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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples

Moves the Needle

When facing uncertainty, we need processes that allow us to optimize learning, not just execution. Instead of believing that we know what our customers need, as we attempt to serve them — why not seek to learn what they need through a variety of techniques that build customer empathy?

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

Moves the Needle

Doing so means a new kind innovation management because the management most of us learned in school won’t quite do the trick. The New Wave of Innovation Management Paradigms – Efficiency in Discovery When facing uncertainty, we need processes that allow us to optimize learning, not just execution. For the consumer, this is awesome.

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IA Summit 09 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

This session, lead by Nathan Curtis of EightShapes, shares practical techniques that his organization has learned from, taught, and embedded in teams. Just as important, attendees learn to avoid failures Nathan and his team have experienced along the way. Tags: Learning From Others Podcasts. Listening more than you speak.

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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. Lack of internal integration: For companies to get good at capturing and acting on insights, product development, strategic planning, marketing planning processes need to be closely linked.

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The Rise of UX Leadership

Harvard Business Review

The nitty-gritty of product design has become a badge of pride in many organizations, like Facebook, which has embraced a "learn by making" executive culture. This product-centric mindset is not entirely new. But what if you can''t jump ship and join a start-up to learn UX skills?

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems. Ford reengineered its global product development process so that an engineering plan designed in Detroit can drive the shop floor in a European factory. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5