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?” Practitioners want to figure out how to get leaders involved; leaders worry about the level of effort required to implement a top-down rollout. This team was very afraid. Here are 4 great principles to get started: 1.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 19, 2016

Part 7 in The Lean Startup Series We interviewed the plant manager and he said that they didn’t have any problems with scale, but we know that they do! That’s what a team working on anti-scaling technology reported back early in the Lean LaunchPad process. Can you tell me about the last time that happened?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. The result will be: a new, Lean version of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Here’s how.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

” The program manager was part of the Engineering department. The primary function was to serve as the bridge between Engineering and Marketing. It was not unusual to find PM’s who reported into Engineering at the time, the two cases perhaps reflecting the above origin stories. But don’t ask how many when we did.)

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

About the Episode Elijah Eilert is talking to Peter LePiane about innovation within large organizations. Peter opens up about his background in science and computer science, his Startup journey and how he nearly founded Airbnb and Shopify. 05:23] Peter’s Background Peter’s background as a software engineer.

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Planview

JUNE 16, 2022

To help drive change and advance strategic objectives, organizations turn to enterprise-wide portfolio planning and delivery solutions such as Planview Enterprise One ® , which enables strategy execution, project portfolio management, lean portfolio management, product portfolio management, and enterprise architecture. Lavanya J.,

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Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

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. Everyone gets excited about a shiny idea, or a cool pilot.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

OCTOBER 16, 2016

So you hire McKinsey to do a 3 month study for your Executive Team, right? 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. Talks about ideas and not action.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 24, 2019

In my continuing series of posts about lessons learned from corporate innovation, today I'd like to expand on the idea of innovation language, and go even further. Last Friday I wrote about the importance of defining a common language for innovation , so that people within a company are talking and working on the same things.

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Planview

MAY 14, 2018

In listening to Shingles at Ignite, I found myself thinking about the economist Ronald Coase. It might cost less to have an in-house accounts payable group—or an in-house sales team—than to hire such expertise as needed. The post The Lean, Hyper-Vigilant Organization: Reflections from Ignite 2018 appeared first on Spigit.

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Innov8rs

AUGUST 22, 2023

It’s easy to say “we need a growth engine”. To succeed with corporate venture building, lean on one of the main resources you already have: your people. Based on his experience as a corporate innovation lead and startup founder, Christian believes in talent and teams first. The question really is – how? What are the threats? ·

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We used AI to identify the most frequently asked questions about design thinking. What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. Prototype: In this step, the team creates a rough model of the solution to test and evaluate.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In today’s shifting workplace dynamics, marked by remote work, global teams, and an increasing emphasis on emotional well-being, this balance becomes even more paramount. Empathy-Driven Leadership: The Heartbeat of Connectivity As the business landscape evolves, so does the understanding of what truly drives people and teams to excel.

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Planview

MAY 6, 2022

With LeanKit, the company’s globally distributed teams are able to connect strategy to delivery, plan and replan with agility, and empower their teams to focus on what really matters: Improving the lives of the patients they serve. “[External teams] …had no clue what was happening. ” Sr. .”

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

…Accelerating Teams Through Assessment and Training. It’s a sad fact of organizational life that only a small percentage of teams achieve high function. Most teams muddle along, and get the essential things done — or not. And, all teams can improve, with training. Teams Improve With Momentum Training.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

As sometime director of Design at Infragistics, I personally have had first hand experience trying to integrate UX into an existing, established Agile engineering process with large-ish teams. It turns out that Jeff Gothelf, author of Lean UX (the book I’m reviewing here) has also faced the same challenges. Enter the book.

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Planview

AUGUST 12, 2022

And so is the mindset around productivity and team structure. But greater emphasis is being placed on moving from project to product, which focuses on enabling teams to become end-to-end experts. Moving from project to product is a fundamental shift in how teams are organized and how work gets done. Stage 3: Expansion.

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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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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

During that time, we have worked with just about every industry on planet earth and every kind of mindset. Brush, Chair: Entrepreneurship Division, Babson College "The Idea Champions team brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation. What follows is a sampling of testimonials from our satisfied clients.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

As part of our recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed this (and more) with Frank Mattes (CEO at Lean Scaleup), Sean Sheppard (Managing Partner at U+), and Susana Jurado (Head of Wayra Builder at Telefónica). It’s no secret, business building is a team effort. Their role is not about filling out canvases.

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Leanstack

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Fabi is a Cisco engineer and an avid supporter of “Running Lean,” which is how we first met over a Skype call. Following this trail led him to the engineer behind the project — Thanos Kontogiannis. Cisco used the simulator during offsite all-hands employee events for team building.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 28, 2021

And what has this got to do with teaming? Reinforcing and validating the importance and role of collaboration, where a range of new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed innovative workplace culture changes, have emerged. Realm of the creative team. What makes Israel so innovative?

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This can be achieved through regular team meetings, suggestion boxes, and an open-door policy by the management. It’s been so successful that it has inspired the Lean Manufacturing movement worldwide. This resistance often stems from a fear of losing control or uncertainty about the new dynamics of decision-making.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 7, 2017

I shared my current thinking about innovation in companies and government agencies. 14:49 Engineers built products for themselves and the “next bench” 15:27 Why MBA’s avoided Silicon Valley. 19:17 HBR and the Lean Startup and corporations. 20:09 Why Lean fails in corporations. 22:0o The team.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Perez outlines the dynamics of technological and economic change across five revolutions, and she talks about how new technologies start out by fitting into small parts of the existing economy: …they grow restricted to whatever uses fit well in the existing fabric of the economy before their most important uses are even surmised.

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Matthew May

DECEMBER 4, 2015

I caught up with Dan to ask him a few questions about organizational fitness. Much of what you write is what I would categorize as “lean thinking,” so I’m wondering if organizational fitness is like human fitness in that you be “lean” but not necessarily “fit”?

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

The purpose for the model was to help businesses think about their need to develop new revenue sources over time. Businesses that have incorporated the adapted horizon model often become confused about the nature of innovation and how new revenue sources might be created. It’s simply about “ incremental improvement ”.

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Matthew May

JUNE 26, 2015

Now chief engineer at JPL, he has a significantly bigger title, significantly less hair, and significantly more white in his beard than when I first met him, undoubtedly as a result of his almost 35 years of intense involvement with high-profile missions in pursuit of JPL’s mission to push the outer edge of space exploration.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks. It’s about the cultural basics underlying them, and all innovation. Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. There is no innovation without creativity. A mandate to innovate.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Despite ongoing challenges in the economic and business environment, I’ve heard from many people that they had aggressive metrics for themselves and their teams this year and expect the same in the new year. Perhaps teams posit that adding more features will accomplish the objective. Think about sales people.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Rick’s article just gave me the chance to go back and review my thoughts and relate his excellent suggestions and thinking into some of the work I have written about in this area. That enables both teams to do what they do best and create a symbiotic relationship”. Reflecting and Validating. Comprehensive Tool Kit.

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Destination Innovation

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Initially they had very little intelligence about the situation. An engineer at an Israeli company that had bid to build the new terminal at Entebbe airport came forward with plans of the building in which the hostages were held. This was the breakthrough that Barak and his team needed. He changed his mind and at 18.30

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Anaqua

APRIL 18, 2018

That stayed with her and, after five years as an engineer at IBM, she decided to go to law school. I have participated in Engineers’ Week by going to middle schools to talk about my experiences as an engineer and patent attorney, and help the students be an engineer for a day with group design challenges.

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Open Innovation EU

MARCH 30, 2016

The course was based on the following model: The following list is a selection of the business cases they found, mostly based on the Lean Startup, Lean Enterprise, Corporate Entrepreneurship and agile/Scrum – all available freely and online for use at your disposal, so I decided to share them with you. jaguar/lean-production/.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

Strategy is often made by elite teams and can thus be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces. By adopting an open strategy, leadership teams can access diverse external knowledge sources and become aware of their biases, while also building buy-in to accelerate execution.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Their executives and management teams recognize the importance of innovation, and even include innovation as top three priorities or as a component of the annual strategy. The first team wants to sustain existing products and profits and not ruffle feathers.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 19, 2019

Learn more about what you can do right now to improve product portfolios and create a balance of near-term and long-term investment in new sources of growth. You talk a lot about innovation as an interdependent system. There’s a lot of highly interdependent moving pieces in that engine, if you will. Who are you? What do you do?

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