Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Lean Startup Week - this year known as Lean Startup Conference - has traditionally been a staple in the innovation industry for bringing both startups and enterprise companies alike into the same sphere in order to discuss advancements in strategy, tactics, ideas, and social impact. Social Impact AMA with Heather Hiscox.

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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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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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IM Insights

AUGUST 23, 2022

16:30) The influence Lean Startup had on our lives and careers. (20:30) 33:00) On the value of information and learning fast. (34:00) 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)

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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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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. These challenges, while significant, can be overcome.

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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. The Leadership Innovation Manifesto. This is a great one for those who want to help others learn and develop.

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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. “We need to seek the opportunity to learn and grow, the possibilities of things to be discovered, not the certainties to be recovered.”

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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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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. “We need to seek the opportunity to learn and grow, the possibilities of things to be discovered, not the certainties to be recovered.”

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

To one leader, it means adopting a learning and exploration mindset; to another, “innovation is not my job.” The innovation mindset is characterized by behavior reflecting learning and exploration. But leadership should be agnostic about how they achieve the desired outcomes. Improvement in employee happiness? All of the above?

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

This is a lesson I learned from making many mistakes in my own work. 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.

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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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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

However, there is one more very important aspect to innovation leadership. Ask, “What can we learn?” Approve experiments and encourage Lean prototyping. Admit when you are wrong and capture the learning from failed inventions. There is no Innovation without leadership. Innovation is not easy. Be inquisitive.

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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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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The top three issues were poor leadership (22%), high cost of living (17%), and the economy in general (12%). Second, the strategy must make sense to everyone implementing it, not just the leaders who design it and espouse its benefits. Inherent in emergent strategies is humility, learning, and changing course over time.

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CorporateIntel

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sometimes I wonder if the advancing of age and a leaning toward old-fashioned values are a hindrance to relevancy in our contemporary workplace. It was bosses and colleagues advancing in age and leaning toward old-fashioned values. We all can learn from each other if we choose to listen. Our economy is cyclical almost by design.

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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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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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Moves the Needle

MARCH 4, 2021

As luck would have it, human beings are learning machines. Humans evolved to be continuously learning. From taking her first steps, to learning to walk, or ride a bike, children naturally “try, try again.” When faced with uncertainty in business, people must go back to their natural learning mode. New Leadership.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2016

……to help us to keep pace, learn apply and adapt. 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. Beyond Design Thinking.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space. Vision & Leadership 1. Senior team not aligned or embracing Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. How big is the Total Addressable Market for this solution?

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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) They’re exploratory and characterised by search, experimentation and learning. About the Episode.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

It does not tell leaders how to manage their organizations” An introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation Managers. “The key today is to think like a designer in the way you lead, explore, create and innovate” Some were provided before this over the last year or so, but I feel are worth exploring.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2016

Design is increasingly to the fore in many organizations. We need to explore, experiment, prototype, adapt, become more agile, keep it lean, pivot on new learning and anything else that helps us to speed up the process and keep learning and churning. • Innovation design needs both. •

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

Gregg Fraley is a highly experienced facilitator who’s been learning, developing, and inventing group facilitation tools for many years. Gregg knows several innovation frameworks, including Design Thinking and Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving (aka “CPS). He trains other facilitators on his methods.

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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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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. In the first place, experimentation is about testing assumptions and hypotheses by means of a scientific learning approach. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space. Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. Which trends are most impacting your industry and how is your innovation team learning/exploring/leveraging?

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I recently wrote a post “ Finding knowledge and research to help you learn and adapt ”. On reflection I should have replaced the word “research” with “time”…… time to help you learn and adapt. In that post mentioned above, I was recommending Deloitte and their thought leadership as a good place to visit. Beyond Design Thinking.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In last month’s blog , we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration, and described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed sustainable innovative workplace culture change. Leadership team sponsorship and mentorship.

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. You conclude that perhaps the things you learned won’t work with your organization or in your industry. This wasn’t what they had learned in the bootcamp either. Costa Michailidis, Co-Founder of Innovation Bound.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

13:00) Why it is hard to Pivot in a system that is designed for execution with siloed teams and different KPI’s. (15:30) 20:00) On the use of Experiment Report Cards / Learning Report Cards. (23:00) Learn the key ingredients to actively create an effective cross functional team that truly collaborates. learn more.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space. Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. Which trends are most impacting your industry and how is your innovation team learning/exploring/leveraging?

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The basics of innovation still form around building the engagement, leadership, and involvement , in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed , so as to allow innovation to evolve and thrive. Then there is that need for a constant investment in people , in our networks and relationships , that all need to come together.

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