Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Challenge: A giant problem in media (and in every industry, really) is that in many organizations, there’s not enough time and space created for employees to engage with customers on a consistent basis. Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. What’s an Innovation Sprint?

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards ( NCARB ), a national non-profit organization, develops standards for licensure and credentialing of architects.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

The best of these will guide AT&T's development for years to come." - Robert Rubin, Product Development, AT&T. Several of the ideas we came up with in the Idea Champions session are being developed into concrete projects that are looking like very profitable opportunities." - Rudy Villa, VP, GE/RCA Licensing. "As

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Once upon a time, in the heyday of the Industrial Age, a young marketing, design, or engineering student would graduate from college and go to work for a large corporation, slowly melding into the steady, rhythmic din of bureaucratically-managed, organizationally-structured execution work in product development.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

When should it be used: Any company which has or is thinking of building an Innovation Team / Department / Lab / Skunkworks should be aware of this concept of Dual Innovation and make sure your teams have the skills and permission to engage in it. Allocating small initial budgets to get to the next stage in a lifecycle early on (e.g.

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Planview

MARCH 3, 2016

This was the mantra of Facebook in its early days, as is the case with most startups that subscribe to the iterative product development method popularized by the Lean Startup. This increases employee engagement and gives them a creative outlet and ownership over the company’s investment in innovation. Methodologies.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2015

But what we should be asking, in much the same way the "lean startup" folks are asking about bare essentials and "minimum viable products", is: what is the minimum investment it takes to make my (team, product group, line of business, company) more innovative? And of course time for the product development process.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Have you noticed that the Lean Startup concept has been getting more and more attention lately? Which is all a good thing really, as it creates the occasion for us to examine what is the "best" way to launch new brands, products, and companies. What's In Your Sandbox? Sep 04, 2014 | Anthony Mills. Why is this?

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

In 1991, Don Reinertsen and Preston Smith introduced the world to the "Fuzzy Front End" of product development. In both cases, the work being described was work that preceded the formal product development process. Welcome to the Mid Zone of Innovation. Sept 27, 2015 | Anthony Mills.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

Here's what Idea Champions' clients have to say about the value they've received from engaging our brainstorm facilitation services. The best of these will guide AT&T's development for years to come." - Robert Rubin, CCS Product Development, AT&T. "As

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages. Learn to embrace disruption through collaboration.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Identify critical follow-up engagements to make sure everyone is heard. There is a stark difference between the decision the executive leadership is leaning towards and how the rest of the company sees things. What major problems does the North American office see with new product development?

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

If we increase employee engagement, increase retention, are able to recruit the best next generation of talent, etc. In that case, we shift to a focus on fostering a culture where the seeds of originality are sown in every department, ranging from product development to HR, finance, and sales. Is there a better way?’

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Nearly all that training is for dedicated innovation teams , or employees who are focused on new product development. Engaged support for strategic and tactical innovation initiatives developed by others.

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Integrative Innovation

JULY 21, 2014

On the other hand, by engaging with established firms, a startup acquires capabilities to develop and scale their business, e.g. supply chain and production capacity, sales and marketing channels and last but not least an existing customer base. But what kind of engagment with new ventures should be pursued?

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

As the eyes and ears of the parent corporation, a new Innovation Outpost’s first priority is to “sense” innovations by actively engaging with the Innovation Cluster. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. Is the Outpost product officially part of a corporate Innovation Portfolio? see the previous post.).

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

As the eyes and ears of the parent corporation, a new Innovation Outpost’s first priority is to “sense” innovations by actively engaging with the Innovation Cluster. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. Is the Outpost product officially part of a corporate Innovation Portfolio? see the previous post.).

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CorporateIntel

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

If you’ve spent any time with me in product development, you know I like to quote the sometimes overused phrase, “People in companies get stuff done in spite of org charts, not because of them.” I’ll confess to that in a moment, but the title of this article has likely already given away my leaning.

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Mike Shipulski

MAY 10, 2017

With manufacturing and product development, it’s all about Gantt charts and hitting dates. And if it’s a new system, even the basic rules of engagement are unknown, never mind the changing strength of the interactions. If you’re asked to use Fishbone diagrams to solve the problem three or four ways, you’re not doing innovation.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

This world, too, has made its contributions – the startup enterprise, Eric Ries' lean startup model, the minimal viable product (MVP), and – very importantly – a massive ecosystem of startup communities around the world all supporting and rooting for one another.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

As the eyes and ears of the parent corporation, a new Innovation Outpost’s first priority is to “sense” innovations by actively engaging with the Innovation Cluster. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. Is the Outpost product officially part of a corporate Innovation Portfolio? see the previous post.).

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Integrative Innovation

APRIL 7, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages. Learn to embrace disruption through collaboration.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

In a world where Wall Street gives a premium to companies that are considered ‘innovative’, the incentive to engage in innovation theater is sometimes irresistible. Most corporate business functions – new product development (NPD), quality, sales, R&D, marketing, etc.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Support your innovators Provide training in iterative, experiment-rich approaches to innovation and new product development. Don’t try to kick-off 10 pilots or experiments at once or try to engage your entire organization in the effort. because most things don’t go to plan! Start small and expand.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

As the eyes and ears of the parent corporation, a new Innovation Outpost’s first priority is to “sense” innovations by actively engaging with the Innovation Cluster. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. Is the Outpost product officially part of a corporate Innovation Portfolio? see the previous post.).

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hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

The company created an experience “around” the movie and engaged its buyer compellingly and completely. That is the lesson learned at Lego — just in time,” says David Robertson, Professor of Practice teaching Innovation and Product Development at Wharton. Controlled innovation has clearly worked. Source: [link].

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 12, 2015

One of the riskiest assumptions for any new product or feature is that customers actually want it. The client sought to gather feedback about employee engagement and tasked this research team with distributing a survey to the entire company of more than 20,000 global employees.

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