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.”

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LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Project Technical Review 56

mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Design Thinking: Think of solutions, solve situations and problems, close the gaps that need filling in. It is Design Thinking that will pave the way to traveling assertively. Since you have a well-defined idea (through Design Thinking), Agile will clear a path towards your idea by removing obstacles that stand in your way.

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Design Thinking Agile Design Technical Review 69

InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These exercises are designed for innovative workshops and sessions. Innovation exercises are designed to help participants find creative solutions to life’s everyday challenges. Design thinking Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that puts the user at the center of the design process.

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Exercises Brainstorming Design Thinking LEAN 76

Kainexus

MAY 5, 2022

There are several technology solutions designed to help companies accelerate improvement initiatives and support business process improvement disciplines such as Lean and Six Sigma. So it isn't surprising that software buyers can become confused or overwhelmed by all the choices.

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Software LEAN Project Design 90

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. This is by design. my new project focused on finding better problem discovery techniques. Download the Lean(er) Canvas PDF here. your riskiest assumptions. How far do you go on each one and where do you start?

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LEAN Exercises Idea Generation Marketing 76

Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Of course, innovation projects are supposed to fail in great numbers, but the idea of a corporate innovation department itself is under tremendous pressure. Too many projects lack concrete outcomes and stubbornly refuse to discuss ROI. I am a strong believer and advocate of agile, design thinking, and lean startup.

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Training LEAN Innovation Resources 72

Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

If you cannot demonstrate that a project has the potential to win hearts, minds, and wallets, then park it or put it on a different path”. To assess the current portfolio, adidas periodically deconstructs every project through the lens of the Lean Canvas model. Recently, they’ve cut down the portfolio size by 50%.

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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. I’m sure you are quite aware that there are some pretty large software projects out there, though.

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LEAN Software Review Software Project 78

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Projects, Projects, Projects. What’s quite simple about innovation is that projects are what make innovation real. Unless they are in the context of an actual project. Design Thinking is not innovation. Lean is not innovation. That thing is innovation projects. are Not Innovation.

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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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LEAN Case Study Study System 58

Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

In partnership with nine organizations (including the Christensen Institute), NGLC explored this question through a project called What Made Them So Prepared? The project’s team conducted surveys and interviews of 70 participating schools and districts that seemed to have weathered the pandemic well. .

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Technical Review LEAN Culture Agile 98

mjvinnovation

MARCH 13, 2019

She is the woman of the moment and can teach you a lot about agile project management! She is the woman of the moment and can teach you a lot about agile project management! In this article, in besides knowing better the Japanese sensation of the present, you will see what lessons she can bring us about agile project management.

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Agile Project Management Tips 64

mjvinnovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

In reality, we are talking about a set of practices that should be used to manage projects and demands to adapt to changes and gain efficiency quickly. Squads, Scrum, OKRs, Kanban, and Design Sprints are just a few. Working with lean teams focused on solving a challenge brings several benefits to your project.

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Agile Design Technical Review How To 52

Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Here are some of the many ways you can use Instant Coffee: Brainstorming Incremental Planning Story Mapping Lean Coffee Impromptu Meetings PI Planning Retrospectives SWOT Analysis Standup Meetings. Incremental planning is a process many organizations use to break longer-term initiatives into smaller, more actionable projects.

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Brainstorming LEAN Technical Review Analysis 98

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This new management method makes it nearly impossible for innovation teams to fail at delivering multiple challenging innovation projects faster, with less risk and lower required budgets. Most innovation experts often say that traditional management processes are not the way to run innovation projects. And this is true.

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Project LEAN Management Innovation 241

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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Board of Innovation

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

What if you will get a check with money to start your project this afternoon? The post From idea, to RedDot Design Award. But being innovative is about taking the next step and actually realizing those ideas. What are you going to do next? How can you realize your dream. Continue reading.

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Design Project Innovation Tips 83

Planview

JULY 6, 2017

Employee retention in the skilled trades is a challenge, especially with those employees who have experience working on big, complex projects. Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence. Resourcing and coordinating projects within the primes is a complex endeavor. They ask—and rightfully so: What’s in it for me?

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LEAN Meeting Underperforming Technical Team Project 40

Planview

JULY 6, 2017

Employee retention in the skilled trades is a challenge, especially with those employees who have experience working on big, complex projects. Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence. Figure 1: the six tenets of lean from the Lean Construction Institute. They ask—and rightfully so: What’s in it for me?

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LEAN Meeting Underperforming Technical Team Project 40

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. This is by design. my new project focused on finding better problem discovery techniques. You can create a Lean(er) Canvas at LeanCanvas.com. Create a Lean Canvas at LeanCanvas.com your riskiest assumptions.

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LEAN Exercises Idea Generation Marketing 40

IM Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

He introduces Estimatic, his latest venture, software designed to model uncertain projects and ideas. Peter recommends checking out Lean Change Management and gives a shoutout to Jason Little ! [05:23] Peter’s experience working on web development and e-commerce projects. [16:15]

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Learning Analysis Agile Software Engineering 52

Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This is the story of how SAY San Diego is using Lean Innovation to create real, powerful change in their community. Project Goals, Proposed Solutions, and Key Results When we first met SAY San Diego, they had already identified their challenges. This staff increase has reduced their staffing cost of $32.50

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LEAN Change Case Study Underperforming Technical Team 75

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They may share insights on techniques for effective ideation such as design thinking, mind mapping, and leveraging technology for collaborative brainstorming sessions. They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes.

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Innovation Leadership Ideation Innovation Processes 113

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. And this is where so often, promising innovation projects fail. In fact, about 96% of innovation projects fail to make a return on investment.

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Technical Review Innovation Innovation Processes Project 248

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. To create a product for GenZ, Unilever worked with specially designed AI to analyze 6,000 perfume ingredients with 3.5 million potential combinations.

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Artificial Inteligence Innovation Ideation Data 64

IM Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Applying traditional stage-gate funding models for innovation projects come with a set of issues on their own. Discover the fundamentals of what Eric Ries calls Metered Funding and how to design an effective incremental funding approach for innovation. . Otherwise, designing the first gate around desirability is probably a good bet.

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LEAN Innovation Project Design 52

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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LEAN Technical Review Innovation Culture 40

Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 4, 2016

Part 2 in The Lean Startup Series Why do new ventures fail? This tendency is amplified when the projects are based on scientific research. 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. Market(or customer) risk: does anyone want it?

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LEAN Development Team Review Tools Marketing 100

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. The obvious place to turn is innovation approaches such as design thinking , rapid prototyping , and open innovation. Thus, if you hope to move the needle appreciably, you’ll need to design and validate an engine that will accelerate growth over time.

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Technical Review LEAN Innovation Social Innovation 100

Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. He’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats.

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Tools Idea Generation Brainstorming LEAN 52

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Do Purpose First, Select a Framework, Then Do Projects. 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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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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LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Design 96

Innovation Architecture

MARCH 21, 2018

Of late, many have embraced the practice of collaborative innovation, with its application of social media to sourcing crowds and ideas, and design thinking, with its structured approach to vetting hypotheses about new business opportunities. The lean practitioner innovates their way to True North. I love these people. In the What Is?

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Design Thinking Collaboration Design Innovation 40

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

Accelerate the Momentum of Work and Life Projects With Focused Creativity. MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma. Nor has the focusing power of projects, or “concept blending” ideation tools designed to achieve breakthrough ideas.

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Creativity Training Tools Culture 98

Econic

APRIL 13, 2022

Much like our consulting practices, we leaned into a loose framework to build a customized approach to transformation. Visual design elements created by Rihab. As we continue our process towards B Corporation certification, we are happy to share Econic’s first impact report. View the full report. This post was edited by Brittany Bach.

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Report Leadership Training LEAN 105

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. We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design.

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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. Steven lives in Colorado and loves hiking, river rafting, and playing with his dogs.

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Creative Process Creativity LEAN Brainstorming 26