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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

The tool and techniques that stand out for me, in their contribution, value and my use have been, in no specific order, cover the jobs-to-be-done , ten types of innovation, crossing the chasm , blue ocean, business model canvas and value proposition canvas, building core competencies , lean start-up, agile and design sprints.

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Embracing a Continuous Improvement Practice for Effective Ideation

Planview

People who apply a practice to their work—a design thinking practice or a lean practice, for example—talk about being on a journey. lean on occasion, Six Sigma less frequently). Where are you on engaging your front-line employees? In my work with clients I come across people who seek to embrace continuous improvement.

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10 Popular Innovation Exercises to Try

InnovationTraining.org

Lean startup method Lean Startup is another source of many activities and exercises in a customer-focused approach to innovation. In the same wheelhouse as design thinking (and agile), a lean startup approach offers a way to quickly ideate, test, and create prototypes. Learn more about design thinking in this guide.

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How to Weaponise Category Expertise with Yes, If.

Flying Fish Lab

Immediately after an Ideation Session, we tend to feel good because of the collaboration and shared risk-taking we experienced to generate innovative possibilities. by leaning into Category Expertise. He kept employees engaged and contributing by not shooting down suggestions. So how do others do it?

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Customer Experience, Associate Engagement, and Continuous Improvement: A Virtuous Circle

Planview

Today, serving as Chief Solutions Architect at Spigit, I have had the opportunity of late to interview our clients who have applied collaborative ideation with their front-line employees. To understand the connection that clients make between collaborative ideation, continuous improvement, and the customer experience. Retail employees.

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It’s Time To Upgrade Your Innovation Management System

Innov8rs

These systems are based on a teachable process and the leadership and people/culture infrastructure, which engage staff and foster collaboration. Most of these systems trace back to the Lean Startup. Their systems work effectively and efficiently, but they are also agile enough to seize short-term opportunities.

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Three Tools I Use to Enhance Customer Engagement and Innovate Strategically

Fehmida Kapadia

We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn. At this stage of the process, I like to use Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas.