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Scientific Management, Taylorism and how employees are prevented from innovating

Idea to Value

I already told you about their excellent episode on Disruptive Innovation. The classic other example is Lean Manufacturing spearheaded by companies like Toyota with their Toyota Management System. This would be unthinkable in Taylorism, and one of the reasons why Taylorism actually will discourage innovation. What is Taylorism?

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

In order to achieve breakthrough innovation, you shouldn’t be limiting yourself to any one of these frameworks, but rather using all three…and possibly more. So at LEANSTACK, we decided to curate these superpowers into a new framework of frameworks: The Continuous Innovation Framework. Why “Continuous” Innovation?

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The Scale-Up Canvas

Innovation Excellence

4 Tips for Intrapreneurs Who Want to Scale-Up While there are many supporting methodologies to start an innovation project (design thinking, lean start-up, business model canvas, blue ocean,…), Lean scale-up by Ash Maurya provides precious guidelines, and metrics, but was not conceived with the case of a corporate start-up / intrapreneur project in (..)

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5 Tech Issues That Can Slow Down Innovation

IdeaScale

In our minds, technology and innovation are interconnected. The seeming slowdown in innovation is also partly due to expansion in outcome-based industries like finance and healthcare that are more difficult to measure than how many widgets one produces. These guidelines regulate how companies gather, use, and store information.

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

In order to achieve breakthrough innovation, you shouldn’t be limiting yourself to any one of these frameworks, but rather using all three…and possibly more. So at LEANSTACK, we decided to curate these superpowers into a new framework of frameworks: The Continuous Innovation Framework. Why “Continuous” Innovation?

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Be Innovative if You Want to Drive Innovation

IdeaScale

An operations manager at a Fortune 500 hundred company recently asked me: “what are your thoughts on the best innovation ‘models’ to serve as guides for how individuals or teams can structure some of their thinking?”. Limits in applicability or scope. Methodology agnostic” you might say.

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The core principles of Leading FOR Innovation

Cris Beswick

It’s no secret that in today’s dynamic business landscape, for some, innovation is still just a buzzword – but for others, it’s the lifeblood of their organisation and an antidote to remaining relevant. Undoubtedly, transformation in pursuit of innovation within established corporations is a significant challenge.