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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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

Speed of learning is the new unfair advantage. And companies that continuously outlearn their competition win. Much like failing becomes learning when you’re going fast, innovation becomes continuous. March 9, 2012 - Running Lean Meta-Process - Lean Canvas Continuous Innovation Framework 2.0?—?June

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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. Businesses must learn first , rather than merely executing on the plan.

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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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IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2020

Learn what works in innovation from these ten books. Part of building a great innovation strategy is to learn about the history of innovation. Running Lean , by Ash Maurya Innovation strategy starts with a plan. Learning is part of innovation, and it never stops.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Experiential Learning Accelerates Innovation. New Study: Drawing is the Fastest, Most Effective Way to Learn. I read with interest an article stating that drawing accelerates learning. Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. Yes, drawing accelerates learning.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The belief that lean management principles will get the innovation out of the door quicker, has been one of those management adoptions that often trick us into believing we are achieving more than we actually are. Leans slows down and becomes increasingly burdened by fat being layered on, further down the innovation execution process.

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

Speed of learning is the new unfair advantage. And companies that continuously outlearn their competition win. Much like failing becomes learning when you’re going fast, innovation becomes continuous. March 9, 2012 - Running Lean Meta-Process - Lean Canvas Continuous Innovation Framework 2.0?—?June

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

This (economic) reality has highlighted the limitations of existing innovation systems, underscoring the necessity for a more efficient and effective approach to innovation management, as Frank Mattes and Dennis Boeckler suggested during a recent Innov8rs Learning Lab session. Most of these systems trace back to the Lean Startup.

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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. Overemphasising Conformity: Traditional business education often leans towards conformity, emphasising established norms and best practices.

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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. Demonstrating how to embrace failure as a learning opportunity. Embracing Failure and Learning A culture that accepts failure as a stepping stone to success is more likely to innovate effectively.

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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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Wazoku

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It’s perhaps safe to say, therefore, that they’ve mastered the art of innovating to derive a competitive advantage. To do that requires less the occasional flash of inspiration as it does a relentless desire to experiment, learn and adapt. If you can embody the spirit of innovation in one man, it’s perhaps that of Thomas Edison.

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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. However the criteria for advancement must give a lot of weight to creativity, collaboration and the capacity to learn and change.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 12, 2022

For example, Scott Anthony (interviewed on the podcast here ), summarised his views in a 2012 HBR article about which companies might benefit from moving first: If you are what Professor Steven Spear calls a “high-velocity organization” that is always learning and improving, there are real benefits to moving first.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Here are some of the many ways you can use Instant Coffee: Brainstorming Incremental Planning Story Mapping Lean Coffee Impromptu Meetings PI Planning Retrospectives SWOT Analysis Standup Meetings. Lean Coffee. The Lean Coffee format is a structured, but agenda-less, meeting designed to facilitate collaborative group discussions.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

Lean Startup Methodology The Lean Startup methodology , created by Eric Ries, emphasizes the importance of rapid prototyping, validated learning, and other iterative product and service development techniques. It focuses on creating new demand and making the competition irrelevant by offering a unique value proposition.

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The BMI Lab Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

In his Entrepreneurs Talk podcast, Charles interviews entrepreneurs to understand what they do, learn from and share their experiences. If you want to find out more about our lean startup approach, check out our Launchpad. We think this is just the beginning. Our colleague Charles understood this trend already in 2018.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It’s more about maintaining competitive parity than gaining competitive advantage. Automakers dismissed the electric vehicle for decades as unprofitable and unwanted until Tesla showed up and put them behind in a field where they desperately need to be competitive. Sometimes you have to go against the current.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Here are a few things we can learn: We can discover if being relieved of corporate overhead really matters to the individual businesses. They strip down and operate as efficiently as possible, using lean practices and six sigma guidance (already well embedded) to improve operating margins. Getting smaller faster?

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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. For businesses, fostering a culture that embraces experimentation and learning is key to sustaining innovation.

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KindlingApp

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The city of Amsterdam recently started to crowdsource solutions to innovating their school systems by setting up a competition where citizens can submit proposals for schools and vote online for favorites. There are even venture capital firms like Learn Capital , focused entirely on transforming the classroom. Collaboration.

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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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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. Cases in point: Lego and Burberry.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 24, 2019

In my continuing series of posts about lessons learned from corporate innovation, today I'd like to expand on the idea of innovation language, and go even further. 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.

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CMOE

APRIL 12, 2023

In today’s digital age, organizations lean heavily on eLearning to elevate performance and accommodate remote/hybrid working solutions. 72% of businesses that leverage eLearning feel they earn a competitive advantage. 72% of businesses that leverage eLearning feel they earn a competitive advantage. billion in 2022.

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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 recent classics are just as useful and practical to professionals looking to learn innovative methodology and approaches. Find it here. Books from 2020 & Earlier.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 8, 2020

However, for every technological advancement, there seems to be a learning curve or adjustment period as we try to figure out how to implement automation into our daily lives. Such organizations are better equipped to learn from setbacks, remain resilient in times of upheaval, and weather change. source: pixabay.com.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By 2010, the Lean Startup methodology built upon these principles, emphasizing rapid experimentation and customer feedback to guide businesses towards sustainable business models. Autonomous go-to-market models ‘Launching and learning’ in the market in real-time with autonomous feedback loops - resulting in launches that stick.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. A couple of days after having had published my post, Paolo Lorenzoni from IDEO confirmed the complementary nature of Lean Startup and Design Thinking. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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Your Ideas are Terrible

OCTOBER 16, 2016

You need to follow a Lean Startup process and test your idea with customers. Nobody has “Lean Startup” or “Customer Development” skills. Given the popularity of Lean Startup you may try hiring experienced people to run innovation experiments. Psychology majors learn about human nature and motivations. Will customers pay?

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Qmarkets

APRIL 14, 2022

The benefits of innovation include increased revenue, profits, brand recognition, market share, competitiveness, and productivity. Often process innovation involves applying a new technology to your business processes, that helps your business stay competitive and keeps your customers happy. LEAN method. LEAN Method.

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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. This balance is essential for organisations to remain competitive and adapt to changing market conditions. This is not merely about testing ideas but also about fostering learning.

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Christensen Institute

JULY 13, 2023

Just 13% of first-year students live on campus, according to Higher Learning Advocates , for instance. This new majority doesn’t care if their school boasts a competitive athletic program or an obscure department in which they’ll never take a course. Even crazier is that many of these amenities don’t benefit their students.

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Christensen Institute

MAY 30, 2023

However, AI and machine learning tools that diagnose and provide treatment options, thus negating the need for higher-cost clinicians, could be low-hanging fruit to add to their model in the future. Does the offering have a technology that enables it to improve and capture a larger market over time?

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Michael Roberto

AUGUST 28, 2018

Kristin Wilson and Scott Rockart have published an intriguing paper titled, "Learning in Cycles." In this article, the scholars examine how firms learn and adapt over the course of business cycles. Yet, this research shows that can't discard our learning completely. How can we learn without completely forgetting?

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