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Serious About Your Social Mission? Innovate It.

Leapfrogging

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. But, if we are truly intent on achieving both, we need to start taking social impact just as seriously. Mission-driven organizations have an equal opportunity to apply the principles and practices of innovation to maximize their impact–but few take it.

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Moving innovation even more in 2016

Paul Hobcraft

We do need to blend it in and fuse it with other techniques, so to sort out where it fits within the innovation mix and valuing it for its ‘added’ worth to transform information into achieving tangible outcomes. • The bottom of the pyramid is a place we continue to forget and others learn to play in and master its needs.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

Tim Kastelle

Tim’s Comment: There’s one other way that this idea plays out too – figuring out how to use lean startup techniques inside of established organisations. The Stanford Social Innovation Review also looked at how to do this inside of not-for-profits.

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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using

Idea to Value

Suggested reading: This article on Effective Brainstorming , and this book by Bryan Mattimore, which elaborates our interview from the Innovation and Creativity Summit on various brainstorming techniques (premium content): 7 – Lean Innovation Management. Suggested reading: 6 – Business Model Canvas.

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The Power of Bottom-Up Systems in Organizational Success

Tullio Siragusa

It’s been so successful that it has inspired the Lean Manufacturing movement worldwide. Instead of being the sole decision-makers, they need to learn to act as facilitators and enablers, guiding and supporting their teams in a more collaborative and inclusive decision-making process.

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