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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples

Moves the Needle

In many companies, older products are coming to end of life and they need to make way for new ideas. Competition is now global. But rather, They are looking to use these principles for the commercialization of current products into emerging markets. Others are being disrupted.

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The fallacy of "modern" management when it comes to innovation management

Moves the Needle

Agile The agile manifesto , which was introduced in 2001, prioritizes short product development “sprints” in order to incorporate new information which might come from a variety of places such as new technology, customer input, insights, or development issues. This is Lean Startup. The day of the customer is here.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

Many bystanders are more likely to view these two giants emergence onto the global stage as business evolution rather revolution and while Samsung declared their competitive intentions in 2008 Foxconn has only recently reached the starting line of its long journey. Beware of the lure of outsourcing.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Iterative and incremental development methods were also a major contributor to the successful creation of the X-15 hypersonic jet in the 1950s. In 1986, one of us (Takeuchi) and coauthor Ikujiro Nonaka published an article in Harvard Business Review called “The New New Product Development Game.”

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Strategic Insight is Not on the CEO Radar

Harvard Business Review

In 2001, Peter Drucker wrote in The Economist that "businesspeople stand on the threshold of the knowledge society. In this society, a company's competitive advantage will come from an historically underdeveloped asset: the ability to capture and apply insights from diverse fields.". It's a compelling argument.

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Scaling Is Hard. Here's How Akamai Did It.

Harvard Business Review

Despite the Internet bubble bursting, the company was able to generate over $160 million in revenue in 2001. This effort leads to the fourth interesting scaling take-away: Just because your first product is successful, it doesn't mean you're a product genius. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million!

LEAN 15
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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail.