Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. You use the term “ScaleUp” …how is that different than startup and why does it deserve a special designation? Your subtitle refers to “lean” principles; I’m assuming they respond to these restraining forces?

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 20, 2018

5) The Big Three McKinsey, Bain, and Boston Consulting have interesting things to say about digital transformation. Headquartered in Lexington, MA, with offices in Singapore and Switzerland, Innosight is among the more established firms providing digital transformation consulting. Their approach flips the traditional consulting model.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 15, 2020

The consulting industry was already being disrupted before the coronavirus. If you work with consultants or have your own consultancy, take note: Things are changing, fast. Remote work , lean budgets , and the need for contingency plans are three big trends impacting the industry. Consulting Services Stratification.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. To figure out why, the consulting team had reviewed the company’s innovation lifecycle process, showing what happens to an idea in order to get implemented.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

However, in every case, it is beneficial for a company to look inwards and see whether their people, processes and leadership are acting more as innovation enablers, or bottlenecks. bringing to light inefficiencies which leadership would not be aware of). 9 – Understanding the science of creativity.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 20, 2018

5) The Big Three McKinsey, Bain, and Boston Consulting have interesting things to say about digital transformation. Headquartered in Lexington, MA, with offices in Singapore and Switzerland, Innosight is among the more established firms providing digital transformation consulting. Their approach flips the traditional consulting model.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

I have spent years researching what capabilities are actually required to facilitate and deliver innovative ideas, and have tested and refined these ideas with some of the world’s largest companies while I was an innovation subject matter expert at the world’s largest Management Consulting firm. Delivering innovation Capabilities.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Susie shares what good leadership behaviour looks like, the problems with short-term thinking and how to carve out the necessary space for a strategic approach to innovation. Co-Founder of Yellow Cat – an innovation coaching, consulting and training company. Founder of Mulberry Retreats – focusing on leadership development.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

From challenges rooted in organizational design and financial models to the complexities of incentive structures and cultural mindsets, the barriers that can impede progress are dissected. Organizational Design: A Key Challenge Exploration of how the design of large organizations can pose significant obstacles to innovation.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

However, there is one more very important aspect to innovation leadership. Approve experiments and encourage Lean prototyping. Being a good role model for innovation, or any other key leadership competence, means being conscious of your own behavior and recognizing where you are on your own developmental journey. Be inquisitive.

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Leadership. Design Thinking. The post Dana Shaddad appeared first on Innovation Consultant | Innovation 360 | Home Of Innovation. She is a holder of BComm and MSc in Strategy degrees from the University of Wollongong, Australia. Areas of expertise. Workshop Moderation & Facilitation. Innovation Management.

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Innovation 360

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Leadership. Design Thinking. She is a holder of BComm and MSc in Strategy degrees from the University of Wollongong, Australia. Areas of expertise. Workshop Moderation & Facilitation. Innovation Management. Entrepreneurship and Ecosystem development. Organizational & Human Capability Development.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, Jeffrey Phillips (Senior Strategy and Innovation Consultant) discussed what it takes to build an innovation capability for continuous innovation. However, they may lack training in innovative thinking, creativity, and design thinking.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It was a myth perpetuated by popular books, canvases, academia, and consultants. The exploration expertise brought by innovation teams is designed to overcome such uncertainty. Leadership changes, but the new way of working endures. It’s not clear, however, that’s what the rest of the business believed.

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. Limited engagement with leadership through the innovation process so leaders don’t follow the team’s pivot and the project is deemed a failure because it did not produce the expected solution. Now you’re ready to innovate with your team.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Since 1987, Idea Champions has been designing and facilitating a wide range of brainstorming sessions, creative thinking trainings, and innovation workshops for more than 130 organizations in 11 different countries. During that time, we have worked with just about every industry on planet earth and every kind of mindset.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

13:00) Why it is hard to Pivot in a system that is designed for execution with siloed teams and different KPI’s. (15:30) Don’t miss an episode and sign up to our innovation blog for the latest on Innovation Accounting, Lean Startup and Innovation Ecosystem Design. Get the Cheatsheet Topics and Insights . (00:50)

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

I say ‘Leading FOR Innovation’ instead of the usual narrative of ‘Innovation Leadership’ because it’s not about making the leaders themselves ‘innovative’ but about leaders being able to build and lead an organisation where genuine innovation (not innovation theatre!) Why is this methodology critical?

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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

The guide below is designed to help you overcome challenges that arise in virtual facilitation and elevate your capabilities. Solution: Focus on the Facilitator Mindset Leadership consultant Dr. Flo Falayi encourages leaders to lean on what they call “The Facilitator Mindset.” This mindset encompasses five parts.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. Senior team not aligned or embracing Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. Failure to secure sustained funding We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

Senior leadership must establish the mindset of, “We need to be entrepreneurial. If people are acting entrepreneurial in a grassroots way and leadership sees that this can be done, that's how momentum for change happens. If you're trying to learn if somebody likes your messaging, you can do split testing or a landing page design.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile. refers to the third generation of project management models, considered more suited to current business requirements in the context of Digital Transformation – toting more agile, lean, and modern management values. As the name implies, Management 3.0

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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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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The basics of innovation still form around building the engagement, leadership, and involvement , in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed , so as to allow innovation to evolve and thrive. Then there is that need for a constant investment in people , in our networks and relationships , that all need to come together.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. Design Thinking is a popular framework that is viewed as best practice, but it’s only part of the solution. Cost savings by not paying outside consultants to facilitate and manage your innovation process. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. REGISTER NOW.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Finding time is a real struggle and going that extra mile to read thought leadership views, long often drawn out reports or academic papers can be a step too far, I know but I can’t help myself, it is part of my job and certainly for me, many are really worth the read in a positive end result of new learning. Beyond Design Thinking.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 15, 2019

I do an imaginative game where executives consult with, in their minds, the wisest mentor they’ve every known. ” What I mean is you could use Improv problem solving tools with Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, or CPS. The key benefit is simply getting to a breakthrough insight or idea much faster.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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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. Leadership team sponsorship and mentorship.

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Boxes and Arrows

MAY 5, 2015

After some wallowing, I realized I needed to discover a new way to think about the way I work and what really matters in my consulting career. My answer: The mark of a truly good consultant is investing in people. I hope that the reflection will help us all be better consultants and make better investments.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Klaus is a computer scientist with more than 10 years’ experience as a top management consultant for companies across the globe. As an author, he has written two standard works on Kanban — Practical Kanban and Kanban Change Leadership. Read Next: Lean Budgeting, Part 1: The Limitations of Traditional, Project-Based Budgets.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

We love human centered design, the only problem, it’s a very long process. That’s where lean methodology comes up. Tools such as this would ensure we went beyond talking to doing and would provide a simple way to design new projects so we could test out ideas to see if they worked. If you’re going to fail, fail fast.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

He’d asked me what I did and when I told him I was an innovation consultant, his eyebrows raised. Not Design Thinking?” After a bit of gab about projects, Design Thinking, and other industry buzzwords, I promised to get back to him with a more thoughtful answer — and then I changed the topic!

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 19, 2019

Noel: “I describe myself as an innovation product development life engineer who’s worked on product development teams through most of my early career and mostly in technology-driven companies, and after business school, went into consulting. That’s where design thinking and lead startup comes in. I worked across industries.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In this blog, we’ll take a closer look at how TSYS launched their revolutionary Project WOW (War on Waste) – a ground-breaking process improvement methodology developed by management consulting firm Above + Beyond and powered by Qmarkets software.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. There’s a much better way. What went wrong here?

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