IM Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

From challenges rooted in organizational design and financial models to the complexities of incentive structures and cultural mindsets, the barriers that can impede progress are dissected. Example: Even improving efficiency in a manufacturing plant could be considered innovative if it introduces a new approach.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Lean is Dead. Long Live Lean! Twenty four years ago, James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos introduced our world to a modern understanding of the concept of Lean Production. Lean Production was, and still is, a profoundly powerful management philosophy for the mass production of uniform goods.

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

In our work, you’ll find many examples of tactics (like Problem Interviews) that we constantly replace with newer/better ones (like Problem Discovery). Speed of learning is the new unfair advantage. Much like failing becomes learning when you’re going fast, innovation becomes continuous. Why “Continuous” Innovation?

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 26, 2014

StartX , a nonprofit startup accelerator, recently devoted an entire day to the role of design in early-stage companies. Each panelist had made their mark on how design is done in start-ups: Laura wrote the influential O’Reilly book on UX for Lean Startups, and Todd penned the bestselling Rosenfeld Media Prototyping book.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle. Businesses must learn first , rather than merely executing on the plan. But how can an enterprise organization re-invent product commercialization?

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Cascade Strategy

JANUARY 15, 2020

A lack of KPIs in a product management team can result in a poor understanding of progress, difficulty in evaluating and learning from current and past work, and an inability to prioritise between different streams of activity when progress is off track.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

When you select a speaker whose expertise aligns with your company’s goals, you create a unique opportunity for growth and learning. Demonstrating how to embrace failure as a learning opportunity. Embracing Failure and Learning A culture that accepts failure as a stepping stone to success is more likely to innovate effectively.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

This guest article on innovative teaching shares ideas and strategies from the The Startup Teacher Playbook: Turn Your Ideas Into Actions, Personalize Professional Development, and Create Innovative Learning Experiences for You and Your Students. We could encourage more ‘unconference’ style learning to share new ideas.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Our individual problem often lies in the time we have to discover, learn and explore new and different things. We do need to ‘lean in’ on many specialists and experts to help us, not just business consultants! Develop a positive and proactive growth mindset and embrace failures as learning opportunities.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

Examples of Business Model Innovation Exploring prime examples of business model innovation can provide unique insights into how companies across different industries have successfully adapted and transformed their operations. It offers a straightforward way to understand, design, and pivot your business model.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

The last two years have been tough for K–12 schools and educators, but these challenging times have not been without their bright spots—and there’s much to learn from them. Factor 1: Forward-leaning orientation. That groundwork is an essential precursor to having a forward-leaning orientation in a time of crisis.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Lean Innovation Case Study: Bringing a New Product to Market Don’t have time to read the whole article? This is the story of how Edmunds.com used Lean Innovation practices to make their mission a reality. Eventually, they determined that Lean Innovation principles would be the best way to tackle this uncertainty.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

Overall I found Lean UX to be an incredibly insightful and helpful compilation of principles and suggestions for practice/improving process and collaboration as outlined in my review of the book. Are there ways of, for instance, breaking into smaller teams for Lean UX while still tackling larger solutions that you have seen work well?

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 8, 2020

However, for every technological advancement, there seems to be a learning curve or adjustment period as we try to figure out how to implement automation into our daily lives. For example, apps are great for promoting business, adding value, and managing certain aspects of our lives, but they also pose a security risk.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 4, 2024

Despite these growing proof points, efforts to improve education lean on mental models, theories of change, and investment strategies that routinely ignore the social side of opportunity. Innovations making career-connected learning more student- (versus employer-) centric.

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CMOE

APRIL 21, 2023

For example, LinkedIn Learning experienced a 46% increase in time spent on learning by its enterprise learners. Rather than attending training events in the office, training center, or hotel, team members are instead getting their learning and training experiences virtually. A 3,000% rise in virtual collaboration.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation? Check out our list of design thinking books to read. This is a great one for those who want to help others learn and develop. New Releases in 2021. Find it here.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

Squads, Scrum, OKRs, Kanban, and Design Sprints are just a few. Working with lean teams focused on solving a challenge brings several benefits to your project. We suggest reading our ebook “Design Thinking and Agile” so that you can go deeper into this subject and understand how these methodologies work together!

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Here are some of the many ways you can use Instant Coffee: Brainstorming Incremental Planning Story Mapping Lean Coffee Impromptu Meetings PI Planning Retrospectives SWOT Analysis Standup Meetings. In this example, a product team used Instant Coffee to brainstorm ideas for the upcoming quarter. Lean Coffee. Brainstorming.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 29, 2023

However, the rise of Lean Startup methodologies, popularized by Eric Ries in his book “The Lean Startup,” brought rapid experimentation to the forefront. To download this board click here Designing Experiments for Success All products ask people to change their behavior.

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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. The DARPA Darling ANNETTE: One of my favorite examples of this was buying what was called a DARPA darling. If you don't design the deal in a human-centered way, you're going to have a problem.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

For example, in an organization’s effort to remain financially stable, a funder can have more power and influence on programs than the community members benefiting from those programs. For example, in a majority of philanthropic work, organizations are strongly encouraged to avoid failure.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But when it comes from researchers who’ve spent years in the K-12 field researching everything from traditional instructional design to cutting-edge, technology-enabled modalities in schools, districts, and programs across the country, those opinions may be worth a listen. They lean institution-centric, rather than student-centric.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 29, 2019

Engineering companies with HR and PD management process XP well on their payroll, for example. Lean Startup. By working lean and developing minimally viable products (MVP prototypes), possible failures are corrected in time for rebuilding, now with new increments. Different segments can benefit from Lean Startup.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 16, 2024

That lack of confidence can hamper the best efforts of career offices – if students don’t know how to ask faculty for help, approach prospective employers at a job fair, or lean on one another for support, simply brokering access to employers or alumni will not yield results. There is also an emerging market of courses and learning.

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Planview

JULY 26, 2022

But then the pandemic happened, creating a domino effect of disruptions that we are learning to accept as part of daily life. We’ve learned to write our plans in pencil, and to keep our erasers nearby. What many companies learned is that “cutting all contractors” is not the same as cutting “unnecessary” expenses. Sound familiar?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. The obvious place to turn is innovation approaches such as design thinking , rapid prototyping , and open innovation. But if not, you’ll make a bigger difference by starting small and prioritizing learning over execution. Corporate philanthropy.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

It’s about introducing features, functionalities, or designs that meet emerging customer needs or tap into uncharted market segments. Employing user-centric design and iterative development processes, businesses can ensure their product innovations resonate with their target audience and stand out in the marketplace.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It’s amusing, if not sad, that the primary examples of the continuation of this theory are the multiple-decades old Kodak and Blockbuster moments. Digital Transformation – An example of failure. Digital Transformation is an interesting example. Exploration means learning, not debating. Insert eyeroll here.

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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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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas and Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas come to mind. Similar tools have been around for ages, by the way; used in lean manufacturing processes, Agile, kanban, scrum, etc. Like Lean Startup, the concept of a “value stream” also comes from the lean manufacturing world.

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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 million potential combinations.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

For example, a project to build a two-lane highway or a power-plant can employ a deliberate strategy because much of the details are known. Second, the strategy must make sense to everyone implementing it, not just the leaders who design it and espouse its benefits. Deliberate strategies are analytical and top-down.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 28, 2022

Schools and programs may elect to take stock of students’ extended networks in an effort to: Identify informal support networks that students can lean on to help drive persistence in school or programs, by asking students who they know outside of school who could help them accomplish their educational or career goals. Now’s the time.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

They are not always intentional or by design. Talent development: Working on different types of innovation across the three horizons can provide valuable learning opportunities for employees, helping them develop diverse skills and mindsets necessary for building the right culture for innovation. Why is this methodology critical?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 29, 2015

These have been advances in technology, methodology or design- thinking and we do need to stop and think about how we could do ‘things’ differently by asking “what is possible?” The concept of human-centered design sets out a counterbalance which puts the human and social imperatives first and foremost.

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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

Meeting facilitators and Learning & Development professionals must evaluate these challenges and identify the best practices to overcome them to create the most valuable experience for the participants. The guide below is designed to help you overcome challenges that arise in virtual facilitation and elevate your capabilities.

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