Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

We want to be the OpenTable of X” (with X referring to a market outside of dining) became a familiar phrase in Silicon Valley following the company’s market success, and remains so today. Even though this was over 20 years ago, OpenTable’s “backstory” demonstrates tried and true practices for innovators that remain important today.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using Lean methods. One of the conundrums is why does innovation take so long to happen in corporations? Previously Hank Chesbrough and I have written about some of the strategic issues that impede innovation inside large corporations here and here.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

When should it be used: Any organisation that wants to enable their staff who have an idea to “try it out” or do an initial market experiment. Put simply, it theorises that small companies can disrupt the market of large companies by releasing a new version of an offering which appeals more to a subset of the customers.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As AI advances, we find ourselves heading towards a new era — one where innovation is not just constant but autonomous, as Board of Innovation's founder Philip de Ridder explains below. Both paradigms transformed innovation approaches worldwide. The emergence of Creative AI now marks a new,historic development in innovation.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. Interestingly, it looks like others support the idea of balancing and combining elements of both innovation approaches, too. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

These innovation-focused book recommendations will help teach you the skills and techniques needed to grow your business and improve your company’s innovation efforts. Looking for even more literary choices to help you innovate? Check out our list of design thinking books to read. The Lean Startup.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 7, 2015

Yesterday, I was quite delighted to see my post Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking ranked #11 of the Top 100 Innovation Posts 2014 at Innovation Excellence. “Either-or” was yesterday, today we need more integrative, “both-and” thinking. No one size fits all.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. How can you innovate if you don’t actually know how it’s done? Maybe that’s one reason why 94% of managers are unsatisfied with innovation performance? It’s not enough to know a market white space.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

Leaders who champion innovation understand its role in driving competitive advantage, increasing market share, and, often, creating entirely new markets. Embracing the reality of continuous volatility Remaining relevant means staying vigilant to the constant changes initiated by customers, markets, regulators, employees, etc.

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn. The Design Thinking Methodology of Empathy?—?Define?—?

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Innovation 360

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Founder of Imtiaz ME specializing in the areas of entrepreneurship development and innovation, Dana’s work is focused extensively on the development of the startup ecosystem in MENA and other emerging markets. Innovation Management. Design Thinking. The post Dana Shadadd appeared first on Home of Innovation.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

As can be seen from the figure below, co-creation platforms feature some special characteristics that have a major impact on shaping new market environments: Created solutions are integrated and often cross-industry. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks. Culture is key.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Action: In order to determine a plan of action, we met with their Bom Negocio leadership team in Brazil to discuss a number of items: How frequently they were interacting with customers, How long it has been taking to bring products to market, How important business decisions were being made: were they typically made based on evidence?

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Founder of Imtiaz ME specializing in the areas of entrepreneurship development and innovation, Dana’s work is focused extensively on the development of the startup ecosystem in MENA and other emerging markets. Innovation Management. Design Thinking. Areas of expertise. Workshop Moderation & Facilitation.

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Entrepreneurship LEAN Leadership Innovation Programs 40

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

I added my punchline, “because if you’re not doing projects you’re not doing innovation.” 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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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Innovation is advancing but most of it has been designed for a different time, the old era of stable markets, predictable solutions and having a clear sense of your competition. Equally nearly all our larger business organizations are still locked in the past, or attempting to catch up to the present but in random ways.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Guided visualizations are not innovation. Design Thinking is not innovation. Creative Problem Solving is not innovation. DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats are not innovation. Lean is not innovation. Prototyping is not innovation. TQM and Six Sigma are not innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should! If not, what is holding them back?

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Strength might come from technology invention, distribution, raw materials, or dominance in a particular market. Guardrails that define your sandbox are established broadly by the markets you’re already in. Thinking of your existing products, consider: Who buys? How will adjacent markets be affected by the coming changes?

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 11, 2019

We could summarize open innovation as the use of inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation and expand markets. Keep reading to understand in depth what open innovation is and how it can be used in your business! The open innovation concept. In this article, we go further.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should! If not, what is holding them back?

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

When you are trying to create a repeatable innovation process, you can’t just start anywhere by doing random activities. As such, the first question for you to answer is – how ready is your company to support and nurture innovation? Explore and discover the challenges they face when they try to work with innovation.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Because these innovation challenges are neither linear, just like breakthroughs (however the most used the stage-gate process is a more linear process). Breakthrough ideas will continuously change as you go through the Design Thinking Process?—?that This is how the original idea will evolve sprint by sprint.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

Discover Ideas for Long Term and Tactical Innovation Projects. Chicago, IL, August 1, 2018 — The MoshPit Innovation Service is an innovation project discovery service marketed by GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation). Ideas for innovation projects emerge from the intensive sessions.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

What key metrics suggest customers want this solution over others in the market? How big is the Total Addressable Market for this solution? 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. Innovation needs structure.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I suggested the best place to start the conversation is with the 21 st century definition of a startup: A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Startups have finite time and resources to find product/market fit before they run out of money. and how to price the product.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

But innovation is more than survival, it’s the heart beat of an organization. Staying in business means reinventing as markets shift. In this inspirational speech Gregg Fraley answers the Why Innovation question, and informs as to what innovation means to you and your group. Making innovation a continuous effort.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Because it requires unique thinking skills to understand what’s possible technically, and , think up meaningful-to-consumers inventions and applications. A team without IT involved won’t be able to do it either, because marketing-centric teams don’t know what’s technically possible.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

What key metrics suggest customers want this solution over others in the market? How big is the Total Addressable Market for this solution? We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Innovation needs structure. How can we do this?

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

What key metrics suggest customers want this solution over others in the market? How big is the Total Addressable Market for this solution? We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Innovation needs structure. How can we do this?

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

What started me on a given innovation “tack”was for a long time I have seen an awful lot of opinions, solutions, concepts that have been breaking down innovation into its many parts. The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.”

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Innovation Training. “Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. Approaches to the new challenges of Digital Technology Innovation are discussed.

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Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

The funnel describes the main stages and gates every idea has to pass through on its way to a product, service or business model innovation. Typically, the first stage of an innovation funnel is “ideation”, the last one “market launch”. However, we suggest a model that goes beyond the market launch and adds two more phases.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The economies remain weak, the currencies are in a highly fragile state and our banking system has resisted wholesale change and any economic crisis cannot be met by flooding the markets with liquidity but this time around it needs to be on high levels of creativity, collaborations, and innovations. It needs a base.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

As can be seen from the figure below, co-creation platforms feature some special characteristics that have a major impact on shaping new market environments: Created solutions are integrated and often cross-industry. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof.

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