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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. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput. Of course, not all friction is bad. Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation.

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Using Lean Innovation to Transform the Way the City of Hayward Solves Problems

Moves the Needle

Before and After Lean Innovation: Overview The City of Hayward, California wanted to break away from inefficient and ineffective processes for researching and launching programs, and remove organizational bottlenecks that stood in the way of serving citizens. Hayward City Manager Kelly McAdoo didn’t want to accept the status quo. “We

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3 Dimensions of Innovation: the 23 Capabilities your company needs to succeed

Idea to Value

And companies regularly boast about how they are spending millions (and sometimes billions) of dollars into research & development to come up with innovative new offerings. Delivery: A team of people who have the ability to take rough ideas and develop them into a customer-facing innovation.

Company 276
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Going Lean, Again

etventure

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. I complimented the team on how calm the assembly line seemed to run – and how clean the workshop looked. The company was losing its technology leadership.

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Episode 11 – Breathing Life into Organisations on Innovation Life Support

IM Insights

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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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using

Idea to Value

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. 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.

Company 248
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5 Challenges of Virtual Facilitation & How You Can Solve Them

CMOE

Meeting facilitators and Learning & Development professionals must evaluate these challenges and identify the best practices to overcome them to create the most valuable experience for the participants. Back: You focus on the needs of your team members. You provide team members the opportunity to speak up and share their ideas.