Business and Tech

MARCH 16, 2023

Simultaneously, the COVID lockdown exposed huge pockets of the United States that do not have access to modern tools nor technology to educate our young. Urban, rural, rustbelt, and tribal communities united in their outcry over the educational plight of our children.

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LEAN Resources Technology Trends 299

Board of Innovation

MAY 11, 2017

As technology is advancing at an unprecedented rate, it might be interesting to take a step back and reflect on the approach we are taking to achieve innovation and if, by any chance, we could speed up the process even more.

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Design Thinking LEAN Design Technology 53

Board of Innovation

MAY 10, 2017

As technology is advancing at an unprecedented rate, it might be interesting to take a step back and reflect on the approach we are taking to achieve innovation and if, by any chance, we could speed up the process even more.

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Design Thinking LEAN Design Technology 40

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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LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Project Technical Review 56

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

New Service Offering for Digital Technology Innovation. It’s designed to uncover unlikely, but useful, combinations of technologies, products, services, trends, and insights that lead to breakthrough innovation. GFi is now offering a new version of MoshPit to discover ideas that exploit new digital technologies.

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Technology Internet of things Ideation Artificial Inteligence 50

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The belief that lean management principles will get the innovation out of the door quicker, has been one of those management adoptions that often trick us into believing we are achieving more than we actually are. Leans slows down and becomes increasingly burdened by fat being layered on, further down the innovation execution process.

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Innovation Processes LEAN Innovation Agile 206

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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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 130

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

Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

What’s the best way to leverage new technologies? 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. Using Technology Differently (and More Efficiently). Only then can new technologies be developed.

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Innovation Management Design Management Agile 52

Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 25, 2023

At its core, digital transformation is the integration of digital technology into all areas of life, fundamentally changing how business operates and delivers value to customers. It has led to the rise of product management, transformed support functions, influenced product design, and reshaped how organizations engage with customers.

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LEAN How To Agile Artificial Inteligence 40

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

IdeaScale

JANUARY 8, 2020

In our minds, technology and innovation are interconnected. 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. Technology: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? 1 The Devil in Design.

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Technical Review Software Review Data Software 207

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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LEAN Company Leadership Culture 45

Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Can technology solve our navigation challenge? In turn, it’s hardly surprising that many are pinning their hopes on technology to expand access to navigation support. For example, researcher Joe Ferrare found that first-generation students tended to lean into one of five career search ‘strategies’: 1) Personal DIY (i.e.,

Tools 92

Tools ChatGPT LEAN Marketing 92

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

They partner with Silicon Valley startups who have breakthrough technology when they really just want incremental innovation that delivers quarterly results. They invest in disruptive technologies but ask existing business units to cannibalize their current products and services using them.

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Culture Strategy Strategy Technical Review 130

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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Innovation Design Collaboration Engagement 189

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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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. One organization might consider innovation to be a new channel to market and another sees it as new technology. With regard to innovation, there’s often more than just technology at stake.

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LEAN Technical Review Innovation Culture 40

Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

Technology advances, customer needs shift, and what worked yesterday would might probably not work tomorrow. Business model innovation involves changing these aspects significantly to respond to shifts in the market, technology, or customer preferences. Because the world doesn’t stand still. Think of it like updating an old map.

Software 52

Software Innovation Innovation Management LEAN 52

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 318

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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Design Thinking Design Culture How To 40

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

In many cases (especially those listed in the book, such as Computer Storage, Department Stores and Construction Equipment), the small company releases a new technology which is inferior in quality or performance to that of the large company, but makes up for it in another way, like a lower price or convenience.

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Company Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Design Thinking 248

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

As we move increasingly towards more open innovation hubs and increased ecosystem management the recognition is that many of the challenges and problems have not just become too complex to tackle alone, or even in a single industry but require cross-sector innovation (ecosystem designed) collaboration (CSIC) in consortia-developed approaches.

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Collaboration Innovation Resources Industry 130

mjvinnovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

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. We suggest reading our ebook “Design Thinking and Agile” so that you can go deeper into this subject and understand how these methodologies work together!

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Agile Design Technical Review How To 52

The BMI Lab Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As undergraduate students in business administration 15 years ago, our professors taught us the two main drivers of innovation: one being the technology, also known as “technology-push”, the other being the market: the so called “market-pull”. Technology is moving faster than ever before. But 10% is just the beginning.

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LEAN Innovation Technology Marketing 52

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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How To Training Project Innovation 278

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. We do need to ‘lean in’ on many specialists and experts to help us, not just business consultants! As well, and ask, are we really interested?

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LEAN Industry Agile Analysis 195

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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LEAN Agile Resources Management 40

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. For SAY San Diego, we ran two Lean Innovation Bootcamps and Accelerators , and facilitated a two-hour leadership session in order to begin shifting their culture from status quo to value creation.

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LEAN Change Case Study Underperforming Technical Team 75

Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

They involve methods such as adopting new technologies to improve product efficiency or tweaking a service to enhance customer experience. It’s about introducing features, functionalities, or designs that meet emerging customer needs or tap into uncharted market segments.

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Radical Innovation Innovation Disruption Competition 52

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

Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Most big companies think technology when thinking about innovation, regardless of whether or not they’re technology companies. To one group, it means technological invention; to another it means continuous improvement of processes. Lean innovation is an iterative approach to moving from the unknown to the known.

LEAN 52

LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Groups 52

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

mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

To understand more about what happens (and can happen) with the Logistics and Supply Chain area, let’s share some insights from our Future Design and Anticipatory Innovation team. Some spoilers of what should be rethought: Technology is the epicenter. Digital Economy: small, lean, light, and innovative. Industry 4.0.

Design 52

Design Technical Review Data Industry 52

IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2018

At IdeaScale we help Kane is Able and many other clients achieve their continuous improvement strategies such as Lean, Kaizen or Six Sigma. When it comes to driving innovation then, the first and most important objective is to design a program that can frequently re-evaluate and re-invent itself. Methodology agnostic” you might say.

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Innovation Agile Design Thinking Guidelines 124

Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 4, 2016

Part 2 in The Lean Startup Series Why do new ventures fail? 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. Then give the new technology to a business development team to bring it to market, which requires reducing market and cash risk.

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LEAN Development Team Review Tools Marketing 100

Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

As a successful technology entrepreneur he has a broad perspective on business and always has ideas about how to solve thorny problems. Gregg knows several innovation frameworks, including Design Thinking and Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving (aka “CPS).

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