Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Lean Innovation Case Study: Bringing a New Product to Market Don’t have time to read the whole article? This is the story of how Edmunds.com used Lean Innovation practices to make their mission a reality. Eventually, they determined that Lean Innovation principles would be the best way to tackle this uncertainty.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

Although the term “innovation” has found a place in everyday diction, true, game-changing innovation still remains elusive. The increasing competition for customers, market share, and talent in almost every industry demands an innovative approach to business. Innovation is a part of their organizational culture.

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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. They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable. Offer strategies for effective prototyping and testing.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

In 1998, Chuck Templeton started a company called EasyEats.com. As you probably know, the company would become an icon for what it meant to create a two-sided marketplace business model. Even though this was over 20 years ago, OpenTable’s “backstory” demonstrates tried and true practices for innovators that remain important today.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Every successful company has one thing in common: a deep-seated commitment to innovation. It’s the secret sauce that has transformed startups into tech giants and turned traditional businesses into market leaders.

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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. Note that what my clients are asking for is to create an innovation capacity that outlasts a product need, or market gap, or executive team member.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As AI advances, we find ourselves heading towards a new era — one where innovation is not just constant but autonomous, as Board of Innovation's founder Philip de Ridder explains below. Both paradigms transformed innovation approaches worldwide. Both paradigms transformed innovation approaches worldwide.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

It is the lifeblood of our global economy, a survival skill and a strategic priority for any company worldwide. Nevertheless, many market participants still face the enormous challenge of figuring out the blend of all necessary elements and the right mix for a successful innovation process. Fail forward.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 24, 2019

I'd like to riff on the idea of innovation as central, organizing idea in a business rather than an occasional distraction. Last Friday I wrote about the importance of defining a common language for innovation , so that people within a company are talking and working on the same things.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

Venture building represents a strategic approach for corporations to foster innovation and drive long-term growth by creating new businesses from the ground up. By operating somewhat independently from the parent corporation, these ventures can remain agile and adapt quickly to market changes, much like startups.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation? 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.

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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. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

For innovators working within the confines of large enterprises, the possibilities for transformation, especially with mobile and digital products, are endless. Lean, digital disruptors threaten their larger, more rigid corporate counterparts. Bio : Rachel Nitschke is the Content Marketing Specialist at ChaiOne.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Circling back to risk and innovation, let’s look at what risk means for innovators, or in other words, people that are trying to introduce something new (anything from products and services to process improvements) to the market. How will the market respond to it? Increase your pace of innovation.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

The paper outlines six key practices for accelerating new product development and innovations based on examples from companies representing various industries. However, our discussion with Dr. Cooper mainly focuses on three of those six practices: Effective Portfolio Management Lean Development Agile Stage-Gate.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 14, 2022

How much time should you spend improving your existing processes as opposed to innovating new ones? There are two types of companies: those who innovate and those who improve. Regardless of size or scale though, many businesses struggle to decide whether they should invest their resources in innovation or improvement.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

Here a few benefits that organizations are most likely to achieve from innovation: Competitive Edge There are many examples of new businesses taking over the market and killing their competitors, but perhaps one of the most well-known is Blockbuster vs. Netflix. “In But what’s most important is they’re frequent.’

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

Many companies are still in denial or not wanting to address the significant legacy and change required. Innovation has gone from being islands of knowledge, developing new products and services exclusive to that one company, then quickly copied by the competitors, into something radically different.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It’s very difficult for an existing company to move into completely new spheres. Strength might come from technology invention, distribution, raw materials, or dominance in a particular market. Guardrails that define your sandbox are established broadly by the markets you’re already in. It’s better to buy one’s way in.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

But, without having regular customer empathy , companies miss out on collecting valuable insights from the people they are aiming to serve. An innovation sprint is a 3-5 day intensive, experiential engagement that focuses on teaching participants Lean Innovation methodologies while making impact on real business issues.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 11, 2019

We could summarize open innovation as the use of inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation and expand markets. Keep reading to understand in depth what open innovation is and how it can be used in your business! The open innovation concept. The 3 types of open innovation.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 14, 2023

Read what Daniel Alexus (Head at Ericsson ONE) shared during our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Culture, Talent & Teams how they created a unique program that encourages disruptive innovation and breakthrough ideas inside a big global company. The company has always been good at innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Training Accelerates Innovation. 94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. 70% of CEO’s see innovation as a key driver of growth. Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals? Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation .

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn. At this stage of the process, I like to use Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

What needs to change (and what doesn’t) when it comes to bringing new products, services, and business models to market in 2023? During The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed these topics with Tom Waller (Senior Vice President of Innovation at adidas) and Tiffany Vasilchik (Chief Growth Officer at Board of Innovation).

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

On Understanding Your Company Before You Start Innovating. A lot of innovators that I have met are impatient people. By the time we start working together, they are already fed up with their company. And I have done it all – idea jams, hackathons, startup weekends, training workshops and innovation sprints.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

Leaders who champion innovation understand its role in driving competitive advantage, increasing market share, and, often, creating entirely new markets. Embracing the reality of continuous volatility Remaining relevant means staying vigilant to the constant changes initiated by customers, markets, regulators, employees, etc.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Simply put companies ‘die’ due to their inability to adapt to change and transformation projects fail because the message somehow fails to register and never gets completed to the original objectives. Unless we create a strategy to transform, how can we re-imagine our innovation processes? This is where breakthroughs live.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The fact is, companies must be more agile, understand their customers deeply, and make bold moves in order to survive. At the heart of this transformation mindset is Lean Innovation. And when you think of innovation transformation, there are many pieces that need to come together. But, that’s not all there is to it.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 7, 2015

Yesterday, I was quite delighted to see my post Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking ranked #11 of the Top 100 Innovation Posts 2014 at Innovation Excellence. For large companies, it isn’t about which process is right – the reality is that we probably haven’t invented the right process yet.

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hackerearth

MAY 4, 2017

Eric Ries, Lean Startup. Doesn’t it surprise you that while most managers think of productivity being managed, quality being perfected, and human resources being tamed by adopting time-honed management principles, creativity and innovation, somehow, refuses to fall within the bracket? Figure 1: Innovation process map (Courtesy: IDEO).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At At our company we have a culture that fears failure. Bob looked wistful, “Our founders built a company known for taking risks and moving fast.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Here’s his guest post on what bad habits to avoid inside of a company. Big companies have great execution habits to manage and improve successful business models and value propositions. But the habits that foster execution can easily kill new growth initiatives inside your company. The latter requires speed and agility.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, Zoom Video Communications (Zoom) had a market capitalization of $116B. Zoom was the result of the inability of Cisco Systems (market cap $189B), to recognize a huge, new opportunity. In frustration, Yuan left Cisco to establish his own company, Zoom Video Communications.

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The BMI Lab Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

When we look for inspiring examples of business model innovations on the Internet, we usually find business cases like Netflix, Amazon, Uber or other giants that have successfully implemented new business models, and hence boosted their performance and market dominance.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

But these short-lived programs aren’t all there is to innovation, and they shouldn’t scare you off as a corporate innovator. In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space. What key metrics suggest customers want this solution over others in the market?

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks.

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