Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

So defining stories and narratives, you see the growing potential of having a good narrative for your innovation activities. The care within designing the narrative is you do not want contradictory narratives; they need to be in pursuit of complementary narratives. ” So for innovation, narratives do become vital.

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Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 318

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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LEAN Case Study Study System 58

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Implementing the Lean Startup in any company is hard. All the culture and incentives are designed for execution. Innovation at times seems like you’re swimming up hill. Now compound that level of effort with trying to put a Lean Startup culture in place in Japan. I think they’re relevant for all companies.

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LEAN Company Leadership Culture 45

Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

It offers a straightforward way to understand, design, and pivot your business model. By mapping out each component, companies can identify areas for innovation and explore how changes in one area may impact others.

Software 52

Software Innovation Innovation Management LEAN 52

Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

According to Tom, streamlining our portfolio is the first thing to do in 2023 to increase customer satisfaction and speed up the overall innovation process. “If To assess the current portfolio, adidas periodically deconstructs every project through the lens of the Lean Canvas model.

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Innovation Management Design Management Agile 52

mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

That is the case of Design Thinking , a structured approach to innovation. Keep reading to understand how you can implement an innovation culture into your company with Design Thinking! That’s because only the visible artifacts of organizational culture can be designed.

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Design Thinking Design Culture How To 40

Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. What most companies get wrong about innovation processes.

Technical Review 248

Technical Review Innovation Innovation Processes Project 248

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

So defining stories and narratives, you see the growing potential of having a good narrative for your innovation activities. The care within designing the narrative is you do not want contradictory narratives; they need to be in pursuit of complementary narratives. ” So for innovation, narratives do become vital.

Innovation 130

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

So defining stories and narratives, you see the growing potential of having a good narrative for your innovation activities. The care within designing the narrative is you do not want contradictory narratives; they need to be in pursuit of complementary narratives. ” So for innovation, narratives do become vital.

Innovation 130

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Additionally, software systems like this do not replace people in the innovation process and cannot automate its management. This can lead to a much larger number of innovations being tested much more quickly, for a lower cost and at a lower risk than traditional management methods.

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Company Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Design Thinking 248

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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LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Design 96

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. We still lack the alignment to strategy as this remains unclear, poorly communicated and lacking in this critical connecting up of strategy and innovation.

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Innovation Design Agile System 178

Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 22, 2016

What if mobile was the right media to support, democratize, and streamline the innovation process? The innovation management dilemma Is really. Moodi Mahmoudi is one of the founders of Collaborne, and thats’ excatly what his startup is trying to achieve.

Innovation Processes 40

Innovation Processes Innovation Innovation Management Management 40

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. To achieve this innovation has gone digital, pure and simple. So the need to innovate comes from digital as the source.

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Innovation Radical Innovation Design Big Data 185

Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

We can also see how these approaches were precursors to larger movements in lean startup, design thinking, and agile. The backstories of how great companies, services, and business models achieve success reveal a messiness that’s an inherent part of the innovation process.

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Innovation System LEAN Agile 130

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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Artificial Inteligence Innovation Ideation Data 64

Rapid Innovation in digital time

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

What if mobile was the right media to support, democratize, and streamline the innovation process? Moodi Mahmoudi is one of the founders of Collaborne, and thats’ excatly what his startup is trying to achieve. He tells us more about it, … Continue reading →

Innovation Processes 40

Innovation Processes Innovation Design Thinking LEAN 40

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!

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System Innovation Design Technical Review 113

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.

Design Thinking 51

Design Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Design Innovation 51

Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! At the time, most of the staff’s interactions with customers happened during the design phase, such as usability testing and design sessions. Click here to download.

Marketing 65

Marketing LEAN Case Study Study 65

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 Innovator’s Method.

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Innovation Tips Design Thinking LEAN 97

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.

Radical Innovation 52

Radical Innovation Innovation Disruption Competition 52

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!

System 113

System Innovation Design Agile 113

Qmarkets

APRIL 14, 2022

The benefits of innovation include increased revenue, profits, brand recognition, market share, competitiveness, and productivity. The three main types of innovation are product innovation, process innovation, and business model innovation. Product Innovation. Process Innovation.

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Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Technical Review Innovation 52

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

In the innovation space there is endless discussion about frameworks. If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we? Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor.

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Project Idea Generation Innovation Design Thinking 70

Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Delivery via drones, real-time data insight into your operations, transformation of your business models— what will 2016 bring for your innovation practice? For innovators working within the confines of large enterprises, the possibilities for transformation, especially with mobile and digital products, are endless.

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Data Innovation Processes Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 40

Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

Innov8rs | Corporates often grapple with the "Innovator's Dilemma," where the gravitational pull of the core business's existing processes, incentive structures, and risk models stifles the pursuit of groundbreaking innovation. How do we separate the disruptive venture from the delivery of core business P&L?

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Agile Disruption Guidelines Resources 40

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwhile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives.

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Innovation Management Management LEAN Technical Review 100

Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 15, 2019

Spark is an easy-to-use, self-guided innovation kit that is designed to help you explore entrepreneurial ideas, systematically take your idea to the next level and develop and practice start-up skills. Spark uses the iterative process of the Design-Test-Repeat cycle to adapt your course of action based on evidence.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Tools Brainstorming 40

Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Experiential Learning Accelerates Innovation. Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. Facilitators need to adopt experiential learning tools in their sessions designs. And there is a lot of sitting.

Learning 45

Learning Underperforming Technical Team Training Innovation 45

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

How much innovation is being left on the table by ignoring cross-domain concept blends? Innovation leaders and CEO’s leave breakthrough on the table because their innovation processes leave out deliberate combinations. Innovation Directors and CEO’s — why not? It’s deep idea exploration.

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Ideation Innovation Processes Trends Exercises 52

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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Technical Review Innovation System Change 174

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. For large companies, it isn’t about which process is right – the reality is that we probably haven’t invented the right process yet.

LEAN 40

LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Design 40

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi) is offering three public courses in late October and early November. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. This deep-dive immersive course in innovation could change the direction of your organization – or career. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking.

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Course Training Brainstorming Design Thinking 53

Open Innovation EU

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Innovation Cycle (Avans). The Lean Startup (Ries). The Lean Enterprise. New Product and Development Service Process (Hauser). Experiments Open Innovation (Guinan). Human-Centered Design (IDEO). Updated Model of Design Thinking. Design Thinking Process (Stanford). Design Competitions.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Open Innovation LEAN 81

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? There is a difference. You have to first develop a deep understanding of your company.

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Leadership Training Resources Design 94

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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System Innovation Design Resources 147