Moves the Needle

JANUARY 21, 2019

Based on a study from PwC , 54% of executives say they struggle to align innovation strategy with business strategy, and 72% say they are not out-innovating their competition. When corporate strategy is not clear to the innovation teams, it is almost certain that they will fall off course.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. What they need in order to be more competitive may or may not require technical innovation. Of course not. Innovation is somebody else’s job.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A teacher figures out where a student is, their “zone of proximal development” The teacher then scaffolds the students thinking, using various tools, to make new connections and learn. In innovation work, ideally, a facilitator guides a team beyond its current knowledge zone and into a new place of greater understanding.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. What they need in order to be more competitive may or may not require technical innovation. Of course not. Innovation is somebody else’s job.

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CMOE

MARCH 4, 2021

In today’s flat and lean organizations, it is easy to lose sight of the reasons why strong management and leadership are necessary. There are times when team members become discouraged and need someone to give them an outside perspective. They may need clear direction about organizational priorities or how to develop and improve.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

While just like for startups, large enterprises benefit from the tumbling costs of developing digital products, they face deep-rooted problems that come from being large and successful. But enterprise organizations have been known to exhibit “not built here” syndrome, meaning, they don’t trust solutions that weren’t developed in-house.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit. With this in mind, if you’re a corporate executive or part of a product or innovation team, here are some key habits that you should stop doing if you want to innovate in the enterprise.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

This cycle should involve the following steps: implementation, connectivity development, ensuring a ‘first and foremost’ focus on innovation, ideation and brainstorming, and finally, implementing a formal innovation management system. Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 30, 2017

This cycle should involve the following steps: implementation, connectivity development, ensuring a ‘first and foremost’ focus on innovation, ideation and brainstorming, and finally, implementing a formal innovation management system. Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit. With this in mind, if you’re a corporate executive or part of a product or innovation team, here are some key habits that you should stop doing if you want to innovate in the enterprise.

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Leanstack

MARCH 29, 2018

Even though, his savings ran out 6 months ago, he has hit a comfortable groove using freelance consulting to keep his product development going. He’s come to terms that bringing his vision to life is going to take it’s due course, but he’s not in a hurry. Hire 3 developers. But for that I need more developers.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Lean Innovation Definition At Moves The Needle, we define lean innovation as “reducing waste in the discovery, creation, and delivering of new value to customers." We base Lean Innovation principles upon the 3 E’s of Lean Innovation : Empathy, Experiments and Evidence. Where design thinking ends, Lean Startup begins.

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Leanstack

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

He has no product revenue and relies on part-time freelancing work to fund his product development. On the other hand, Larry has a growing customer base, revenue, and team. Even though his startup had a few bad product starts, they eventually managed to get acquired. Steve felt proud to have been part of the core team.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

In the course of this first month of 2016, I was asked a couple of times what my prospects are for the year ahead when it comes to key innovtion issues. This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive. Cases in point: Lego and Burberry.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Many companies are stuck with a legacy of fossilized architectures and all that entails, including the need for extensive maintenance and problems with development to keep up with changing markets. Often engineering-talented companies have invested in customized solutions, a development that is reflected for example in Industry 4.0

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

The lens through which this profession – the "MBA crowd" if you will – sees the world is generally one of how to build a sustainable competitive advantage, something that can come from any corner of the business. We begin with Business Management. There are pros and cons that arise from this perspective.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

What it is: One of the most challenging aspects of innovation for most companies is not the generating of ideas, or the development of new innovations. They can cite a number of seemingly valid reasons for this, including: My team hasn’t got the time to resources or time to take ownership of this new thing.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

It is definitely not a failure of a single product, acquisition, or bad campaign. Absence of an exclusive team. Although innovation should not be confined to one section of the company, a dedicated team whose only responsibility is to drive innovation is required. Collaboration is the new competitive advantage.

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Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? Are managers prepared to allow experimentation? Busenitz, L.

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