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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples

Moves the Needle

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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Integrating UX into the Product Backlog

Boxes and Arrows

Early agile pioneers were working on in-house IT projects (custom software) or enterprise software [ 1 , 2 ]. The economics are different in selling consumer products than when developing software for enterprises—UX matters more for consumer products. Larry makes money even if people can’t use his software.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. In 1986, one of us (Takeuchi) and coauthor Ikujiro Nonaka published an article in Harvard Business Review called “The New New Product Development Game.” They keep customers happier.

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How to Make a High-Stakes Decision

Harvard Business Review

As Michael Roberto, the Trustee Professor of Management at Bryant University, said in his 2001 HBR article " What You Don't Know About Making Decisions ", "all too often [decision-makers] rush to a conclusion or else dither endlessly and decide too late." What the Experts Say. People respond to the pressure of big decisions in different ways.

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems. He is currently conducting research with the Lean Enterprise Institute.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Agile and Lean initially grew popular in the startup world, but soon were embraced by mainstream business leaders around the globe. The methodology is Continuous Development, which, like agile, began as a software development methodology.

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