Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In recent years, as more states and districts have wrestled with the definition of “college- and career-ready,” alternative postsecondary pathways have multiplied, and career-connected learning has gained steam, a new term has popped up in education: navigation. Democratizing access to information won’t address opportunity gaps.

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Christensen Institute

JULY 13, 2023

Policy analysts can point to shifts in state funding, government subsidies, and myriad other reasons for the escalating price of college, but this issue is fundamentally one of costs—the overall expenditures associated with delivering the educational experience—not price. Complex, costly educational models. The result?

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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. even though your doctor was simply following a systematic process of elimination by unpacking your symptoms (educated guessing). Marketer, Jay Abraham, calls this phenomenon the Strategy of Pre-eminence.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Digital signage-based experiences are vital to future-proofing retail in ways that allay concerns post-pandemic, lean in to Gen Z, and make life a whole lot more convenient. Beth Warren SVP Marketing and Retail Strategy, Creative Realities, Board Member, Digital Signage Federation.

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Business and Tech

APRIL 8, 2022

Employees overwhelmingly prefer hybrid models of work and enjoy more power in the job market than ever before. There are so many unique and wonderful ways for employers to embrace their new cultures—they can lean on software to enable and foster connection online. The way we work is changing. Beyond work.

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Open Innovation EU

JANUARY 22, 2016

Organizations are now operating in a globalized, dynamic world and see their workforce change from homogeneous to diverse and educated. Innovation is almost always focused on information, is knowledge-based, complex and customized – which shortens the time to market and increases first mover advantages. Simply beautiful.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Our panel of experts discusses the political, technological, social, and educational resources the cannabis industry needs to succeed. I hope our industry leans into the good we’re doing for society, because that message will resonate and motivate. Juanjo Feijoo COO and CMO, Weedmaps. Editor-in-Chief, TheAnswerPage.com.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 16, 2024

Those gaps are a troubling harbinger of unequal labour market outcomes, given an estimated half of internships and jobs come through personal connections. There is also an emerging market of courses and learning. Universities should consider offering access to more paid work-integrated learning experiences for students.

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Inceodia

JULY 18, 2018

Launched 10 years ago, their online education program has been ranked top 10 in the nation for three straight years. We launched each of the Prepare, Explore and Converge phases with an applied learning workshop that introduced new approaches in design thinking, strategic market fit and business commercialization.

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Inceodia

JULY 18, 2018

Launched 10 years ago, their online education program has been ranked top 10 in the nation for three straight years. We launched each of the Prepare, Explore and Converge phases with an applied learning workshop that introduced new approaches in design thinking, strategic market fit and business commercialization.

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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. even though your doctor was simply following a systematic process of elimination by unpacking your symptoms (educated guessing). Marketer, Jay Abraham, calls this phenomenon the Strategy of Pre-eminence.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 25, 2023

As the urgency to understand and leverage social capital gains a stronger foothold across education, industry, and research, advances in measurement are taking off on multiple fronts. But surveys can often lean institution-centric, rather than student-centric. Check out the survey methodology here.)

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The BMI Lab Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The market for impact investing is exploding: growing 50 times in five years from USD nine billion in 2013 to USD 502 billion in 2018 , which is a hundred times more than investments in Virtual Reality (VR, AR). Soon, the main driver for innovation will no longer be the technology, the market, or unmet customer needs.

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Taivara

MARCH 22, 2017

Finding a Viable Market. Time and again we see both start-up founders and major corporations invest huge amounts of time and money in a product, only to find that there isn’t an adequate market for it or that it’s way too difficult to compete. TIGER Talk: Seizing the Right Market: Calculating the Potentia.

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CMOE

APRIL 12, 2023

In today’s digital age, organizations lean heavily on eLearning to elevate performance and accommodate remote/hybrid working solutions. And it’s not going to stop anytime soon: Research notes that the global eLearning market was estimated at $332.6 Team members can study and learn at their own pace. billion in 2022.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 18, 2015

Perhaps the most common question we hear is, “How do you get started doing Lean Startup in the enterprise?” We always get a kick discussing enterprise lean startup challenges with The Lean Startup author Eric Ries, so welcomed the opportunity to do so during his recent Kickstarter campaign. It made such an impression on him.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

OCTOBER 16, 2016

You need to follow a Lean Startup process and test your idea with customers. You’d love to steal talent from marketing, engineering, and sales … but your colleagues would leave garbage on your desk. You want top designers, developers, content marketers, and product managers with 3-5 years of experience.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Circling back to risk and innovation, let’s look at what risk means for innovators, or in other words, people that are trying to introduce something new (anything from products and services to process improvements) to the market. How will the market respond to it? For example: How can you make your idea happen?

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

The learnings from that session instantly changed the way we run our ideation sessions -- both internally and externally with our clients. Packaging Engineer, Kraft Foods "Idea Champions' ability to teach my colleagues and me how to facilitate brainstorming sessions changed the future of our business.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 18, 2022

Focus on the former and let setbacks be educational parts of the journey; just another important step on the path to the win. When traditional lenders and fintechs offer products and services tailored to women, they’re not just supporting individual business owners — they are making an impact in local communities, job markets, and economies.

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The BMI Lab Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

In his Entrepreneurs Talk podcast, Charles interviews entrepreneurs to understand what they do, learn from and share their experiences. If you want to find out more about our lean startup approach, check out our Launchpad. We think this is just the beginning. Our colleague Charles understood this trend already in 2018. Stay tuned!

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Having a background in Sales and Marketing for global and start-up companies within the IT sector in the past, he has worked targeting customers in US and Sweden with considerable success. Quality Management – Lean, Six Sigma, TQM, ISO. Areas of expertise. Project Management – IPMA certified. Social Entrepreneurship.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

When should it be used: Any organisation that wants to enable their staff who have an idea to “try it out” or do an initial market experiment. Put simply, it theorises that small companies can disrupt the market of large companies by releasing a new version of an offering which appeals more to a subset of the customers.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Building Champions Building Champions offers podcasts, books, and a leadership blog to enable professionals to be educated and motivated to consistently improve. BetterUp BetterUp® leans on science and technology to identify a personalized coaching path for leaders and companies. CoachFirm CoachFirm leans on the S.O.M.E.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 28, 2021

One of the key discoveries, we made, almost ten years ago, when we relocated to Israel, was the power of its innovation eco-system – the result of a collaboration between the state, venture capital firms, successful entrepreneurs, educational system, business system, incubators, and accelerators. Education and learning interventions.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 20, 2022

You can actually start with either of those, but one should take a big step backward to learn more about the actual opportunity.). Strength might come from technology invention, distribution, raw materials, or dominance in a particular market. Guardrails that define your sandbox are established broadly by the markets you’re already in.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

At the heart of this transformation mindset is Lean Innovation. You also need your internal champions for innovation - the coaches - to educate and guide teams on how to work in this new way, and the systems in place to support their continuous development. But, that’s not all there is to it.

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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.”. Unfortunately the Build, Measure, Learn diagram is the cause of that confusion. Build, Measure, Learn sounds pretty simple.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

Most big companies struggle to compete in existing markets. At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues. Form a monthly meetup (like a happy hour) for all employees interested in design thinking and lean startup ideas.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

The memo that started it all sounds more like modern product marketing than product management, but your mileage may vary. The primary function was to serve as the bridge between Engineering and Marketing. Ken Beer was the Director of Product Management and reported into the Marketing department. It’s merely released.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 24, 2018

Much of the last 30 years of management thought has been consumed with improving exploitation skill - Six Sigma, Lean, Outsourcing and right-sizing are all efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the exploiting portion of your business. Product development cycle times are now longer than shelf lives. Finally, do it now.

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Innovation 360 Group

APRIL 3, 2017

Having a background in Sales and Marketing for global and start-up companies within the IT sector in the past, he has worked targeting customers in US and Sweden with considerable success. Quality Management – Lean, Six Sigma, TQM, ISO. Areas of expertise. Project Management – IPMA certified. Social Entrepreneurship.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Note that what my clients are asking for is to create an innovation capacity that outlasts a product need, or market gap, or executive team member. After all, most (probably 90%) of all innovation projects undertaken in large corporations are reactive projects trying to respond to a market threat or competitive move.

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Leanstack

JANUARY 10, 2020

Problem 2: Spending more time educating versus accelerating startups Once a cohort is underway, that’s when the hard work for getting startups pitch-ready begins. So you spend time filling that gap with education. You line up a curriculum on business modeling, lean startup, metrics, and pitching skills.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In last month’s blog , we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration, and described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed sustainable innovative workplace culture change.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 2, 2020

Too often we spent time marketing ourselves, and then asking “ why – are we here to solve problems or we are window dressing? ”. Google is an amazing place to work for: you’ve a consistent paycheck, generous benefits packages, and perks like free gourmet food, massages, discounts on education courses – you name it.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 4, 2021

It’s no secret that charming marketing grabs customers’ attention faster and for longer than traditional marketing means. It might seem romantic, but providing delightful experiences for your clientele, combining emotions and finance, can outpace other more traditional companies in the financial market. Business 4.0

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