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Using Lean Innovation to Transform the Way the City of Hayward Solves Problems

Moves the Needle

Before and After Lean Innovation: Overview The City of Hayward, California wanted to break away from inefficient and ineffective processes for researching and launching programs, and remove organizational bottlenecks that stood in the way of serving citizens. Download this case study to show to your colleagues, board of directors, or boss.

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Applying lessons from pandemic prepared schools

Christensen Institute

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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Office of Naval Research (ONR) Goes Lean

Steve Blank

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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Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. The result will be: a new, Lean version of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Here’s how.

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8 Types of Innovation in Business: A Comprehensive Guide

Qmarkets

In this guide, we’re unpacking eight critical types of innovation that businesses leverage to carve out their niches, disrupt markets, and write their success stories. Techniques such as Lean manufacturing and automation play a pivotal role in driving process innovation, enabling businesses to maintain operational excellence and agility.

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Here comes the hypenated innovation offering

Jeffrey Phillips

This slight rant of mine was started when I saw a new software application talk about its ability to help its clients in agile lean innovation. Lean is about stripping away unnecessary assets to focus on doing the most with the least. Lean is about stripping away unnecessary assets to focus on doing the most with the least.

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How to indentify and justify the ROI of innovation

Moves the Needle

One question kills more innovation initiatives than any other: What’s the ROI for this innovation project? In early-stage projects with a product that’s not in the market, projections are fiction. Without a quantifiable return a project gets no funding; and vice versa. Disruptive innovations are less common.

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