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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

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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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

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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Value Stream Discovery: What to test & how to measure [Airbnb example]

Moves the Needle

Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas and Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas come to mind. Similar tools have been around for ages, by the way; used in lean manufacturing processes, Agile, kanban, scrum, etc. Like Lean Startup, the concept of a “value stream” also comes from the lean manufacturing world.

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How to Cut Costs and Still Be Innovative

Leapfrogging

This is also known as open innovation, and it can take many forms ranging from idea competitions to longer-term partnerships or equity investments. Travelers in a rush love that they can order, eat, and check out fast, all without having to flag down a waiter. Rethink waste. Don’t underestimate the power of self-service.

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9 Benefits of eLearning for Employees

CMOE

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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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

Dr. Kinari Webb, an American physician and environmentalist, traveled to Borneo during this period and quickly realized that the local people relied on cutting down trees to meet their needs. Those who lean towards a Miles Davis mindset are more likely to adopt an open approach to innovation. Are You a Prince of Serendip?

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Innovating: So What Is Possible?

Paul Hobcraft

This is the tough ground to travel through and over. Each business has a need, to grow, to add value, to beat or at least equal competition, or should do. In the Lean Methodology we are discovering the MVP (minimum viable product) as the process to travel through as we “Build- Measure- Learn” as the feedback loop.