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Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innovators Alliance

But of course not all of our organizations are as flush with cash as Apple, which gives the company the luxury to invest in creating the future while managing through the uncertainties of the present. While most leaders and companies would prefer to avoid downturns (unless, of course, they’re in the outplacement business!),

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How to Find Your First Customers

Tim Kastelle

Part 7 in The Lean Startup Series We interviewed the plant manager and he said that they didn’t have any problems with scale, but we know that they do! That’s what a team working on anti-scaling technology reported back early in the Lean LaunchPad process. Note: Over the past year, I’ve been running (with help, of course!)

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Atul Ghai

Innovation 360 Group

Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, which is the highest level of expertise for a consultant, coach and master trainer for improving organization culture of problem solving, continuous improvement and innovation to achieve lower cost, faster delivery time and high customer satisfaction. Lean for Business Processes.

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Development Opportunities for Supervisors: Top 12 Resources & Tools

CMOE

Budgeting involves math, financing, project management, and spreadsheet analysis. Fortunately, there are development opportunities for supervisors you can lean on. CMOE’s Supervisor Development Series consists of multiple, self-paced, digital learning courses that offer supervisors the opportunity to elevate their leadership skills.

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Executives Meet to Discuss the ROI of Innovation

Moves the Needle

The spirited conversation was both provocative, and the perfect lead into our next guest and co-host David Binetti’s presentation on getting buy-in from the finance department for innovation initiatives. Those in Expand have found some traction and are, therefore, “emerging” H2 projects. This is hard and businesses do it poorly.

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Saif Amer

Innovation 360 Group

Quality Management, Lean, Six Sigma and TQM. Courses in Entrepreneurship, Finance and Business, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. Leadership and Change Management. Master of Science in Product Innovation Management, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden.

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5 Excuses of companies that don't innovate (and how to overcome them)

Moves the Needle

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. Of course not. To get started: Run internal lean startup hackathons, where the process rewards iterative learning over solution building. Start with a closed group.)

LEAN 75