Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. A new book by Silicon Valley tech veteran and innovation advocate Ann Mei Chang, Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good explores the unique challenges that can deter social innovation. Corporate philanthropy. Benefit corporations. Sounds ideal.

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Tim Kastelle

MAY 5, 2016

“In the end, these projects are all business model problems.” ” That’s what I said to my friend Steve Adelman about the projects we collaborate on as part of the Wharton-UQ Global Consulting Practicum program. “Why aren’t they market entry problems?” ” he replied.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 12, 2016

Part 5 in The Lean Startup Series The idea of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is frequently misunderstood. Here’s an example from our first Lean LaunchPad program. The Lean Startup approach is based on the Build-Measure-Learn loop. Note: Over the past year, I’ve been running (with help, of course!)

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 2, 2018

You can use Lean Innovation techniques -- Empathy, Experiments, and Evidence to ensure the driving force is sustained through the integration. But of course, the real question is, “What do you mean by innovation?” One organization might consider innovation to be a new channel to market and another sees it as new technology.

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IM Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Applying traditional stage-gate funding models for innovation projects come with a set of issues on their own. 02:00) Elijah skips talking about problems associated with funding a project from idea to scale , preferring to start by discussing the common issues with stage-gate funding specifically for innovation projects. . (05:30)

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 19, 2016

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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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 13, 2016

It's the natural order of economics that when an opportunity is available, everything rushes in to fill the vacuum, and as the market becomes crowded various offerings must differentiate themselves from the others to demonstrate value. Lean is about stripping away unnecessary assets to focus on doing the most with the least.

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Planview

JULY 26, 2022

Market disruptions by startups; sure. We have all been taking a crash course in dynamic planning – being ready for, hypothetically, anything: Finding ways to minimize losses and maximize opportunities while moving forward into the unknown. We thought we knew about uncertainty. Shifting consumer behaviors? Part of the job.

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Innovation 360 Group

JULY 10, 2018

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. Sales & Marketing. Other Training.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? There are several ways to learn design thinking, including: Taking a course: Many universities and colleges offer courses on design thinking, either as part of a design or engineering program or as a standalone course. What are the principles of design thinking?

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Open Innovation EU

MARCH 30, 2016

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. Source: www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/when-toyota-met-e-commerce-lean-at-amazon.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

"Several of the ideas we came up with in the Idea Champions session are being developed into concrete projects that are looking like very profitable opportunities." - Rudy Villa, VP, GE/RCA Licensing. "As Extremely engaging and enlightening brainstorming sessions." - Karen Lazan, Marketing Director, Pfizer. ZoomStorming.

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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. What is Management 3.0?

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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. And it’s not going to stop anytime soon: Research notes that the global eLearning market was estimated at $332.6 This amount is projected to reach $457.8 billion in 2022.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Henry Ford’s great insight was that if he could reduce the cost of cars such that his decently-paid employees could afford to buy the automobile they made, he’d have a massive market. His very lean progressive assembly process was the result. The number of competitors in most open markets is incredible and increasing rapidly.

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Innov8rs

AUGUST 22, 2023

It’s easy to set an ambition to create a pipeline and portfolio of new ventures and investments that disrupt existing markets and create new ones. To succeed with corporate venture building, lean on one of the main resources you already have: your people. It’s easy to say “we need a growth engine”. The question really is – how?

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Planview

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I sat down recently (and virtually, of course!) One of the hallmark benefits of Agile is being able to strategically pivot to meet the needs of your customers and the market. If we want to react quickly to changes in the market, we need to have a better approach than, ‘Okay, this is the list of projects for the next year. “If

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 21, 2019

They invest millions into these projects with the hopes of disrupting the norm, transforming their company culture, and catering to the markets of the future, but they have not actually figured out a fool-proof strategy for generating this innovation, let alone how they are going to align these innovation plans with their ultimate business goals.

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IM Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

Understanding revenue and cost on a per unit basis for Startups/innovation projects is vital but even established businesses have a lot to gain from doing it right. An Unhelpful way of calculating CAC : total spent on marketing in period / number of new customers in this period. 43:00) A perspective on Product/Market-Fit (PMF).

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

These changing market conditions showed how a more strategic approach to innovation was actually needed. Of course, the number and intensity of roles CINOs have may vary from company to company. All the other functions – from marketing to sales to finance – are not used to thinking and acting innovatively. “In

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

” Even if your eventual potential market is huge, you need to start out by dominating a small niche. Google started out as a way to make searching the Stanford Library easier as part of the Stanford Digital Library Project. Google didn’t start out by organising the world’s information.

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Moves the Needle

JULY 31, 2018

This is commonly referred to as Product-Market fit. The business understands the market and has developed a proven, scalable blueprint to winning the market. David pointed out that startups or innovation initiatives in the Explore phase are essentially H3 projects. Easier said than done. You’ve already sunk the costs.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2018

In this article, you are going to learn exactly what Loss Aversion is, why is creates crippling fear in middle managers and decision-makers, and a simple model for how you can reframe your company’s thinking which encourages more innovation projects to thrive.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

In reality, we are talking about a set of practices that should be used to manage projects and demands to adapt to changes and gain efficiency quickly. A Squad is nothing more than a team formed by people with different technical and academic skills to solve a problem or perform a project. What are the benefits of Squads?

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Innovation 360 Group

JANUARY 28, 2016

He has a background as a consultant and market researcher for SME’s as well as large, publicly traded, multinational companies. Project Management. Market Research. Online courses in Behavioral Economics, Python, C+, HTML, JAVA, and CSS. Areas of expertise. Strategy and Business Development. International Economics.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

Of course, this shift requires really big changes in strategy, operations, the organization and in each individuals orientation. The design needs to be customer-centric, agile, experimental, lean, standard as much as it can be, with simplicity and adaptive as being central to this. They are all becoming digital endeavors.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Jennifer Riggins is the marketeer at Happy Melly , a virtual global business network dedicated to making happiness at work the new norm. Of course, these funders want to become an active part of invigorating our growing community with experiments and feedback. For sure crowdsourcing ideas is valuable.

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Leanstack

MARCH 8, 2017

Vision and strategy are foundational pieces without which even a good product cannot withstand the weight of its market. The challenge, of course, is that vision, strategy, and product all have varying, and often fuzzy, time horizons — making it challenging to keep them aligned and actionable simultaneously.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 15, 2021

Innovation has become a buzzword in all market segments, but many companies invest in innovation consulting to remain at the forefront. All markets have become increasingly competitive, with more demanding consumers who are aware of their choices. Workshops Customized EAD courses Organization of events Hackathons.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

07:30) On Product-Market-Fit and the problem with placing too many large scale and expensive bets . (13:00) Pitch Projects & Manage Stakeholders. The first part of this course is all about making sure you can clearly communicate your goal and that you will not be held accountable against metrics out of your control.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

How do you integrate all this new fancy stuff into strategy and ideation to create actual projects? A team without IT involved won’t be able to do it either, because marketing-centric teams don’t know what’s technically possible. Of course, this new team will make for interesting dynamics (read: conflict).

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etventure

JANUARY 5, 2017

You just set up a working group, launch some digital projects under the auspices of the IT department and off you go. Of course, we could do that – hold a brainstorming session and off we go. Lean startup is a suitable approach to begin the practical implementation in a streamlined way after the brainstorming. So far, so good.

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Leanstack

JUNE 7, 2018

Taking the First Business Model Snapshot “Set a timer for 20 minutes and take a first snapshot of your idea on a Lean Canvas.” When you’re trying to market to everyone, you connect with no one.” “When you’re trying to market to everyone, you connect with no one.” He manages to complete the canvas just as the timer goes off.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Since few companies have fully adopted innovation as an operating capability, this means that its likely fewer innovation projects will be started, and when they are started it will help innovation activities receive funding if they focus on smart and connected outcomes. Digital transformation almost goes without saying.

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KindlingApp

AUGUST 19, 2015

A shared experience for professionals across industries and around the globe is the increase of pressure to be more innovative, or to produce innovations and get them to market faster. In other words, any given project will be managed according to the same set rules and states as any other, like budget, internal approval, and market research.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

The market is changing faster than ever, and an organization’s ability to move at the speed of the Internet is the only chance at surviving and thriving. Understanding customer problems requires developing customer empathy, and customer empathy requires new forms of market research methods and avoiding market research method traps.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

But, according to a study done by Wipro Digital, 1 in 5 senior executives “admit that they secretly believe that digital transformation projects in their company are a waste of time ,” even though there is mounting evidence that digital transformation is the only option for future survival. They are not agile. Culture comes out of structure.

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