Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We serve many diverse customers. Customers are anyone for whom we need to create value and impact. Customers are anyone for whom we need to create value and impact. What is especially challenging is that we solve different problems to create value for each of our different stakeholders.

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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. Click to Tweet.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Yet lacking the first three ingredients, we all seem to focus on methods as the key to success. If we could only create the right mindset and skill sets in our teams, we would create the next billion dollar business. Innov8rs | Innovation departments are continuing to fail. You rarely win without a strategy.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

Overall I found Lean UX to be an incredibly insightful and helpful compilation of principles and suggestions for practice/improving process and collaboration as outlined in my review of the book. Since others may have these same questions, we appreciate Jeff Gothelf agreeing to answer them for Boxes and Arrows.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Lean Innovation Case Study: Bringing a New Product to Market Don’t have time to read the whole article? This is the story of how Edmunds.com used Lean Innovation practices to make their mission a reality. Eventually, they determined that Lean Innovation principles would be the best way to tackle this uncertainty.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

One of my favorite quotes comes from Shaw, who said that all change in life originate from unreasonable people. For innovation and digital transformation, perhaps we should be a bit more unreasonable. We need to define what digital transformation is, or what we think it is. We need to be thinking bigger.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 3, 2019

Created by Toyota, Lean Methodology is able to reduce waste through techniques such as the creation and development of products alongside the consumer, identifying who the customer is and what he needs, while shaping the product that will be designed. Have you tried applying the principles of the Lean methodology to your business yet?

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 2, 2018

Therefore, it’s paramount to understand the driving force of the integration and to ensure that it informs critical decisions made along the way. You can use Lean Innovation techniques -- Empathy, Experiments, and Evidence to ensure the driving force is sustained through the integration. So, there are two distinct points to this story.

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CorporateIntel

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sometimes I wonder if the advancing of age and a leaning toward old-fashioned values are a hindrance to relevancy in our contemporary workplace. Then I remember who taught me the most about workplace navigation in the early years of my professional career. We all can learn from each other if we choose to listen.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 4, 2016

Part 2 in The Lean Startup Series Why do new ventures fail? There are three areas of risk when we launch something new: Technical (or product) risk: can we build it? Cash (or business model) risk: if people want it and we build it, can we make enough money from it? Market(or customer) risk: does anyone want it?

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 8, 2020

However, for every technological advancement, there seems to be a learning curve or adjustment period as we try to figure out how to implement automation into our daily lives. It’s easy to look at the big picture and consider the ways technology transforms how we live and conduct business. source: pixabay.com.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 4, 2024

Despite these growing proof points, efforts to improve education lean on mental models, theories of change, and investment strategies that routinely ignore the social side of opportunity. Models that expand brokers, not just information, to grow student support, navigation, and ROI.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As AI advances, we find ourselves heading towards a new era — one where innovation is not just constant but autonomous, as Board of Innovation's founder Philip de Ridder explains below. At each key step, we envision an element of human curation. Innov8rs | Innovation is undergoing a tectonic shift. That is Autonomous Innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Demonstrate that innovation depends on finding the most innovative people, who by definition are rarely the more efficient people. Innovative people wonder why we aren't doing better or something new, or why we are sticking with these products long after they've been superseded in the marketplace.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These words include adjectives such as "lean", "agile" and "rapid", to make the point that innovation should be stripped to its bare components, move as fast as possible and create minimum viable solutions. But we ought to ask ourselves when it is important and necessary to move quickly, and equally what factors cause work to move slowly.

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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! “ We used to be so focused on releasing good products that we didn’t validate if we were spending time on the right thing, which slowed us down. . “

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 18, 2022

I had a conversation recently with a few industry professionals who were expressing concerns about the idea of scaling agile. There’s been this tendency to kind of munge agile together with lean manufacturing and lean startup or lean innovation. Their objection was that not everybody can be agile nor needs to be.

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IM Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2021

If innovation accounting techniques are applied we can quantify where exactly the uncertainty lies. The gas station gets paid in the form of valuable information that the project is good, i.e. it delivers value and can therefore fuel up again. . (10:00) The model needs to inform us. Topics and Insights . (02:00) 53:15) Recap.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 28, 2022

Exercises in mapping relationships can be paired with lessons on building relationships or goal-setting activities, helping students to connect the dots between where they are, where they want to go, and who they know that can help them get there. . Mapping students’ networks can be a promising strategy toward myriad ends.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. Often this era of change is not as well-recognized or being faced up to, as you would expect.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Part of what we do at Moves the Needle is to work with large enterprise organizations on corporate innovation strategy and providing education on how to shift away from a traditional management mindset to think and act in a new way. How does corporate strategy inform your work? Who does that work?

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

It was not unusual to find PM’s who reported into Engineering at the time, the two cases perhaps reflecting the above origin stories. We were “pre-customer” and no, we didn’t IPO without customers. (We We were “pre-customer” and no, we didn’t IPO without customers. But don’t ask how many when we did.)

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Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

Additionally, involving those who will execute the strategy from the beginning can bridge the gap between development and execution, ultimately leading to more effective implementation. Innov8rs | Making strategy behind closed doors is a prescription for failure when disruptions are coming from all directions.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

What areas must we prioritize or focus on? What types of wins have we achieved this past year? What do we represent or stand for? Whereas a mission statement leans more on present-day initiatives and describes the purpose of the team (or company), its core business, and defines why the business exists.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 8, 2020

It is all of the formal and especially informal decision making apparatus. This has been brought about by a range of management thinking, including Six Sigma and Lean work, right sizing, outsourcing and cost containment. So we will have to accept that cultural change and embracing an innovation bias is something that happens over time.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

It may seem obvious but unless you know who you are, and what your purpose is, as an organization you will flounder. If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we? Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. This wastes Time and Money.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

At the helm of this radical evolution stand leaders who are pioneers, visionaries, and, most importantly, adept at catalysing novel ideas into reality. Still, nevertheless, they exist because we either perpetuate or don’t see them. They are not always intentional or by design. Does it matter if no one labels them innovative?

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

These are academic principles perpetuated by people who spend a lot of time in ivory towers. Can we stop, please? They are eager to build, ignoring the lean innovation lessons of human-centered design, solution assumption busting, and market-based evidence that cuts through biases. Insert eyeroll here. Define the Challenges.

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CMOE

JUNE 1, 2021

Being a leader of any type can be a daunting responsibility, but as you adopt a leadership mindset and incorporate a few actions into your day-to-day activities, you can be a highly effective leader who inspires team members to do their best work. You can build a foundation of trust by: Practicing transparency. Listen with Intent.

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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

We also understand that time is of the essence. We encourage you to adapt these best practices to align with your people or organizational needs. Solution: Focus on the Facilitator Mindset Leadership consultant Dr. Flo Falayi encourages leaders to lean on what they call “The Facilitator Mindset.”

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Brunner

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Not only do we have the platforms to seamlessly reach audiences, we also have a lot of information about who they are and what their habits are. This information is then leveraged to micro target audiences with extreme precision. But what do they mean and how can we make sense of them?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Others came up as useful to explore as they delve into different issues we need to tackle when contemplating different frameworks or methods associated with innovation. “We all are caught up in handling and understanding different management tools. The first group are recent ones providing a really good depth to them.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 11, 2019

It's about that time of year where we begin to look back, to think about what we've accomplished and what lies ahead. Knowing that the end of the year is in sight, and the holidays are almost upon us, we anticipate work slowing down, and perhaps for just a few days we can actually think - really think - about what's going to happen in 2020.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2015

The idea I'd like you to contemplate until my return is that we are all making innovation far too complicated, and we need to stop dressing up the activity with lots of talking points and stop working ourselves and our management into a tizzy about commitments and investments. Of course all of these are important.

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The Human Factor

MAY 28, 2020

Our challenge as leaders is how we respond to it – a task made more difficult by the fact that the human brain did not evolve to deal with sudden and overwhelming change positively. We prefer the known over the unknown, even when the known may not be as we would like it. Why We Instinctually Resist Change.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Doubly unfortunately, the same innovation experts who say that traditional management methods do not work for innovation projects usually cannot tell you which innovation management methods, frameworks and processes to use to actually run successful innovation projects. And this is true. ———-. method) about how the L.I.V.E.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Google didn’t start out by organising the world’s information. We’re currently running a small Lean LaunchPad course at University of Queensland, and listening to the updates on Friday got me thinking about this all over again – all the teams were aiming too broadly. Someone (who?)

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