Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The framework I developed and use with clients is called the Lean Innovation Validation & Execution management (L.I.V.E.) Fortunately, if there is one positive aspect that has come out of the coronavirus pandemic, it has been companies and people becoming comfortable with the technologies required for remote working and collaboration.

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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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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This is the story of how SAY San Diego is using Lean Innovation to create real, powerful change in their community. For SAY San Diego, we ran two Lean Innovation Bootcamps and Accelerators , and facilitated a two-hour leadership session in order to begin shifting their culture from status quo to value creation.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Since 1987, Idea Champions has been designing and facilitating a wide range of brainstorming sessions, creative thinking trainings, and innovation workshops for more than 130 organizations in 11 different countries. During that time, we have worked with just about every industry on planet earth and every kind of mindset.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Traditionally the practice of design thinking has involved bringing people together in a physical space to share their customer insights, brainstorm ideas with countless post-it notes, and work together to create prototype concepts of new solutions to then iterate and evolve with customer feedback. Making Remote Teams Work.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 2, 2021

By being able to zoom in or out on various stages of your issue or idea, you can better collaborate as a team and effectively develop a solution to the challenge at hand. Lean Coffee: Focused Meetings Template. Many organizations are now relying on virtual meetings to communicate and collaborate with their teams.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This shift not only democratizes the organizational process but also nurtures a culture rich in collaboration, innovation, and shared responsibility. It’s been so successful that it has inspired the Lean Manufacturing movement worldwide. But what makes bottom-up systems so integral in the contemporary corporate world?

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 7, 2023

Teams and their leaders should collaborate to define their missions, outcomes, and metrics that measure progress toward the desired result. Understanding these will help set the foundation for increased collaboration, improved productivity, and ultimately, growth. This often feels like the quickest path to getting going.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This data can serve as a helpful brainstorming tool to develop new department goal ideas. Agree on a Goal Based on the SMART Framework Once you’ve brainstormed possible goals, collaborate with your team to choose a few critical goals that everyone wants to strive to achieve. Realistic Is the goal workable or unattainable?

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Get your teams trained to collaborate on complex problem solving and work smarter. Listening skills are built and teams learn to collaborate. Awareness of how others think leads to better understanding, appreciation of unique contributions, and improved collaboration. It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

In May of this year, we had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Jill Waters, Lean Six Sigma Coordinator at Adventist Health, which is a not-for-profit healthcare organization comprised of over 20 hospitals and over 30 clinics in the U.S. Shoving hundreds of people in a room to brainstorm is not practical or scalable.

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Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 15, 2019

Spark is a simple, self-guided innovation kit built for business teams who want to collaborate to de-risk business ideas. Spark guides you and your team through a proven innovation process to assess new business opportunities in a collaborative manner. Explore Spark.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Inappropriate meeting behavior that shuts down others, hosing collaborative work. Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator. And yes, this can be trained.

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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

Solution: Focus on the Facilitator Mindset Leadership consultant Dr. Flo Falayi encourages leaders to lean on what they call “The Facilitator Mindset.” By doing so, you drive collaboration, teamwork, and new ideas. With these additional expectations and pressures, it can be challenging to initiate a facilitation session confidently.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

This cycle should involve the following steps: implementation, connectivity development, ensuring a ‘first and foremost’ focus on innovation, ideation and brainstorming, and finally, implementing a formal innovation management system. Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 30, 2017

This cycle should involve the following steps: implementation, connectivity development, ensuring a ‘first and foremost’ focus on innovation, ideation and brainstorming, and finally, implementing a formal innovation management system. Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 29, 2019

User stories, on-site clients (CCC), peer programming, planning poker are some of the most effective techniques for brainstorming and prioritization; Simplicity – develop only what will be used, discarding complex commands; Feedback – Also widely used in Scrum, through daily meetings (dailies), retrospectives, and product reviews.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

In Organizational Design: Clearing the Runway for Collaboration and Breakthrough Thinking, we demonstrated how to build teams in a way that facilitates sharing and communication to allow both groups and individuals to grow. High-performing organizations should establish avenues for play, discovery, and engagement within and among their teams.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Brainstorming new solutions – whether a new product or improvement to an existing process – shouldn’t be limited to an innovation or executive team. It empowers employees – no matter the role or tenure – to lean in and be more engaged in the company’s growth efforts if they know their ideas matter. Final thoughts.

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

They understand that to collaborate effectively, they must be driven by a shared purpose—and with this comes accountability: each person is motivated to do their best work and help their team achieve its goals. People who are in value-aligned teams exhibit characteristics like the following: Enjoy collaborating. Enjoy collaborating.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

Then go beyond talking about it, and create opportunities for them to collaborate and work on their ideas. For instance, flipped staff meetings would let teachers get presentations emailed to them so time together could be dedicated towards collaborating and problem-solving. That’s where lean methodology comes up.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The Project WOW methodology offered by A+B is designed to engage employees and empower them to put forward new improvement suggestions, through workshops, training programs, and brainstorming sprints.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Failure to secure sustained funding We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed. Innovation needs structure.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed. Innovation needs structure.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2016

Certainly I’ve seen or witnessed many brainstorming or management meetings that have asked along a design thinking expert, who pulled out of the hat, like the magical rabbit, a wondrous show to excite, determine and mostly fill an otherwise boring day. To quote again: “ when we have such highly contested markets….

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Inceodia

JULY 18, 2018

Inceodia, and our partners at Innovation Catalyst Group , lead a large public land-grant university through our collaborative Adjacent Business Strategy program to discover new innovative business ideas that addressed the needs of unserved or underserved learner audiences.

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Inceodia

JULY 18, 2018

Inceodia, and our partners at Innovation Catalyst Group , lead a large public land-grant university through our collaborative Adjacent Business Strategy program to discover new innovative business ideas that addressed the needs of unserved or underserved learner audiences.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Certainly I’ve seen or witnessed many brainstorming or management meetings that have asked along a design thinking expert, who pulled out of the hat, like the magical rabbit, a wondrous show to excite, determine and mostly fill an otherwise boring day. To quote again: “ when we have such highly contested markets….

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Innovation 360 Group

MARCH 10, 2019

Practitioners include Toyota’s lean manufacturing team and British Airways. Managers inventory and brainstorm using strategic assets and competencies, greatly enlarging the field of what is possible. This methodical, measured approach is well defined, making some of these activities low-hanging fruit for automation and AI.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

He believes diverse teams with an array of perspectives should collaborate to bring ideas from various fields to create the Medici Effect. Running Lean is undoubtedly an inspiring book for anyone looking to start a business project or company. This is the key takeaway from this book published by Harvard Business School Press in 2004.

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Boxes and Arrows

MAY 5, 2014

The best known in start-up circles is the lean startup process. Andrew Hinton’s model of a “virtual shared organizational ‘building’ where people spread all over the country were collaborating to run and participate in the org”. … He brainstormed more elements that might play into the model. Which is most of us, these days.

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