Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Check out our article on mixing business strategy with the innovation process. The Perks of Innovation in Your Game Plan Let’s face it: innovation is the secret sauce in any killer business strategy. If you need more pointers, swing by our article on how to use innovation to turbocharge your business strategy.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Ideas and feedback are flowing back and forth throughout the innovation process. This iterative approach is driving innovation by ensuring that solutions are aligned with user needs and market realities. Everyone in the innovation process can contribute, regardless of their position or role.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. What most companies get wrong about innovation processes.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I've written previously about having a bias for innovation in your culture , seeking and finding important and unmet needs or opportunities , and introducing discovery and exploration in your innovation process. This is one reason why ideas like agile and rapid sprints seem so compelling.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Additionally, software systems like this do not replace people in the innovation process and cannot automate its management. This can lead to a much larger number of innovations being tested much more quickly, for a lower cost and at a lower risk than traditional management methods.

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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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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Pinpointing these gaps lets you tweak and twiddle your strategy into a lean, mean innovation machine. For further intel, drop by our piece on integrating innovation into planning. Check out connecting business strategy and the innovation process. Internal Audits Hunt down the gremlins in your gears.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

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. This agility needs the tools of testing, feedback, and adaptation to accelerate the innovation process.

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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.

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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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Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. Interestingly, it looks like others support the idea of balancing and combining elements of both innovation approaches, too. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.”

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

The same is true for innovation within an organization. Innovation process models serve as navigational charts, guiding businesses from idea inception to successful execution. What is an Innovation Process Model? What is an Innovation Process Model?

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwhile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives. A well-suited way to govern this approach is to manage a portfolio of initiatives.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

We can also see how these approaches were precursors to larger movements in lean startup, design thinking, and agile. The backstories of how great companies, services, and business models achieve success reveal a messiness that’s an inherent part of the innovation process.

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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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Qmarkets

JANUARY 22, 2025

Strategic Approaches Proven frameworks like the Blue Ocean Strategy and Lean/Agile Innovation provide actionable pathways to achieve radical innovation. Lean and Agile methods, on the other hand, prioritize iterative experimentation, enabling organizations to test and refine disruptive ideas quickly and cost-effectively.

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Qmarkets

JULY 25, 2024

By focusing on attracting the right talent , establishing effective reward and recognition systems, and fostering a collaborative culture, businesses can create an environment where innovation thrives. Managing Innovation: Process Effective innovation management requires robust and well-defined processes.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable. Their talks can be a catalyst for change, encouraging your team to pursue innovation with renewed vigor. By discussing the innovation process, they can: Ignite the spark of ideation and creativity within your team.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma. I am a firm believer in defining a fungible innovation process - a set of steps to help ensure that innovators complete a set of activities and learnings before they recommend an idea. Develop real training to build skills.

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Qmarkets

JULY 11, 2024

Implement robust processes to guide innovation activities from ideation to execution. Develop a stage-gate process for managing projects through different phases and use methodologies like Agile or Lean for flexibility and efficiency. Fostering a culture of innovation is crucial.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! ” — Guillermo Ortiz de Zárate, Chief Innovation and Information Officer, NCARB. Click here to download.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor. Nothing wrong with desiring an innovation friendly culture, although talking about it isn’t going to make it happen. Which is best?

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Innovator’s Method. This book by Nathan Furr covers tips and techniques learned from design thinking, innovation, and the lean startup business model which has grown in popularity in the last few years. With an innovator’s method, one can use these tools to change how ideas are created, refined, and brought to market.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

What started me on a given innovation “tack”was for a long time I have seen an awful lot of opinions, solutions, concepts that have been breaking down innovation into its many parts. The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.”

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

How much innovation is being left on the table by ignoring cross-domain concept blends? Innovation leaders and CEO’s leave breakthrough on the table because their innovation processes leave out deliberate combinations. Innovation Directors and CEO’s — why not? It’s deep idea exploration.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

The paper outlines six key practices for accelerating new product development and innovations based on examples from companies representing various industries. However, our discussion with Dr. Cooper mainly focuses on three of those six practices: Effective Portfolio Management Lean Development Agile Stage-Gate.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Lean Startup Methodology The Lean Startup methodology focuses on rapid experimentation and learning from failure to minimize risks and costs. It’s particularly valuable for large organizations looking to act with the agility and speed of a startup, ensuring that resources are directed toward ideas with proven potential.

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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? Innovation managers: Innovation managers use design thinking to drive innovation within the organization. What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies?

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

It also addresses the basics of why innovation is so important to an organization’s survival and growth. Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. Approaches to the new challenges of Digital Technology Innovation are discussed.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Measurable processes and results, the data for on-going improvement. Cost savings by not paying outside consultants to facilitate innovation process.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Nine essential questions CEO’s should be asking about innovation. Are people empowered to innovate? Does your culture support innovation? Are your people trained in innovation process? Do you have the skills, the specific people, you need to innovate? Is your organization doing continuous projects?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Unless we create a strategy to transform, how can we re-imagine our innovation processes? We talk so much about “innovation is critical” today and in our future, but is rarely achieved. This does require a transformation of how we design, structure and bring together all the relevant part of the innovation process.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

When you are trying to create a repeatable innovation process, you can’t just start anywhere by doing random activities. As such, the first question for you to answer is – how ready is your company to support and nurture innovation? There is a difference. You have to first develop a deep understanding of your company.

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