Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

For example, in an organization’s effort to remain financially stable, a funder can have more power and influence on programs than the community members benefiting from those programs. For example, in a majority of philanthropic work, organizations are strongly encouraged to avoid failure.

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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 example, engineers invented the semiconductor in the United States, but the nation produces about 10% of the world’s supply today. For more than 50 years, U.S.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 24, 2020

How to Lean in To Empower Your Team. This transition requires a complete behavioral change from top to bottom of any organization. To achieve this kind of empowerment, it is essential for leaders to lean-in and engage actively and effectively across teams, in addition to arranging coaching sessions. Importance of Leaning in.

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Leanstack

OCTOBER 30, 2018

I often get asked if one can or should model a non-profit using a Lean Canvas. We as change-makers tend to focus on the social or environmental problem that we seek to address and don’t fully consider who is our donor, what problems are we are solving for them, and why will they donate money to our organizations. Why the lean canvas?

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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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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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Kainexus

JULY 10, 2019

There are several overarching approaches to business management like Six Sigma and Lean, and then there are more acronyms describing tools and techniques then you can shake a stick at. You don’t have to be a continuous improvement black belt to begin implementing positive change in your organization. We’re not putting them down.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 19, 2018

Blockchain will change finance, even if you never buy a bitcoin. It’s far from perfect, and that’s where innovation from blockchain can change everything. But increasingly the role of a bank is to provide the technology and the support, to be the pillar finance leans on. But yet, the system works. Fighting Fraud.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 3, 2020

If you work with consultants or have your own consultancy, take note: Things are changing, fast. But with the dramatic overnight changes in work and society caused by the coronavirus crisis, the disruptive transformation of the consulting industry will only accelerate.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 25, 2022

Yes, there may be a hint of selection and confirmation bias with examples being found that fit that number, but the core tenet still makes sense. Of course, as we age and move, the actual individuals filling these positions is likely to change.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. The journey, by and large, is slow, linear, does not allow for change, and is governed by scheduling resources, versus based upon customer need or value creation. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 26, 2014

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. Mike founded an influential Lean UX community in San Francisco. . Below is Laura Klein expounds on these key themes of lean research.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 29, 2019

What can you learn about change from Baker’s Four Strategies of Influence? These individuals back up all their arguments with specific data points or examples. By UpBOARD. Are you using the right persuasion tactics to influence the people you engage with?

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We seem confronted with rapid change, and it is primarily within the business world related to technology and market uncertainty that is driving this. We do need to ‘lean in’ on many specialists and experts to help us, not just business consultants! As well, and ask, are we really interested?

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Business and Tech

APRIL 8, 2022

The way we work is changing. That’s more than a hunch on his part — a record number of employees voluntarily left their jobs within the last twelve months, pursuing new opportunities, higher wages, or changing careers entirely. He also warns against what Harvard Business Review calls an “adrenaline shot” approach to change.

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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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Leanstack

OCTOBER 30, 2018

I often get asked if one can or should model a non-profit using a Lean Canvas. We as change-makers tend to focus on the social or environmental problem that we seek to address and don’t fully consider who is our donor, what problems are we are solving for them, and why will they donate money to our organizations. Why the lean canvas?

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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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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” Take the Colorado River Basin for example. Given the changing climate and rising population, we must be strategic in the way we think about and manage water infrastructure. Everyone plays a role when it comes to the water that’s being used daily, and the simplest actions to preserve water will make major positive impacts.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 18, 2015

Perhaps the most common question we hear is, “How do you get started doing Lean Startup in the enterprise?” We always get a kick discussing enterprise lean startup challenges with The Lean Startup author Eric Ries, so welcomed the opportunity to do so during his recent Kickstarter campaign.

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Planview

JULY 6, 2017

Field staff, for example, view overarching corporate challenges as peripheral to their work, which involves long hours in challenging environments to keep commitments. Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence. However, many of the firms struggle to apply the practice within the context of their day-to-day work.

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Planview

JULY 6, 2017

Field staff, for example, view overarching corporate challenges as peripheral to their work, which involves long hours in challenging environments to keep commitments. Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence. Figure 1: the six tenets of lean from the Lean Construction Institute. offers a way forward.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. They have helped businesses break through inertia and build game-changing products, but are still surprisingly uncommon when it comes to social good. And a new mindset is needed, Chang contends. Corporate philanthropy. Benefit corporations. Sounds ideal.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 12, 2022

This can require significant marketing and sales effort to change. It is a classic example of survivorship bias. 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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Christensen Institute

MAY 2, 2024

What has changed in our society to exacerbate disconnections and raise loneliness—and its associated health impacts—to dangerously high levels? Many things about society and interaction have changed in the past 15 years, but the introduction of smartphones significantly fueled the loneliness epidemic and associated negative health outcomes.

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Daniel Burrus

OCTOBER 19, 2022

A brief example of an organization that capitalized on the 2008 recession in remarkable ways is Lego. Using an Anticipatory mindset, Lego was able to identify that the recession was not something they themselves could change, but they could control how they responded to it! Lego: An Exponential Thinker in Agility and Anticipation.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas and Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas come to mind. Similar tools have been around for ages, by the way; used in lean manufacturing processes, Agile, kanban, scrum, etc. When I first discovered the Value Stream Discovery Loop (download at bottom) , it completely changed how I viewed developing new products.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

Factor 1: Forward-leaning orientation. One of the major hurdles for any leader in times of change and uncertainty is figuring out how to convince everyone who needs to cooperate to coordinate their efforts and pull in the same direction. Leadership tools only work when the people in the organization have shared goals and purpose.

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CMOE

APRIL 21, 2023

These changes include: User increase on education platforms. For example, LinkedIn Learning experienced a 46% increase in time spent on learning by its enterprise learners. Empathize with the experience from their perspective to direct the design of the experience and make the most impactful changes.

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 27, 2021

An example of a Hard Trend that is shaping the world, both inside and outside of the banking and financial industry, is the growth of the low-latency digital connectivity of 5G. They know that you cannot change the past, but you can shape the future based on the actions you take in the present. This couldn’t be more wrong!

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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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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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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. For example, Sealed Air (makers of bubble wrap) profiles and uses their own employees for gaining quick feedback and input on early-stage ideas.

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Planview

MAY 14, 2018

Will our lives materially improve because of exponential change or will they spin irrevocably out of control in a kind of modern-day Hobbesian nightmare? Coase’s thinking can help to explain why, for example, The Coca-Cola Company has 100,000 employees and the corner dry cleaner has ten (10). Ignite was quite good in this regard.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 15, 2020

If you work with consultants or have your own consultancy, take note: Things are changing, fast. But with the dramatic overnight changes in work and society caused by the coronavirus crisis, the disruptive transformation of the consulting industry will only accelerate.

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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.

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IdeaScale

MAY 2, 2019

For example, if your long-term goal is to shift from an industry you feel is beginning to fade in relevance to one that’s rising, often your short-term goals should reflect the details of what needs to happen for that change. The two should interact. Refine Towards Goals.

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