a whole series of “Easy” online booking portals, like EasyCuts for hairstylist appointments and EasyPutts for golf reservations. We can also see how these approaches were precursors to larger movements in lean startup, design thinking, and agile.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Lean innovation is an iterative approach to moving from the unknown to the known. I prefer lean innovation as representing the desired learning behavior. It is the integration of human-centered design, rapid experimentation, and working agile. Brant Cooper is the author of the NYT bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur.

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IM Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Discover the fundamentals of what Eric Ries calls Metered Funding and how to design an effective incremental funding approach for innovation. . Otherwise, designing the first gate around desirability is probably a good bet. The Corporate Startup book provides one of the best ‘off the shelf’ solutions for creating scale gates.

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IM Insights

APRIL 25, 2022

Elijah Eilert is talking to Esther Gons , author of the Innovation Accounting Book , about the importance of having innovation accounting established as a second system within large organisations. Get the Book. Innovation Accounting Book Topics and Insights . (01:00) Innovation Accounting Book Topics and Insights . (01:00)

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The BMI Lab Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

While some of us will try to overcome the Zoom-Fatigue by disconnecting from the digital world and find inspiration in books or nature, others prefer to stay connected and enjoy good, insightful content to make the best out of their free time. If you want to find out more about our lean startup approach, check out our Launchpad.

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IM Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

Elijah Eilert speaks to Paul Orlando about his book Growth Units to discover how to best calculate Customer Acquisition Cost and Lifetime Value. Get the Book. 01:00) Introducing Paul Orlando and his book Growth Units , the foundation of this episode. Paul gives an example from his book. About the Episode. price per unit

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It was a myth perpetuated by popular books, canvases, academia, and consultants. The exploration expertise brought by innovation teams is designed to overcome such uncertainty. In my book, Disruption Proof, I describe 4 phases an organization might experience as they take on this people-centric view of digital transformation.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

13:00) Why it is hard to Pivot in a system that is designed for execution with siloed teams and different KPI’s. (15:30) 54:00) Early indicators and Jael’s book Life Happily Ever After . (56:30) 13:00) Why it is hard to Pivot in a system that is designed for execution with siloed teams and different KPI’s. (15:30) learn more.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). So book me: www.greggfraley.com. Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. If you don’t have Talent, superior talent, you’ll fail.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 29, 2015

These have been advances in technology, methodology or design- thinking and we do need to stop and think about how we could do ‘things’ differently by asking “what is possible?” The concept of human-centered design sets out a counterbalance which puts the human and social imperatives first and foremost.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.” If we start looking through these archetypes as lenses we might begin to ‘flesh out’ the needs to think through when we look at a whole system design for innovation.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

If you are looking for a deeper dive, Mastering Metrics is a solid book on the subject. I also recommend The Lean Entrepreneur , my last book, to help you bring the startup mindset to your organization. Brant Cooper is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Entrepreneur.

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Kainexus

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Edwards Deming and wrote the classic book Understanding Variation. I’d like to thank him for providing the perfect quote for a blog about process control charts because measurement, control, and improvement are exactly what they are designed to enable. Wheeler, PhD is a world-renowned expert in continuous improvement.

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