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.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

As I reviewed the Prepared Project’s recently-released findings , I was struck by how the critical factors that seemed to help schools weather the tumult of the last two years resonate with the Institute’s innovation theory. Factor 1: Forward-leaning orientation.

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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. One organization might consider innovation to be a new channel to market and another sees it as new technology. With regard to innovation, there’s often more than just technology at stake.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

How do you integrate all this new fancy stuff into strategy and ideation to create actual projects? Has there ever been a moment in time when so many new technologies are washing over us all at once? The elephant in the room is that the new technology requires a truly different approach. Have a cross-domain, diverse team.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Here are some of the many ways you can use Instant Coffee: Brainstorming Incremental Planning Story Mapping Lean Coffee Impromptu Meetings PI Planning Retrospectives SWOT Analysis Standup Meetings. Story mapping is a technique used by product teams to plan out how a user might interact with their product. Lean Coffee.

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Leanstack

JANUARY 10, 2019

A question I get a lot is: Why isn’t the Lean Canvas laid out more logically? Lean Canvas The main reason for this particular layout was legacy. Lean Canvas was derived from the Business Model Canvas. To compensate for usability, I published a suggested fill order in my first book: Running Lean. Which is the right order?

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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. Go Bargain Hunting In a downturn, good deals can be found in the form of technology licensing and acquisitions.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

A Squad is nothing more than a team formed by people with different technical and academic skills to solve a problem or perform a project. Working with lean teams focused on solving a challenge brings several benefits to your project. Of course, Big Tech wouldn’t use it for no reason. What are Squads? Make mistakes faster.

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Boxes and Arrows

JUNE 5, 2018

Weakness in four particular areas accounts for consumers’ reticence to adopt IoT technology. In a Forbes article, “ An Honest Review of Google Home and Amazon’s Alexa ,” the reviewer writes, “The problem is that they’re still a way off from being genuinely useful. Frankly, there may be some truth to those perceptions.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

When the focus is on survival, pausing to think about how to work smarter instead of harder seems outside of the scope of possibility. This is the story of how SAY San Diego is using Lean Innovation to create real, powerful change in their community. Their vision is opportunity, equity and well-being for all San Diegans.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

For companies that want to succeed in the long game, understanding how to innovate is vital. This isn’t about getting lucky and having one big win; it’s about demystifying how you can build an engine fueled by people and process that continues to innovate for decades to come. What Are the Other Types of Innovation?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

These speakers can also deepen the understanding of an innovation culture by: Illustrating how to create an environment that nurtures innovative thinking. Demonstrating how to embrace failure as a learning opportunity. Here’s how to ensure you make the best choice for your event.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The shifts taking place has been hugely shaped in how digital transformation continues to grow in its importance.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the perfusion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. In particular for industrial products this, in turn, has been stimulated by maturing 3D printing technologies.

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The BMI Lab Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Alongside the series of episodes with entrepreneurs and innovation leaders, we recommend the first-ever ETL Research bonus episode which looks at one of the first empirical studies about lean startup , an approach that BMI Lab follows since day 1. If you want to find out more about our lean startup approach, check out our Launchpad.

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Planview

JUNE 23, 2022

As technology solution providers emerge from the unprecedented volatility of the last couple of years, services leaders are asking what are the most important capabilities that they need to master? How should today’s toughest issues be addressed and tackled? What are the industry’s most important business challenges?

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Inceodia

MARCH 26, 2020

Our client engaged us to help them explore what was both a challenge and an opportunity to ensure seniors could safely age in their homes: how to identify and address issues before they led to a decline in their client’s health? Most organizations run pretty lean operations and utilize mostly manual processes to deliver their services.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

Digital Transformation (also known as “DX”) is the phenomenon that virtually all companies are incorporating digital technology at some level. In fact, it has been around since the 1990s, when technology started to become commonplace in businesses, and email and the Internet emerged as ubiquitous productivity tools.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Many of the problems they reported indicated that both UX professionals and technical staff lacked a shared understanding of each others’ team roles and responsibilities. Being transparent about the UX process helped some respondents foster trust between themselves, their product managers, and the technical staff on their scrum teams. “I

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mjvinnovation

MAY 19, 2020

In our e-book, Remote Transformation: How to restructure your operations in times of uncertainty , we bring concrete solutions to help you review your strategy, make operations more flexible, and remain competitive. . How to adapt and reframe medium-term strategies to short-term plans in times of crisis? Let’s talk.

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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. How might we harness our people’s collective intelligence to solve problems and realise opportunities? Shaping the next normal.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 15, 2021

Innovation and technology – hand-in-hand – are essential to ensure their competitiveness. It is time to review processes and, if necessary, redesign to optimize tasks, generate greater visibility, and review roles and responsibilities. Fly or Die: Lean validation cycle for a new product in the telecom area.

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Leanstack

AUGUST 19, 2014

In this post, I will show you how to use these simple inputs to ballpark your business model and test whether it’s worth pursuing. Read on to see how to make this number more actionable… 1. For instance, I wasn’t driven to write my book, Running Lean , by money but impact.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

Tim’s Comment: I can’t tell you how often I come back to exploration/exploitation as a key concept. 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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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Most commonly, traditional project management will continuously track how well a project is progressing and report this to management on a regular basis, while also having set milestones with dates where the status of the entire project can be reviewed. Let me show you exactly how L.I.V.E. Want to learn more? works: L.I.V.E.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Innovator’s take: Horizon 2 is defined as “incremental” innovation , which typically means modifying existing products or technology to create new markets, or applying external technology in new ways. They will come from a combination of efforts: Scouting technology to learn how existing needs will be solved in the future.

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Taivara

JULY 30, 2019

by Taivara , Technology Innovation. Risks of Shadow IT and how to avoid them. Unfamiliar Tech Stacks. One reason could be that the external firm you hired built the project on a tech-stack that the internal team is not familiar with. Many outsourced firms don’t know how to handle these kinds of constraints.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

We share the polarities that we identified in the uncertainty of how logistics and supply chain are in this pandemic and the post-pandemic. How to ensure hygiene, health, and non-contamination of goods in terms of shipping logistics? Some spoilers of what should be rethought: Technology is the epicenter. POLARITY A.

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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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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Patrick Lencioni’s model of team performance is reviewed and tools are presented on how to breakthrough conflict, establish trust, and move into high performance. Teams are made aware of the relationship between diversity and conflict, and given tools on how to manage that polarity. Candidate Teams for Momentum.

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Leanstack

JUNE 7, 2018

Front and center was this high-level roadmap along with a checklist: The rest of the links in the document were tactical how-to guides for attracting prospects, running interviews, testing offers, and designing MVPs. Taking the First Business Model Snapshot “Set a timer for 20 minutes and take a first snapshot of your idea on a Lean Canvas.”

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Rethinking how to do your business is an urgent demand to be aligned with this new user behavior. We are already leaving a spoiler: it is crucial to understand how to get value from innovation. Technology has only evolved – and very fast. The Economy is Digital; companies are born small, lean, lighter, and more innovative.

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Outside Innovation

JUNE 30, 2015

Instead, ask customers to share their strategies and plans with one another for peer review. Build close relationships with your top business and technical execs. Creating Customer Advisory Boards Your Customers will Love How to Design a Successful "Outside In" CAB Program for your Customers and Top Executives.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

But we have good news for all those who have not yet taken the step into the right direction: Although every innovation has something new and unique, we can learn significantly from the companies that get it right and create a first how-to-plan based on their workflows, structures, and practices. Top Model Principle. Listen and say yes!

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mjvinnovation

MAY 8, 2019

is also called the “fourth industrial revolution” – the process initiated by England in 1760 was followed by major modernization movements: the “lean revolution” that occurred around 1970, the intensive globalization process in the 1990s and, more recently, the extreme automation started in the 2000s. Industry 4.0

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David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

I recently had a chat with a senior director of a respected technology company making highly specialized products. Should I design the assessments to be industry specific taking account of the peculiarities of each industry, it’s unique pressures, opportunities and technology? Clearly, technology is a key ingredient in innovation.

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David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

I recently had a chat with a senior director of a respected technology company making highly specialized products. Should I design the assessments to be industry specific taking account of the peculiarities of each industry, it’s unique pressures, opportunities and technology? Clearly, technology is a key ingredient in innovation.

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