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Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 20, 2024
GUEST POST from Janet Sernack Like many others, I invested time in isolation during the pandemic to engage in various online learning programs.
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Revolutionize Your Innovation: Embrace the Power of Lean Startup Methodology
Leapfrogging
DECEMBER 10, 2024
It paves the way for adopting methodologies, like the lean startup methodology, that streamline and enhance the innovation process. By leveraging best practices, such as agile product development and new product development strategies , you can mitigate risks and set the stage for successful product launches and service rollouts.
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Experiment Canvas Template
Leapfrogging
MARCH 26, 2025
It is widely used in agile innovation, design thinking, lean startup, and product development methodologies. Which channels produce the highest engagement? It encourages curiosity, agility, and customer-centric thinkingtraits that are critical for sustainable innovation. Is the price point acceptable to target customers?
Why It’s Impossible to Prove Your Innovation Will Succeed (and Why That’s a Good Thing)
Idea to Value
JANUARY 17, 2025
Heres how this works in practice: Engage with High-Quality Feedback : Instead of relying on hundreds of survey responses, have deep, meaningful conversations with a smaller group of potential customers. By embracing the impossibility of proof, you open the door to a more agile, efficient, and ultimately successful innovation process.
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A Comprehensive Guide to Lean Process Improvement: Benefits, Methodology, and Implementation
Qmarkets
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Enter lean process improvement : a methodology designed to maximize efficiency, reduce unnecessary activities, and deliver value directly aligned with customer needs. This guide explores how lean process improvement works, its benefits, and how a structured, tech-driven approach can help companies implement it effectively and sustainably.
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Discovery Driven Planning Template for Business Strategy
Leapfrogging
MARCH 10, 2025
For example, Instagram started as a check-in app (Burbn), but pivoted to a photo-sharing platform after user data revealed stronger engagement with images. Adapt offerings based on real-world engagement. Agile Development Adapts product evolution based on customer insights. Pivot or scale depending on success metrics.
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How a Lean Transformation and Framework Facilitate Innovative Business Strategies
Kainexus
JUNE 12, 2024
In an era where efficiency and agility are paramount, Lean business transformation has emerged as a pivotal strategy for organizations aiming to streamline operations and enhance value creation. By adopting Lean principles, companies can significantly reduce costs, improve quality, and accelerate time-to-market.
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Here’s Your Agile Track Recap from Accelerate
Planview
OCTOBER 27, 2021
On the jam-packed agenda were several presentations, customer stories, and roundtable discussions aimed at supporting Agile leaders at all levels of the organization. If you didn’t get to attend these engaging sessions, read on to get the scoop! Becoming Agile and Beyond. How to Build High-Performing Agile Teams.
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Making Agility Compatible For You
Paul Hobcraft
DECEMBER 22, 2015
Is Agility compatible for many working in established businesses? “To To be agile” is often a badge of honor. Agility is today going far beyond just being responsive,it goes into constantly adjusting and being versatile, modifying to meet rapidly changing conditions. We all need to seek out that badge of “agility”.
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How A.I. can help you better lead projects and teams
Idea to Value
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Regular updates, clear documentation, and stakeholder engagement can prevent misunderstandings. Poor Stakeholder Engagement: When key stakeholders arent aligned or involved, misunderstandings and lastminute changes become inevitable. Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution) framework. Lets explore some of the amazing A.I.
Why Innovation Is Key to Staying Ahead in Strategic Planning
Leapfrogging
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Flexibility : Innovation gives your business the agility to dodge and weave with market changes. Implementing Agile Processes for Rapid Innovation Deployment Slapping agile techniques onto your strategy game plan can turbocharge how fast you launch new, shiny solutions.
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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation
Paul Hobcraft
MAY 9, 2023
The tool and techniques that stand out for me, in their contribution, value and my use have been, in no specific order, cover the jobs-to-be-done , ten types of innovation, crossing the chasm , blue ocean, business model canvas and value proposition canvas, building core competencies , lean start-up, agile and design sprints.
Adopting a Rapid Digital Innovation Process
Paul Hobcraft
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
The belief that lean management principles will get the innovation out of the door quicker, has been one of those management adoptions that often trick us into believing we are achieving more than we actually are. Leans slows down and becomes increasingly burdened by fat being layered on, further down the innovation execution process.
Innovation fundamentals: using time effectively
Jeffrey Phillips
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
This is one reason why ideas like agile and rapid sprints seem so compelling. But what about lean startup, rapid sprints, agile But aren't there entire methodologies that are meant to get to good ideas faster? Agile, lean and rapid methodologies meant to accelerate the innovation cycle?
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So Where Is Innovation Heading?
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 27, 2018
We are seeing blurred boundaries, digital is raising the stakes and fear of missing out, it is upping the speed at which others are competing with new concepts, ideas, and engagement with customers. The encouragement of having open feedback loops, both internally and externally, engaging the customer needs exploiting.
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Leapfrogging
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Quick Reflexes (Agility): Ever seen a cat dodge a falling vase? That’s agility. Team Vibing (Employee Engagement): Feel the excitement in the air? If you need more pointers, swing by our article on how to use innovation to turbocharge your business strategy. Check what works and what doesn’t so you can spruce things up.
Have organizations become more collaborative over 25 years? What has enabled that?
Paul Hobcraft
MAY 9, 2024
From linear to agile: Idea generation is now a continuous process, not a one-time event. Organizations are using agile methodologies to rapidly test and iterate on ideas, keeping up with the pace of change and market demands. Lean startup: Lean startup is a methodology that helps organizations validate their ideas early and often.
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Your Digital Transformation Guide: Key Tools and Strategies
Qmarkets
MARCH 19, 2025
Companies that fail to evolve risk losing market share to more agile competitors that use technology to optimize operations and enhance customer experiences. By integrating machine learning models, businesses can make smarter decisions in real-time, leading to improved operational agility and better service delivery.
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5 Process Improvement Examples to Inspire Your Strategy
Qmarkets
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Beyond internal gains, process improvement also allows organizations to respond more effectively to customer needs and market changes, giving them an edge over less agile competitors. Methodologies like Lean, Six Sigma , and Kaizen provide proven frameworks for process improvement.
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The Art Behind Becoming a Strategic PMO Leader
Planview
AUGUST 22, 2024
As a project management leader passionate about process improvement, how have you applied Lean or Agile methodologies to enhance efficiency and reduce waste? We aim to simplify project management best practices by minimizing steps, driving value, and applying Lean principles for efficiency and ease of use.
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New innovation approaches to counter the fear of Business Contagion
Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 11, 2022
We are at the cusp or already into significant changes to how the world, society and we as individuals will manage or engage going into the future. ” and need to encourage activism to “collide and build”, to “network and engage”, and “relationship builds” around a common purpose and desire.
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Innovation fails because humans have emotions
Idea to Value
MARCH 26, 2020
Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. The original process showed how an idea should first follow design thinking principles, before being turned into a solution using agile development, and finally being piloted and launched.
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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using
Idea to Value
JULY 21, 2017
When should it be used: Any company which has or is thinking of building an Innovation Team / Department / Lab / Skunkworks should be aware of this concept of Dual Innovation and make sure your teams have the skills and permission to engage in it. Allocating small initial budgets to get to the next stage in a lifecycle early on (e.g.
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Relating to the New Innovation Era
Paul Hobcraft
JULY 5, 2017
Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve. We need to be more agile, iterative , to be encouraged to be experimenting and exploring.
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Stuck With Creating Growth Outside of the Core?
Innov8rs
JANUARY 14, 2025
Frank Mattes CEO at Lean Scaleup The Problem Of course, in some cases, missing clarity and scaling expertise might be the reason for the lack of new growth. In contrast, NEW embraces risk and uncertainty, functions in an agile style, and has a long-term view. This framework, the Lean Scaleup, addresses the challenges mentioned above.
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9 Agile Transformation Metrics for Executives to Watch
Planview
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
How do you know whether your Agile transformation is on the right track, or heading in the right direction? Understanding Agile transformation metrics for executives is key to proving the ROI of your Agile transformation. Read Next: Are these Agile transformation blind spots holding you back? Employee engagement.
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64 Unleash Innovation: Mastering New Product Development Strategies
Leapfrogging
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The lean startup methodology emphasizes the importance of agility and learning, with a mantra of “build-measure-learn” to minimize waste and speed up learning. This iterative process aligns with the lean startup methodology and agile product development practices, which emphasize flexibility and rapid iteration.
Agile Innovation: A Comprehensive Guide
Qmarkets
JULY 12, 2024
Agile innovation is transforming how companies develop new products and services, fostering a culture of flexibility, speed, and customer-centricity. As the business world becomes increasingly competitive, understanding and implementing agile innovation can be the key to staying ahead. What is Agile Innovation?
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Fears of those unknowns
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. As well, and ask, are we really interested?
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What is Manufacturing Process Improvement? From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs
Qmarkets
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Its not just about cutting costsits about creating systems that are more agile, productive, and capable of delivering consistent quality. Lean Manufacturing : Lean manufacturing focuses on eliminating activities that dont add value to the end customer, such as overproduction, excessive inventory, and unnecessary movement.
Bitcoin and Blockchain: A Small Glimpse Into Big Digital Disruptions
Daniel Burrus
JANUARY 27, 2021
To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now imperative to learn how to accurately anticipate the future instead of merely engage in crisis management. When your focus is on agility and reactionary responses, you will always be behind the curve. And yet, here we are.
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The 7 Levels of A.I. usage: How advanced are you?
Idea to Value
MARCH 14, 2025
Contact me , and let us see how I could help your company innovate with and execute your A.I.
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Crafting Powerful Strategic Offsite Meeting Designs
Leapfrogging
JANUARY 7, 2025
Get folks talking, questioning, and engaging. Objective Review : Chat about the goals and what needs doing. Ensure everyones on the same mission. Strategic Presentations : Share the vital info and data insights. Breakout Sessions : Break it down into smaller groups to tackle focused topics. Spark those a-ha moments and fresh ideas.
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How Viacom Uses Lean Startup & Agile to Engage Viewers
Innovation Leader
MAY 16, 2016
Kimberly Hicks of Viacom says in an arena where people’s media consumption and the devices change so quickly, the lean startup approach is extremely helpful.
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Four steps to apply a Scaled Agile Framework in your business
mjvinnovation
JUNE 11, 2021
The Scaled Agile Framework is a methodology derived from agile methods, focusing on a project to disseminate agile thinking and practices in an organizational context, from management to teams. These are just some of the benefits of implementing a Scaled Agile Framework. How to implement Scaled Agile Framework?
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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1
Tim Kastelle
MARCH 7, 2016
Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation. These communities stimulate social engagement around the product through participation in forums, sharing, collaboration or even user-driven innovation by co-creating new products.
PI Planning in Agile: Boosting Efficiency with Flow Metrics
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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Scaling Agile Through Cascading Missions
Moves the Needle
AUGUST 18, 2022
I had a conversation recently with a few industry professionals who were expressing concerns about the idea of scaling agile. Their objection was that not everybody can be agile nor needs to be. There’s been this tendency to kind of munge agile together with lean manufacturing and lean startup or lean innovation.
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Agile Project Management: what it is and how to apply it in your business
mjvinnovation
JULY 1, 2021
Keep reading to understand why agile project management provides numerous advantages over traditional forms of project management. What is agile project management? Agile practices can be incorporated into project management, adding numerous benefits. We call this initiative agile project management. The answer is simple.
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What is Radical Innovation? Examples, Stages, and Strategies for Success
Qmarkets
JANUARY 22, 2025
By challenging established norms, organizations can uncover new opportunities for growth and customer engagement. Strategic Approaches Proven frameworks like the Blue Ocean Strategy and Lean/Agile Innovation provide actionable pathways to achieve radical innovation.
What is Discontinuous Innovation? Definition, Examples and Management
eZassi
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
This often leads to the creation of entirely new markets and fundamentally changes the way consumers engage with a product or service, marking a significant evolution in the industry. Adopt an agile and lean innovation framework to ensure that ideas are analyzed and validated quickly.
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Reflecting on our innovation practices
Paul Hobcraft
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
The basics of innovation still form around building the engagement, leadership, and involvement , in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed , so as to allow innovation to evolve and thrive. Then there is that need for a constant investment in people , in our networks and relationships , that all need to come together.
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Lean is Dead. Long Live Lean!
Legacy Innovation Group
APRIL 1, 2019
Lean is Dead. Long Live Lean! Twenty four years ago, James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos introduced our world to a modern understanding of the concept of Lean Production. Lean Production was, and still is, a profoundly powerful management philosophy for the mass production of uniform goods.
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40 From Disruption to Success: Examining 10 Remarkable Disruptive Innovation Examples
Leapfrogging
DECEMBER 10, 2024
By integrating practices like the lean startup methodology and agile product development into your product development life cycle , you can position your business to pivot quickly and effectively when disruptive opportunities arise. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive to the changes in the market.
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