Moves the Needle

JUNE 29, 2023

In the complexity of the globally-connected digital world, uncertainties and the assumptions on how to overcome them, hinder organizations from achieving their objectives. Rapid experimentation aims to expose and test these assumptions to bridge the gap between theoretical hypotheses and real world fruition of an idea.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sadly, it doesn’t work like that. Even with all the best footballers in the world, the best training, and the most shots on goal - you’re not going to win the World Cup if you’re playing volleyball. Innov8rs | Innovation departments are continuing to fail. None of these ingredients are controversial in the slightest.

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Training LEAN Innovation Resources 72

Idea to Value

JULY 1, 2020

Published in 1942, the theory states that “work expands to fill the time available to complete it”. The reasoning is that first, managers crave power and more people to order about and, second, more people create more work for each other. Innovation is anathema to rigid outfits because it involves redesigning work.

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Report Big Data Leadership LEAN 148

Christensen Institute

MARCH 17, 2022

Those concerned with training for the future of work are becoming far more concerned with outcomes, not just access to education and upskilling opportunities. Those concerned with training for the future of work are becoming far more concerned with outcomes, not just access to education and upskilling opportunities. Click To Tweet. “I

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LEAN Training Data Meeting 98

IM Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The episode challenges traditional practices in organizations and focuses on the importance of understanding human behaviour to achieve success for new products and organisational change management. Peter recommends checking out Lean Change Management and gives a shoutout to Jason Little ! [05:23]

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Learning Analysis Agile Software Engineering 52

IdeaScale

MAY 2, 2019

For example, if your long-term goal is to shift from an industry you feel is beginning to fade in relevance to one that’s rising, often your short-term goals should reflect the details of what needs to happen for that change. Encouraging the entire company to lean into both forms of innovation, with a focus on their goals, will be key.

Innovation Management 124

Innovation Management Management Innovation LEAN 124

Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

Some of the key theories we use in our work not only provide a confirming rationale for the Prepared Project’s takeaways, but also offer insights into how other schools and districts can replicate the factors that made a difference for the Prepared Project’s featured schools. Factor 1: Forward-leaning orientation.

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Technical Review LEAN Culture Agile 98

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. To date, much of our work has focused on how career pathways models can more effectively and equitably integrate social capital into their approach.

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Policies Innovation ChatGPT Tools 131

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

A company needs to make reasonable bets across the incremental, transformative and disruptive horizons in proportions that make sense based on competition and speed of change. In reality, you should work on culture first, since the culture will be around long after the executives that start the innovation effort will move on or retire.

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Innovation Culture Training Project 157

Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

It’s about refining what already works to deliver greater value to customers and streamline operations. For companies, embracing incremental innovation means fostering a culture of continuous improvement where even the smallest changes are valued for their cumulative impact over time.

Radical Innovation 52

Radical Innovation Innovation Disruption Competition 52

Imaginatik

MARCH 1, 2018

The resulting changes in ecosystem dynamics could erode their margins, depress the stock price, and perhaps put them out of business. For “Horizon 1” operational improvements, the hard part is soliciting ideas and getting everyone on the same page regarding “what needs to change.” Let’s call them Acme Corporation.

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Innovation Innovation Programs Artificial Inteligence Software 188

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. Often this era of change is not as well-recognized or being faced up to, as you would expect. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design.

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Innovation Radical Innovation Design Big Data 185

Planview

JULY 15, 2022

However, our discussion with Dr. Cooper mainly focuses on three of those six practices: Effective Portfolio Management Lean Development Agile Stage-Gate. Cooper mainly focuses on three of those six practices: Effective Portfolio Management Lean Development Agile Stage-Gate.

Product Development 52

Product Development Agile LEAN Survey 52

Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

It was their job to ensure all aspects of the product development process were aligned and working together. His primary function was to digest the Founders’ vision, understand the market, illicit requirements from customers, and work with Engineering management to determine what would make it into the next release.

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Management Agile Software Design 52

Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Proper Role of Innovation Labs (and teams) Many innovation labs played an important role in demonstrating an entrepreneurial way of working. The Proper Role of Innovation Labs (and teams) Many innovation labs played an important role in demonstrating an entrepreneurial way of working. Perhaps, they were underfunded for a reason.

Disruption 40

Disruption Innovation LEAN Competition 40

Planview

MAY 20, 2022

Except that, as every PMO knows, project execution is the most challenging stage of the project life cycle, and it’s only gotten more difficult in a world of hybrid and remote work. This will make it easier to create realistic timelines and assign work to the team member with the right skills for the task. Simple enough, right?

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Project How To Agile Resources 59

Moves the Needle

APRIL 10, 2023

The term originated in the United States lean manufacturing movement of the 1980s and 1990s. The idea behind lean manufacturing was to maximize customer value while minimizing waste, resulting in increased efficiency and profitability. But, it should go further than that. What if you don’t know what your value stream is?

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LEAN Agile Marketing Case Study 40

Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Before and After Lean Innovation: Overview The City of Hayward, California wanted to break away from inefficient and ineffective processes for researching and launching programs, and remove organizational bottlenecks that stood in the way of serving citizens. Download this case study to show to your colleagues, board of directors, or boss.

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LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Case Study Study 99

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Steve Blank has a famous rallying cry of “ get out of the building ” as part of the Customer Development Manifesto , to turn the initial hypothesis into real customer needs through gathering hard customer data, outside your office, validating it to the real world outside. Going cross-industry.

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Industry Trends LEAN Change 215

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

This does need a real change but can we achieve it? We have all been trying (very hard) to stay relevant in an ever-increasing uncertain world, applying solutions left over from a past era. We have all been trying (very hard) to stay relevant in an ever-increasing uncertain world, applying solutions left over from a past era.

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Innovation Design Agile System 178

Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 4, 2016

Part 2 in The Lean Startup Series Why do new ventures fail? Here is what the Lean Startup team says : If you’re wondering which kind of risk you face, let me help you out: It’s customer risk. One of the key reasons for using a Lean Startup approach like Lean LaunchPad is that it helps you address all three types of risk simultaneously.

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LEAN Development Team Review Tools Marketing 100

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Recently, well actually, over the past twelve or eighteen months, I was asked to explore and explain different frameworks that the innovator might need to know or at least have an opinion upon. These were for HYPE and posted on their blogs, mostly under their “Methods & Frameworks ” tag. Let me know.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 199

ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We also know exactly what transformative innovation involves, and how to enable and equip people to connect and collaborate in new ways to effect constructive and sustainable change in a world of unknowns. At the same time, we know why innovation is transformational, and why, at this time, it is more important than ever to innovate.

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Technical Review Innovation Agile System 64

Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The truth only applied to tech companies whose markets were directly impacted by the change. 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. If you build hard drives, you better keep up or else.

How To 52

How To Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Meeting 52

The Human Factor

MAY 28, 2020

But there’s one thing it doesn’t handle very well – change. Especially change of the magnitude brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nobody saw this virus coming, but it has turned our world upside down. So when a major change comes along, we go through a process much like grieving. Why We Instinctually Resist Change.

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Change How To Data LEAN 77

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. 01:09) Introducing Andy Cars owner of Lean Ventures International AB. (03:52) 18:48) Changes in the organisation’s culture and insights start with an entrepreneurial mindset.

Innovation Management 52

Innovation Management Management Entrepreneurship LEAN 52

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Is Agility compatible for many working in established businesses? “To Agility is today going far beyond just being responsive,it goes into constantly adjusting and being versatile, modifying to meet rapidly changing conditions. Stable worlds are brilliant but they never seem to stay that way. So why is that?

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Agile LEAN Management Exercises 100

Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

However, for every Steve Jobs or Elon Musk who has famously steered their companies through the maelstrom of change, countless unsung leaders, often within the more traditional corporate structures, want to cultivate the culture that innovation requires within their organisation. It’s for those that I write this article! is an outcome.

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Innovation Culture Creativity Disruption 59

Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 11, 2019

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. It's about that time of year where we begin to look back, to think about what we've accomplished and what lies ahead.

Artificial Inteligence 147

Artificial Inteligence Agile Disruption Company 147

Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Yet, even amidst the increased adoption of blended learning during COVID, school systems continue to struggle to scale the potential game-changing benefits of technology in the classroom. Blog: The great uncoupling: How digital learning will change education. Do you have a favorite blog or report from this year?

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Survey Data Innovation Meeting 69

Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 30, 2018

I'm of the opinion that many people in the business world have sacrificed a significant portion of the proactive selves in order to operate in as efficient a manner as possible. Understanding the level, intensity and scope of work helps people gear up for the work to come. Let someone else take the risk was the mantra.

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Innovation LEAN Culture Marketing 113

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

MARCH 8, 2024

Thought Leader and Influencer Interview Thinkers360 thought leader interviews profile prominent members of the Thinkers360 community who embody the power of ideas in their work. CY: I enlisted in the Navy six months after high school knowing very little of how to work on a team. Once I joined the Navy, I went to boot camp.

Leadership 52

Leadership Marketing Project Management 52

Planview

JUNE 3, 2022

But the real challenge isn’t in setting the strategy – it’s in keeping the ship on course, over time, especially as conditions change. But the real challenge isn’t in setting the strategy – it’s in keeping the ship on course, over time, especially as conditions change. What is strategic drift? Strategic drift is not malicious.

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Course LEAN Agile Strategy 52

Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 12, 2020

As a result, policy changes and culture adjustments take place to address systemic injustices and establish equal rights for all, professionally and personally. As a result, policy changes and culture adjustments take place to address systemic injustices and establish equal rights for all, professionally and personally.

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Trends Disruption Technology Examples 98

Values Centered Innovation

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Jolt #28: Lean into myths, not just methods. It can take a heroic effort to identify a new goal, birth innovative solutions, and put those solutions to work. Are you ready for a new, insight-provoking “Jolt” … something that challenges conventional thinking about the "right" mindset for being innovative? Jolts wake us up.

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LEAN Culture Innovation Processes Study 52

Econic

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Whether you work at a company that’s considering B Corp certification or you’re simply curious to know more about what it entails, here’s a quick list of seven things to know. The B Corp movement is redefining business for good by setting different business standards to work towards creating a better world.

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Meeting LEAN Design Company 52

Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 13, 2016

This slight rant of mine was started when I saw a new software application talk about its ability to help its clients in agile lean innovation. Lean is about stripping away unnecessary assets to focus on doing the most with the least. Lean is about stripping away unnecessary assets to focus on doing the most with the least.

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LEAN Agile Innovation Software 100