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The 10 Methods of The Lean Startup

HYPE Innovation

“Startup success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.”. The Lean Startup was published in 2011, yet its impact has been enormous. Companies are still getting to grips with the ideas set out in the book, most of which were not new in the first place. The value of those ideas and methods are perhaps even more valuable to large established organizations than to the startups which bear the books name.

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How Big is Your Market and Where Will You Start?

Tim Kastelle

Part 3 in The Lean Startup Series Facebook currently has 1.55 million monthly active users. 1.55 million! To get to that size, they must have been building for a huge market right from the start, right? Well, no. Here is what the first homepage for TheFacebook looked like when it launched: It was a digital version of the paper student directory that Harvard students were given when they enrolled.

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Preserving and/or Disrupting

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm reading a lot about "disruptive" innovation from firms that I think have a lot to protect and preserve. When I read that, I become fairly suspicious, because I'm not sure it's possible to simultaneously protect what is "important" and disrupt at the same time, unless the disruption is taking place in a market or business adjacent to or distant from whatever the corporation is trying to protect.

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And the winner is…

Exago

We are very pleased to announce that we have not only one, but two winners of our Anniversary Campaign. Given both the quantity and quality of the applications, we’ve decided to offer the use of our idea management software in 2016 to. The post And the winner is… appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Measuring Change Readiness

Braden Kelley

Are you and your organization ready for change? Too often organizations define the change effort they want to pursue without first identifying whether there are people, resources, legislation, etc.

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The How and Why of Customer Development

Tim Kastelle

Part 1 in The Lean Startup Series Henry Ford famously didn’t say: If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. People often use this quote to justify not talking to potential customers, because people don’t know what they want. It’s true, people don’t know what they want. But you still need to talk to them.

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3 Big Things To Look Out For In 2016

Digital Tonto

We're on the verge of some truly new paradigms that have genuine potential to transform our lives. Related posts: Here’s How We Can Win The Race To Cure Cancer. The 5 Powerhouse Industries of the. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Get 12x More Ideas Than Brainstorming

Innovation Excellence

Innovation will only be as successful as the number of high-quality ideas available to inspire, inform, and guide the process. Recognizing that ideas, especially high-quality ideas, are critical to innovation’s success, first Doug Hall and then my team at Innovate2Grow Experts developed an idea generating process that consistently delivers at least 12 X more ideas than brainstorming.

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We’ve Hit Peak Innovation (Hype)

Tim Kastelle

It’s clear that today, Sunday January 3rd, 2016 is the day that we’ve hit Peak Innovation. Josie Gibson pointed out to me that in 2015, it was the most-used business buzzword word in both Australia and the world. In Australia, we’ve also had a frenzy of interest in innovation as a result of the new Innovation Policy that was released by the national government at the start of December.

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Comment on 2016 is Nothing New by Robert Alan Black

Stephen Shapiro

interesting approach and concept Stephen. Dangerous one. I chose to do that a few years ago. and it has led to a temporary disaster. When I began teaching, leading, facilitating keynote addresses, concurrent or breakout sessions, workshops from 1/2 day to 3 days to 6 days on Marketing one lesson I was trying to share… We need to be continually MARKETING, perhaps up to 40% or more of the time. in various ways with our past, existing and potential markets.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Don’t Let Your Marketing Ruin Your Content

Digital Tonto

Content doesn’t have to be crap. Just don’t let marketing get in the way. Related posts: How To Stop Failing At Content Marketing. Content Is Crap And Other Rules For Marketers. 4 Content Marketing. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Top 20 Innovation Articles of December 2015

Innovation Excellence

Drum roll please. At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 10 as part of our free Innovation Excellence Weekly magazine and email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut?

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Is Our Business Model Ready to Launch?

Tim Kastelle

Part 2 in The Lean Startup Series Why do new ventures fail? There are three areas of risk when we launch something new: Technical (or product) risk: can we build it? Market(or customer) risk: does anyone want it? Cash (or business model) risk: if people want it and we build it, can we make enough money from it? When most people try to launch something, they often focus too much on technical risk.

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Comment on 2016 is Nothing New by sshapiro

Stephen Shapiro

Thanks for your comment. To be clear, I am going to continue marketing. I never said I wasn’t going to do that. And I will be creating new products and working on new projects…as long as they are on my list of opportunities I’ve already developed. After 15 years as a professional speaker (and 15 years as a consultant) I have notebooks full of ideas that I’ve never implemented.

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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Creative Thinking Skills – 10 Ideas for Stimulating Extreme Team Creativity

BrainZooming

We’re developing a strategic thinking webinar for a client on cultivating and sustaining creativity among its salesforce. Since the webinar is with the organization’s sales leadership, the focus is on creative thinking skills they can and should be embracing to help their salespeople see opportunities in new ways. Part of the creative thinking skills content will come via our Idea Magnets material.

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6 Mind-Set Changes To Help You Make A Fresh Start

Faisal Hoque

From big data to the gig economy, 2016 may be the year that familiar buzzwords start having real, mainstream impact. The post 6 Mind-Set Changes To Help You Make A Fresh Start appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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6 Reasons Innovation is a Survival Skill

Innovation Excellence

Many articles these days talk about reasons why companies should consider innovation as a core discipline. A quick Google search on “why innovate” produces 23,600,000 results. There is a plethora of opinions regarding innovation and why it is important. Competition is usually one of the reasons but not the only one, especially when looking how the world will be in the near future.

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Comment on 2016 is Nothing New by Jon Stallings

Stephen Shapiro

Wow Stephen sounds wonderful. It so easy to look for the magic answer and all we do is pile more on and make our lives more complicated. Often it is best to focus and add new energy to what we are already doing.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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Becoming More Innovative In 2016: Innovation Resolutions

Bill Fischer

Innovation is much easier to talk about, and to romanticize about, than to actually do. It requires both imagination and discipline, a combination that is far from ubiquitous. Yet, each of us should aspire to be change-agents in the organizations or communities in which we live. So, each year, at [.

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Competitive Strategy – 7 Ways to Avoid “Never and Always”

BrainZooming

Walking in on the Kansas City Chiefs – Oakland Raiders game broadcast Sunday on FOX, the announcers were discussing the Chiefs defensive scheme. They reported the team’s defensive coordinator, Bob Sutton, told them that when planning competitive strategy , “I want to stay out of ‘never’ and ‘always.’”. What fantastic competitive strategy advice to incorporate this time of year as you implement new strategies.

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Innovation Is Too Easy

Innovation Excellence

Hmm. I bet the post title got your attention, but of course in this modern age of digital content we bloggers need headlines that pop through all of the noise and gain attention. It helps, of course, that I'm of the opinion that the headline is provocative, and has, as Kissenger once said, the added benefit of being true.

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Comment on 2016 is Nothing New by Amy Castro

Stephen Shapiro

Love this post! No point in starting new things when you haven’t perfected or finished the undone items on your “must do” list.

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Implementing Intelligent Document Processing Solutions: Why It Works

See how companies like yours are tackling some of today’s most common business problems using AI-assisted automation for document processing. Manually capturing, extracting, and processing data within documents is a costly and outdated practice that’s holding your company back. IDP takes document processing to a whole new level so you can understand and use your data more effectively than ever before.

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Becoming More Innovative In 2016: Innovation Resolutions

Bill Fischer

Innovation is much easier to talk about, and to romanticize about, than to actually do. It requires both imagination and discipline, a combination that is far from ubiquitous. Yet, each of us should aspire to be change-agents in the organizations or communities in which we live. So, each year, at [.

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The future of sustainability

Norbert Bol

Dear readers of strategy blogs, New Year brings a beautiful opportunity to thank you for reading and interacting with me on business strategy, innovation and sustainability. May the New Year open up new ways and new roads to success for you, fulfilling all your aspirations! Thinking about the new year I am wondering what the future of sustainability looks like, since almost all countries in the world have agreed in Paris in December to become more sustainable, companies have a sustainability pol

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Strategic Thinking – What do you LOVE about your business?

BrainZooming

What do you LOVE about your business? Yes, I’m serious about that strategic thinking question. Can you say what you LOVE about your business, and what it does? Or what your business enables? Or the bigger set of activities your business makes a reality? If you struggle with those questions, take a time out right away and do the strategic thinking needed to get back in touch with the love in what you do.

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Comment on 2016 is Nothing New by sshapiro

Stephen Shapiro

So true Jon. It is always good to go deeper into what we already have in our lives, rather than chasing the next, best, new thing. Thanks!

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Grow Like Flo in 2016: Taking the Lead from Progressive’s Crowdsourced Innovation Program

Planview

Here are a few things the team at Progressive is really, really good at: (1) creating one of the most iconic brand mascots to ever hit the insurance scene; (2) leading the charge in industry breakthroughs, like data-driven driving services; (3) developing awesome new products, services, and processes with crowdsourced innovation. And that’s exactly what they’re doing with Edison, Progressive’s internal innovation program that uses its employees’ collective genius to shape

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Great Innovators Embrace Resistance, Not Fight It

Innovation in Practice

Imagine your marketing team comes up with an idea for a great new product. You absolutely love it. But when you start shopping the idea around the building, you get some very strange looks from people. People are resisting the idea, and you and your team are getting frustrated. Resistance to innovation is a natural phenomena in companies, and it can become a huge challenge unless you manage it correctly.

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Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2015

Innovation Excellence

2015 was the fourth full year of operations for Innovation Excellence. To celebrate we've pulled together a list of the Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2015. Did your favorite make the cut?

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Creative Expedition at Auchan, with Jean-Yves Maurel

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Jean-Yves Maurel is Corporate Innovation Director at Auchan Group, with the particularity of owning a double degree : Engineer Arts et Métiers ENSAM, and Marketing & Product Design at ENSAD.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.