Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Part Eight in the Lean Startup Series When teams start out with lean startup, they often build hypotheses that are too precise – we assume we know more than we do. Take the photo-sharing product example. We need to start our lean startup process with discovery – and that is harder to hypothesise. Strategy: Simplify.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

Over the years, so much has improved and understood by the explanations, case examples, suggestions, clarifications and ways they were “built into” the individual innovation processes that each company chose to construct their innovation process. These tools and techniques enable ideation, validation, design-build and scaling.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 24, 2020

How to Lean in To Empower Your Team. To achieve this kind of empowerment, it is essential for leaders to lean-in and engage actively and effectively across teams, in addition to arranging coaching sessions. Importance of Leaning in. The expansion of remote work demands much more empowered and learned team members today.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 12, 2016

Part 5 in The Lean Startup Series The idea of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is frequently misunderstood. From the name, people often think of it as a prototype, but really, it’s a learning object. Here’s an example from our first Lean LaunchPad program. But this is a great example of an MVP.

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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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IM Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Example: Even improving efficiency in a manufacturing plant could be considered innovative if it introduces a new approach. Emphasis on establishing learning metrics to gauge the effectiveness of innovation efforts. Mention of real-world examples where learning metrics have proven invaluable.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle. Businesses must learn first , rather than merely executing on the plan. But how can an enterprise organization re-invent product commercialization?

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

In our work, you’ll find many examples of tactics (like Problem Interviews) that we constantly replace with newer/better ones (like Problem Discovery). Speed of learning is the new unfair advantage. Much like failing becomes learning when you’re going fast, innovation becomes continuous. Why “Continuous” Innovation?

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 26, 2014

Each panelist had made their mark on how design is done in start-ups: Laura wrote the influential O’Reilly book on UX for Lean Startups, and Todd penned the bestselling Rosenfeld Media Prototyping book. Mike founded an influential Lean UX community in San Francisco. . Below is Laura Klein expounds on these key themes of lean research.

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Cascade Strategy

JANUARY 15, 2020

A lack of KPIs in a product management team can result in a poor understanding of progress, difficulty in evaluating and learning from current and past work, and an inability to prioritise between different streams of activity when progress is off track.

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Digital Tonto

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Businesses need to internalize new technologies like AI and adapt to new realities like hybrid work, but still struggle to adopt decades old skills related to lean manufacturing, agile development and cultural competency. Yet to be effective, we have to put that learning to work. Today we are in a change crisis.

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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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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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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

This guest article on innovative teaching shares ideas and strategies from the The Startup Teacher Playbook: Turn Your Ideas Into Actions, Personalize Professional Development, and Create Innovative Learning Experiences for You and Your Students. We could encourage more ‘unconference’ style learning to share new ideas.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

Overall I found Lean UX to be an incredibly insightful and helpful compilation of principles and suggestions for practice/improving process and collaboration as outlined in my review of the book. Are there ways of, for instance, breaking into smaller teams for Lean UX while still tackling larger solutions that you have seen work well?

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

In our work, you’ll find many examples of tactics (like Problem Interviews) that we constantly replace with newer/better ones (like Problem Discovery). Speed of learning is the new unfair advantage. Much like failing becomes learning when you’re going fast, innovation becomes continuous. Why “Continuous” Innovation?

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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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CMOE

APRIL 21, 2023

For example, LinkedIn Learning experienced a 46% increase in time spent on learning by its enterprise learners. Rather than attending training events in the office, training center, or hotel, team members are instead getting their learning and training experiences virtually. A 3,000% rise in virtual collaboration.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 2, 2018

You can use Lean Innovation techniques -- Empathy, Experiments, and Evidence to ensure the driving force is sustained through the integration. The DARPA Darling ANNETTE: One of my favorite examples of this was buying what was called a DARPA darling. It doesn't mean that we were always doing the right thing at the right time.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

The last two years have been tough for K–12 schools and educators, but these challenging times have not been without their bright spots—and there’s much to learn from them. Factor 1: Forward-leaning orientation. That groundwork is an essential precursor to having a forward-leaning orientation in a time of crisis.

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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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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

For example, in an organization’s effort to remain financially stable, a funder can have more power and influence on programs than the community members benefiting from those programs. For example, in a majority of philanthropic work, organizations are strongly encouraged to avoid failure.

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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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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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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Eye contact, as an example, gives us the clearest read not just on where a person’s attention is, but also their body language and their non-verbal signals. Of course, some of us struggle to make eye contact, out of shyness, for example. To learn more about strategies to spur innovation, join our newsletter !

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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. For example, Lattice is a great place to build in conversation starters between manager and employees in the weekly check-in report.”. Beyond work.

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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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Idea to Value

APRIL 12, 2022

It is a classic example of survivorship bias. On the other end of the spectrum is Steve Blank, father of the Lean Startup movement (interviewed on the podcast here ), who thinks one should be a fast follower : First-Mover Advantage is an idea that just won’t die. There are proponents of both camps.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 29, 2019

Engineering companies with HR and PD management process XP well on their payroll, for example. Lean Startup. By working lean and developing minimally viable products (MVP prototypes), possible failures are corrected in time for rebuilding, now with new increments. Different segments can benefit from Lean Startup.

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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?” We always get a kick discussing enterprise lean startup challenges with The Lean Startup author Eric Ries, so welcomed the opportunity to do so during his recent Kickstarter campaign. It made such an impression on him.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas and Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas come to mind. Similar tools have been around for ages, by the way; used in lean manufacturing processes, Agile, kanban, scrum, etc. Like Lean Startup, the concept of a “value stream” also comes from the lean manufacturing world.

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Leanstack

JUNE 6, 2019

If you’re a long time reader of this blog, chances are high you’ve read my first book: Running Lean. But did you read my second book: Scaling Lean ? But what if I told you that, despite the title and book cover, Scaling Lean is actually sort of a prequel, not a sequel. My research says probably not.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

Examples of Business Model Innovation Exploring prime examples of business model innovation can provide unique insights into how companies across different industries have successfully adapted and transformed their operations.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Over the last decade, schools across the nation have begun to test various models of blended learning and procuring edtech tools to offer students some element of control over the time, place, path, and/or pace of their learning. Blog: The great uncoupling: How digital learning will change education.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation? Discover how to lead your own innovation team with real-world examples in action of how other organizations are succeeding through teamwork and innovation methodology.

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Planview

JULY 26, 2022

But then the pandemic happened, creating a domino effect of disruptions that we are learning to accept as part of daily life. We’ve learned to write our plans in pencil, and to keep our erasers nearby. What many companies learned is that “cutting all contractors” is not the same as cutting “unnecessary” expenses. Sound familiar?

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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." We base Lean Innovation principles upon the 3 E’s of Lean Innovation : Empathy, Experiments and Evidence. Where design thinking ends, Lean Startup begins.

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