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Have organizations become more collaborative over 25 years? What has enabled that?

Paul Hobcraft

Collaboration, Idealization and the enabling of innovation I have have been looking back at innovation and how it has changed over the last twenty-five years. This is the second post looking more at collaboration and idealization and how and what has helped it evolve in this period.

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Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Agile? There is a Bigger Thing Happening

Leanstack

In this post, Alejandra shares her perspectives on when and how to incorporate lean, agile, and design thinking into your product lifecycle. I have been applying design-led strategies that combine agile and lean for almost 10 years, and while they work, they needed to provide more solid evidence for decision making.

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Organize innovation to fit your strategy & culture.

Leapfrogging

That’s because they try to apply processes and structures that don’t fit their business strategies and cultures. It reminded me how important it is to highlight the ultimate organizational design principle: Structure follows strategy. Successful innovation requires aligning your innovation model to your business strategy.

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THE PROS AND CONS OF A LEAN STARTUP

ImagineNation

Lean’ is the buzzword of the last decade, challenging old school thinking that dictates that a successful business must be resource-heavy to achieve sustainable growth, whilst also giving credence to those who want to launch “almost-there” app startups today to achieve market domination tomorrow. Pros for a lean app startup.

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Fail Well, Pivot Fast: Product Experimentation for Continuous Discovery

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Head of Product Strategy & Design Practice, Kuroshio Consulting

Lean A3, PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) and the Build-Measure-Learn or Think-Make-Check loop (to name a few loops) are all learning models informed by the notion that experimentation is the fastest (and most proven) route to product-market fit and achieving sustainable organic growth.

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Job One of the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act: Closing the Digital Divide

Business and Tech

To achieve this heavy lift, it is imperative to execute the national education strategy set forth in the CHIPS Act, which states digital literacy for all is a primary goal.

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Is What’s Good For General Electric Good For America?

Digital Tonto

Instead of layoffs, he’s investing in lean manufacturing methods that put front-line workers at the center and instead of using acquisitions to fuel growth, he’s broken the company up to help focus on operational excellence. Here’s How: 3 Levels of Strategy Why it’s Better to Have a Strategic Philosophy than an Ideology

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