Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In those types of organizations, most decisions are made by the HIPPOs in the room (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion), but are not informed by the goals of the customer, which on a good day may lead to waste, on a bad day, can lead to complete corporate collapse. And the current digital landscape doesn’t help this situation.

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Groups Case Study Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 45

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor. Nothing wrong with desiring an innovation friendly culture, although talking about it isn’t going to make it happen. Which is best?

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

This needs significant process redesign and the redesign into small, nimble teams and cross-trained groups who collectively gather around a problem to solve it and then disperse and reform in different shape and form to address the next need. I liked the suggested digital design principles that BCG outlined in their report.

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Imaginatik

JULY 12, 2016

The decision to further invest must be informed not only by the immediate costs of concept development but also by a keen understanding of the implementation impediments as the idea goes from Start to Scale. Why the ability to “scale up” promising bets is critical to transformative innovation.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

However, I do believe that as the Internet and globalization have democratized access to information and dramatically driven down the prices in many fields, the role of luck is now smaller than it has ever been. you don’t have talent capable of executing all parts of an innovation process.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 14, 2023

By offering our employees this opportunity, we support them at every step of the innovation process while developing new products that benefit our customers”, says Daniel. Rather than being discouraged by failures, we should view them as a necessary part of the learning process and use them to inform future decisions and actions.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

Venture building represents a strategic approach for corporations to foster innovation and drive long-term growth by creating new businesses from the ground up. By actively creating and scaling new businesses, corporations can gain insights into emerging trends and technologies, which can inform their broader strategic decisions.

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Commodore Innovation

MAY 13, 2020

Changing approach to innovation, e.g., a greater emphasis on lean/agile and the experimentation-based approach those imply, which will enable faster learning about a dramatically changing landscape. Communicate changes to innovation strategy early AND often. For example, has the organization’s pace of innovation increased?

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Software Review System Innovation Strategy 52

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. Streamlined management of innovation projects. Comprehensive information on innovation best practice & emerging advanced practices.

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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 excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Technical Review Innovation System Change 174

Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

At the heart of this transformation mindset is Lean Innovation. And when you think of innovation transformation, there are many pieces that need to come together. One of the key elements in experiencing a successful innovation transformation is having a strong in-house capability. But, that’s not all there is to it.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Innovation team leaders and project managers learn what it takes to keep cycles spinning from year to year. Gregg is an entertaining teller of real-world innovation stories.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Rather, trends keep you informed where investment should occur in the short, medium, and long term to maintain your existing markets. With an h/t to Tony Ulwick for his outcome-driven innovation process, Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) is a disciplined way of establishing customers’ needs in their quest to accomplish something, i.e., a job.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Nine essential questions CEO’s should be asking about innovation. Are people empowered to innovate? Does your culture support innovation? Are your people trained in innovation process? Do you have the skills, the specific people, you need to innovate? Is your organization doing continuous projects?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

To get to this transforming point we need to build in a faster adaptation of business strategies and turn out faster innovation outcomes that meet these needs as key to this. More information, greater personalization is both unpredictable in what it yields and is an ongoing process. Now that really does become transforming.

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Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 133

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

To get to this transforming point we need to build in a faster adaptation of business strategies and turn out faster innovation outcomes that meet these needs as key to this. More information, greater personalization is both unpredictable in what it yields and is an ongoing process. Now that really does become transforming.

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Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 120

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

For example, Blockchain is typically thought of as a database technology, so the obvious applications are where databases are used now, like customer information, order entry, or patient medical records. This shaping of vague ideas into resource-worthy innovation projects is the final step of the MoshPit process.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Unless we create a strategy to transform, how can we re-imagine our innovation processes? We talk so much about “innovation is critical” today and in our future, but is rarely achieved. This does require a transformation of how we design, structure and bring together all the relevant part of the innovation process.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

What started me on a given innovation “tack”was for a long time I have seen an awful lot of opinions, solutions, concepts that have been breaking down innovation into its many parts. The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.”

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CREATORS

APRIL 3, 2018

Information regarding 168 corporate innovation programs 2. Qualitative interviews with 10+ leading innovation experts 3. The right approach to corporate innovation The report is structured in three chapters, following the lean launchpad methodology of Build-Measure-Learn. External literature.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Companies can deal with technological and market uncertainty, even ecosystem uncertainty, using innovation processes, methods and tools developed over the decades. There is a stark difference between the decision the executive leadership is leaning towards and how the rest of the company sees things. There is no clear winner.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Nevertheless, many market participants still face the enormous challenge of figuring out the blend of all necessary elements and the right mix for a successful innovation process. Even fewer have persistently developed and implemented habits and processes that foster sustainable innovation.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2015

Over the last 9 months his staff got innovation teams operating with speed and urgency. The innovation pipeline had been rationalized. His groups whole-heartedly adopted and adapted Lean. I offered that a top-down revamp of every business process should be a last resort. Filed under: Corporate Innovation.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

The ultimate manifestation of this is to figure out how to disrupt yourself inside the safety of an innovation process before a competitor (existing or new) does it for you. With each iteration, we glean invaluable insights which inform the idea in question.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 29, 2021

Process consulting then comes into play, combining problem-solving, technology and management approaches to create optimal strategies in corporate routines. Process review and redesign. Design Thinking, the core business service of MJV, is at the heart of innovation processes. Click here! What about hyper-automation?

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review Resources 52

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

It also addresses the basics of why innovation is so important to an organization’s survival and growth. Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. Approaches to the new challenges of Digital Technology Innovation are discussed.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This central team won’t have the capacity to make sure that the process actually performs well, let alone maintain and develop multiple processes for different kinds of innovations for different parts of the organization. Different kinds of innovations need different kinds of processes, resources and expertise.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Project 52

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Yet for innovation, it has been the transforming effects applied to a very cumbersome innovation system that is undergoing a real force of change. There is a whole world of collaborative tools that are intent on speeding up the innovation process but we have not yet fully mastered these and built our complete toolkit.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In this inspirational speech Gregg Fraley answers the Why Innovation question, and informs as to what innovation means to you and your group. It advocates that innovation is an exciting part of everyone’s job, not “extra work.” Staying in business means reinventing as markets shift.

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Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

In other words we have found that breakthrough innovations should be identified and implemented in iterative processes. More and more we also see firms opening up their innovation funnel at this stage to allow for external concepts to be pulled into the innovation funnel.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The innovation system needs to be measured on its ability to produce a steady stream of high potential opportunities. Real-time and long-term – Immediate course corrections and long-term improvements are both desirable and an innovation measurement system should provide information for both. Both need to be measured. [2]

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System Analysis Innovation Data 40

Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Research found that new ideas – those that remixed information in surprising ways – got worse scores from everyone, but they were particularly punished by experts. Radical innovation processes allow for iterations and adjustments of initial plans to give individuals and teams ample room and time for experimentation.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

For example, nowadays, a global network of actors based on semi-finished products from several distinct steps can create an equivalent value by offering lower prices with attractive business models focused on specific activities or lean start-ups with plenty of venture capital prior to the market when opportunities begin to open up.

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Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

An entrepreneur does not have time, nor does he have the intention, of knowing all information that he may use for taking effective decisions for his enterprise. As an entrepreneur won’t be able to know everything himself, the knowledge paradox, he finds himself relying on others information. 10: The Knowledge Paradox. Bacigalupo, M.,

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IM Insights

JANUARY 11, 2022

We provide insights on how to measure innovation, innovation accounting , and managing the uncertain process of developing new, sustainable, and profitable business models. And that’s a kind of core innovation, like very incremental, marginal improvements. Your host is Elijah Eilert. It was a startup team.

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