Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

A story is linked to a series of events that take a character from one state to another. In contrast, a narrative is a system of stories that links values and events to establish a broader and often new cultural meaning. Let’s draw down on so much of John Hagel’s work on narratives.

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Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

A story is linked to a series of events that take a character from one state to another. In contrast, a narrative is a system of stories that links values and events to establish a broader and often new cultural meaning. Let’s draw down on so much of John Hagel’s work on narratives.

Innovation 130

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Moves the Needle

MARCH 10, 2020

As you know, the current environment has caused the cancellation of many public events, including workshops and conferences, as well as most non-essential travel. This is, obviously, causing a massive disruption to global economics and gives rise to massive amounts of uncertainty.

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LEAN Conference Agile Design Thinking 52

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 2, 2021

Use these templates to design and plan better meetings, events, and agendas. In our previous innovative meeting guide, we discussed how to design and build innovative innovation meetings that both inspire and accomplish your organizational goals. Lean Coffee: Focused Meetings Template. Workshop Session Plan Template.

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Meeting Software Review Design Thinking Training 52

CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

The guide below is designed to help you overcome challenges that arise in virtual facilitation and elevate your capabilities. Solution: Focus on the Facilitator Mindset Leadership consultant Dr. Flo Falayi encourages leaders to lean on what they call “The Facilitator Mindset.” This mindset encompasses five parts.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Meeting Groups 52

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2016

Finding time to read and extend our thinking is a real struggle and going that extra mile to read thought leadership views can be a step to far, I know but I can’t help myself, it is part of my job and certainly for me, many are really worth it. In that post I was recommending Deloitte and their thought leadership as a good place to visit.

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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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Innovation Culture Creativity Disruption 59

Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The exploration expertise brought by innovation teams is designed to overcome such uncertainty. This might be done through some combination of in-person or virtual hangouts, internal newsletters, and exploration events. Leadership changes, but the new way of working endures.

Disruption 40

Disruption Innovation LEAN Competition 40

Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The Experiment Map is designed to help document the various rapid experiments entrepreneurs execute while searching for a working business model. This makes it easy to communicate progress to team members, investors, advisers and senior leadership. The Experiment Map documents your journey over time.

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Tools Design Leadership Data 52

Innovation Architecture

OCTOBER 9, 2017

” The workshops are designed to help people explore what it means to embrace a spirit of inquiry in meaningful ways within their organization and, ultimately, within themselves. These types of events become something of a disappointment if I do most the talking. Design thinking. After the publication of Great Question!

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Culture Exercises Leadership Groups 56

Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

Gregg knows several innovation frameworks, including Design Thinking and Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving (aka “CPS). He’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats.

Tools 52

Tools Idea Generation Brainstorming LEAN 52

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Finding time is a real struggle and going that extra mile to read thought leadership views, long often drawn out reports or academic papers can be a step too far, I know but I can’t help myself, it is part of my job and certainly for me, many are really worth the read in a positive end result of new learning. Beyond Design Thinking.

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Design Thinking Analysis Design Learning 100

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. 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.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 98

CMOE

APRIL 21, 2023

Rather than attending training events in the office, training center, or hotel, team members are instead getting their learning and training experiences virtually. Empathize with the experience from their perspective to direct the design of the experience and make the most impactful changes. A 3,000% rise in virtual collaboration.

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Training Engagement How To LEAN 52

The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. It requires certain commitments and behaviors on the part of both company leadership and the strategic innovation group. Highlights. Prabhu, & R.

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System Innovation Groups Leadership 53

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

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.

How To 83

How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

One that is characterized by sudden, even violent success or an event, some moments of brilliant dominance, followed by a dramatic change in conditions as others have spotted the same opportunity and you hit a rapid decline, the race to the bottom of competition constantly negating one another.

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Change Design Agile Competition 100

Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

Senior leadership must establish the mindset of, “We need to be entrepreneurial. If people are acting entrepreneurial in a grassroots way and leadership sees that this can be done, that's how momentum for change happens. If you're trying to learn if somebody likes your messaging, you can do split testing or a landing page design.

Innovation Programs 52

Innovation Programs Innovation LEAN Culture 52

Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Lean Innovation Definition At Moves The Needle, we define lean innovation as “reducing waste in the discovery, creation, and delivering of new value to customers." We base Lean Innovation principles upon the 3 E’s of Lean Innovation : Empathy, Experiments and Evidence. What is Design Thinking?

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LEAN Examples Agile Design Thinking 105

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.

LEAN 40

LEAN Groups Culture Design 40

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.

LEAN 40

LEAN Groups Culture Design 40

ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

According to a recent article by McKinsey and Co “The future is not what it used to be: Thoughts on the shape of the next normal” the coronavirus crisis is a “world-changing event” which is forcing both the pace and scale of workplace innovation. How are we ensuring that people are acknowledged, rewarded, and organised to repeatedly innovate?

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Technical Review Innovation Agile System 64

Matthew May

JUNE 26, 2015

After reading his 1999 book High Velocity Leadership , we invited Brian to guest speak about the Mars Pathfinder project, and he soon he became a regular fixture in the University of Toyota’s “lean” leadership curriculum. It was an annual event, affectionately referred to as the Great Egg-Drop Challenge. Get the visual?

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Disruption Strategy Strategy How To 100

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

We love human centered design, the only problem, it’s a very long process. That’s where lean methodology comes up. Tools such as this would ensure we went beyond talking to doing and would provide a simple way to design new projects so we could test out ideas to see if they worked. If you’re going to fail, fail fast.

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Learning Culture of Innovation Innovation Culture 81

Your Ideas are Terrible

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

We handle startup recruitment, workshop facilitation, event planning, relationship moderation, producing a play-by-play guide for both the corporations and startups, and everything in-between. Senior leadership must legitimize and support. Designing a pilot that runs from 1 to 3 months is imperative. Work from the bottom up.

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LEAN Meeting Training Leadership 51

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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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Roadmap Design 94

eZassi

MARCH 13, 2018

The FEI Boston Conference 2018 is designed to help you stop talking about innovation and to leave with a blueprint to immediately begin to take action and build your own culture of innovation. He should know: He led a team of 300,000 people for 16 years—through recessions, bubbles, and at least three “black swan” events. Recent Posts.

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Conference Leadership Trends LEAN 40

Your Ideas are Terrible

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Eric Ries, The Lean Startup. Before asking colleagues to give up their valuable time to attend your event, ask yourself why you want to have a hackathon. Get leadership to buy into the goal so everyone has the same expectation. Next step is to have a high-level plan of the type of event you want to run. What is your goal?

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Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Examples Project 44

eZassi

MARCH 13, 2018

The FEI Boston Conference 2018 is designed to help you stop talking about innovation and to leave with a blueprint to immediately begin to take action and build your own culture of innovation. He should know: He led a team of 300,000 people for 16 years—through recessions, bubbles, and at least three “black swan” events.

Conference 40

Conference Trends LEAN Innovation Programs 40

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

We were at a social event. 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! His design alone is a huge element of their success. Then he popped the question.

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Project Training Design Thinking Innovation 74

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.

Agile 111

Agile Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review 111

Wazoku

OCTOBER 11, 2016

James Goad of Owen James Events caught up with our Strategic Advisor, Cris Beswick to find out what he thinks about innovation. 33% of leaders say they are unclear about their innovation leadership responsibilities. 60% of leaders admit their leadership team fails to understand their customers. Car blurred on the street.

Culture of Innovation 40

Culture of Innovation Innovation Collaboration Culture 40

Wazoku

OCTOBER 11, 2016

James Goad of Owen James Events caught up with our Strategic Advisor, Cris Beswick to find out what he thinks about innovation. 33% of leaders say they are unclear about their innovation leadership responsibilities. 60% of leaders admit their leadership team fails to understand their customers. Let me explain.

Culture of Innovation 40

Culture of Innovation Innovation Collaboration Culture 40

Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2018

Additionally, managers often hate being asked for permission to innovate , because they interpret it as them having to take responsibility in the event of the idea being an expensive failure. In many companies, a bet that pays off results in a congratulatory handshake, whereas a bet that doesn’t pay off results in a kick up the ass.

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