Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 19, 2016

That’s what a team working on anti-scaling technology reported back early in the Lean LaunchPad process. The first issue is that the customer development process is different in business-to-business settings than it is when we’re targeting end users. The team eventually ran into two bunches of people with more promise.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 5, 2021

As we leave the COVID lockdown and the economy picks up steam again, I think many businesses will recognize a need for more generalists on their team. Not just an engineer, not just an electrical engineer, but a hardware specialist electrical engineer. And the same goes for any number of degrees or areas of study.

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Traditional health benefits administrators have bad networks. In the increasingly remote work landscape, how can corporate leaders leverage online collaboration tools to foster a more inclusive and positive work environment? How do you achieve effective collaboration across time zones?

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

This shift was powered by the defining trait of our species, our human creativity, which is at the heart of all creative problem-solving endeavors, where innovation is the engine of growth, no matter, what the context.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 23, 2023

Additionally, fractional CxOs are often more flexible in terms of their availability and can be brought on for specific projects or initiatives as needed, giving portfolio companies the ability to scale their executive team as their business grows. This could include areas such as sales and marketing, product development, or human resources.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The rise of online ratings and reviews, social media where product stories are shared (both good and bad), and the overwhelming amount of information means that grabbing attention in this endless fight for eyeballs is a daunting task. Years ago we were working with a massive retail franchise, teaching them how to run experiments.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

The Engineering Stakeholder Interview. Engineering stakeholders. Try to speak with engineering management as well as the design engineer(s), if such a role exists; it’s seldom a good idea to involve the entire engineering team at this point. Programmers and engineers may initially be wary of designers.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Mentors see themselves as people developers. Learning how best to communicate and pitch their potential projects; and. How to implement quickly once approved and funded. For example, a medical equipment manufacturer helped the engineers with new product ideas with their pitches. The M entor Role in I nnovation .

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 6, 2017

Like so many other organizational leaders in China at that time, I had a very young team and we needed to skill-up. Being a rather seasoned innovation manager, I pulled out my innovation toolbox and got to work training my organization on how to use the tools. I needed to help my team and leaders cultivate an Innovation Mindset.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 15, 2022

Many companies have leap frogged ahead during down cycles because they planned not only how to survive, but more importantly on how to thrive. People need these essential services and products during the good and bad times as well. All these step-by-step processes after idea generation eliminate bad design.

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KindlingApp

OCTOBER 19, 2015

For an illustration of the versatility idea management techniques can offer to even a small team, I polled around the Kindling office to see how our teams use Kindling internally. Kindling is a key component of our workflow on team Product, Quality + Support. This, in turn, helps our team, processes, and product evolve.”.

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Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

There’s no such thing as a bad idea – only an unfinished one. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Many innovation teams are so concerned with being agile and entrepreneurial that they spend precious little time understanding where to point their efforts. Bungle team composition.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

We needed to be out talking to the people we serve, and developing programs that were unique to our city’s needs,” McAdoo says. Now that many employees have been trained in Lean Innovation , the City of Hayward is redefining how to govern and certifying internal coaches to support employees in working this way.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 2, 2022

Now one thing I want to make clear is this: If you are looking for advice on how to get rich quick, this is NOT the advice that you are looking for. This requires you actually spending the time figuring out what customers would find valuable enough to pay for, and then execute and develop, test and launch that. Check it out.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 3, 2021

Every company and every management team wants an occasional innovation. What management team doesn't want the next iPhone in their segment or industry? Rather, most companies are built to be efficiency engines, keeping a constant, steady state of efficient operations and predictable outcomes.

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Stephen Shapiro

APRIL 21, 2020

Back then, companies would use software to automate bad processes, speeding up bad results. This is the modern-day version of automating bad processes. Sometimes these are real-world problems that teams need to solve using the tools. It is also an opportunity to discuss how to continue making progress after the meeting.

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Acuvate

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

And if these decisions are driven by poor data practices, then it causes more harm than good. By meeting the quality standards of good data, organizations develop better control over the outcomes of these decisions. Let’s explore how to ensure that your business’ data meets the quality standards.

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Rmukesh Gupta

OCTOBER 1, 2021

50 years ago, on 1st October 1971, the first CT scan let doctors see inside a living skull – thanks to an eccentric engineer at the Beatles’ record company. In the mid-1960s, British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield pondered whether one could detect hidden areas in Egyptian pyramids by capturing cosmic rays that passed through unseen voids.

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Matthew May

MAY 22, 2015

There is good news and bad news in this. The bad news is how many internal functions don’t think strategy applies to them. It is rarely explicit in laying out a winning aspiration and clear where-to-play and how-to-win choices. He gathers his best thinkers to think through a strategy.

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IdeaScale

MAY 23, 2018

Elementary School Math aside, when the IdeaScale team approached us about doing a joint marketing effort, I got excited. With the reason being that we at Ever Evolving , LOVE this tool and their team. People take classes at the gym or go to CrossFit to be around people and use their motivation to persevere in moments of weakness.

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MSSBTI

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

How would you adjust to transferring from a self contained organization with a command and control leadership style to one with a distributed leadership style? How would you adapt? How would you prepare? And how would you be received? This led to poor team dynamics and organization throughout the submarine.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

Two methods, Design Thinking and Customer Development (the core of the Lean Startup) provide the tactical day-to-day process of how to turn ideas into products. . Customer Development versus Design Thinking. One of these processes is how startups versus companies learn from customers.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 22, 2016

In our post, How to Innovate: What Innovation Really Is , we discussed how focusing on learning before executing is vital to innovation. In lean startup, before beginning to test solution ideas, one focuses on developing empathy through customer development interviews. They require two separate teams.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It is what will drive an enterprise’s creative engine that is the source of long-term, future growth Most of today’s large corporate enterprises treat strategy, R&D, and innovation as separate and distinct functions – worthy of specialized teams, segmented funding, reporting structures and operational charters. It’s their choice.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

For instance, an engineer who can develop brilliant new product designs but who can’t effectively communicate the value of those designs to others (or collaborate with design teams to bring those ideas to life) is doing himself and his organization a major disservice. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

For instance, an engineer who can develop brilliant new product designs but who can’t effectively communicate the value of those designs to others (or collaborate with design teams to bring those ideas to life) is doing himself and his organization a major disservice. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Chris was a Senior Product Manager at LexisNexis before founding his own firm and helped offer a firsthand account of fostering healthy collaboration between legal, product and innovation teams at LexisNexis when it comes to rapid experimentation. Innovation requires that people work differently, and different is bad. They shouldn’t.

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Yet2

MARCH 17, 2020

The talk was a vivid reminder that the projects we work on at yet2 , from cutting-edge energy storage systems to AR/VR systems for emergency responders to figuring out how to do laundry in space, are still novel to the rest of the world. These technology developments will enable approximately 4+ billion people to come online by 2025.

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Inceodia

JANUARY 27, 2019

At HP, we developed technologies using the “next bench” method of customer needs discovery. Asking the guy sitting next to me what he needed worked as long as I was developing products for other software engineers or just-out-of-college-20-somethings-living-in-the-US-pacific-northwest. Ready to Upgrade? The world is waiting!

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The Human Factor

MARCH 28, 2018

Winning product managers define good products that can be executed with a strong effort and keep the team focused on them. In contrast, weak product managers vaguely define products that can’t be executed. They are constantly considering “how can we?” The engineering team is incompetent.” “I’m

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IdeaScale

JUNE 14, 2017

We recently spoke with Michel to hear his thoughts on how to successfully foster a culture of innovation within a company. My career began with a small company in the entertainment industry that developed the first large screen stadium video displays for U2 and other leading music acts. Tell us a bit about your background.

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Innovation 360

JULY 27, 2017

During this webinar which is hosted by IAOIP the leading international membership-based organization dedicated to the professional development of individuals working in the field of innovation, Magnus Penker, international thought leader and author, will dive into how to assess and measure innovation.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

The Engineering Stakeholder Interview. Note that it’s as important for in-house teams to ask most of these questions as it is for consultants; you may know one answer, but do you know this particular stakeholder’s answer? There may be variation due to a poor understanding of who the users are. Understanding the Business.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Many companies are stuck with a legacy of fossilized architectures and all that entails, including the need for extensive maintenance and problems with development to keep up with changing markets. Often engineering-talented companies have invested in customized solutions, a development that is reflected for example in Industry 4.0

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Acuvate

JANUARY 20, 2019

To manage developing business needs, distributed teams, and a complex threat environment, we must embrace new digital technologies and maintain a collaborative modern digital workplace. Develop your intranet as a go-to place for the latest data and organisations information. Read More: Top 8 Digital Workplace Trends for 2019.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Co-Authored by Heather Hiscox and Amelia Klawon Get the full case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. When the focus is on survival, pausing to think about how to work smarter instead of harder seems outside of the scope of possibility.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

For guidance on developing strategic thinking within your leadership team, you may find value in 10 ways to get your leadership team thinking strategically and building the best business strategies. To foster innovation: Implement systems for employees to submit and develop new ideas.

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