Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

From Design Thinking to Autonomous Innovation In the 1990s, design thinking emerged, prioritizing empathy and iterative prototyping for user-centric solutions. To create a product for GenZ, Unilever worked with specially designed AI to analyze 6,000 perfume ingredients with 3.5

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2018

At IdeaScale we help Kane is Able and many other clients achieve their continuous improvement strategies such as Lean, Kaizen or Six Sigma. When it comes to driving innovation then, the first and most important objective is to design a program that can frequently re-evaluate and re-invent itself. Methodology agnostic” you might say.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They may share insights on techniques for effective ideation such as design thinking, mind mapping, and leveraging technology for collaborative brainstorming sessions. Encouraging your team to think outside the box and challenging the status quo are central themes that innovation speakers address.

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Open Innovation EU

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The Lean Startup (Ries). The Lean Enterprise. New Product and Development Service Process (Hauser). New Product Development Front End (Khurana). Revolutionizing Product Development (Wheelwright & Clark). New Product Development Funnel (Katz). Human-Centered Design (IDEO).

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Properly used, a business case embodies the essential learning and planning derived from Lean, Design Thinking, and similar approaches to product development. It is not a documentation exercise, but a tool for collaborative learning and communicating the justification for a product concept.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

It was their job to ensure all aspects of the product development process were aligned and working together. Program management was steeped in technical processes, but also considered how product decisions would impact the product’s end users. Product Management reflected both of these facts.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

They are not always intentional or by design. In that case, we shift to a focus on fostering a culture where the seeds of originality are sown in every department, ranging from product development to HR, finance, and sales. Take the Double Diamond of Design Thinking for example. Is there a better way?’

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 17, 2015

His very lean progressive assembly process was the result. Today, the cost and time it takes to build, launch, and deliver new products at scale is lower than ever. Design Thinking Centered around customer empathy and prototyping, design thinking is a compelling framework for ideation and the discovery of new value.

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

Paradigms of product development have shifted significantly in the last decade. 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.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 19, 2019

Noel: “I describe myself as an innovation product development life engineer who’s worked on product development teams through most of my early career and mostly in technology-driven companies, and after business school, went into consulting. That’s where design thinking and lead startup comes in.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

As sometime director of Design at Infragistics, I personally have had first hand experience trying to integrate UX into an existing, established Agile engineering process with large-ish teams. It turns out that Jeff Gothelf, author of Lean UX (the book I’m reviewing here) has also faced the same challenges. Enter the book.

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Agile LEAN Development Team Review Software Review 80

Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development. Now, every website change or product update is expected to have data and evidence to back it up.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Once upon a time, in the heyday of the Industrial Age, a young marketing, design, or engineering student would graduate from college and go to work for a large corporation, slowly melding into the steady, rhythmic din of bureaucratically-managed, organizationally-structured execution work in product development.

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Planview

MARCH 3, 2016

This was the mantra of Facebook in its early days, as is the case with most startups that subscribe to the iterative product development method popularized by the Lean Startup. Editor’s note: this is a guest post by Steve Glaveski. Move fast and break things.”. Methodologies.

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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.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Rather than leaning on agencies for ideas and new ways of marketing devised through layered assumptions, clever theories and cliché discussions around “what millennials want”, lean on your customers instead. Here, members can submit designs for new sets and view others’ ideas. Cut out the middle man and start co-creating.

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Marketing Technical Review LEAN Design 40

Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Nearly all that training is for dedicated innovation teams , or employees who are focused on new product development. And that’s a good thing. Who’s getting the training?

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A system designed, over the long run, to produce more blockbusters than bombs. Most corporate business functions – new product development (NPD), quality, sales, R&D, marketing, etc. For some companies this can be up to 10% of their ‘creative’ budget (R&D, NPD, design, etc.).

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In contrast, Facebook’s acquisition of the virtual reality hardware company Oculus still requires significant product development, identification of a viable business model – and the target market and revenue may never materialize.

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How To Disruption Innovation Entrepreneurship 67

Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In contrast, Facebook’s acquisition of the virtual reality hardware company Oculus still requires significant product development, identification of a viable business model – and the target market and revenue may never materialize.

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How To Disruption Innovation Entrepreneurship 67

Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

This world, too, has made its contributions – the startup enterprise, Eric Ries' lean startup model, the minimal viable product (MVP), and – very importantly – a massive ecosystem of startup communities around the world all supporting and rooting for one another. Thank you, Design!

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Support your innovators Provide training in iterative, experiment-rich approaches to innovation and new product development. An added upside — when sold internally as a pilot or experiment, you are setting up the possibility of failure/learning in advance, so there is no surprise when things don’t go to plan….because

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In contrast, Facebook’s acquisition of the virtual reality hardware company Oculus still requires significant product development, identification of a viable business model – and the target market and revenue may never materialize.

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How To Disruption Innovation Entrepreneurship 40

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In contrast, Facebook’s acquisition of the virtual reality hardware company Oculus still requires significant product development, identification of a viable business model – and the target market and revenue may never materialize.

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How To Disruption Innovation Entrepreneurship 38