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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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. However, moving a product from lab to market is a process that in itself could use re-invention. What is Commercialization?

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

While the massive layoffs at meta are terrible, it sadly shows one of the major issues that companies struggle with when they try to grow and innovate too quickly … facebook tried a huge number of innovation projects which failed. These are “Zombie projects” But then there are companies which do it even worse.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 12, 2022

What makes more sense: To be the first player in a brand new market, able to be the first (or only) company which customers buy from? To wait until other companies have proven there is a market for a new offering, and then quickly develop and scale your own? The early bird catches the worm … ?

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Lean is Dead. Long Live Lean! Twenty four years ago, James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos introduced our world to a modern understanding of the concept of Lean Production. Lean Production was, and still is, a profoundly powerful management philosophy for the mass production of uniform goods.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 7, 2016

Part 3 in The Lean Startup Series Facebook currently has 1.55 To get to that size, they must have been building for a huge market right from the start, right? They slowly added features, like The Wall – this happened when they expanded their market to everyone that had a.edu email address – 20 million people or so.

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

Every company needs to simultaneously optimize their existing business model (sustain) and search for the next evolution of the business model (disrupt). And companies that continuously outlearn their competition win. March 9, 2012 - Running Lean Meta-Process - Lean Canvas Continuous Innovation Framework 2.0?

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etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.” The Proud Leader.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! The result: development of a market-ready product ( lineup™ ) in a fraction of the time, and the confidence to apply their strengthened skill set to other areas of uncertainty.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

Over the years, so much has improved and understood by the explanations, case examples, suggestions, clarifications and ways they were “built into” the individual innovation processes that each company chose to construct their innovation process. These tools and techniques enable ideation, validation, design-build and scaling.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

The increasing competition for customers, market share, and talent in almost every industry demands an innovative approach to business. The most common aspect of some of the innovative companies is that they are also high-performing organizations. In innovative companies, innovation is not sporadic. Here’s what they are: 1.

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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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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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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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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 19, 2018

It’s that time of year again: the temperature is dropping, leaves are changing colors, and after a sleepy summer, companies are ready to reflect on how they are going to improve their operation for the new year. Mon, Nov 5, 2018 11:00 AM EDT The first event we have is featuring our Co-Founder and CEO, Brant Cooper.

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Collectivecamp

APRIL 13, 2020

While there’s much talk emanating out of Silicon Valley nowadays that “pivot is the new fail”, when the term first gained popularity off the back of the lean startup movement in the early 2010s it effectively meant making a fundamental shift in your business model, based on customer learnings, towards one that is designed to bring you closer to product (..)

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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. Employees overwhelmingly prefer hybrid models of work and enjoy more power in the job market than ever before. Koslow notes that companies need to build trust in order to foster employee engagement.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

A business model outlines how a company creates, delivers, and captures value. Business model innovation involves changing these aspects significantly to respond to shifts in the market, technology, or customer preferences. What Is Business Model Innovation? Blue Ocean Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy , formulated by W.

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Collectivecamp

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

While there’s much talk emanating out of Silicon Valley nowadays that “pivot is the new fail”, when the term first gained popularity off the back of the lean startup movement in the early 2010s it effectively meant making a fundamental shift in your business model, based on customer learnings, towards one that is designed to bring you closer to product (..)

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

There is first elapsed time - the time from the first recognition of an opportunity or need until the product comes to market. For most companies, the preference would be that all innovation projects last no more than 88 days - a project should begin one day into the quarter and finish to deliver outcomes one day before the same quarter ends.

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Kainexus

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In today’s hyper-competitive and rapidly changing environment, organizations must find innovative ways to improve quality, reduce waste, and get products to market quickly and efficiently. One of the most popular techniques is Standard work.

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Brunner

OCTOBER 28, 2019

What do physics and marketing have in common? But what does any of this have to do with marketing in the 21 st century? But what does any of this have to do with marketing in the 21 st century? Over the last decade marketing has experienced two major revolutions. The first is the rise of digital marketing.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 11, 2020

Is your company aligned with the new direction that the energy market is heading towards? Energy market: the future is knocking. To win over 100% of their digital consumers, companies must become increasingly agile and innovative. An Open Energy scenario arises in which micro markets become possible.

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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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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 26, 2014

StartX , a nonprofit startup accelerator, recently devoted an entire day to the role of design in early-stage companies. Each panelist had made their mark on how design is done in start-ups: Laura wrote the influential O’Reilly book on UX for Lean Startups, and Todd penned the bestselling Rosenfeld Media Prototyping book.

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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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Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

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. To get started: Run internal lean startup hackathons, where the process rewards iterative learning over solution building. They don’t.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Hi there, With 2022 almost behind us, a lot of companies and teams are planning their next steps for 2023. With the global economy stalling and fear of an upcoming recession, many companies have significantly slowed their investments into new innovation teams. If your company is interested, the L.I.V.E.

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Business and Tech

JUNE 24, 2022

As a startup entrepreneur, you wear all the hats — sales, marketing, fulfillment, invoicing, accounting, and business strategy, to name just a few. Whether it’s a specific contact, software, or strategy that you otherwise would not have discovered, the key to growth is leaning into these peer relationships. It changed my life.

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Innovators Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

But of course not all of our organizations are as flush with cash as Apple, which gives the company the luxury to invest in creating the future while managing through the uncertainties of the present. Companies like these keep their cost-conscious creative market juices flowing regardless of the economic climate.

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

Every company needs to simultaneously optimize their existing business model (sustain) and search for the next evolution of the business model (disrupt). And companies that continuously outlearn their competition win. March 9, 2012 - Running Lean Meta-Process - Lean Canvas Continuous Innovation Framework 2.0?

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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. Radical innovation is about making significant leaps forward, often creating new industries or reshaping existing ones.

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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. Many innovators agonize over the name of their company. I went to high school with Chuck. Find a Good Name But Recognize It May Change.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Why do R&D labs succeed in creating new technology, but fail at bringing these innovations to market? R&D labs don’t bring new innovations to market typically because they are charged with inventing new technology, but not the commercialization of those inventions. However, innovation requires bringing inventions to market.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It takes a lot of empathy, patience and healthy detachment to provide for the immediate needs of the people on the margins of society and to help them find permanent solutions to their many problems – innovation a company-wide responsibility. Innovation is a Company-Wide Responsibility.

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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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