Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

The four interwoven catalysts are recognizing we are moving from complicated to complex ; we have different collaboration tools to be more agile and adapt, we need to adopt a clearer mindset to working in innovation ecosystems , and we need to leverage the digital transformation we have been undertaking. Digital Transformation.

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Innovation Design Collaboration Engagement 189

InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These exercises are designed for innovative workshops and sessions. Innovation exercises are designed to help participants find creative solutions to life’s everyday challenges. Design thinking Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that puts the user at the center of the design process.

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Exercises Brainstorming Design Thinking LEAN 76

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Highlighting the importance of collaboration and diversity in driving innovation. They may share insights on techniques for effective ideation such as design thinking, mind mapping, and leveraging technology for collaborative brainstorming sessions. Demonstrating how to embrace failure as a learning opportunity.

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Innovation Leadership Ideation Innovation Processes 113

Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

We created Instant Coffee to help facilitate better idea generation — whether you’re a C-level executive thinking through your company’s next big move, or an individual contributor trying to collaboratively solve a problem with your team. Instant Coffee is a new way to brainstorm and collaborate with your team and others.

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Brainstorming LEAN Technical Review Analysis 98

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The belief that lean management principles will get the innovation out of the door quicker, has been one of those management adoptions that often trick us into believing we are achieving more than we actually are. Leans slows down and becomes increasingly burdened by fat being layered on, further down the innovation execution process.

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Innovation Processes LEAN Innovation Agile 206

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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LEAN Software Review Software Project 78

Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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. Therefore, it does not make sense to have the success criteria be a specific design, budget, business case or set of KPIs at the beginning.

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How To Training Project Innovation 278

Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 3, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You know ALL the innovation tools and frameworks: Design Thinking Lean Startup Disruptive Innovation But knowing and doing are two different things. When I first learned Jobs to be Done, it felt painfully obvious, exactly like the customer research I did for five years at P&G.

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Design Thinking LEAN Innovation Disruption 77

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design.

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Innovation Radical Innovation Design Big Data 185

Innovation Excellence

MAY 22, 2019

For most corporations, leading in quality means continually pursuing organizational excellence. This means leaders have to make sure that the organization is fit for its purpose, stays that way, and keeps improving over time. Maintaining quality is much easier when the risks involved are lower.

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Agile LEAN Design Collaboration 76

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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Design Thinking Design Culture How To 40

Planview

JULY 6, 2017

The practice of leveraging the collective intelligence of employees to spark new solutions and driving innovation through collaboration can serve as a means of addressing these challenges. Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence. They ask—and rightfully so: What’s in it for me? How might the latter support the former?

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LEAN Meeting Underperforming Technical Team Project 40

Planview

JULY 6, 2017

The practice of leveraging the collective intelligence of employees to spark new solutions and driving innovation through collaboration can serve as a means of addressing these challenges. Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence. Figure 1: the six tenets of lean from the Lean Construction Institute.

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LEAN Meeting Underperforming Technical Team Project 40

Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

It offers a straightforward way to understand, design, and pivot your business model. Lean Startup Methodology The Lean Startup methodology , created by Eric Ries, emphasizes the importance of rapid prototyping, validated learning, and other iterative product and service development techniques.

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Software Innovation Innovation Management LEAN 52

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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LEAN Change Case Study Underperforming Technical Team 75

Idea to Value

JULY 1, 2020

This is why “lean” and “agile” have become buzzwords today. Designers of performance management systems have many tools in their arsenal to make the judgement as “right” and as “fair” as possible. 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

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We do need to ‘lean in’ on many specialists and experts to help us, not just business consultants! Build relationships, network with industry leaders, and collaborate with industry experts and peers. Our individual problem often lies in the time we have to discover, learn and explore new and different things.

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LEAN Industry Agile Analysis 195

Econic

APRIL 13, 2022

Much like our consulting practices, we leaned into a loose framework to build a customized approach to transformation. 5 new members joined our core team 58% female staff Collaborated with 10 new contractors 17 closed office days Clients Served 10 businesses, 3 non-profits, and 1 government body Community 1.5% 2021 Impact Report.

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Report Leadership Training LEAN 105

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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Technical Review LEAN Culture Agile 98

InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Check out our list of design thinking books to read. This book by Nathan Furr covers tips and techniques learned from design thinking, innovation, and the lean startup business model which has grown in popularity in the last few years. Great leaders inspire creativity, collaboration, and innovation. The Lean Startup.

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Innovation Tips Design Thinking LEAN 97

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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Creative Process Creativity LEAN Brainstorming 26

Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

It’s about introducing features, functionalities, or designs that meet emerging customer needs or tap into uncharted market segments. Employing user-centric design and iterative development processes, businesses can ensure their product innovations resonate with their target audience and stand out in the marketplace.

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Radical Innovation Innovation Disruption Competition 52

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 2, 2021

Use these templates to design and plan better meetings, events, and agendas. In our previous innovative meeting guide, we discussed how to design and build innovative innovation meetings that both inspire and accomplish your organizational goals. Lean Coffee: Focused Meetings Template. Design thinking software tools.

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Meeting Software Review Design Thinking Training 52

Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

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. It turns out that Jeff Gothelf, author of Lean UX (the book I’m reviewing here) has also faced the same challenges. Enter the book.

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Agile LEAN Development Team Review Software Review 80

Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

They are not always intentional or by design. Tools like ethnography, human-centred design, and empathy mapping aren’t mere buzzwords—they are vital methodologies that enable businesses to craft customer value propositions that resonate deeply with their target audience. Take the Double Diamond of Design Thinking for example.

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Innovation Culture Creativity Disruption 59

Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

Recognize that best practices of innovation are different from how you’re used to working, and force your team to learn the real tricks of the trade – Discovery, Lean Startup, Ideation, Creative facilitation, Design Thinking, etc. Collaborate with some of the best startups. Collaborate with some of the best startups.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Programs Innovation LEAN 100

Leapfrogging

JUNE 29, 2019

This style of persuasion is effective in competitive sales environments or environments in which people are open to debate and collaboration. In comparison, a pull style of persuasion requires the use of more subtle persuasion tactics which are designed to draw people in before making a specific point or reaching a certain objective.

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Change How To Underperforming Technical Team Comparison 100

Leapfrogging

JUNE 3, 2020

Remote work , lean budgets , and the need for contingency plans are three big trends impacting the industry. How do you digitize a robust, collaborative business strategy process for an executive team, for example? You can look to history to see that mature industries become ripe for disruption as they age.

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Software Review Change Technical Review Disruption 130

IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

10:00) The innovation metrics review, has its roots in an OECD report , which concluded that Australia was not doing well with respect to universities collaborating with industry and other innovation measures. Show Transcript Sign up for the latest on Innovation Accounting, Lean Startup, Workshops and Innovation Ecosystem Design.

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Technical Review How To Report Innovation 52

mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

To understand more about what happens (and can happen) with the Logistics and Supply Chain area, let’s share some insights from our Future Design and Anticipatory Innovation team. Digital Economy: small, lean, light, and innovative. Open Innovation is a method of external collaboration that can help a lot with this task.

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Design Technical Review Data Industry 52

Innovation Excellence

MAY 9, 2023

Lean forward, eyes glittering, eager to hear more Stare blankly and nod slowly Roll their eyes and sigh Wave their hands dismissively and tell you to focus on other, more urgent priorities. GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton How do people react when you say “innovation?” If you answered C, you’re in good company. Innovation is […]

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LEAN Innovation Company Design Thinking 60

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

The platform environment is mostly characterized by a tension between collaboration and competition of the participating companies, often referred to as coopetition. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof.

Innovation Management 100

Innovation Management Management LEAN Technical Review 100

ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In last month’s blog , we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration, and described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed sustainable innovative workplace culture change. Collaboration. Innovation teams are teams that don’t innovate!

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Innovation Collaboration Agile Disruption 59

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

It does not tell leaders how to manage their organizations” An introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation Managers. “The key today is to think like a designer in the way you lead, explore, create and innovate” Some were provided before this over the last year or so, but I feel are worth exploring. .

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 199

mjvinnovation

JUNE 29, 2021

is a collaborative and humanized management model which treats the employee as the organization’s main asset. It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile. It is clear that the scalability factor, so contemporary of lean teams and popularized by startups, could not be left out of the Management 3.0

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Management Agile LEAN Guidelines 59

Christensen Institute

JANUARY 16, 2024

That lack of confidence can hamper the best efforts of career offices – if students don’t know how to ask faculty for help, approach prospective employers at a job fair, or lean on one another for support, simply brokering access to employers or alumni will not yield results.

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Survey Study Course Data 59

Leapfrogging

JUNE 3, 2020

Remote work , lean budgets , and the need for contingency plans are three big trends impacting the industry. How do you digitize a robust, collaborative business strategy process for an executive team, for example? You can look to history to see that mature industries become ripe for disruption as they age.

Software Review 100

Software Review Change Technical Review Disruption 100