Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

2023 could turn out to be one of the hardest for innovation and leadership teams in decades… … or, with the right focused effort, it could be one of the best. Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like.

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CMOE

JULY 29, 2021

Because change is inevitable in business, leaders must be equipped with the right competencies, specifically change-management leadership skills. Learn what these are and how you can begin applying them to yourself and your team. What Is Change Management in Leadership? Learn from failure. Act quickly.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

This (economic) reality has highlighted the limitations of existing innovation systems, underscoring the necessity for a more efficient and effective approach to innovation management, as Frank Mattes and Dennis Boeckler suggested during a recent Innov8rs Learning Lab session. Most of these systems trace back to the Lean Startup.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Lean Startup Week - this year known as Lean Startup Conference - has traditionally been a staple in the innovation industry for bringing both startups and enterprise companies alike into the same sphere in order to discuss advancements in strategy, tactics, ideas, and social impact. Social Impact AMA with Heather Hiscox.

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Kainexus

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Lean Strategist on the KaiNexus Lean Strategy Team. In this blog, Stephanie shares her experience learning the importance of proving impact as a Lean professional. This blog was written by Stephanie Hill, Sr.

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Avoiding these repercussions requires a robust retention strategy that encourages team members to stick around long term. Below, we discuss the three key elements required in an employee-retention strategy. The 3 Elements of a Successful Retention Strategy. What would they like to learn more about? How to Achieve This.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

This guest article on innovative teaching shares ideas and strategies from the The Startup Teacher Playbook: Turn Your Ideas Into Actions, Personalize Professional Development, and Create Innovative Learning Experiences for You and Your Students. We could encourage more ‘unconference’ style learning to share new ideas.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 28, 2024

In this scenario, how should leaders go about putting together a strategy for their orgs and drive engagement within their teams. The importance of understanding soft trends and hard trends and learning the skill of foresight. How does Damien learn and continue to stay current. You can find more information about Damien here.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 21, 2019

Executives are not investing in innovation simply for the fun of it, but recent trends have uncovered that leaders inside many enterprises are still struggling to find strong parallels between corporate and innovation strategy , and a large portion of these companies are still making “blind bets” with their innovation investments.

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CMOE

MAY 28, 2021

With the changing needs and demands of clinical care, technology, and spending, leadership in healthcare must stay agile to keep up with the shifting tides. Who Fills the Leadership Role in Healthcare? Many individuals fill leadership roles in healthcare. Here are the five essential qualities for leadership in healthcare.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Co-Authored by Heather Hiscox and Amelia Klawon Get the full case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. Not only are customized strategies imperative, but how we arrive at solutions to create value is extremely important. These challenges, while significant, can be overcome.

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IdeaSpies

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Go to market quicker Whilst it’s not always about speed, enabling speed of execution is an advantage – it might still take 12 months to get a startup partnership live but without their lean practices it’s likely to be longer for the corporate. Importantly, this behaviour must be supported by leadership or risk losing quality skills.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation? The Leadership Innovation Manifesto. Find it here. Find it here. Find it here.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Here are a few things we can learn: We can discover if being relieved of corporate overhead really matters to the individual businesses. In other words, they'll bring along the existing leadership and the existing corporate culture. Which matters most - executives, strategy or culture? Which will the three companies choose?

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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. Founder of Mulberry Retreats – focusing on leadership development. 14:00) On bad leadership behaviour and how not to fund projects. (16:00)

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

To one leader, it means adopting a learning and exploration mindset; to another, “innovation is not my job.” The innovation mindset is characterized by behavior reflecting learning and exploration. But leadership should be agnostic about how they achieve the desired outcomes. Improvement in employee happiness? All of the above?

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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. Delegating not only establishes trust—it is the ideal way to help team members learn and grow.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

MARCH 8, 2024

We specialize in B2B strategic marketing, B2B analyst and influencer relations, and B2B thought leadership marketing putting your brand in front of active B2B buyers, analysts and influencers worldwide – Explore membership today ! CY: I enlisted in the Navy six months after high school knowing very little of how to work on a team.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 18, 2015

Perhaps the most common question we hear is, “How do you get started doing Lean Startup in the enterprise?” We always get a kick discussing enterprise lean startup challenges with The Lean Startup author Eric Ries, so welcomed the opportunity to do so during his recent Kickstarter campaign. It made such an impression on him.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

However, there is one more very important aspect to innovation leadership. Ask, “What can we learn?” Convene special strategy sessions just for generating ideas and exploring options. Approve experiments and encourage Lean prototyping. Admit when you are wrong and capture the learning from failed inventions.

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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. Both are reasonable and both can use acquisitions as part of its strategy, but you must understand the underlying need, beyond the word innovation.

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CMOE

JUNE 14, 2021

In response to this trend, more businesses are incorporating real-time feedback in their performance-management strategy. Coupling real-time feedback with annual reviews can help your leaders take on a coaching mentality and establish a team that thrives on continuous learning and development. Fuels the growth of leadership teams.

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Matthew May

JUNE 26, 2015

After reading his 1999 book High Velocity Leadership , we invited Brian to guest speak about the Mars Pathfinder project, and he soon he became a regular fixture in the University of Toyota’s “lean” leadership curriculum. Enter what I call the “Gremlin” strategy. Except…the Gremlin had come in during the night.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 3, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You know ALL the innovation tools and frameworks: Design Thinking Lean Startup Disruptive Innovation But knowing and doing are two different things. When I first learned Jobs to be Done, it felt painfully obvious, exactly like the customer research I did for five years at P&G.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

In this article, I’ll draw upon two decades of hard-earned experience in pioneering the development of innovation-focused cultures in organisations worldwide to share proven principles, strategies, and techniques. So, be vigilant, be self-aware, pause for self-reflection, and maintain a broad perspective.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Another example is the recently introduced strategy framework by Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha from BCG. Here, dedicated strategies and innovation approaches are defined for different business environments, characterized by the factors predictability, malleability and harshness (see figure below).

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Innovation isn’t just about the next big idea; it’s a multifaceted strategy that businesses employ to navigate through the twists and turns of today’s dynamic markets. Each category plays a critical role in a company’s growth and adaptation, offering unique paths to market leadership and resilience.

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Planview

JUNE 3, 2022

As executives, we tend to spend a lot of our time and energy on setting strategy – the direction in which we want the figurative ship to go. But the real challenge isn’t in setting the strategy – it’s in keeping the ship on course, over time, especially as conditions change. Strategic drift is not malicious.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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. Guides strategy and execution: Challenges are inevitable in the workplace. It offers teams a picture of the ideal future result they would like to accomplish.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. Q&A from Accelerating Innovation: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic. Consider an Adaptive New Product Development Strategy.

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Planview

MARCH 18, 2022

These meetings are based on automation strategy for the Enterprise One product. Outside of the PD teams I have regular one-on-ones, community meetings and leadership meetings. Plus, the innovative environment allows us to figure things out and gives employees the freedom to learn and grow. Planview, as a company, is growing.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

This is a lesson I learned from making many mistakes in my own work. I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. There are three main elements that intrapreneurs need to think about before they start working; Leadership Support Organization Design and Innovation Practice.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Elijah Eilert speaks to Andy Cars , the founder and CEO of Lean Ventures International, about the ISO standards for innovation management. The aim is to create a long-term innovation strategy and transform an organisation’s culture into a value creation mindset. 19:00) On the need for an innovation strategy . (21:40)

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space. Vision & Leadership 1. Senior team not aligned or embracing Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space. Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. Innovation not linked to company’s existing vision or strategy. No compelling vision or reason to innovate.

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Planview

JUNE 23, 2022

Our team welcomed attendees to our booth and discussed strategies and solutions to help services organizations lead the future of connected services by connecting systems, data, work, organization, people, and customers. Ask yourself the following questions: Are you connected to your company strategy? Digital Transformation is Key.

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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

This process leads to the need for executing effective virtual facilitation strategies for remote participants and inevitable challenges as participants and facilitators adapt to the virtual environments. What are their learning styles? This mindset encompasses five parts. Know Your Audience To whom are you speaking?

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