Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Anyone who has ever attended Lean Startup Conference (previously known as Lean Startup Week) in the past knows that this annual event regularly features invigorating speakers that divulge the newest insights and innovations in modern management for a wide array of industries and company types.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Lean is Dead. Long Live Lean! Twenty four years ago, James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos introduced our world to a modern understanding of the concept of Lean Production. Lean Production was, and still is, a profoundly powerful management philosophy for the mass production of uniform goods.

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Values Centered Innovation

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Jolt #28: Lean into myths, not just methods. You implement the solution and celebrate what you achieved and learned along the way . You’ll notice that values such as commitment to higher goals, noble intentions, empathy, caring, serving others, creativity, integrity, and learning are enabling factors embedded in the process.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

When you select a speaker whose expertise aligns with your company’s goals, you create a unique opportunity for growth and learning. Demonstrating how to embrace failure as a learning opportunity. Embracing Failure and Learning A culture that accepts failure as a stepping stone to success is more likely to innovate effectively.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Demonstrate engagement. Ask questions with the intention of learning from your teammates. Respond verbally to show engagement (“That makes sense. Be aware of your body language; make sure to lean towards or face the person speaking. Be present and focus on the conversation (e.g., close your laptop during meetings).

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

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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Christensen Institute

APRIL 16, 2024

Social media platforms make money on engagement, and even more money on addiction. Build family engagement to buoy collective action Schools and families are going to have to work together when it comes to a hard reset on tech use and social media. That won’t be easy. We also have to play offense.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Experiential Learning Accelerates Innovation. Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. New Study: Drawing is the Fastest, Most Effective Way to Learn. I read with interest an article stating that drawing accelerates learning. They don’t know how to scaffold a learning experience. The reason?

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Lean Innovation Case Study: Bringing a New Product to Market Don’t have time to read the whole article? This is the story of how Edmunds.com used Lean Innovation practices to make their mission a reality. Eventually, they determined that Lean Innovation principles would be the best way to tackle this uncertainty.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 28, 2024

In this scenario, how should leaders go about putting together a strategy for their orgs and drive engagement within their teams. The importance of understanding soft trends and hard trends and learning the skill of foresight. How does Damien learn and continue to stay current. You can find more information about Damien here.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Learn more about design thinking in this guide. 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.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 29, 2019

Innovation leaders need to identify and engage stakeholders early and often because these influential team members have the ability to support, influence, or kill a project based on their beliefs about what a team might be working on and how the project affects their own goals.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

Sharing in collaborative arrangements enables the potential for improved operational productivity, and shared application development, tapping into a wider ongoing customer engagement and skill enhancements for all involved to gain from. The primary goal is to develop and implement innovative solutions to address complex societal challenges.

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

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. It is important to focus on learning in this stage. Prototype?—?Test

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

They are a call to action and engage those listening to the narrative to make a difference. “We need to seek the opportunity to learn and grow, the possibilities of things to be discovered, not the certainties to be recovered.” The need is to encourage engagement for them to see their possibilities.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

They are a call to action and engage those listening to the narrative to make a difference. “We need to seek the opportunity to learn and grow, the possibilities of things to be discovered, not the certainties to be recovered.” The need is to encourage engagement for them to see their possibilities.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Our individual problem often lies in the time we have to discover, learn and explore new and different things. We do need to ‘lean in’ on many specialists and experts to help us, not just business consultants! Develop a positive and proactive growth mindset and embrace failures as learning opportunities.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

This (economic) reality has highlighted the limitations of existing innovation systems, underscoring the necessity for a more efficient and effective approach to innovation management, as Frank Mattes and Dennis Boeckler suggested during a recent Innov8rs Learning Lab session. Most of these systems trace back to the Lean Startup.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 16, 2016

Part 6 in The Lean Startup Series The day before we started our first Lean LaunchPad program with the CSIRO, Bill McKeague and I talked strategy over coffee. I often refer to that first one as our Minimum Viable Lean LaunchPad. It was, of course, classic Build-Measure-Learn. We didn’t get there on the first try.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

So much more can be accomplished when organizations embrace the unknown, shift their perspective to focus on their different customers, learn from valuable insights gained via empathy and experimentation, and ignite the innovative spirit within their culture. These challenges, while significant, can be overcome.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The belief that lean management principles will get the innovation out of the door quicker, has been one of those management adoptions that often trick us into believing we are achieving more than we actually are. Leans slows down and becomes increasingly burdened by fat being layered on, further down the innovation execution process.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 4, 2024

Despite these growing proof points, efforts to improve education lean on mental models, theories of change, and investment strategies that routinely ignore the social side of opportunity. Innovations making career-connected learning more student- (versus employer-) centric. But individuals need more than just skills.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

You might learn something useful in the process. Engagement serves as a sanity check for what’s important. Engagement serves as the basis for continuous improvement. Engagement serves as an expression of respect. Help people in the ways they need help. And, pay attention. Coming Full Circle.

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Business and Tech

APRIL 8, 2022

“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. Koslow notes that companies need to build trust in order to foster employee engagement. You need the baseline: psychological safety,” he notes. Beyond work.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

We are at the cusp or already into significant changes to how the world, society and we as individuals will manage or engage going into the future. ” and need to encourage activism to “collide and build”, to “network and engage”, and “relationship builds” around a common purpose and desire.

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Planview

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you didn’t get to attend these engaging sessions, read on to get the scoop! While most of the world’s largest companies are attempting a Lean-Agile transformation in one way or another, not all of them are succeeding. Becoming Agile and Beyond.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It has led to the rise of product management, transformed support functions, influenced product design, and reshaped how organizations engage with customers. The lessons learned during the COVID-driven surge in remote work emphasize the importance of finding balance among the various facets of life.

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Innovators Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

While many leaders invest in innovation when times are good, it’s valuable to learn lessons from the lean times and leverage them to help us move forward, regardless of the economic environment. So rather than forget about the pain and move on, all of us have an opportunity to learn and remember personal lessons from the hard times.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Body language says a lot about how engaged you are. Even if they’re not looking at you directly, you can show engagement with “open” body language such as sitting up and leaning forward. To learn more about strategies to spur innovation, join our newsletter ! Pay Attention To Non-Verbal Cues. Focus On The Speaker.

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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

Meeting facilitators and Learning & Development professionals must evaluate these challenges and identify the best practices to overcome them to create the most valuable experience for the participants. With participants live on camera, you can see levels of engagement and how participants are reacting to your facilitation.

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Planview

MAY 9, 2017

At some point the lean practice came to make sense to you. You began your lean journey. You found yourself rapidly ascending the learning curve. At some point you were surprised to learn that, in the past year, your team and you had facilitated a couple hundred value stream mapping exercises. What Comes Next?

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Inceodia

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The outcome from human centered innovation is increased learning about the customers you serve and how you can solve the problems they are facing. The Human Centered Innovation Learning Loop is an exploration into discovering customer problems and potential solutions, with knowledge as the desired outcome. Brainstorm solutions.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 28, 2022

Schools and programs may elect to take stock of students’ extended networks in an effort to: Identify informal support networks that students can lean on to help drive persistence in school or programs, by asking students who they know outside of school who could help them accomplish their educational or career goals. Now’s the time.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 16, 2024

That lack of confidence can hamper the best efforts of career offices – if students don’t know how to ask faculty for help, approach prospective employers at a job fair, or lean on one another for support, simply brokering access to employers or alumni will not yield results. There is also an emerging market of courses and learning.

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Econic

APRIL 13, 2022

Our first impact report With the recognition that what we do is interconnected with people, communities, and our planet, we have learned that considering impact requires us to embrace complexity and nuance. Much like our consulting practices, we leaned into a loose framework to build a customized approach to transformation.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. A new book by Silicon Valley tech veteran and innovation advocate Ann Mei Chang, Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good explores the unique challenges that can deter social innovation. Corporate philanthropy. Benefit corporations. Sounds ideal.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

MARCH 8, 2024

it was like drinking from a firehose learning everything from how to wear my uniform, to the chain of command, and how to tell military time. I recognized that I had been using knowledge management (KM) practices with my Navy teams so that it was easy to pick up and learn the formal terms in KM which is what I consider my area of expertise.

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