Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

For the enterprise world, the rallying cry is similar to the classic American Revolution meme, “Join or Die.” To effectively drive enterprise innovation requires effort at every level of the organization, and it requires alignment among many moving parts. Except in today’s age, the corporate chorus says, “Innovate, or Die!”

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Kainexus

DECEMBER 27, 2021

John Shook, president of the Lean Enterprise Institute , is among those who describe Lean or the Toyota Production System as being neither top-down management nor bottom-up management. It's not about the boss telling people what to do, and it's not a system where employees are empowered to do whatever they want.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

For the enterprise world, the rallying cry is similar to the classic American Revolution meme, “Join or Die.” To effectively drive enterprise innovation requires effort at every level of the organization, and it requires alignment among many moving parts. Except in today’s age, the corporate chorus says, “Innovate, or Die!”

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

However, there is one more very important aspect to innovation leadership. Approve experiments and encourage Lean prototyping. Being a good role model for innovation, or any other key leadership competence, means being conscious of your own behavior and recognizing where you are on your own developmental journey. Be inquisitive.

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Anaqua

APRIL 18, 2018

As the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) says: “More than ever before, women are taking up leadership roles and making their voices heard in science, technology, business and the arts.”. If anyone has a daughter who has technical leanings, I'll be happy to talk about careers in engineering and IP with her!”.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Leadership must create an environment where their people are able to contribute at their maximum potential. They must lead through utilization of 3 E’s of Lean Innovation: Empathy, Evidence, and Experimentation. They must invest in building the critical skills and mindset necessary to compete in today (and tomorrow’s) economy.

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Planview

MAY 5, 2023

Regional teams used different work methodologies such as Agile, waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma. Fresenius leadership issued a mandate to transform how the company works and collaborates globally. Data from ProjectPlace feeds into Portfolios for enterprise-level visibility and planning.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The top-level leadership needs to emphasize what is the most important long-term goal on innovation and that employees should look for challenges, problems to solve supporting these topics. A creative solution is subjective, there are at least a million possible great and terrible ways to solve a creative problem?

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Planview

MARCH 18, 2022

Our team is responsible for End-to-End automation of the Planview Enterprise One application and Platform services. These meetings are based on automation strategy for the Enterprise One product. Outside of the PD teams I have regular one-on-ones, community meetings and leadership meetings.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. An innovation sprint is a 3-5 day intensive, experiential engagement that focuses on teaching participants Lean Innovation methodologies while making impact on real business issues. And that’s where this story begins.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

IDC predicts that by 2018 more than 50 percent of large enterprises – and more than 80 percent of firms with advanced digital transformation strategies – will create and/or partner with platforms. Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. Winner-takes-all dynamics play out.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

Now that these product evolutions are everywhere, from automobiles to sub-zero refrigerators, the idea of digital transformation has become a top strategic priority for many enterprises. Why So Many Enterprises Fail to Digitally Transform Obviously, the digitization of an entire company is no easy undertaking. Easier said than done.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Leadership changes, but the new way of working endures. BRANT COOPER, The New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Entrepreneur and Disruption Proof and CEO and founder of Moves the Needle, is a trusted adviser to startups and large enterprises around the world.

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Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 13, 2020

Steve Blank, founder of the Lean Startup movement, calls this “innovation theatre”. Unfortunately, we only rarely see a clear alignment between strategy and innovation. This results in innovation projects that inevitably fail to gain traction and support from leaders within the business.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Additionally, 91% of surveyed staff members indicated accountability as their employer’s top leadership development need. 5 Actionable Tips on How to Set the Right Department Goal Review these five tips that outline how to set a department goal that can create more value for the overall enterprise.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 21, 2019

Executives are not investing in innovation simply for the fun of it, but recent trends have uncovered that leaders inside many enterprises are still struggling to find strong parallels between corporate and innovation strategy , and a large portion of these companies are still making “blind bets” with their innovation investments.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Lean Innovation Definition At Moves The Needle, we define lean innovation as “reducing waste in the discovery, creation, and delivering of new value to customers." Lean Innovation Definition At Moves The Needle, we define lean innovation as “reducing waste in the discovery, creation, and delivering of new value to customers."

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 1, 2018

Operational performance improvement (manufacturing & service domains) using methods such as Lean, TPM, Six Sigma. Enterprise cost reduction. Leadership coaching. Supply chain and procurement transformations / improvements. Sales and distribution process excellence. Business strategy development & deployment.

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Planview

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are a number of benefits that come from following Lean Portfolio Management principles in your organization. In order to achieve enterprise Agility, Lean-Agile principles and practices must also be applied to the entire enterprise well before work is delivered by Agile teams. But here’s the thing. The reason?

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Moves the Needle

JULY 31, 2018

When you’re executing, you are now a fully fledged, execution only H1 enterprise. The trick in the enterprise, of course, is that when you’re an H1 execute business, your next phase is “End of life”, so you better be investing in Explore again. David discusses Innovation Accounting at the Lean Startup Conference in this video.

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CMOE

APRIL 21, 2023

For example, LinkedIn Learning experienced a 46% increase in time spent on learning by its enterprise learners. Lean on simplicity to create a more enjoyable learning experience. Lean on CMOE’s virtual courses and digital learning solutions to help your team develop critical skills and leader competencies.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2016

Keep opening the Enterprise to external knowledge. We need to explore, experiment, prototype, adapt, become more agile, keep it lean, pivot on new learning and anything else that helps us to speed up the process and keep learning and churning. • Make the “network effect” really mean something in results.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. Senior team not aligned or embracing Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. Failure to secure sustained funding We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

In 2017 the corporate roster added Porsche North America and SunTrust Bank to the lineup from 2016, including Capgemini, Coca-Cola, COX Enterprises, InterContinental Hotels Group, and The Weather Company. Senior leadership must legitimize and support. This method eliminates the basic startup pitch. Build empathy on both sides.

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Peer Insight

OCTOBER 25, 2018

This is one of the most difficult challenges facing large enterprises. FINDING 2: In a large enterprise, the gap between explore and execute is just too great to be crossed with ease, even by the most promising venture. It’s one thing to launch a new product within an existing line of business. That process is well understood.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It is not their fault, this is just what several hundred years of management education has ingrained in leadership thinking. Best of all, it flips the concept of a business case on its head, while still providing leadership and decision makers with an exceptionally clear indication of how a project is progressing and what it needs to do next.

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Innov8rs

AUGUST 22, 2023

That makes sense, as every dollar of revenue from new businesses generates almost twice the enterprise value versus every dollar of core business revenues. To succeed with corporate venture building, lean on one of the main resources you already have: your people. The question really is – how?

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

Although every organization faces unique challenges, we see the same excuses repeatedly why established enterprises can’t do “real” innovation. At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues. “We’re not ready.” “We

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Innovation 360 Group

JULY 25, 2017

However, a few new enterprises, on a very large scale, have grown as a result of the investments and technology that emerged during the 90s – and this has been the case over and over again throughout history. Technology, investment, and brave leadership have all reshaped the future in times when promises and dreams were broken.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Creative leadership isn’t about leaders simply becoming more creative. We’re going to launch a new product in the enterprise cyber-security market with $100M potential by 2020” is a vision. One page business plans like Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas and Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas can spark creativity.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As an author, he has written two standard works on Kanban — Practical Kanban and Kanban Change Leadership. Read Next: Lean Budgeting, Part 1: The Limitations of Traditional, Project-Based Budgets. His focus is on offering a way for organizations to find their individual path to more business agility.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

For innovators working within the confines of large enterprises, the possibilities for transformation, especially with mobile and digital products, are endless. Lean, digital disruptors threaten their larger, more rigid corporate counterparts. Leadership wants to digitize the collateral into a web-based desktop app.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 9, 2018

The sound of that alarm is the crying out of customers reminding the leadership of Facebook that they are not users as the descriptor goes, but human beings who have chosen to enter into a relationship with a brand. As I have mentioned here many times before, a brand is not a logo, a brand is a promise.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

The basics of innovation still form around building engagement, leadership, involvement, in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed, so as to allow innovation to evolve. You see progress but it still seems maddeningly slow as dedicated innovation resources are still very ‘thin’ on the ground.

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Planview

MAY 11, 2017

During an afternoon panel session on continuous improvement, Jill Waters, Lean Six Sigma Coordinator at Adventist Health, mentioned a key insight about achieving consistent engagement: “We make sure that we continue to communicate with the community. Sometimes it’s just that recognition and acknowledge that continues to get people to go.

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