Tim Kastelle

JUNE 19, 2016

I’ve been running Lean LaunchPad programs for a couple of years now, and all along, I’ve thought that the number of customer development interviews that a team does is a good indicator of how successful they’ll be. Consequently, I thought that the magic in lean startup is customer development. I was wrong.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Companies that successfully bring new products to market rapidly, benefit from having a leg up on their competition while diminishing the negative effects of shrinking product life cycles. However, moving a product from lab to market is a process that in itself could use re-invention. What is Commercialization?

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Product Development LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Marketing 75

Leanstack

JANUARY 10, 2019

A question I get a lot is: Why isn’t the Lean Canvas laid out more logically? Lean Canvas The main reason for this particular layout was legacy. Lean Canvas was derived from the Business Model Canvas. To compensate for usability, I published a suggested fill order in my first book: Running Lean. Which is the right order?

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LEAN Idea Generation Technical Review Study 81

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

Speed of learning is the new unfair advantage. Much like failing becomes learning when you’re going fast, innovation becomes continuous. A brief history of the Continuous Innovation Framework The early scaffolding for the Continuous Innovation Framework was described in my first book: Running Lean. Stay tuned for more…

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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! The result: development of a market-ready product ( lineup™ ) in a fraction of the time, and the confidence to apply their strengthened skill set to other areas of uncertainty.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.” The Proud Leader.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We seem confronted with rapid change, and it is primarily within the business world related to technology and market uncertainty that is driving this. Our individual problem often lies in the time we have to discover, learn and explore new and different things. As well, and ask, are we really interested?

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 14, 2016

Lean Experiment Techniques There are many techniques to consider when designing an effective lean startup experiment, so we decided to capture a few of our favorites below. Mix-and-match each example to create a powerful experimental learning vehicle for your next concept. This is especially good for support centers.

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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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Leanstack

JANUARY 30, 2019

In my last post , I described how sketching an idea on a Lean Canvas is akin to stacking a chain of beliefs. Marketer, Jay Abraham, calls this phenomenon the Strategy of Pre-eminence. If your customer and problems assumptions are not yet grounded in empirical learning, it’s prudent to first get them in order. This is by design.

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LEAN Exercises Idea Generation Marketing 76

Moves the Needle

JUNE 14, 2016

Lean Experiment Techniques. There are many techniques to consider when designing an effective lean startup experiment, so we decided to capture a few of our favorites below. Mix-and-match each example to create a powerful experimental learning vehicle for your next concept. This is especially good for support centers.

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LEAN Examples Video Report 68

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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mjvinnovation

MARCH 11, 2020

Is your company aligned with the new direction that the energy market is heading towards? Energy market: the future is knocking. The 5 technologies that will revolutionize the energy market in the coming years: 1- Blockchain. An Open Energy scenario arises in which micro markets become possible. 5- Digital Twins.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

Business model innovation involves changing these aspects significantly to respond to shifts in the market, technology, or customer preferences. Lego’s adaptation to the digital age helped it to remain relevant and grow in a market where digital entertainment increasingly competes with physical toys.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The challenge is that for all innovation projects, it is impossible to know what the final solution or target KPIs will be once all the investigation, design and iteration is complete. Therefore, it does not make sense to have the success criteria be a specific design, budget, business case or set of KPIs at the beginning.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

Our ability to perform differently will provide new avenues of innovation discovery and eventual value to offset or bridge the need to make a change we will be forced to make in these different market and society conditions. The need is for a very fluid, dynamic, constantly evolving approach to design and solutions.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Launching a campaign to customers is nerve-wracking for even the most established marketing department. Something that Bill Gates learned the hard way…. A co-creation event brings your marketing teams and your customers together in one room where they can discuss exactly what they want and need from your brand.

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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. Sign up here to start submitting your questions.

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Conference LEAN Leadership Entrepreneurship 56

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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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. Implementation and Execution The final phase of the innovation process is where ideas are executed and brought to the market.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Having the best AI writing assistant on the market is useless if you work for an ice cream company. I am a strong believer and advocate of agile, design thinking, and lean startup. Discover Qualitative Insights Use Design Thinking to gain insights and empathy. Resources Needless to say, innovation teams need resources.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 22, 2016

Market research often falls short when it comes to innovation. Here’s why: Modern market research methods, like Lean Startup, do a great job of focusing on customer-centric discovery. In our post, How to Innovate: What Innovation Really Is , we discussed how focusing on learning before executing is vital to innovation.

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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. By doing so, businesses can optimize execution, discover market opportunities, and find new growth. It is a mindset that should permeate the entire organization.

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Leanstack

JANUARY 10, 2019

A question I get a lot is: Why isn’t the Lean Canvas laid out more logically? Lean Canvas The main reason for this particular layout was legacy. Lean Canvas was derived from the Business Model Canvas. To compensate for usability, I published a suggested fill order in my first book: Running Lean. Which is the right order?

LEAN 40

LEAN Idea Generation Technical Review Study 40

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. 1 The Devil in Design. Using developer tools will streamline and speed the design, build, testing, and release process. #2 source: pixabay.com.

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Technical Review Software Review Data Software 207

Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 4, 2016

Part 2 in The Lean Startup Series Why do new ventures fail? Market(or customer) risk: does anyone want it? This is a mistake – market risk is by far the biggest. Here is what the Lean Startup team says : If you’re wondering which kind of risk you face, let me help you out: It’s customer risk.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

It’s the secret sauce that has transformed startups into tech giants and turned traditional businesses into market leaders. Innovation isn’t just about the next big idea; it’s a multifaceted strategy that businesses employ to navigate through the twists and turns of today’s dynamic markets.

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Leanstack

JANUARY 30, 2019

In my last post , I described how sketching an idea on a Lean Canvas is akin to stacking a chain of beliefs. Marketer, Jay Abraham, calls this phenomenon the Strategy of Pre-eminence. If your customer and problems assumptions are not yet grounded in empirical learning, it’s prudent to first get them in order. This is by design.

LEAN 40

LEAN Exercises Idea Generation Marketing 40

mjvinnovation

MAY 29, 2019

Scrum is highly applicable to define priorities in processes and optimize management development in different segments – Consulting, Technology, HR, Telecommunications, Marketing, Engineering, Insurance, Health, among others. Lean Startup. Different segments can benefit from Lean Startup. Extreme Programming (XP).

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Collectivecamp

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

While there’s much talk emanating out of Silicon Valley nowadays that “pivot is the new fail”, when the term first gained popularity off the back of the lean startup movement in the early 2010s it effectively meant making a fundamental shift in your business model, based on customer learnings, towards one that is designed to bring you closer to product (..)

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LEAN Company Design Marketing 95

Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Marketing tends to have their own way of talking about innovation. To one leader, it means adopting a learning and exploration mindset; to another, “innovation is not my job.” Is it expansion of market share? The innovation mindset is characterized by behavior reflecting learning and exploration. All of the above?

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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. Design Thinking applied to cultural transformation.

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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. ABInBev has created the world’s first beer and full marketing campaign made with AI, naming it Beck’s Autonomous. million potential combinations.

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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. A couple of days after having had published my post, Paolo Lorenzoni from IDEO confirmed the complementary nature of Lean Startup and Design Thinking. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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