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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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? How can design thinking help with product development? In recent years, the rise of digital technologies and the increasing importance of user-centered design have further driven the adoption of design thinking. How can I apply design thinking to my business?

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Planview

AUGUST 12, 2022

The way we work and organize is changing. And so is the mindset around productivity and team structure. But greater emphasis is being placed on moving from project to product, which focuses on enabling teams to become end-to-end experts. A 2018 Gartner survey found that 85% of companies prefer a product-centric model.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Changing prices, new packaging, different marketing tactics, trying new sales scripts, improving support, partnering with or acquiring synergistic companies — there’s an endless list of things a company might do to protect or extend existing revenues. Product development just doesn’t work that way. New product ideas.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The rate of technological change and adoption gives consumers more choice and power than ever before. His very lean progressive assembly process was the result. Today, the cost and time it takes to build, launch, and deliver new products at scale is lower than ever. This is Lean Startup. We’re in an amazing time.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 22, 2016

Here’s why: Modern market research methods, like Lean Startup, do a great job of focusing on customer-centric discovery. It generates insights through empathy (one of the 3 E’s of Lean Innovation, see 5 Ways to Spark Innovation at Your Organization ). Conclusion Market research has an important role to play in product development.

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Planview

MARCH 3, 2016

This was the mantra of Facebook in its early days, as is the case with most startups that subscribe to the iterative product development method popularized by the Lean Startup. Such is the pace of change and disruption driven by technological and business model innovation. Move fast and break things.”.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 19, 2019

Noel: “I describe myself as an innovation product development life engineer who’s worked on product development teams through most of my early career and mostly in technology-driven companies, and after business school, went into consulting. Why don’t we start by having you introduce yourself? Who are you?

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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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mjvinnovation

JULY 27, 2020

Companies with tight schedules and budgets must deal with the reality that product development may not be fast or cheap. Prioritized Resources – MVPs (of Viable Minimum Product) are built, for example, to obtain a lean, first version of the product; and ensure that it meets customer needs while providing value to users.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2015

But what we should be asking, in much the same way the "lean startup" folks are asking about bare essentials and "minimum viable products", is: what is the minimum investment it takes to make my (team, product group, line of business, company) more innovative? Time to consider emerging trends and technologies.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Have you noticed that the Lean Startup concept has been getting more and more attention lately? Which is all a good thing really, as it creates the occasion for us to examine what is the "best" way to launch new brands, products, and companies. What's In Your Sandbox? Sep 04, 2014 | Anthony Mills. Why is this?

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KindlingApp

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Richard Culatta, Director of the Office of Educational Technology for the US Department of Education, called for collaborative partnerships for improving education: “Innovation doesn’t often happen when people work in isolation. Experimentation. Minimized risk is especially important with the high stakes of children's futures.

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KindlingApp

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Richard Culatta, Director of the Office of Educational Technology for the US Department of Education, called for collaborative partnerships for improving education: “Innovation doesn’t often happen when people work in isolation. Experimentation. Minimized risk is especially important with the high stakes of children's futures.

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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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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

These authors attempt to divide the company’s business into buckets with one devoted to the current business that is all about operational efficiency and incremental change, and another that is about delivering organic growth through breakthrough innovations. Innovation Requires Fluid Organizational Boundaries.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages. Source: Accenture.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

These authors attempt to divide the company’s business into buckets with one devoted to the current business that is all about operational efficiency and incremental change, and another that is about delivering organic growth through breakthrough innovations. Innovation Requires Fluid Organizational Boundaries.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. Focus on innovation not changing others – They were not expected to “make everyone innovative” or change company culture.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

*This post originally appeared on Mind the Product. The market is changing faster than ever, and an organization’s ability to move at the speed of the Internet is the only chance at surviving and thriving. We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit.

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Mike Shipulski

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The best known method is the Lean Startup method. The Lean Startup is also quite good when money’s tight. And then there’s the VC/Lean Startup combo. A set of high potential projects run in parallel, each using Lean’s build, show, refine method to learn at light speed.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

*This post originally appeared on Mind the Product. The market is changing faster than ever, and an organization’s ability to move at the speed of the Internet is the only chance at surviving and thriving. We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

The lens through which the entrepreneurial mind sees the world is generally one of how to create something totally new and cool – sometimes something that will "unbundle", or disrupt, an existing industry – that will allow them to make history and potentially change the world. Engineering / Science / Technology.

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Integrative Innovation

APRIL 7, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages. Source: Accenture.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Together, they reduce the risk of failure, improve the success rate of new ideas and can help build an organisation which is more resilient to change and able to grow. Over time and iteration, this new technology will begin improving to handle more demanding uses. Let’s get started: 15 – TRIZ.

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Mike Shipulski

MAY 10, 2017

With manufacturing and product development, it’s all about Gantt charts and hitting dates. And if it’s a new system, even the basic rules of engagement are unknown, never mind the changing strength of the interactions. If you’re asked to use Fishbone diagrams to solve the problem three or four ways, you’re not doing innovation.

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Matthew Griffin

MARCH 23, 2015

The billion dollar startup was once the stuff of myth but now they’re everywhere, backed by a bull market and founded on new, disruptive digital technologies and business models which make their speed of operation, rate of innovation and reach that much greater. The products are very easy to adopt. They put design first. Conclusion.

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hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

The world is moving around you - customer expectations are changing, competitors are always catching up and threatening to take away your business.”. Jobs began by changing the company’s image and ran his “Think Different” advertising campaign, which glorified individuality. Source: www.everestbusinesscoaching.com. and Apple came back.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The bottleneck on digital innovation is no longer access to new technology. Thanks to the success of open source and cloud, the same technological foundations used by the most successful innovators are available to all organizations. how much value development teams delivered to customers over the course of a planning cycle).

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2018

At IdeaScale we help Kane is Able and many other clients achieve their continuous improvement strategies such as Lean, Kaizen or Six Sigma. It’s influenced by everything from adoption rates of technologies to things like terminology and shifting corporate goals. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.

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Imaginatik

JULY 12, 2016

In many cases, it’s the only way to achieve a scale that justifies the often-substantial investments in the development of technical prototypes and operations. In many product development processes, companies tend to create incremental improvements within the fairly well known scope of their current production and distribution scale.

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Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

In the same text the meaning changes to “a vague idea, that can contain multiple “user stories”. In SAFe the term is even broader: “An Epic is a container for a significant Solution development initiative that captures the more substantial investments that occur within a portfolio. “multiple user stories can make the Epic concrete”.

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Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

In the same text the meaning changes to “a vague idea, that can contain multiple “user stories”. In SAFe the term is even broader: “An Epic is a container for a significant Solution development initiative that captures the more substantial investments that occur within a portfolio. “multiple user stories can make the Epic concrete”.

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Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

In the same text the meaning changes to “a vague idea, that can contain multiple “user stories”. In SAFe the term is even broader: “An Epic is a container for a significant Solution development initiative that captures the more substantial investments that occur within a portfolio. “multiple user stories can make the Epic concrete”.

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ITONICS

APRIL 4, 2018

The way how new business models evolve depends to a large extent on how companies adapt their established value-added processes and structures to environmental changes and on how they face competition. This will challenge your company’s culture and its willingness to embrace change. How to successfully implement new business models?

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

The system is rooted in experimentation, and, like all adaptive systems, it evolves over time as the external environment and internal needs change. Those companies are aware that adaptability through adjustment to changing conditions requires an ability to both observe problems and then respond to them with multiple solutions.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

This is the third in a series about the changing models of corporate innovation co-authored with Evangelos Simoudis. These visits should be led by the CEO, and maybe even include the corporation’s board of directors, along with execs who are expected to be innovation change agents.

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