Moves the Needle

MAY 24, 2019

The way a city works, the way it prioritizes and manages projects and tests new ideas, has a profound impact on all of its “customers”, influencing staff morale and residents’ reactions. This evidence-based approach reduces risk and potential waste, and uses the right behaviors and metrics, at the right times, for the right projects.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. —– Lean Innovation Management. Companies or Government agencies pursuing innovation can Buy, Build, Partner or use Open Innovation. The Lean Definition of the Three Horizons of Innovation.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Now they are starting to use the Lean Innovation process (see here and here ) to turn ideas into solutions. Test if the Lean Innovation process actually accelerates technology adoption and an innovation ecosystem. Lean Innovation is a Process. The Lean Innovation process is a self-regulating, evidence-based innovation pipeline.

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Econic

APRIL 13, 2022

Much like our consulting practices, we leaned into a loose framework to build a customized approach to transformation. 5 new members joined our core team 58% female staff Collaborated with 10 new contractors 17 closed office days Clients Served 10 businesses, 3 non-profits, and 1 government body Community 1.5% 2021 Impact Report.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

With lean budgets for innovation a reality at many large organizations, managers are often reluctant to allocate funding and staff to projects they perceive as risky, or that don’t help them achieve their short-term performance metrics. Successful innovation requires aligning your innovation model to your business strategy.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Of course, innovation projects are supposed to fail in great numbers, but the idea of a corporate innovation department itself is under tremendous pressure. Too many projects lack concrete outcomes and stubbornly refuse to discuss ROI. I am a strong believer and advocate of agile, design thinking, and lean startup.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

Some examples of interdisciplinary skills that are important in cross-sector innovation collaborations include communication, leadership, creativity, strategic thinking, and project management. Participants need to be willing to share and manage risks to achieve their goals.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

In partnership with nine organizations (including the Christensen Institute), NGLC explored this question through a project called What Made Them So Prepared? The project’s team conducted surveys and interviews of 70 participating schools and districts that seemed to have weathered the pandemic well. .

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By 2010, the Lean Startup methodology built upon these principles, emphasizing rapid experimentation and customer feedback to guide businesses towards sustainable business models. From Design Thinking to Autonomous Innovation In the 1990s, design thinking emerged, prioritizing empathy and iterative prototyping for user-centric solutions.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This is the story of how SAY San Diego is using Lean Innovation to create real, powerful change in their community. Project Goals, Proposed Solutions, and Key Results When we first met SAY San Diego, they had already identified their challenges. This staff increase has reduced their staffing cost of $32.50

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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. Roderic P.,

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Management: A flexible approach to management and governance which enables leadership to understand direction and progress, but gives authority to the team to do their best work with reduced bureaucracy. This includes capabilities that need to be possible in every individual in the company.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. A new book by Silicon Valley tech veteran and innovation advocate Ann Mei Chang, Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good explores the unique challenges that can deter social innovation. Corporate philanthropy. Benefit corporations. Sounds ideal.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

You won't get results from your innovation programs, processes and projects if the fundamentals are lacking. We dive into getting the fundamentals right during this month’s Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management. Innov8rs |. Open Strategy.

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IM Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Applying traditional stage-gate funding models for innovation projects come with a set of issues on their own. 02:00) Elijah skips talking about problems associated with funding a project from idea to scale , preferring to start by discussing the common issues with stage-gate funding specifically for innovation projects. . (05:30)

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Jeffrey believes that there are at least five constraints to the ability of organizations to innovate more than occasionally and to move from periodic, project-driven to capability-based, continuous innovation: 1. It's easier said than done. Innovation Tools or Methods Innovation tools and methods are very rare in most organizations.

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Imaginatik

MARCH 1, 2018

Although the innovation group’s original charter was to focus on disruptive digital technologies, they quickly found themselves working on everything from small process tweaks in Customer Service operations, all the way up to incubating entrepreneurial projects trying to re-architect the company’s global billing processes on the blockchain.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Career working for the British government in positions such as Head of Innovation for the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence as well as senior leadership roles in digital transformation for the UK government. (08:00) 14:00) On bad leadership behaviour and how not to fund projects. (16:00) Show Transcript.

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Planview

JULY 22, 2022

Christian Eggers, executive general manager at CBA, shared that some of their pain points with their previous tool included reduced project data transparency, multiple sources of truth for different processes and teams, and lack of spend justification. Here’s where Planview’s Project Portfolio Management solution came in.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 17, 2018

Satnam is an experienced and motivated Group Managing Director with expertise in business transformation, sales and revenue enhancement, governance, marketing and social selling. Lean and Six Sigma (Operational Excellence). Governance. Area of expertise: Innovation Management. Business Transformation. Business Expansion.

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Innovation 360 Group

JULY 10, 2018

Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, which is the highest level of expertise for a consultant, coach and master trainer for improving organization culture of problem solving, continuous improvement and innovation to achieve lower cost, faster delivery time and high customer satisfaction. Project Management. People Management.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 11, 2016

Hypothesis Testing for Lean Startups - Part Four in the Lean Startup Series Every social activity that we undertake is subject to underlying assumptions. Here is what it means for lean startups: every assumption is an innovation opportunity. You start with your first proposed business model, which consists of a bunch of guesses.

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Leveraging Networks

MAY 28, 2017

Conventional modalities, such as the long-established hierarchical delegations that tend to govern project management efforts, consume far too many resources and lack efficiency. Much of the trouble with time-honored bureaucratic methods of project management exist within the inherent need for structural oversight.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 4, 2023

Some examples of interdisciplinary skills that are important in cross-sector innovation collaborations include communication, leadership, creativity, strategic thinking, and project management. Participants need to be willing to share and manage risks to achieve their goals.

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Collaboration Innovation Resources Industry 52

Innov8rs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

At our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management, Elisa Farri (Vice President and Co-lead at Capgemini Invent's Management Lab) and Gabriele Rosani (Director of Content and Research at Capgemini Invent's Management Lab) shared insights from their recent research on this topic.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. In reality for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed a process from start to deployment. Internal projects already in existence. Legal issues.

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CREATORS

AUGUST 6, 2018

It’s cases like this that show how governments, faced with organizational limits and a risk-averse culture, have much to gain from their more flexible counterparts in the private sector. The concept of innovation is no longer bound to organizations seeking profits; and governments now want in on the action as well.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Even organizations large and small have learned how to be lean and agile while executing a strategy at a high level. A Hard Trend is a projection based on measurable, tangible, and fully predictable facts, events, or objects. To succeed in business now and in the future, being lean and agile and executing well are no longer enough.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Many helped identify future opportunities, built minimum viable products, and supported internal projects that led to new revenue. Governance reinforces it, the corporate ladder rewards it, and human resources hires for it. Their success came from supporting and being supported, by the core business.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

The design needs to be customer-centric, agile, experimental, lean, standard as much as it can be, with simplicity and adaptive as being central to this. To finish BCG provided this visual to outline the processes and cultures that can govern disruptive and radical innovation projects, as digital innovation transformation is certainly that.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Governance & Metrics 1. Unrealistic expectations of first projects Out of the gate, most organizations put too few resources on too few ideas and expect too much out of them. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Chandy found that corporate culture was a much more important driver of radical innovation than labor, capital, government or national culture. Viktor Hwang has introduced the term “social contract” as set of values that governs people’s organizational life. Management uses KPIs for radical and incremental projects.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems. Newell ran the U.S.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Governance & Metrics. Unrealistic expectations of first projects. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail. Instead, organizations need to look for quick wins in their first projects. Just tossing money at it.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 6, 2023

Yet 87% of corporate ventures fail after the MVP stage, mostly due to cultural conflicts and non-effective governance frameworks to execute and turn that innovation into reality. Speaking the same language makes aligning innovation projects with business plans easier. Yet the corporate still holds a very high level of control.

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Innovation Walk

MARCH 1, 2019

So, innovation in business is very different than innovation in government or innovation with research and universities. In government is to secure prosperity for society, and in academia (for researchers) is to produce quality knowledge and make an impact with that knowledge. ” 3.

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Innovation 360

APRIL 30, 2017

Having worked in the US as well as Europe, the UK, the Middle East and Azerbaijan on projects and having managed a team composed of marketing, commercialization, R&D, operations, business modeling and a PMO, Evrim is equipped with excellent cross-functional as well as cross-cultural team management and leadership capabilities.

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