Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

Of course, this shift requires really big changes in strategy, operations, the organization and in each individuals orientation. Digital is demanding so much in new processes that need to be more agile, responsive, reflective of new insights at increased speed and fluid in the design of those undertaking the solution to react.

Innovation 185

Innovation Radical Innovation Agile Design 185

Planview

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It’s common to encounter blind spots when you’re navigating an Agile transformation. They can show up as Agile practices that are meant to improve business agility but are applied so extremely that they end up making organizations less agile. I sat down recently (and virtually, of course!)

Agile 73

Agile Underperforming Technical Team eBook Project 73

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We do need to ‘lean in’ on many specialists and experts to help us, not just business consultants! Stay flexible, agile and adaptable, and have up-to-date contingency plans in place to adjust course if needed and, in a controlled manner, options to existing business strategy.

LEAN 195

LEAN Agile Industry Analysis 195

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

Course Description: Innovation Intensive is a one day, deep dive, into fundamental and advanced concepts in innovation. It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. This is a compelling and informative training course.

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Course Training Innovation Brainstorming 26

Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 13, 2016

This slight rant of mine was started when I saw a new software application talk about its ability to help its clients in agile lean innovation. Lean is about stripping away unnecessary assets to focus on doing the most with the least. Lean is about stripping away unnecessary assets to focus on doing the most with the least.

LEAN 100

LEAN Innovation Agile Software 100

Leanstack

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The challenge, of course, is that truly good ideas are rare and often indistinguishable from bad ideas at the outset. This is exactly what the LEAN Sprint is designed to do. What is the LEAN Sprint A LEAN sprint is a time-boxed iteration cycle for sourcing, ranking, and testing new ideas.

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LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Handbook 52

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you’re in the Chicago or Denver areas, check out these innovation training course offerings. Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi) is offering three public courses in late October and early November. Click on the course title to register. It’s fall and it’s time to go back to school. REGISTER NOW. REGISTER NOW.

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Course Training Brainstorming Design Thinking 53

IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2018

At IdeaScale we help Kane is Able and many other clients achieve their continuous improvement strategies such as Lean, Kaizen or Six Sigma. Each has a set of required conditions for successful execution, and even when these are met some simply run their course. Limits in applicability or scope. Methodology agnostic” you might say.

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Innovation Agile Guidelines Design Thinking 124

Planview

OCTOBER 6, 2022

PI Planning in Agile is often held quarterly, bringing together multidisciplinary teams to lay out the product delivery cadence. When scaling agility to your whole organization, it’s important to have an overarching cadence to keep teams in sync. What is PI Planning in Agile? Challenges to Efficient PI Planning in Agile.

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Agile eBook LEAN Industry 59

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Of course, much of what we have will still remain. Even with the proliferation of lean startup, design thinking, innovation labs, accelerator programs, hackathons and innovation marathons, crowdsourcing and a host of designer canvases that keeps pushing our advancement along, success is still piecemeal and random.

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Innovation Design Agile Innovation Processes 178

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. Of course, not all friction is bad. Your subtitle refers to “lean” principles; I’m assuming they respond to these restraining forces? Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation. But they are manageable.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 130

Daniel Burrus

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We want to be agile, reactionary, and cautious — It is a primordial instinct in many. But as I have mentioned to clients and colleagues many times over the course of my career: Agility will never set you ahead of disruption; it will only give you momentary peace of mind. Lego: An Exponential Thinker in Agility and Anticipation.

Agile 81

Agile LEAN Trends Disruption 81

Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Increasingly this means that most companies are likely to hone their incremental innovation skills, which in reality are an extension of familiar activities combining lean, agile and Six Sigma, and I believe will partner with startups and external firms to create interesting or disruptive new ideas. If so, how?

Artificial Inteligence 147

Artificial Inteligence Agile Disruption Internet of things 147

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. A new book by Silicon Valley tech veteran and innovation advocate Ann Mei Chang, Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good explores the unique challenges that can deter social innovation. Corporate philanthropy. Benefit corporations. Sounds ideal.

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Technical Review LEAN Innovation Social Innovation 100

Matthew May

DECEMBER 4, 2015

In it, he proposes six core principles that embody the discipline needed to bring your business to a level of fitness that will enable it to achieve peak performance, which he defines as strength, speed, and agility. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it completely ignores the raison d’etre of any organization: the consumer.

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LEAN Agile Course Exercises 100

Open Innovation EU

MARCH 30, 2016

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. Source: www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/when-toyota-met-e-commerce-lean-at-amazon.

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Entrepreneurship LEAN Case Study Agile 70

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We can also find out which leaders will adopt innovative measures, and change the cultures of their businesses, and which will "stay the course". As change accelerates and there's an increasing need to be agile or nimble, getting smaller and faster is key. All business must be fast, agile and innovative.

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Innovation Agile Culture Leadership 111

Planview

MAY 6, 2022

As a global leader in medical technology grew in size and complexity, it struggled to achieve the manufacturing agility required to perform at scale. Agile Mindset Drives Medical Innovations. Inefficient Whiteboards Limit Manufacturing Agility. That’s when Planview LeanKit became part of their story. ” Sr. . ” Sr.

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Agile Technology Tools LEAN 52

Boxes and Arrows

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Teams moving to agile often struggle to integrate agile with best practices in user-centered design (UCD) and user experience (UX) in general. Fortunately, using a UX Integration Matrix helps integrate UX and agile by including UX information and requirements right in the product backlog. The feedback loop is broken.

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Software Review Agile Software Design 107

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Of course, these funders want to become an active part of invigorating our growing community with experiments and feedback. One supporter collaboration that has come out of our community is the Agile Uprising which looks to build a community around the agile mindset and includes four Happy Melly members as founders.

Collaboration 100

Collaboration Crowdsourcing Agile Innovation 100

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma. The session is from 1 to 4:30 EST. GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation) plans to offer this course on a monthly basis going forward. There’s a great deal more to say about Momentum CPS.

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Creativity Training LEAN Tools 98

Planview

JULY 26, 2022

We have all been taking a crash course in dynamic planning – being ready for, hypothetically, anything: Finding ways to minimize losses and maximize opportunities while moving forward into the unknown. But Agile businesses apply this more frequently (dynamically) and learn from their own delivery performance to inform their next actions.

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eBook Agile Disruption LEAN 97

mjvinnovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

We all know that agile methodologies are not written in stone. The practice is very common within agile logic. Working with lean teams focused on solving a challenge brings several benefits to your project. Of course, Big Tech wouldn’t use it for no reason. What are the benefits of Squads? Gain more efficiency.

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Agile Design Technical Review Design Thinking 52

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should!

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Innovation System Design Agile 113

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Of course there are other ways to get ideas, primarily from third parties or by acquiring intellectual property, and those are right for some situations and conditions, but this option is relevant only part of the time. You need one really good and agile team able to do both incremental and disruptive work.

Innovation 100

Innovation Agile Disruption Ideation 100

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2016

We need to explore, experiment, prototype, adapt, become more agile, keep it lean, pivot on new learning and anything else that helps us to speed up the process and keep learning and churning. • Innovation design needs both. •

Innovation 100

Innovation LEAN Design Agile 100

CorporateIntel

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sometimes I wonder if the advancing of age and a leaning toward old-fashioned values are a hindrance to relevancy in our contemporary workplace. It was bosses and colleagues advancing in age and leaning toward old-fashioned values. Of course things are different. I think a bit of grounding is precisely what the doctor ordered.

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LEAN Technical Review Policies Learning 97

Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

To start, they need to be closer to their customers, be more agile, act bolder. At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues. Of course not. At the core of Lean Innovation is customer empathy.

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LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Company How To 75

Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Of course, innovation projects are supposed to fail in great numbers, but the idea of a corporate innovation department itself is under tremendous pressure. This goes hand-in-hand with resources of course. I am a strong believer and advocate of agile, design thinking, and lean startup.

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Training Innovation LEAN Agile 72

Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 17, 2015

His very lean progressive assembly process was the result. The Toyota Production System largely grew out of this dilemma, attempting to leverage the “leanness” of Ford’s production system is a world of increasing complexity and market differentiation. This is Lean Startup. The result is choice. Let’s do it! Go scope it out.”

Innovation Management 61

Innovation Management Management LEAN Innovation 61

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should!

Innovation 113

Innovation System Design Innovation Processes 113

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Without a Clear Purpose, Innovation Drifts Off Course. Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Do Purpose First, Select a Framework, Then Do Projects. It may seem obvious but unless you know who you are, and what your purpose is, as an organization you will flounder.

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Innovation Idea Generation Project Design Thinking 70

mjvinnovation

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile. refers to the third generation of project management models, considered more suited to current business requirements in the context of Digital Transformation – toting more agile, lean, and modern management values. to work so well in agile.

Management 59

Management Agile LEAN Guidelines 59

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

“Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. This one day course consistently receives high marks from innovation executives and training professionals.

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Design Thinking Ideation Training LEAN 9

InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies? What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? These courses typically cover the key concepts and steps of the design thinking process, and may include hands-on exercises and projects to apply what you have learned.

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Design Thinking Design Underperforming Technical Team Ideation 74

mjvinnovation

AUGUST 21, 2020

Unlike high-touch, the focus of these customers are the search for automated solutions and a preference for ARUs (Audible Response Unit), voice and chatbots that offer more agile service. Under normal conditions of course! The definitive growth hack: Growth Hacking + Agile Marketing. What about when low-touch is the only option?

Agile 76

Agile LEAN Trends Marketing 76

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Of course, this greatly depends on what I am working on, for others and, or for myself. The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.” I know wretched theory on a Sunday or any day come to think of it, but it does inform.

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System Innovation Design Resources 147