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.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. Competition aside, both face opposing physical forces that must be overcome to win. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput.

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100%Open

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In today’s competitive business environment, organisations aspire to cultivate high-performance cultures that champion team innovation, agility, and the realisation of strategic objectives. Before delving into the imperative for innovation within a High-Performance Culture Development Programme, let’s first define our terms.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

These speakers can also deepen the understanding of an innovation culture by: Illustrating how to create an environment that nurtures innovative thinking. They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes.

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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. Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. What cultural characteristics effect marketing channels? The list goes on.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We can also find out which leaders will adopt innovative measures, and change the cultures of their businesses, and which will "stay the course". Do they strive for greater efficiency, or do they dramatically rethink their cultures and become more innovative? We've got a doozy. The experiment we'll all watch is: what works?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Razors have undergone incremental innovations over time Source: The Hustle Incremental innovations may not make headlines, but they’re the steady pulses that keep businesses competitive and responsive to market demands.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

These systems are based on a teachable process and the leadership and people/culture infrastructure, which engage staff and foster collaboration. Most of these systems trace back to the Lean Startup. Their systems work effectively and efficiently, but they are also agile enough to seize short-term opportunities.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Organizations must also stay relevant and competitive to vie for funder support. So much more can be accomplished when organizations embrace the unknown, shift their perspective to focus on their different customers, learn from valuable insights gained via empathy and experimentation, and ignite the innovative spirit within their culture.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

After all, most (probably 90%) of all innovation projects undertaken in large corporations are reactive projects trying to respond to a market threat or competitive move. Next, focus on the corporate culture. But no one will want to start all of this work focused on the culture without other changes in place that can move more quickly.

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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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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

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? Keep reading to understand how you can implement an innovation culture into your company with Design Thinking! What is organizational culture?

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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. The right speaker can resonate with the audience, driving home the importance of innovation in today’s competitive landscape.

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Idea to Value

JULY 1, 2020

This is why “lean” and “agile” have become buzzwords today. In a competitive context, incompetence does not allow the mediocre to stay afloat for long and meritocracy is valuable and fair. From an innovator’s standpoint, it is better to have a culture of meritocracy and good systems to support it.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive. The platform environment is mostly characterized by a tension between collaboration and competition of the participating companies, often referred to as coopetition. Culture of experimentation (and speed).

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Sustainable innovation requires following a simple framework and living innovation within organizational culture, but it doesn’t need to be scary. Within this guide, the author will explore how to create a unified, idea-driven culture that’s built to provide more ideas in a smaller time interval. The Lean Startup.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 24, 2019

From that wave we've had successive efficiency strategies: Six Sigma (an outgrowth of the quality movement), business process re-engineering, lean, outsourcing and right-sizing. Making efficiency the core theme of the business assumes that the competitive environment changes slowly, and that efficiency and size matter when competing.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I am a strong believer and advocate of agile, design thinking, and lean startup. Lower Costs Lean Startup and Agile methods have a clear ROI - they lower costs. It’s a competitive advantage to know your customer better than anyone else and if it’s cheaper as well - why would you not want to get direct feedback from customers?

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 8, 2020

3 Reimagining Corporate Culture. Diverse work environments flourish when they’re supported by a culture of innovation that allows room for experimentation, tolerates failure, and encourages a certain level of autonomy that’s tempered with individual accountability. Overcoming these challenges starts at the top.

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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. Not only is innovation necessary for enhancing competitive advantage, it is a requirement for businesses to thrive as well as survive. Innovation is a part of their organizational culture.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In an age where authenticity and genuine connections become increasingly valuable, empathy-driven leadership stands as a beacon for those aiming to build more inclusive and resonant organizational cultures. Ideate and Prototype: Advocate for a culture of brainstorming, experimentation, and iteration.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

We have the wrong culture.” “We What they need in order to be more competitive may or may not require technical innovation. A culture of entrepreneurship snowballs. At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 10, 2017

While product innovation is a good place to get experience, you'll want to move quickly to other forms and types of innovation, because product innovation is so well understood, and becoming very competitive. Why start with product innovation when so many others are already ahead of you, and when that's where competition is the most fierce?

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ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In last month’s blog , we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration, and described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed sustainable innovative workplace culture change. Dealing with the organisational blockers – Innovation teams.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Not to be overly cynical, but what usually comes next is pretty predictable - statements about how culture is a competitive advantage. The truth is, an organization's -- and by extension, an employee's -- ability to learn, and translate insight into action rapidly, is today’s ultimate competitive advantage.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 15, 2021

All markets have become increasingly competitive, with more demanding consumers who are aware of their choices. Innovation and technology – hand-in-hand – are essential to ensure their competitiveness. The change to an innovation mindset and culture can bring many benefits to companies willing to commit.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

That’s what creates competitive advantage. We can also see how these approaches were precursors to larger movements in lean startup, design thinking, and agile. The best solutions to the biggest problems become embedded in everyday life in ways that make swapping out one product or service for another difficult.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

In order to remain competitive, companies must continually develop new products, services, and processes that meet the needs of their customers. Efficiency Optimization Organizations have eliminated risk and variance in their operations through rightsizing, outsourcing, lean, and agile.

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Kainexus

JANUARY 23, 2024

Efficient business processes are crucial for organizational success because they directly impact every element of operations, contributing to effectiveness, competitiveness, and sustainability. How can businesses effectively balance innovation with the requirement for established, efficient processes?

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The focus should be on exploring different ways to drive near-term impact for the organization and developing a culture of empathy and experimentation. Run informal competitions or workshops, much like hackathons, that instead of building products or prototypes, build exploration skills.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

We have the wrong culture.” “We What they need in order to be more competitive may or may not require technical innovation. A culture of entrepreneurship snowballs. At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It can give you a real competitive advantage by translating what you learnt in applying analogies to solutions that solve your customer problems. Enjoy the ride! Their 101 Cross Industry Super-Sites is superb to delve into and be inspired and amazed at all the approaches of cross-industry approaches moving from one industry to another.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 13, 2016

This slight rant of mine was started when I saw a new software application talk about its ability to help its clients in agile lean innovation. Lean is about stripping away unnecessary assets to focus on doing the most with the least. Lean is about stripping away unnecessary assets to focus on doing the most with the least.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? Creates a culture of experimentation: Design thinking encourages the team to prototype and test their ideas. This can drive competitive advantage and improve the organization’s performance. What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX?

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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 How can Businesses Implement Innovation?

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100%Open

APRIL 2, 2019

Organisations we’ve worked with – LEGO, Interface, Crisis and many others – have undergone a transformation from inward-looking and competitive to open-minded and collaborative. No amount of digital, culture change or training programmes will really cut it. Transformation seems to happen better through direct experience.

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