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. Click to Tweet.

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Innovation Leader

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Can big companies behave like startups and capture their culture? To find out, we interviewed Steve Blank, a key player in the lean startup movement. This episode also features insights from Lyft COO Jon McNeill.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Implementing the Lean Startup in any company is hard. All the culture and incentives are designed for execution. Now compound that level of effort with trying to put a Lean Startup culture in place in Japan. They list four actionable steps for implementing Lean in Japanese corporations.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Unicorns are privately held companies valued at $1 billion or more. He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. I encourage you to get it and embrace these strategies, whether you’re running a startup or in a big company.

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Business and Tech

APRIL 8, 2022

As work evolves into hybrid and remote models, companies must also evolve their thinking on recruitment, retention, and growth. The companies that adapt to this new reality successfully will be the ones that take investing in their employees seriously. Holloway warns that companies must start adapting to the new reality.

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The Human Factor

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

This is what company culture is all about. But what is trying to stop your company culture from flourishing? The policies that affect our company culture are in the categories like the following…. The policies that affect our company culture are in the categories like the following….

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Building an Innovative Company Culture. Executives love talking about “disruption” nowadays, but very few companies can achieve truly disruptive results. The reason: before you can disrupt an industry, you need to disrupt your own company culture first. Taivara Blog Post by Michael Shuchter.

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Viima

JULY 5, 2023

Our latest Innovation Room Podcast episode dives into the topic of a new business building inside established organizations and the culture that surrounds it all. I was lucky enough to have this conversation with none other than the expert on the topic himself – Frank Mattes.

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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. The fact is, many large companies use anachronistic methods to bring new products to market, resulting in failed product launches.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 10, 2017

So, after over a decade of innovation consulting, I can say without doubt that companies that are just starting to innovate have it much better than those that were attempting it years ago. That's because as more companies try more innovation, more tools are vetted, more methods explored and exposed.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

Companies were optimistic, innovation budgets grew, and there was an increased appetite for out-of-the-box innovation. It's fair to say the future of our companies depend on our innovation function to deliver results. Ultimately, companies with a superior innovation management system make better decisions.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

The most common aspect of some of the innovative companies is that they are also high-performing organizations. Innovation is a part of their organizational culture. In innovative companies, innovation is not sporadic. In innovative companies, innovation is not sporadic. Here’s what they are: 1. They encourage failure.

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Kainexus

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Continuous improvement is an integral part of Japanese culture, which endeavors to improve on an ongoing basis. Even though Kaizen is a Japanese idea, many companies in the US have implemented it with great success by joining the best of traditional Japanese management practices with the strengths of Western businesses.

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Viima

JULY 10, 2023

Our latest Innovation Room Podcast episode dives into the topic of a new business building inside established organizations and the culture that surrounds it all. I was lucky enough to have this conversation with none other than the expert on the topic himself – Frank Mattes.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

When you select a speaker whose expertise aligns with your company’s goals, you create a unique opportunity for growth and learning. These speakers can also deepen the understanding of an innovation culture by: Illustrating how to create an environment that nurtures innovative thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

In contrast, a narrative is a system of stories that links values and events to establish a broader and often new cultural meaning. Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 2, 2018

If done well, two companies become one and they work as one in harmony, achieving the desired outcomes that drove the union in the first place. You can use Lean Innovation techniques -- Empathy, Experiments, and Evidence to ensure the driving force is sustained through the integration. Mergers and Acquisitions is tough business.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I've written previously about having a bias for innovation in your culture , seeking and finding important and unmet needs or opportunities , and introducing discovery and exploration in your innovation process. This is a relatively simple and obvious conclusion, and a message that far too many companies are sending to their innovation teams.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Why the Right Keynote Speaker Matters Selecting the right keynote speaker is critical, particularly when the focus is on innovation and fostering an innovation culture within organizations. They should be well-versed in the latest trends, research, and strategies that drive innovation culture within organizations.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

We have the wrong culture.” “We There’s a pervasive myth that suggests that all big companies need to get better at disruptive or breakthrough innovation. Most big companies struggle to compete in existing markets. A culture of entrepreneurship snowballs. “We’re too big.” We’re not a startup.” We’re not ready.” “We

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

GE, once a large conglomerate, has announced that it will divide itself into three companies , a healthcare company, an energy company and an aviation company. We can find out if the three companies become little GE corporate clones or pave their own way. All business must be fast, agile and innovative.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Companies of all sizes, operating in the most diverse segments, strive to promote creativity, consequently innovating consciously. What all recognized innovation leaders have in common is that, at some point, they have transformed their culture. How do you transform something as integrated as a business culture?

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

How do you define the culture of your workplace? A positive, engaging workplace culture can attract and retain talented employees, increase productivity, and even improve financial performance. Workplace culture can change rapidly with world events, and play an important role in how employees respond to and operate in times of crisis.

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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. This team was very afraid.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In her Huffington Post article , Tiffani Bova, Contributor Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce, touches on an important point made by Lisa Bodell, an award-winning author and CEO of Futurethink, that has a big impact on building a culture of innovation: idea diversity.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

I've been asked a number of times, by companies large and small, how to create an innovation capacity that lasts. In these cases, innovation is a one and done activity, in order to respond to a new product or service, and aren't meant to be retained in the culture or processes or consciousness of the organization.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Every successful company has one thing in common: a deep-seated commitment to innovation. Each category plays a critical role in a company’s growth and adaptation, offering unique paths to market leadership and resilience.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

We have the wrong culture.” “We There’s a pervasive myth that suggests that all big companies need to get better at disruptive or breakthrough innovation. Most big companies struggle to compete in existing markets. A culture of entrepreneurship snowballs. “We’re too big.” We’re not a startup.” We’re not ready.” “We

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The macroeconomic climate is battering companies around and leading to budget cuts across the board. Companies are focusing on the core business and cutting funding to anything viewed as risky or not of immediate value. Having the best AI writing assistant on the market is useless if you work for an ice cream company.

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Planview

MAY 9, 2017

Your organization embraces a culture of quality. At some point the lean practice came to make sense to you. You began your lean journey. Today, you find yourself with practical understanding of the value of the lean approach, along with its limitations. Kanban, Spaghetti, EPEI) associated with the lean methodology?

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Planview

OCTOBER 27, 2021

While most of the world’s largest companies are attempting a Lean-Agile transformation in one way or another, not all of them are succeeding. What’s missing from “failing” implementations of Lean and Agile is the understanding that seeing radically different outcomes means creating a radically different culture.

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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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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

From our point of view, all of the issues pinned down at that time have gained significant importance, are being intensively debated and can still be considered cutting-edge for companies to stay ahead in managing innovation. This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

These innovation-focused book recommendations will help teach you the skills and techniques needed to grow your business and improve your company’s innovation efforts. Sustainable innovation requires following a simple framework and living innovation within organizational culture, but it doesn’t need to be scary.

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Cris Beswick

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Does culture still eat strategy for breakfast? That’s the question which I posted in a webinar which I was invited to present by ‘We are lean and agile’, a company whose vision statement is ‘making improvement easier for you.’ The post If you want innovation, start with the right breakfast!

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Peter recommends checking out Lean Change Management and gives a shoutout to Jason Little ! [05:23] Do you know that culture follows structure but don’t know what part of the structure to change first? Transforming two of Canada’s big five banks to a culture of innovation and agility.

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Innovation Architecture

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I began running workshops around “building a culture of inquiry.” and its predecessor, The Dirty Maple Flooring Company , spoke to the power behind convening a group of people to identify and pursue the critical questions facing the group. Great Question! ” Some organizations are by their nature based on inquiry.

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