Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Ingredients for Innovation Success Despite the renaissance in innovation approaches ushered in by luminaries like Steve Blank, Rita McGrath, Alexander Osterwalder, Janice Fraser, and Eric Ries, most innovation departments lack the basic ingredients of success- strategy, resources, scale and methods. You rarely win without a strategy.

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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. Even better, see if you can recognize these lean startup experiment examples next time you’re using your favorite application or website.

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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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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. Most companies have a product development process that is completely separate from their go to market strategy. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle. It does not include product development.

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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. This is by design. 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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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. Even better, see if you can recognize these lean startup experiment examples next time you’re using your favorite application or website.

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InnovationManagement

MAY 19, 2017

Nobody doubts that design can be powerful. But while words and phrases like ‘design thinking,’ ‘agile’ and ‘lean’ may be officially welcome in the boardrooms of Deloitte, Accenture, PWc, McKinsey and similar firms, I believe that the full potential of design has been neglected and these terms misappropriated.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Offer strategies for effective prototyping and testing. They may share insights on techniques for effective ideation such as design thinking, mind mapping, and leveraging technology for collaborative brainstorming sessions. The best innovation keynote speakers talking points include strategies for learning from setbacks.

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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. Speed Mentoring (powered by Moves the Needle).

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

It offers a straightforward way to understand, design, and pivot your business model. Lean Startup Methodology The Lean Startup methodology , created by Eric Ries, emphasizes the importance of rapid prototyping, validated learning, and other iterative product and service development techniques.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

All the breakthroughs in science and technology and the need to work iteratively in crisis-prone times are pushing our innovation strategies and approaches to change rapidly. To assess the current portfolio, adidas periodically deconstructs every project through the lens of the Lean Canvas model.

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mjvinnovation

JULY 27, 2020

Please keep reading to understand the importance of having a UX strategy, what benefits it can offer you, and tips on developing one! Why you need to create a UX strategy. To create a sustainable competitive advantage, companies need a “strategy.” It is also necessary not to confuse UX strategy with UX Design.

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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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helloFUTURE

MAY 22, 2023

In the world of product development, the only constant is change. The market is always evolving, customer expectations are constantly shifting, and your competitors are always on the move. As a corporate innovator, startup founder, or product manager, your task is to stay ahead of the game and churn out new products that not only…

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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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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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Moves the Needle

JUNE 29, 2023

Rapid experimentation holds immense value in generating evidence to support decision-making, inform strategies, and propel businesses toward success. However, the rise of Lean Startup methodologies, popularized by Eric Ries in his book “The Lean Startup,” brought rapid experimentation to the forefront.

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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. When companies build a business strategy, they start with the addressable market and decide where to play. Corporate philanthropy. Sounds ideal.

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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. This is by design. You can create a Lean(er) Canvas at LeanCanvas.com. Create a Lean Canvas at LeanCanvas.com How do you that?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

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. It’s about introducing features, functionalities, or designs that meet emerging customer needs or tap into uncharted market segments.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 20, 2019

This is where Lean Agile principles come into play. Keeping the Ball in Your Court: Understanding Lean Agile Principles. This process can lay solid foundations for sustaining In the context of sport, something analogous to the Lean process would be to create new team compositions that compensate for the absence of injured players.

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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. Both are reasonable and both can use acquisitions as part of its strategy, but you must understand the underlying need, beyond the word innovation.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Not only are customized strategies imperative, but how we arrive at solutions to create value is extremely important. Some of the implications of these two challenges are that we see challenges from our own perspective and fear risk-taking and innovative strategies. These challenges, while significant, can be overcome.

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Matthew May

JULY 24, 2015

My three areas of focus — strategy, innovation, and lean — are all founded on the ground-level, everyday application of Roger Martin’s Play-to-Win framework (strategy), IDEO/Stanford d school-originated design thinking (innovation), and Toyota-born systems thinking (lean).

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

The need is for a very fluid, dynamic, constantly evolving approach to design and solutions. Systems today need to be designed to be self-driven in design, which needs us to often simply let go but carefully orchestrate such an adaptive thinking approach. Connecting up and Deploying Collaboration Tools. Digital Transformation.

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Matthew May

JUNE 26, 2015

After reading his 1999 book High Velocity Leadership , we invited Brian to guest speak about the Mars Pathfinder project, and he soon he became a regular fixture in the University of Toyota’s “lean” leadership curriculum. One of my all-time favorite stories is the one he told about the Pathfinder team’s approach to a “don’t fail” strategy.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Part of what we do at Moves the Needle is to work with large enterprise organizations on corporate innovation strategy and providing education on how to shift away from a traditional management mindset to think and act in a new way. How does corporate strategy inform your work? How do you define the areas of opportunity for Roche?

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

Restaurants were the first vertical market, but the strategy at the time was staggering in scope. This wasn’t part of OpenTable’s original thinking or strategy. We can also see how these approaches were precursors to larger movements in lean startup, design thinking, and agile.

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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. Not because of a lack of process in a powerpoint strategy deck. Being able to communicate the innovation strategy will help this immensely.

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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. 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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IdeaScale

JANUARY 8, 2020

1 The Devil in Design. Such tools enable digital design and high-fidelity prototyping, but they also have specific hardware and software requirements that come with their own issues. Using developer tools will streamline and speed the design, build, testing, and release process. #2 2 The Expense of Acquisition and Training.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? Check out our list of design thinking books to read. Find practical tools for measuring, managing, and accelerating the process, as well as strategies to reduce risk when launching something new. The Lean Startup. New Releases in 2021.

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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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Econic

APRIL 13, 2022

Much like our consulting practices, we leaned into a loose framework to build a customized approach to transformation. When we put people first, we exponentially expand what’s possible in the areas of innovation, transformation, and strategy work. Visual design elements created by Rihab. View the full report.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We do need to ‘lean in’ on many specialists and experts to help us, not just business consultants! Stay flexible, agile and adaptable, and have up-to-date contingency plans in place to adjust course if needed and, in a controlled manner, options to existing business strategy. As well, and ask, are we really interested?

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