IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Elijah Eilert speaks to Andy Cars , the founder and CEO of Lean Ventures International, about the ISO standards for innovation management. 01:09) Introducing Andy Cars owner of Lean Ventures International AB. (03:52) The definition nicely illustrates the general nature of the standard. About the Episode. Topics and Insights . (01:09)

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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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How To Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture 59

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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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. No clear definition of what innovation really means This varies widely from organization to organization. Governance & Metrics 1.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 98

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

“Six Sigma aims to take any uncertainties (variability) out of a process while innovation by definition induces uncertainties. It does not tell leaders how to manage their organizations” An introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation Managers. “The value is that Baldrige is intentionally non-prescriptive.

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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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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

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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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

According to Global Human Capital Trends 2015 pg 36, “Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent.”. Employees who feel their voices are heard are 4.6x

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Culture Meeting Engagement Leadership 89

Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

The Innovation Mindset The innovation mindset can most definitely be brought into and developed within an organization. Senior leadership must establish the mindset of, “We need to be entrepreneurial. 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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Innovation Programs Innovation LEAN Culture 52

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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Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

Depending on the companies’ objectives, these innovation centers are mostly autonomous, designed as corporate accelerators, incubators, Digital Labs or in a blended form. The tension comes from the largely incompatible designs and operating models of these two organizations, which are based on two completely different rationales.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

From start-ups to banks, design has never been more central to business. Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. Why is that fabled “seat at the table” so hard to find, and how can designers get a chair? Is design just a service, or can designers* lead?

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Planview

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Sometimes these agents are designated to effect change on behalf of their peers. It’s in their nature to express their personal brand of leadership in that way. Some of the change agents refer to themselves as lean practitioners. Some of the change agents refer to themselves as design thinkers. The CX professional.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Sometimes these agents are designated to effect change on behalf of their peers. It’s in their nature to express their personal brand of leadership in that way. Some of the change agents refer to themselves as lean practitioners. Some of the change agents refer to themselves as design thinkers. The CX professional.

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Innovation Architecture

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Sometimes these agents are designated to effect change on behalf of their peers. It’s in their nature to express their personal brand of leadership in that way. Some of the change agents refer to themselves as lean practitioners. Some of the change agents refer to themselves as design thinkers. The CX professional.

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etventure

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The most common definition (as popularized by Eric Ries) describes the MVP as “a version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers – with the least effort” For many executives and their teams, the MVP process can be counter-intuitive. The MVP Process. So, why do this?

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

Evaluating breakthrough innovation cultures and organization s, BCG concludes in their annual 2014 study: By definition, breakthrough innovation is the introduction of new ideas that drive a different way of doing things. Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Source: Detecon.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. Several pockets of innovation in his agency have begun to look to startups and have tried to adopt lean methods. and 2) Why are startups innovative by design but companies are innovative by exception?–left

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The Inovo Group

AUGUST 5, 2019

The most promising approaches are designed for the startup ecosystem. A comprehensive incubation framework can be based on two complementary approaches – Lean Startup and Effectuation – along with other components that fill out the incubation system architecture. A Definition of Incubation (from an Innovation Perspective).

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The Human Factor

MARCH 16, 2020

Not surprising considering the definition of the word: prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair. When discussing a new idea or key decision, appoint a designated devil’s advocate to ask the questions that otherwise would not get put on the table.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 19, 2019

Maybe a little bit of definition to kick things off. They might take a design thinking initiative, or a lean innovation initiative with growth as the objective, or just improving their data development process. That’s where design thinking and lead startup comes in. What does that mean to you?”

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

But, while team members may be offered training or even certification on Agile development practices, the training rarely discusses best practices for integrating UX design into the development process. Both designers and user researchers shared techniques for keeping product owners and developers informed and aware of their progress.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

This often manifests itself in the host of variations in what are claimed as their ‘unique’ versions of “common innovation” where they constantly reinvent the wheel in their own approaches to processes, definitions, tools, frameworks, systems of working and idea management etc. The external innovation consultant needs to change.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

There is increasing emphasis on thinking through new business models, combining design thinking, lean management, customer development, prototyping, experimenting outside the lab, collaborating with clients, finding different partners, the different exploitation of research techniques are all breaking out in different forms and combinations.

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Boxes and Arrows

MAY 5, 2015

On a recent project, I was the designer paired with a recently-hired UX director, who was a little bewildered still by the new gig. I spent lunches with this gentleman talking about UX strategy, how my company had handled process definition , and I eventually worked on a project where I invited him to come do user research with me.

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Technical Review Design 86

mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 4, 2020

We know agile works, so let’s go further: let’s talk about Business Agility because it’s all about leadership. As we have already said, a critical point in Business Agility is leadership. The dream of any company is to scale operations and generate revenue in a sustainable and lean way. Digital Design Thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

I like this as a definition to tighten down digital but it opens us up to the darker side of digital transformation, the risk of digital disruption. These insights are captured in Zara stores around the world and reviewed by-product designers at corporate headquarters.

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Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 133

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

I like this as a definition to tighten down digital but it opens us up to the darker side of digital transformation, the risk of digital disruption. These insights are captured in Zara stores around the world and reviewed by-product designers at corporate headquarters.

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Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 120

David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Should I design the assessments to be industry specific taking account of the peculiarities of each industry, it’s unique pressures, opportunities and technology? There are definitely merits to that approach. Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product. The conversation left me rankled.

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Industry Innovation Management Management Technical Review 49

David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Should I design the assessments to be industry specific taking account of the peculiarities of each industry, it’s unique pressures, opportunities and technology? There are definitely merits to that approach. Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product. The conversation left me rankled.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Eric Ries, The Lean Startup. Get leadership to buy into the goal so everyone has the same expectation. Best design (prize = MacBook Pro). Great developers, designers and data scientists are bombarded with events competing for their time – including other hackathons. How to guarantee your hackathon will fail. “If

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Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Examples Project 44

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

Tim’s Comment: There’s one other way that this idea plays out too – figuring out how to use lean startup techniques inside of established organisations. Well-suited approaches, such a experience design or jobs-to-be-done help innovation initiatives putting the customer in the center.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

So, it’s about value creation, the definition of innovation, how do we create value right? So, when I started out becoming interested in lean startup and the sort of things, you were one of the big names, right. And your company’s called Lean Ventures, right? . What’s the definition of innovation?

Innovation Management 40

Innovation Management Management Innovation Report 40

David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Should I design the assessments to be industry specific taking account of the peculiarities of each industry, it’s unique pressures, opportunities and technology? There are definitely merits to that approach. Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product. The conversation left me rankled.

Industry 40

Industry Innovation Management Management Technical Review 40

Integrative Innovation

APRIL 7, 2016

Evaluating breakthrough innovation cultures and organization s, BCG concludes in their annual 2014 study: By definition, breakthrough innovation is the introduction of new ideas that drive a different way of doing things. Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Source: Detecon.

Disruption 40

Disruption Innovation Survey Study 40

ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Even though it took 7 months for the founders to persuade Bosch leadership that their vision is doable, the startup developed a software with machine learning and analytics integrated within the networks of the retailer and the IoT application. The term comes from the English and is based on the Lean Startup Model by Eric Ries.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives.

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