Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

” The program manager was part of the Engineering department. The primary function was to serve as the bridge between Engineering and Marketing. It was not unusual to find PM’s who reported into Engineering at the time, the two cases perhaps reflecting the above origin stories. But don’t ask how many when we did.)

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Planview

MAY 14, 2018

That is, if the world is changing at an exponentially accelerating rate, per Shingles and Kurzweil, then each participant in that economy would in theory need to become hyper vigilant in detecting, making meaning of, and reacting to disruptions that might materially affect their business model. I see some of this behavior happening, today.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Companies that cling to rigid innovation approaches are more likely to fail at creating space for disruptive innovation or nurturing new ideas. Engine 2 efforts are disruptive and potentially game changing.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

As part of our recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed this (and more) with Frank Mattes (CEO at Lean Scaleup), Sean Sheppard (Managing Partner at U+), and Susana Jurado (Head of Wayra Builder at Telefónica). Why can it be so hard for corporates to launch substantial new businesses? Business Building: Pros and Cons.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Put another way, it’s arbitrary to declare a feature that takes 1 year to develop and release “an incremental improvement”, or declare engineering work that takes 5 years to achieve ROI “incremental innovation.” Innovator’s take: Horizon 3 is breakthrough or disruptive innovation. Most companies DO NOT NEED disruptive innovation.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

In the 21 st century it’s harder for large corporations to create disruptive breakthroughs. Disruptive innovations are coming from startups – Telsa for automobiles, Uber for taxis, Airbnb for hotel rentals, Netflix for video rentals and Facebook for media. Over the last decade, Intel missed two important disruptive trends.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

Although failure is a stigma to the corporate world, Eric Reis, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur-turned-VC-turned author and founder of Lean Startup Movement, encourages companies to embrace the concept of “failing fast”. They adhere to lean principles of product development. BuzzFeed and Shyp are the perfect examples here.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. This often needs different perspectives to form the final position.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 14, 2016

They are positioning themselves on a mission to find the right remedy for designing future growth engines by wanting to fill that gap by creating a set of tools for business strategy, business design and innovation. Disruptive Innovation Labs. On the 2015 list of Bain’s is Disruptive Innovation Labs.

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Innov8rs

AUGUST 22, 2023

It’s easy to set an ambition to create a pipeline and portfolio of new ventures and investments that disrupt existing markets and create new ones. It’s easy to say “we need a growth engine”. To succeed with corporate venture building, lean on one of the main resources you already have: your people. The question really is – how?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 29, 2015

If we do we fail to ever achieve innovation that is truly a ‘breakthrough’ or ‘disruptive’ We should have aspirations, as humans we need these. In the Lean Methodology we are discovering the MVP (minimum viable product) as the process to travel through as we “Build- Measure- Learn” as the feedback loop.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

However, this typically means adding new people, learning new processes and the uncomfortable reality of two teams aiming at the same markets, one incremental and sustaining in nature, another disruptive and creative in nature, almost always at conflict, with two different goals or purposes.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As the collective “we” purposefully engineer an economic slow down for 2023 there’s no relief in sight for the “work harder, not smarter” mindset. We just don’t know what disruption might ripple across your specific industry or region. They think they’re practicing good lean innovation and they deserve some kudos for their efforts.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

Employees have the knowledge, experience, and skill set to keep the engine of a business running day in and day out – so tapping into this with an employee innovation program can open a realm of possibilities. Innovation puts businesses in the best position possible to see out disruption, beat competition, and build business longevity.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Here’s how. Build-Measure-Learn.

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Integrative Innovation

APRIL 7, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Companies that cling to rigid innovation approaches are more likely to fail at creating space for disruptive innovation or nurturing new ideas. Engine 2 efforts are disruptive and potentially game changing.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

We are probably in the middle of the biggest disruptive change in the market since industrialization. Often engineering-talented companies have invested in customized solutions, a development that is reflected for example in Industry 4.0 in Germany and user-generated manufacturing in USA. The #InnovateSweden movie (Swedish only).

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The Inovo Group

AUGUST 5, 2019

A comprehensive incubation framework can be based on two complementary approaches – Lean Startup and Effectuation – along with other components that fill out the incubation system architecture. Lean Startup, for example, focuses on the Process and Mechanisms while Effectuation emphasizes Mindset and Behavior.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

Of course, speaking to customers about their problems without having any defined product or solution roadmap in mind may seem awkward and even scary to many corporate employees (especially engineers and product developers). Stop thinking linearly and start thinking exponentially Focus on the future, not the past.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 21, 2019

They invest millions into these projects with the hopes of disrupting the norm, transforming their company culture, and catering to the markets of the future, but they have not actually figured out a fool-proof strategy for generating this innovation, let alone how they are going to align these innovation plans with their ultimate business goals.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

This isn’t about getting lucky and having one big win; it’s about demystifying how you can build an engine fueled by people and process that continues to innovate for decades to come. People love to talk about disruption all of the time (i.e. On one side was sustaining innovation, and on the other was disruptive innovation.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Well-researched trends don’t predict disruption (nothing really does). You test whether these ideas positively impact the job, if the customer cares, and whether there’s a viable business model using rapid experimentation, e.g. Lean Startup. There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all “innovation” framework.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

The lens through which the entrepreneurial mind sees the world is generally one of how to create something totally new and cool – sometimes something that will "unbundle", or disrupt, an existing industry – that will allow them to make history and potentially change the world. Engineering / Science / Technology.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 16, 2018

With so much disruptive innovation happening so fast, it has become less and less rare for companies to be formed around a service or product that defines them for their lifetime. An example of this is Volvo and Jaguar Land Rover who both committed to stop selling cars that are powered by internal combustion engines only, by 2020.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Exposing those assets — brand, sales and distribution engines, proven products, operational excellence — to the chaotic environment of rapid experimentation and “failing fast” is a recipe for disaster. An organization begins to adopt lean startup and run rapid experiments. Large successful organizations can’t turn into startups again.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

Of course, speaking to customers about their problems without having any defined product or solution roadmap in mind may seem awkward and even scary to many corporate employees (especially engineers and product developers). Stop thinking linearly and start thinking exponentially. Focus on the future, not the past.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

They’ll talk about how the Growth Team needs to consist of creative people chosen for their ability to think broadly and seek out new things, while the Current Business team is expected to just keep turning the engine that generates profits through servicing existing customers and markets. Katherine lives in Camas, Washington.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 26, 2019

The great American oceanographer Edith Widder once said: “Exploration is the engine that drives innovation, and Innovation drives economic growth… So let’s all go exploring.” ?? Of course, exploring unfamiliar territory – Edith herself participated in over 250 deep-sea dives – can often be a daunting proposition.

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KindlingApp

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Startup swami Eric Ries’ essential book The Lean Startup defines a startup as “a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty”, which implies an essential element of innovation. When seen through this lens, the disrupting startup is not the enemy.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using Lean methods. Two methods, Design Thinking and Customer Development (the core of the Lean Startup) provide the tactical day-to-day process of how to turn ideas into products. .

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

They’ll talk about how the Growth Team needs to consist of creative people chosen for their ability to think broadly and seek out new things, while the Current Business team is expected to just keep turning the engine that generates profits through servicing existing customers and markets. Katherine lives in Camas, Washington.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Yuan was Cisco’s vice president of engineering and in 2011 he pitched a new smartphone-friendly video conferencing system to Cisco management. This is especially true for those that are farther from the core competency of the company, but which have the potential to be disruptive. The idea was rejected.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Now they are starting to use the Lean Innovation process (see here and here ) to turn ideas into solutions. Test if the Lean Innovation process actually accelerates technology adoption and an innovation ecosystem. Lean Innovation is a Process. The Lean Innovation process is a self-regulating, evidence-based innovation pipeline.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” This was a very large and established tech company; its engineering organization developed the core day-to-day capabilities of the organization. Engineering continually felt overwhelmed.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Bezirk , a startup of crack engineering team inside Bosch figured that retail IoT is a great market that needs personalization. Of course, failure can be damaging to daily business but only letting a room for risk can lead to disruptive innovation. The term comes from the English and is based on the Lean Startup Model by Eric Ries.

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Digital Tonto

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

He led a new era of “Welchism,” in which CEO’s laid off employees, offshored factories and engaged in “financial engineering,” to goose profits. Related posts: How GE Got Disrupted The Future Of Robots Is All Too Human America Can Win Manufacturing In The 21st Century. That all began to change when Jack Welch took over in 1981.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 16, 2017

Recent trends suggest that the automotive industry might be next on Silicon Valley's disruption list. For example, in Beijing, a driver wishing to purchase a vehicle with an internal-combustion engine must first enter a lottery and then wait up to 2 years before receiving a license plate. Key Challenge: Self-Disruption.

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