Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Implementing the Lean Startup in any company is hard. Innovation at times seems like you’re swimming up hill. Now compound that level of effort with trying to put a Lean Startup culture in place in Japan. And weak leadership leads to a reluctance to change and the inability to mandate Lean as an innovation process.

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LEAN Company Leadership Culture 45

Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I've written previously about having a bias for innovation in your culture , seeking and finding important and unmet needs or opportunities , and introducing discovery and exploration in your innovation process. Agile, lean and rapid methodologies meant to accelerate the innovation cycle?

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LEAN Agile Innovation Project 155

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers. ” The value of the innovation narrative is it should offer beliefs about the company’s ability to innovate.

Innovation 319

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 319

Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

Technology advances, customer needs shift, and what worked yesterday would might probably not work tomorrow. Business model innovation involves changing these aspects significantly to respond to shifts in the market, technology, or customer preferences. Because the world doesn’t stand still.

Software 52

Software Innovation LEAN Disruption 52

Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. What most companies get wrong about innovation processes.

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Technical Review Innovation Innovation Processes Project 248

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Reinvention through business model innovation. 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. Let’s remind: One size does not fit all.

Innovation Management 100

Innovation Management Management LEAN Technical Review 100

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers. ” The value of the innovation narrative is it should offer beliefs about the company’s ability to innovate.

Innovation 130

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Razors have undergone incremental innovations over time Source: The Hustle Incremental innovations may not make headlines, but they’re the steady pulses that keep businesses competitive and responsive to market demands. Marketing Innovation Another type of innovation in business is marketing innovation.

Radical Innovation 52

Radical Innovation Innovation Disruption Marketing 52

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers. ” The value of the innovation narrative is it should offer beliefs about the company’s ability to innovate.

Innovation 130

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

They point out that since 2014, only four types of innovation and that are all related to digital, have grown increasingly in importance in their pursuit by companies. So the need to innovate comes from digital as the source. It will fundamentally change the type of resources innovation requires.

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Innovation Radical Innovation Design Big Data 186

Planview

JULY 15, 2022

The paper outlines six key practices for accelerating new product development and innovations based on examples from companies representing various industries. However, our discussion with Dr. Cooper mainly focuses on three of those six practices: Effective Portfolio Management Lean Development Agile Stage-Gate. From: [link] rs/).

Product Development 52

Product Development Agile LEAN Survey 52

Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

What’s the best way to leverage new technologies? During The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed these topics with Tom Waller (Senior Vice President of Innovation at adidas) and Tiffany Vasilchik (Chief Growth Officer at Board of Innovation). Using Technology Differently (and More Efficiently).

Innovation Management 52

Innovation Management Design Management Agile 52

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Why and How are Billions in Potential Innovation Left On The Table? Innovation is Fresh Combinations . Fresh combinations of technologies, processes, materials, people, trends, concepts, and other factors are what creates innovation. Innovation Directors and CEO’s — why not?

Ideation 52

Ideation Innovation Processes Trends Exercises 52

Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 24, 2019

From that wave we've had successive efficiency strategies: Six Sigma (an outgrowth of the quality movement), business process re-engineering, lean, outsourcing and right-sizing. Slow and steady may have been the watchword in the past, but it seems like innovation is more critical to long term success.

Innovation 171

Innovation Strategy Strategy LEAN 171

hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

However, having leaders who drive and foster innovation accelerates a company’s growth. Top-tier managers handling innovation roles in successful companies set an example for the company’s employees to contribute to the innovation process. It also shows the company’s interest in investing in innovation.

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Company LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 77

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. Both paradigms transformed innovation approaches worldwide. The emergence of Creative AI now marks a new,historic development in innovation.

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Artificial Inteligence Innovation Ideation Data 64

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve. Aligning People, Technology, and Innovation in Design. Impact and Intensity becomes the new mantra.

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Innovation Design Agile System 179

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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Agile Disruption Guidelines Resources 40

hackerearth

MAY 4, 2017

Eric Ries, Lean Startup. Doesn’t it surprise you that while most managers think of productivity being managed, quality being perfected, and human resources being tamed by adopting time-honed management principles, creativity and innovation, somehow, refuses to fall within the bracket? Figure 1: Innovation process map (Courtesy: IDEO).

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Management Innovation Technical Review Creativity 74

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 175

mjvinnovation

APRIL 11, 2019

Keep reading to understand in depth what open innovation is and how it can be used in your business! The open innovation concept. In his book, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (Harvard Business School Press – 2003), researcher Henry Chesbrough coined the term Open Innovation.

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Open Innovation Technical Review Innovation Innovation Processes 40

Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

According to CultureAmp research, ‘Nearly 8 out of 10 of highly engaged employees regard their companies as having a culture that nurtures innovation’ 5. This graphic from The Lean Enterprise Institute illustrates Toyota’s use of the continuous improvement method to improve existing processes efficiently.

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Innovation Programs Innovation Technical Review Open Innovation 98

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. New tools for digital technology integration are presented including GFi’s Digital MoshPit. Thursday, November 1 at CRC.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 7, 2015

Yesterday, I was quite delighted to see my post Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking ranked #11 of the Top 100 Innovation Posts 2014 at Innovation Excellence. In fact, the real power lies in combining different innovation approaches to fit a unique context. No one size fits all.

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LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Design 40

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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Project Training Design Thinking Innovation 74

InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? Innovation managers: Innovation managers use design thinking to drive innovation within the organization. This may involve leading design thinking teams, facilitating workshops, and developing innovation processes and strategies.

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Design Thinking Design Underperforming Technical Team Ideation 74

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should!

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System Innovation Design Technical Review 113

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should!

System 113

System Innovation Design Agile 113

Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Strength might come from technology invention, distribution, raw materials, or dominance in a particular market. Competitive advantage might be product quality (durability) or green technology. Technology and startups: Where are venture capital investors putting money related to your markets? It’s better to buy one’s way in.

How To 40

How To Trends Marketing LEAN 40

Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Why is this challenge so different from previous innovation challenges? 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. Learn and understand the technology.

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Technical Review Ideation Big Data Innovation 55

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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Change Technical Review Marketing Management 100

Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The validation of the idea comes after based on business validation, customer validation and technology validation over a longer period of an agile innovation process where the team may experiment and learn week-by-week. And How much value would it potentially create for your customers?

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Video Disruption How To Agile 40

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.

Innovation 70

Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

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. Measurable processes and results, the data for on-going improvement.

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Course Training Idea Generation Innovation 26

mjvinnovation

MARCH 29, 2021

The objective of a process consultancy is to increase production capacity, thus enabling the company to expand operations and increase revenue. This can end up making it difficult to control internal processes, in addition to measuring their effectiveness – since the parameters need to change to enable the expansion.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review Resources 52

Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. Scaffolding and Experiential Learning Tools Are Innovation Framework Neutral. A framework is a scaffold.

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Learning Underperforming Technical Team Training Innovation 45

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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Company Technical Review Software Review Innovation 57