Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Part Eight in the Lean Startup Series When teams start out with lean startup, they often build hypotheses that are too precise – we assume we know more than we do. Remember, we’re looking for our first market segment – a specific group, with a specific problem that we can solve. Finally, again, this isn’t a poll.

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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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IM Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

According to him, innovation involves the introduction of genuinely new ideas or solutions to the world, with a keen focus on how these innovations are received within the market. For him, innovation is about introducing something new and meaningful to the world, with a focus on both the idea itself and its reception in the market.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I think of the Gartner Hype Cycle here as we have gone through each of the stages of recognition of the application and the learning from this; we have the innovation triggers first, then a peak or inflated expectations, followed by troughs of disillusionment and finally by the slope of enlightenment, to give a new plateau of productivity.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Agile Innovation 183

Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Companies that successfully bring new products to market rapidly, benefit from having a leg up on their competition while diminishing the negative effects of shrinking product life cycles. However, moving a product from lab to market is a process that in itself could use re-invention. What is Commercialization?

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Product Development LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Marketing 75

Tim Kastelle

JUNE 19, 2016

I’ve been running Lean LaunchPad programs for a couple of years now, and all along, I’ve thought that the number of customer development interviews that a team does is a good indicator of how successful they’ll be. Consequently, I thought that the magic in lean startup is customer development. I was wrong.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 24, 2020

How to Lean in To Empower Your Team. To achieve this kind of empowerment, it is essential for leaders to lean-in and engage actively and effectively across teams, in addition to arranging coaching sessions. Importance of Leaning in. The expansion of remote work demands much more empowered and learned team members today.

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Underperforming Technical Team LEAN How To Engagement 72

Leanstack

JANUARY 10, 2019

A question I get a lot is: Why isn’t the Lean Canvas laid out more logically? Lean Canvas The main reason for this particular layout was legacy. Lean Canvas was derived from the Business Model Canvas. To compensate for usability, I published a suggested fill order in my first book: Running Lean. Which is the right order?

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LEAN Idea Generation Technical Review Study 81

Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Lean is Dead. Long Live Lean! Twenty four years ago, James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos introduced our world to a modern understanding of the concept of Lean Production. Lean Production was, and still is, a profoundly powerful management philosophy for the mass production of uniform goods.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 12, 2016

Part 5 in The Lean Startup Series The idea of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is frequently misunderstood. From the name, people often think of it as a prototype, but really, it’s a learning object. Here’s an example from our first Lean LaunchPad program. The best way to think of an MVP is an object for learning.

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Learning LEAN Case Study Resources 100

Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 7, 2016

Part 3 in The Lean Startup Series Facebook currently has 1.55 To get to that size, they must have been building for a huge market right from the start, right? They slowly added features, like The Wall – this happened when they expanded their market to everyone that had a.edu email address – 20 million people or so.

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

Speed of learning is the new unfair advantage. Much like failing becomes learning when you’re going fast, innovation becomes continuous. A brief history of the Continuous Innovation Framework The early scaffolding for the Continuous Innovation Framework was described in my first book: Running Lean.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We seem confronted with rapid change, and it is primarily within the business world related to technology and market uncertainty that is driving this. Our individual problem often lies in the time we have to discover, learn and explore new and different things. As well, and ask, are we really interested?

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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! The result: development of a market-ready product ( lineup™ ) in a fraction of the time, and the confidence to apply their strengthened skill set to other areas of uncertainty.

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Marketing LEAN Case Study Study 65

etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.” The Proud Leader.

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LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Project Technical Review 56

Leanstack

JANUARY 30, 2019

In my last post , I described how sketching an idea on a Lean Canvas is akin to stacking a chain of beliefs. Marketer, Jay Abraham, calls this phenomenon the Strategy of Pre-eminence. If your customer and problems assumptions are not yet grounded in empirical learning, it’s prudent to first get them in order.

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LEAN Exercises Idea Generation Marketing 76

Moves the Needle

JUNE 14, 2016

Lean Experiment Techniques There are many techniques to consider when designing an effective lean startup experiment, so we decided to capture a few of our favorites below. Mix-and-match each example to create a powerful experimental learning vehicle for your next concept. This is especially good for support centers.

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LEAN Examples Video Report 76

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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LEAN Case Study Study System 58

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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Entrepreneurship Leadership Course LEAN 130

Idea to Value

APRIL 12, 2022

What makes more sense: To be the first player in a brand new market, able to be the first (or only) company which customers buy from? To wait until other companies have proven there is a market for a new offering, and then quickly develop and scale your own? This can require significant marketing and sales effort to change.

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Strategy Strategy Technical Review Innovation 257

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The belief that lean management principles will get the innovation out of the door quicker, has been one of those management adoptions that often trick us into believing we are achieving more than we actually are. Leans slows down and becomes increasingly burdened by fat being layered on, further down the innovation execution process.

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Innovation Processes LEAN Innovation Agile 206

Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 26, 2014

Each panelist had made their mark on how design is done in start-ups: Laura wrote the influential O’Reilly book on UX for Lean Startups, and Todd penned the bestselling Rosenfeld Media Prototyping book. Mike founded an influential Lean UX community in San Francisco. . Below is Laura Klein expounds on these key themes of lean research.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 14, 2016

Lean Experiment Techniques. There are many techniques to consider when designing an effective lean startup experiment, so we decided to capture a few of our favorites below. Mix-and-match each example to create a powerful experimental learning vehicle for your next concept. This is especially good for support centers.

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LEAN Examples Video Report 68

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. Sign up here to start submitting your questions.

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Conference LEAN Leadership Entrepreneurship 56

Brunner

OCTOBER 28, 2019

What do physics and marketing have in common? But what does any of this have to do with marketing in the 21 st century? But what does any of this have to do with marketing in the 21 st century? Over the last decade marketing has experienced two major revolutions. The first is the rise of digital marketing.

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Marketing Data Big Data LEAN 53

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. Are there ways of, for instance, breaking into smaller teams for Lean UX while still tackling larger solutions that you have seen work well?

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LEAN Software Review Software Project 78

Moves the Needle

JANUARY 22, 2016

Market research often falls short when it comes to innovation. Here’s why: Modern market research methods, like Lean Startup, do a great job of focusing on customer-centric discovery. In our post, How to Innovate: What Innovation Really Is , we discussed how focusing on learning before executing is vital to innovation.

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Marketing Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Report 58

Business and Tech

JUNE 24, 2022

As a startup entrepreneur, you wear all the hats — sales, marketing, fulfillment, invoicing, accounting, and business strategy, to name just a few. Whether it’s a specific contact, software, or strategy that you otherwise would not have discovered, the key to growth is leaning into these peer relationships.

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Entrepreneurship LEAN Tools Agile 246

Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 16, 2016

Part 6 in The Lean Startup Series The day before we started our first Lean LaunchPad program with the CSIRO, Bill McKeague and I talked strategy over coffee. I often refer to that first one as our Minimum Viable Lean LaunchPad. It was, of course, classic Build-Measure-Learn. We didn’t get there on the first try.

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LEAN Course Project Marketing 100

Leanstack

JANUARY 10, 2019

A question I get a lot is: Why isn’t the Lean Canvas laid out more logically? Lean Canvas The main reason for this particular layout was legacy. Lean Canvas was derived from the Business Model Canvas. To compensate for usability, I published a suggested fill order in my first book: Running Lean. Which is the right order?

LEAN 40

LEAN Idea Generation Technical Review Study 40

mjvinnovation

MARCH 11, 2020

Is your company aligned with the new direction that the energy market is heading towards? Energy market: the future is knocking. The 5 technologies that will revolutionize the energy market in the coming years: 1- Blockchain. An Open Energy scenario arises in which micro markets become possible. 5- Digital Twins.

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Artificial Inteligence Trends Marketing Internet of things 52

InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Launching a campaign to customers is nerve-wracking for even the most established marketing department. Something that Bill Gates learned the hard way…. A co-creation event brings your marketing teams and your customers together in one room where they can discuss exactly what they want and need from your brand.

Marketing 40

Marketing Technical Review LEAN Design 40

Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

Speed of learning is the new unfair advantage. Much like failing becomes learning when you’re going fast, innovation becomes continuous. A brief history of the Continuous Innovation Framework The early scaffolding for the Continuous Innovation Framework was described in my first book: Running Lean. Stay tuned for more…

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LEAN Design Thinking Design Roadmap 40

Innovators Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

While many leaders invest in innovation when times are good, it’s valuable to learn lessons from the lean times and leverage them to help us move forward, regardless of the economic environment. Companies like these keep their cost-conscious creative market juices flowing regardless of the economic climate.

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Technical Review Innovation LEAN Resources 59

Leanstack

JANUARY 30, 2019

In my last post , I described how sketching an idea on a Lean Canvas is akin to stacking a chain of beliefs. Marketer, Jay Abraham, calls this phenomenon the Strategy of Pre-eminence. If your customer and problems assumptions are not yet grounded in empirical learning, it’s prudent to first get them in order.

LEAN 40

LEAN Exercises Idea Generation Marketing 40