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.

Engagement 40

Engagement Tools LEAN Design Thinking 40

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.

Groups 45

Groups Case Study Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 45

Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

For leaders, I offer this first piece of advice: Leading FOR Innovation starts with self and an awareness that in most organisations, the challenges and barriers that stand in the way of driving innovation-led growth are put there by ourselves. They are not always intentional or by design. Is there a better way?’

Innovation 59

Innovation Culture Creativity Disruption 59

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

If we could understand the root cause of that difference, I said, we could help Acme build a system for continuous innovation. 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.

LEAN 46

LEAN Culture Agile Tools 46

The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Companies can deal with technological and market uncertainty, even ecosystem uncertainty, using innovation processes, methods and tools developed over the decades. These can be any type of concept – a strategy, a design, an idea for a new offering, etc. – A set of concepts to be evaluated.

Leadership 52

Leadership Groups Product Development System 52

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Importantly, it should be noted that there are times when this system could be overkill, such as for start-ups which are working on a single product and are very early in their journey. Additionally, software systems like this do not replace people in the innovation process and cannot automate its management.

Company 248

Company Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Design Thinking 248

Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Breakthrough innovators (i.e. strong and disruptive innovators) – accounting for only 7.6% of BCG’s sample, by the way – seem to be especially effective at bringing together required management, governance and organizational design and synthesizing them for high impact.

Culture 100

Culture Radical Innovation Innovation Underperforming Technical Team 100

Integrative Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

Breakthrough innovators (i.e. strong and disruptive innovators) – accounting for only 7.6% of BCG’s sample, by the way – seem to be especially effective at bringing together required management, governance and organizational design and synthesizing them for high impact.

Culture 40

Culture Radical Innovation Innovation Underperforming Technical Team 40