Idea to Value

APRIL 11, 2023

As a result, the senior leadership were becoming frustrated and stressed about how to communicate to the participants who had sent their ideas, or whether they should communicate at all. There was only one person in the company in charge of the innovation initiatives, and they were already working at capacity.

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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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Destination Innovation

JUNE 8, 2023

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Offer strategies for effective prototyping and testing. When it comes to innovation leadership, keynote speakers can: Show how leaders can set a precedent for innovation within their teams. They inspire attendees by showcasing successful case studies and sharing strategies to foster an inventive mindset.

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Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 13, 2020

Unfortunately, we only rarely see a clear alignment between strategy and innovation. Steve Blank, founder of the Lean Startup movement, calls this “innovation theatre”. From our experience, nowadays most companies perform some sort of innovation activities. A bunch of innovation activities that do not produce any tangible outcomes.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

Innov8rs | Making strategy behind closed doors is a prescription for failure when disruptions are coming from all directions. Formulating and executing a sound organizational strategy is complex. Strategy is often made by elite teams and can thus be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces.

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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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CMOE

JULY 29, 2021

Because change is inevitable in business, leaders must be equipped with the right competencies, specifically change-management leadership skills. What Is Change Management in Leadership? Change management is a leadership competency that involves being able to effectively lead, manage, and achieve change.

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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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Kainexus

AUGUST 23, 2022

Hoshin Kanri, also known as policy deployment, is the Lean management approach for aligning strategy, tactics, and improvement work organization-wide. The words Hoshin Kanri mean "management compass."

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Leanstack

OCTOBER 30, 2018

I often get asked if one can or should model a non-profit using a Lean Canvas. The lean canvas makes defining how we create value for the donor explicit. There are several variations of the lean and business model canvases now floating around for non-profits and social ventures. Why the lean canvas?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In this article, the authors outline five strategies to help you get back in touch with your gut instinct: 1) Lean on your team. It can be disconcerting to feel that your intuition isn’t working the way it should. What happens when, as a leader, you feel your intuition is suddenly failing you? 3) Stop multitasking.

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Matthew May

APRIL 24, 2015

And what appears to be strategy, isn’t. The first two are constants, and hold true nearly 100% of the time in my innovation coaching and lean training engagements. The third is the real surprise, showing up with alarming frequency in my strategy facilitation engagements. What appears to be the solution, isn’t.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

These systems are based on a teachable process and the leadership and people/culture infrastructure, which engage staff and foster collaboration. These decisions include the portfolio needed to translate strategy into initiatives and how to drive and scale initiatives that create new revenue streams.

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Kainexus

JANUARY 27, 2023

We recently had the honor of hosting Nick Katko, President and Owner of BMA and author of several books, including The Lean CFO - 2nd Edition and co-author of Practicing Lean Accounting , on a webinar with KaiNexus Senior Advisor Mark Graban, and Senior Director of Lean Strategy, Chris Burnham.

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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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Innovation 360 Group

MARCH 10, 2019

Leadership styles are critical to innovation efforts, especially when working with uncertainty. Among the most interesting results from that work was that managers who used a wider variety of leadership styles, and applied them simultaneously, were best able to guide the development of radical innovation to a growth conclusion.

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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. Robust Onboarding Strategy. Why Is Retention Important?

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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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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The top three issues were poor leadership (22%), high cost of living (17%), and the economy in general (12%). The right kind of strategy to combat climate change. The right kind of strategy to combat climate change. Strategy is what organizations do , not what they say. Deliberate strategies are analytical and top-down.

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Digital Tonto

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Instead of layoffs, he’s investing in lean manufacturing methods that put front-line workers at the center and instead of using acquisitions to fuel growth, he’s broken the company up to help focus on operational excellence. Here’s How: 3 Levels of Strategy Why it’s Better to Have a Strategic Philosophy than an Ideology

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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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Kainexus

MAY 16, 2019

For those of you who aren’t familiar with him, Mark is an internationally-recognized expert in the field of “Lean Healthcare” and the author of LeanBlog.org and author of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award-winning book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement.

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Leanstack

OCTOBER 30, 2018

I often get asked if one can or should model a non-profit using a Lean Canvas. The lean canvas makes defining how we create value for the donor explicit. There are several variations of the lean and business model canvases now floating around for non-profits and social ventures. Why the lean canvas?

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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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Digital Tonto

JULY 30, 2023

We can optimize operations, streamline our organizations and motivate our people, but eventually our square-peg business will meet its round-hole world and we will need to adapt, build new skills and shift our strategies. Unfortunately, the overwhelming evidence suggests that we will fail.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In other words, they'll bring along the existing leadership and the existing corporate culture. They strip down and operate as efficiently as possible, using lean practices and six sigma guidance (already well embedded) to improve operating margins. Which matters most - executives, strategy or culture?

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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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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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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. Books discussed in the video: Flash Foresight: [link] / 48S4GiF Lean Startup: [link] Blue Ocean Strategy: [link] If you would like to watch us have this conversation, you can do so here.

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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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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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Cris Beswick

MAY 1, 2024

This transformative realignment begins with reimagining the company’s core reason for being – its overarching strategy. To cultivate an innovation-led culture, organisations must systematically realign all aspects of their institutional form to enable their innovation-focused functional objectives seamlessly.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

This was the foundation for some of the most effective management principles of the 20th century, such as lean manufacturing and six sigma, where process performance was scrutinised to find every opportunity to remove inefficiency and improve output. Not because of a lack of process in a powerpoint strategy deck.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The view offered in this article suggests four pillars to be put into place: 1) A Committed and Engaged Leadership, 2) A Comprehensive Innovation Strategy, 3) A Sustained Mindset Shift and 4) A Comprehensive Tool Kit. Achieving a Committed & Engaged Leadership. Establishing a Comprehensive Innovation Strategy.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Strategies for Effective Bottom-Up Systems Implementing a bottom-up approach requires thoughtful strategies to ensure its success: Encouraging Open Communication: The cornerstone of a bottom-up system is open communication. Organizations should be willing to adapt their strategies based on employee feedback and changing circumstances.

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