Business and Tech

MARCH 16, 2023

The United States is taking bold steps to reinvigorate its economy through game-changing investments in high-tech research and manufacturing. For more than 50 years, U.S. businesses outsourced manufacturing overseas rather than investing at home.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

” With the argument, we need to change the innovation narrative and significantly update the innovation approach and processes to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business challenges. Lean Startup: This approach was about creating a minimum viable product (MVP) and testing it in the market to get customer feedback.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Agile Innovation 182

Business and Tech

JUNE 21, 2023

Simply, change your attitude, thoughts, and feelings and you will act in different ways that will give you new results. If your strategy is bad or your industry is declining, you may still fail, but you’ll still likely outperform your competition. Attitude is a specific way of thinking and feeling. Attitude affects performance.

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Tips LEAN Engagement Competition 244

Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Organizations must also stay relevant and competitive to vie for funder support. Why is it that organizations are punished so harshly when we attempt to create change in multi-layered and complex communities? This is the story of how SAY San Diego is using Lean Innovation to create real, powerful change in their community.

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LEAN Change Case Study Underperforming Technical Team 75

Kainexus

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

We’ve written before about how the Lean management approach is prevalent in almost every industry. Supporting those pillars are the five principles of Lean. Successful companies are those that provide value more efficiently than the competition. Is what the customer values static or does it change?

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LEAN Management Competition Industry 44

Kainexus

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In today’s hyper-competitive and rapidly changing environment, organizations must find innovative ways to improve quality, reduce waste, and get products to market quickly and efficiently. One of the most popular techniques is Standard work.

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Software Software Developers Software Development LEAN 90

Leapfrogging

JUNE 29, 2019

What can you learn about change from Baker’s Four Strategies of Influence? This style of persuasion is effective in competitive sales environments or environments in which people are open to debate and collaboration. By UpBOARD. Are you using the right persuasion tactics to influence the people you engage with?

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Change How To Underperforming Technical Team Comparison 100

Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Companies that successfully bring new products to market rapidly, benefit from having a leg up on their competition while diminishing the negative effects of shrinking product life cycles. Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. But how can an enterprise organization re-invent product commercialization?

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Product Development LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Marketing 75

CMOE

JULY 29, 2021

Being a great leader requires the ability to adapt to change. Unfortunately, not enough leaders are equipped with the right training or knowledge to effectively lead their team members through change; almost two-thirds of employers noted that a lack of change-management expertise was a problem during their recent initiatives.

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Leadership Change Management Underperforming Technical Team 86

Qmarkets

JULY 31, 2023

This will increase productivity, improve customer experiences, streamline workflows, and reduce costs, resulting in long-term competitive edge. Our combined expertise in digital transformation, omnichannel strategies, and innovation management will empower businesses to stay competitive and adapt to changes in the market and customer demands.”

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Qmarkets

JUNE 20, 2023

Ariana Smetana, CEO and founder of Accel IQ, said: “Staying competitive in the rapidly changing marketplace requires building faster new capabilities, and increasing efficiencies through lean innovation and transformative initiatives.”

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

They become fixed, rigid and locked into their established ways, not adapting to the changes occurring around them. Then it becomes a mad scramble to transform ourselves, often with damaging consequences of deteriorating performance, battling more competition that are sensing our weakness, never capable of returning to those previous highs.

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Change Technical Review Marketing Management 100

Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

At its heart, business model innovation is about change. In this article, we’re going to explore why changing your business model is crucial in today’s world. It’s about finding new paths to success in a world that’s always changing. Because the world doesn’t stand still.

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Software Innovation Innovation Management LEAN 52

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We can also find out which leaders will adopt innovative measures, and change the cultures of their businesses, and which will "stay the course". When the pace of change was slower, and change was more predictable, getting to economies of scale and growing a conglomerate made sense.

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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.

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Conference LEAN Culture Learning 45

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We do need to make some real changes. So we make a resolution to change something to improve on this constant catch up state we find ourselves in. Leans slows down and becomes increasingly burdened by fat being layered on, further down the innovation execution process. it is a time of reflection and some forward thinking.

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Innovation Processes LEAN Innovation Agile 206

mjvinnovation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

We don’t want to keep harping on this, but our world has changed a lot in the past months. Covid-19’s global pandemic caused the rapid and intense change – including technological changes – that transformed everyday life. As we already touched on here, the rules of the game have changed. .

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100%Open

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In today’s competitive business environment, organisations aspire to cultivate high-performance cultures that champion team innovation, agility, and the realisation of strategic objectives. Overemphasising Conformity: Traditional business education often leans towards conformity, emphasising established norms and best practices.

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Culture Creativity LEAN Agile 69

IdeaScale

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Disruptive” boils down to a drastic shift in how your business or your entire industry changes. Think, for example, of how the Toyota Prius suddenly changed how we talked about ecology, or how Amazon is changing retail as you read this. Compare, for example, the changes between models of smartphone. Which Works For You?

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Radical Innovation Disruption Innovation Competition 140

Planview

JULY 6, 2017

Flush times do not mean relief from competition. Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence. It’s in this spirit that several savvy leaders have made the connection between lean construction, which their firms have already embraced, and the practice of leveraging the intelligence and experience of every employee.

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LEAN Meeting Underperforming Technical Team Project 40

Planview

JULY 6, 2017

Flush times do not mean relief from competition. Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence. It’s in this spirit that several savvy leaders have made the connection between lean construction , which their firms have already embraced, and the practice of leveraging the intelligence and experience of every employee.

LEAN 40

LEAN Meeting Underperforming Technical Team Project 40

Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Razors have undergone incremental innovations over time Source: The Hustle Incremental innovations may not make headlines, but they’re the steady pulses that keep businesses competitive and responsive to market demands.

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Radical Innovation Innovation Disruption Competition 52

Kainexus

JULY 13, 2023

Organizations implement process improvement initiatives, using various process improvement tools, to drive operational excellence, enhance customer value, achieve cost savings, and remain competitive in their respective industries.

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Tools Competition Industry Marketing 81

Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

He eventually honed the scope and changed the name to OpenTable. Find a Good Name But Recognize It May Change. What you think is a perfect name on day one will likely change as you get customer feedback and see the market’s response to your products and business model. That’s what creates competitive advantage.

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Innovation System LEAN Agile 130

Idea to Value

JULY 1, 2020

This is why “lean” and “agile” have become buzzwords today. In a competitive context, incompetence does not allow the mediocre to stay afloat for long and meritocracy is valuable and fair. However the criteria for advancement must give a lot of weight to creativity, collaboration and the capacity to learn and change.

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Report Big Data Leadership LEAN 148

Idea to Value

APRIL 12, 2022

This can require significant marketing and sales effort to change. And competition has its advantages. On the other end of the spectrum is Steve Blank, father of the Lean Startup movement (interviewed on the podcast here ), who thinks one should be a fast follower : First-Mover Advantage is an idea that just won’t die.

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Strategy Strategy Technical Review Innovation 257

The BMI Lab Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Alongside the series of episodes with entrepreneurs and innovation leaders, we recommend the first-ever ETL Research bonus episode which looks at one of the first empirical studies about lean startup , an approach that BMI Lab follows since day 1. If you want to find out more about our lean startup approach, check out our Launchpad.

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LEAN Innovation Tips Technical Review 52

Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 24, 2019

From that wave we've had successive efficiency strategies: Six Sigma (an outgrowth of the quality movement), business process re-engineering, lean, outsourcing and right-sizing. Making efficiency the core theme of the business assumes that the competitive environment changes slowly, and that efficiency and size matter when competing.

Innovation 171

Innovation Strategy Strategy LEAN 171

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

What has been changing in how we approach innovation, and have we taken the opportunity to radically revise the innovation system and process accordingly? We are at the cusp or already into significant changes to how the world, society and we as individuals will manage or engage going into the future.

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Innovation Design Collaboration Engagement 189

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

After all, most (probably 90%) of all innovation projects undertaken in large corporations are reactive projects trying to respond to a market threat or competitive move. The average time an executive is in a role in a corporation is about 3-4 years, and significant cultural change will take much longer.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Their talks can be a catalyst for change, encouraging your team to pursue innovation with renewed vigor. They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes. Drive Change Speaker with a strong message on embracing disruption.

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Innovation Leadership Ideation Innovation Processes 113

Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I am a strong believer and advocate of agile, design thinking, and lean startup. Lower Costs Lean Startup and Agile methods have a clear ROI - they lower costs. It’s a competitive advantage to know your customer better than anyone else and if it’s cheaper as well - why would you not want to get direct feedback from customers?

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Training LEAN Innovation Resources 72

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive. In either case, companies are frequently forced to reinvent themselves by changing the way they have been doing business so far. Cases in point: Lego and Burberry.

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Innovation Management Management LEAN Technical Review 100

Qmarkets

MARCH 16, 2018

Tapping into companies’ collective reservoir of relevant experiences, here’s a brief historical and current panorama of just how business leaders have strived to keep up with the changing times and landscapes – some successfully and some not – and how success can be achieved and failure minimized in our own extremely faced-paced era.

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Innovation Management Change Management Technical Review 69

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The right speaker can resonate with the audience, driving home the importance of innovation in today’s competitive landscape. For instance, when addressing a gathering of senior executives, the content might lean more towards strategic insights rather than operational details.

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Engagement Technical Review Meeting Culture 130

Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

However, for every Steve Jobs or Elon Musk who has famously steered their companies through the maelstrom of change, countless unsung leaders, often within the more traditional corporate structures, want to cultivate the culture that innovation requires within their organisation. It’s for those that I write this article!

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

This “manifesto” will break down 7 core beliefs leaders need in order to move forward, embrace change, and secure their place at the top of their industry. With an innovator’s method, one can use these tools to change how ideas are created, refined, and brought to market. The Lean Startup. Find it here.

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Innovation Tips Design Thinking LEAN 97