Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. You use the term “ScaleUp” …how is that different than startup and why does it deserve a special designation? Your subtitle refers to “lean” principles; I’m assuming they respond to these restraining forces?

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

The care within designing the narrative is you do not want contradictory narratives; they need to be in pursuit of complementary narratives. Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Implementing the Lean Startup in any company is hard. All the culture and incentives are designed for execution. Now compound that level of effort with trying to put a Lean Startup culture in place in Japan. And weak leadership leads to a reluctance to change and the inability to mandate Lean as an innovation process.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

A shared vision for 21st-century student success enabled these schools to effectively utilize “leadership tools” to rally and empower school stakeholders to solve emergent challenges. Factor 1: Forward-leaning orientation. Leadership tools only work when the people in the organization have shared goals and purpose.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

From climate change to food shortages, from pandemics to lack of trust in our leadership and institutions, there's a lot keeping us up on our way to 2023. To assess the current portfolio, adidas periodically deconstructs every project through the lens of the Lean Canvas model. Innov8rs |. Today the only certainty is uncertainty.

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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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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Co-Authored by Heather Hiscox and Amelia Klawon Get the full case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. This is the story of how SAY San Diego is using Lean Innovation to create real, powerful change in their community.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 3, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You know ALL the innovation tools and frameworks: Design Thinking Lean Startup Disruptive Innovation But knowing and doing are two different things. When I first learned Jobs to be Done, it felt painfully obvious, exactly like the customer research I did for five years at P&G.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 22, 2019

For most corporations, leading in quality means continually pursuing organizational excellence. This means leaders have to make sure that the organization is fit for its purpose, stays that way, and keeps improving over time. Maintaining quality is much easier when the risks involved are lower.

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Idea to Value

JULY 1, 2020

Parkinson’s Law has often been used to victimize the civil service, but it is valid for all organizations devoid of good leadership and permeated by an unimaginative work ethic. This is why “lean” and “agile” have become buzzwords today. Innovation is anathema to rigid outfits because it involves redesigning work.

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IM Insights

AUGUST 23, 2022

16:30) The influence Lean Startup had on our lives and careers. (20:30) 39:00) On designing a podcast that allows for different points of view for the sake of learning. (43:30) 16:30) The influence Lean Startup had on our lives and careers. (20:30) Topics and Insights . (01:00) 12:00) Reasons for doing the podcast.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 23, 2024

Stevie Ray McHugh, Co-Founder of Idea Champions , is a seasoned expert in strategic planning, balanced scorecards, team building, lean manufacturing, and innovation.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Susie shares what good leadership behaviour looks like, the problems with short-term thinking and how to carve out the necessary space for a strategic approach to innovation. Founder of Mulberry Retreats – focusing on leadership development. 14:00) On bad leadership behaviour and how not to fund projects. (16:00)

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Anaqua

APRIL 18, 2018

As the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) says: “More than ever before, women are taking up leadership roles and making their voices heard in science, technology, business and the arts.”. If anyone has a daughter who has technical leanings, I'll be happy to talk about careers in engineering and IP with her!”.

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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. If you don't design the deal in a human-centered way, you're going to have a problem. Long story short, for successful M&A to happen, you must pay attention to the people.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 10, 2020

We are here to help you leverage Lean Innovation skills to (remotely) harness customer empathy, run rapid experiments, and de-risk decisions quickly with evidence, to build confidence for solutions to the very real issues you’re currently facing.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

The care within designing the narrative is you do not want contradictory narratives; they need to be in pursuit of complementary narratives. Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers.

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Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

The care within designing the narrative is you do not want contradictory narratives; they need to be in pursuit of complementary narratives. Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

But leadership should be agnostic about how they achieve the desired outcomes. Lean innovation is an iterative approach to moving from the unknown to the known. I prefer lean innovation as representing the desired learning behavior. It is the integration of human-centered design, rapid experimentation, and working agile.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Check out our list of design thinking books to read. The Leadership Innovation Manifesto. This book by Nathan Furr covers tips and techniques learned from design thinking, innovation, and the lean startup business model which has grown in popularity in the last few years. The Lean Startup. New Releases in 2021.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. There are three main elements that intrapreneurs need to think about before they start working; Leadership Support Organization Design and Innovation Practice. This is a lesson I learned from making many mistakes in my own work.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

However, there is one more very important aspect to innovation leadership. Approve experiments and encourage Lean prototyping. Being a good role model for innovation, or any other key leadership competence, means being conscious of your own behavior and recognizing where you are on your own developmental journey. Be inquisitive.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

The original process showed how an idea should first follow design thinking principles, before being turned into a solution using agile development, and finally being piloted and launched. As Peter Drucker famously said: What gets measured, gets managed.

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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. Organizational Design: A Key Challenge Exploration of how the design of large organizations can pose significant obstacles to innovation.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Each category plays a critical role in a company’s growth and adaptation, offering unique paths to market leadership and resilience. It’s about introducing features, functionalities, or designs that meet emerging customer needs or tap into uncharted market segments.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Use Innovation Accounting to Drive the Metrics that Matter Most for Your New Venture or Start-Up As the field of innovation management matures, many entrepreneurs and companies have built solid capabilities in design thinking, rapid prototyping, portfolio management, open innovation, and the list goes on.

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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.

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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 360

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

She holds an MSc in Management Strategy, Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Purchasing & Materials Management and is certified project management and lean 6 sigma. Certified NLP Coach and Lean Six Sigma. She worked in a wide variety of industries across the globe, advising both operational teams and C-Suite. Portfolio Management.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Elijah Eilert speaks to Andy Cars , the founder and CEO of Lean Ventures International, about the ISO standards for innovation management. 01:09) Introducing Andy Cars owner of Lean Ventures International AB. (03:52) About the Episode. Topics and Insights . (01:09) 19:00) On the need for an innovation strategy . (21:40)

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 9, 2023

Lean forward, eyes glittering, eager to hear more Stare blankly and nod slowly Roll their eyes and sigh Wave their hands dismissively and tell you to focus on other, more urgent priorities. GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton How do people react when you say “innovation?” If you answered C, you’re in good company. Innovation is […]

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. An innovation sprint is a 3-5 day intensive, experiential engagement that focuses on teaching participants Lean Innovation methodologies while making impact on real business issues. And that’s where this story begins.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. 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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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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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.

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Innovation 360

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Leadership. Design Thinking. She is a holder of BComm and MSc in Strategy degrees from the University of Wollongong, Australia. Areas of expertise. Workshop Moderation & Facilitation. Innovation Management. Entrepreneurship and Ecosystem development. Organizational & Human Capability Development. LinkedIn: [link].

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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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