InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Lean startup method Lean Startup is another source of many activities and exercises in a customer-focused approach to innovation. In the same wheelhouse as design thinking (and agile), a lean startup approach offers a way to quickly ideate, test, and create prototypes. Learn more about design thinking in this guide.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Anyone who has ever attended Lean Startup Conference (previously known as Lean Startup Week) in the past knows that this annual event regularly features invigorating speakers that divulge the newest insights and innovations in modern management for a wide array of industries and company types.

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Planview

MAY 20, 2022

In this post, we’re going to show you how to execute a project. In this guide, we’ll break down exactly how to execute a project across multiple departments to improve efficiency and drive results. Let’s dig into how to execute a project across departments. How to Execute a Project Across Multiple Departments.

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Innovators Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

While these moves may make sense in the short-run, a big risk nevertheless exists – that as the downturn shifts to an upturn, our myopic focus will blind us to new opportunities. Smart companies however, respond to leaner budgets by deploying non-traditional methods that are both cheaper and tend to engage customers in creative new ways.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. While the world around us continues to change at an astonishing pace, the efforts to feed the hungry, house the homeless, and right injustices seem not so dissimilar to a decade ago. Will they demand it, stay engaged, and recommend it to their friends and family?

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

MARCH 8, 2024

Thinkers360: Tell us a bit about your background and areas of expertise. CY: I enlisted in the Navy six months after high school knowing very little of how to work on a team. it was like drinking from a firehose learning everything from how to wear my uniform, to the chain of command, and how to tell military time.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 24, 2018

For us at IdeaScale, Open Nation is always our favorite week of the year. For those of us in the weeds every day, they represent a refreshing opportunity to take a step back and reflect on how the work of our customers is making people’s lives better, every day. Together, they encompass the ePolicyWorks crowdsourcing team.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Definitely solid ROI!" - Mary Ann Heenehan, Corporate Groups Development Manager, Chubb Insurance "Idea Champions helped us generate powerful new ideas and engage with such energy that six months later their impact still hasn't worn off." - Candida G.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! NCARB teams learned how to proactively reach out to customers to deeply understand them and to design quick experiments for testing potential solutions before building them.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 24, 2019

Lean Innovation is a set of rapid customer-focused, evidence-based behaviors that help remove the waste and uncertainty in how we create value and solve problems for those we serve. People often say to us, “I’m so sorry that you have work with bureaucrats.”

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 27, 2021

Several of us likely remember the Bitcoin boom around the end of 2017, when thousands of individuals bought Bitcoin, seeing the value of their dollar skyrocket for a brief period. Anticipation sets you ahead of the curve by using Hard Trends to your advantage. This couldn’t be more wrong! And yet, here we are.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 12, 2018

And, some of those sub-journeys include our relationships with the companies who sell us products. You use the value stream to hypothesize the behavior you see that indicates which state a customer is in, what you as the business must DO to get that behavior, and how will you measure your ability to do so.

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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

Solution: Focus on the Facilitator Mindset Leadership consultant Dr. Flo Falayi encourages leaders to lean on what they call “The Facilitator Mindset.” Front: You ensure the audience understands “where they are going and how to get there.” Be sure to use movements like hand gestures to elevate engagement.

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Planview

MARCH 24, 2016

It’s been shown that innovation and creativity projects are a great way to engage and retain high performers at a time when incumbent organizations need them most – especially applicable to Gen Yers. GE managed to cut cost of market validation by 80% using the lean startup methodology. Work Within Risk Boundaries.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Often we were missing the constants that are required to ‘set in place’ for innovation , I call these those anchor points , otherwise, we often are simply increasing the layering on, more and more , not giving enough emphasis on how to integrate these into a newly emerging practice of innovation that builds on a solid foundation.

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Planview

MARCH 24, 2016

It’s been shown that innovation and creativity projects are a great way to engage and retain high performers at a time when incumbent organizations need them most – especially applicable to Gen Yers. GE managed to cut cost of market validation by 80% using the lean startup methodology. Work Within Risk Boundaries.

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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. How do we articulate what our beliefs are about how the business is going to function, once it matures from idea to the real world?

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Your Ideas are Terrible

OCTOBER 16, 2016

You need to follow a Lean Startup process and test your idea with customers. Nobody has “Lean Startup” or “Customer Development” skills. Given the popularity of Lean Startup you may try hiring experienced people to run innovation experiments. How to run your innovation sprints with Liberal Arts majors. Will customers pay?

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

Working with lean teams focused on solving a challenge brings several benefits to your project. When everyone knows exactly where the company wants to go and the expected quantitative results, the team’s engagement, and alignment are higher. All of these questions are answered and can lead us to solutions. What is Kanban?

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Although product leaders can propose numerous ‘lean’ methodologies to experiment inexpensively with new concepts before fully engineering them, anything short of launching a product or feature and monitoring its performance over time in the market is, by definition, not 100% accurate. Quantify risk tolerance.

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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.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. When should it be used: Any organisation that wants to enable their staff who have an idea to “try it out” or do an initial market experiment.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 27, 2016

Gates works as an artist, curator, urbanist and facilitator and his projects attempt to instigate the creation of cultural communities by acting as catalysts for social engagement that leads to political and spatial change. He describes his evolution in this TED talk : The Dorchester Project is essentially a lean startup. Real estate??

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2015

I would say the IM system is under even greater strain from the shifts coming from the multiple applications of technology, new approaches to design and modelling as well as all the necessary engagement and touch points. It seems incredible to us today that anyone could believe that 70,000 tonnes of steel could be unsinkable.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We also know exactly what transformative innovation involves, and how to enable and equip people to connect and collaborate in new ways to effect constructive and sustainable change in a world of unknowns. What are the possibilities and opportunities available to us? How ready and receptive are we to really embrace change?

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IM Insights

APRIL 25, 2022

Many companies talk about how they want to have an impact on C02 and other things but without a second system, they will never make that impact as they will always prioritise profit and efficiency. The system is what allows us to prioritise that impact. 25:00) How to get CEO’s and CFO’s to accept and get used to different measures. (29:00)

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 6, 2015

Over the last 30 years modern management thinking has been influenced by outsourcing and rightsizing, on lean and Six Sigma thinking and on the GE way (1st, 2nd or out of the market). CIOs and innovation teams engage product groups to perform incremental innovation and declare success. Oh, you'll say, you've changed your tune.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 19, 2020

This new future is upon us, and it will demand more from every industry. . How does it generate value for your business? Promotes engagement. How to adapt and reframe medium-term strategies to short-term plans in times of crisis? How to pivot business plans in execution and prioritize? It will not be centralized.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The days of settling for quick responses in hopes of catching up fast are far behind us. How can you create a sustainable competitive advantage that becomes your lifetime fountain of creativity? This advantage is achieved with the strategic use of your co-innovation network.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Professionally, they have been exposed to ideas like Lean Startup, Design Thinking, Experiential Learning, and Engagement Marketing. To truly engage this generation of product developers, companies must significantly change their approach to one focused on rapid learning, rapid execution, and increasing amounts of innovation.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

brand, Jason’s Lean Change Management book and workshops, and Learning 3.0’s Most of our interaction is in a massive Slack community with more than 100 topic-related channels, ranging from agile and lean change to remote working to more personal ones like family, vulnerability and general pursuits of happiness.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

Not only that, it is how to related these to different market conditions, so as to offer thoughtful advice to a broad audience of practitioners and leaders within the corporate world. There is this constant, pressing need to absorb, synthesise and translate what is constantly coming towards us in innovation thinking.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

Here's what Idea Champions' clients have to say about the value they've received from engaging our brainstorm facilitation services. Extremely engaging and enlightening brainstorming sessions" - Karen Lazan, Marketing Director, Pfizer. Through your brainstorm facilitation, we gained more than 100 original ideas of high quality.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 2, 2018

Honestly, when Heather and I first started the Social Impact arm of Moves the Needle we had many debates about using the word customer. Why and how did you find them, like them in the first place, and why do you stay engaged? Get more updates like this on lean innovation in social impact. Your customers deserve it.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

In part 1 of this post , Ralph revisited key innovation issues that were already addressed by us three years ago. One of the key issues in innovation management is figuring out how to frame these important ideas in ways that make sense to managers – finding the right story, metaphor or phrase. Who wants to be an exploiter?

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Susie shares what good leadership behaviour looks like, the problems with short-term thinking and how to carve out the necessary space for a strategic approach to innovation. 21:00) On the importance of carving out time for strategic goal setting and how to do it. (24:00) Topics and Insights . (01:00) 01:00) Introducing Susie Braam.

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CMOE

APRIL 20, 2021

In today’s flat, lean organizations, many individual contributors assume that they don’t need to be led or managed. Great managers can give us vital outside leadership and perspective that we can’t get anywhere else. Stretch their minds: Stimulate their creativity by periodically engaging them in projects they wouldn’t normally do.

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