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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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Other consequences include: Wasted resources: Time, labor, and materials invested in an incomplete or ineffective outcome. Unrealistic Timelines and Budgets: Setting overly aggressive deadlines without considering resource availability leads to rushed work and missed milestones. Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution) framework.

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Kainexus

APRIL 18, 2024

In today's fast-paced environment, Lean transformation emerges as a strategic approach to streamline processes, optimize resources, and drive continuous improvement while embracing technologies. Combining Lean methodology principles with innovation, Lean transformation emphasizes efficiency, agility, and customer-centricity.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

Why Value Disciplines Model is Important Many companies struggle with strategic ambiguity, lack of differentiation, and inefficient resource allocation. Guiding investment and resource allocation for maximum impact. Improves Resource Focus Ensures investments align with the companys primary value discipline.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

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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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2024

Unlock the strategies to overcome key PMO hurdles—mastering resource management, driving change, and streamlining processes—with expert insight from Athena Smith, Senior Director, Portfolio Management. Read Next: Elevate Your PMO: How Looking to the Future Drives Value Today Resource management is crucial in portfolio management.

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Kainexus

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Lean management is a systematic approach to eliminating waste and optimizing processes to maximize efficiency, improve quality, and enhance customer value. It originated in manufacturing but has since been applied to various industries and sectors.

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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.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It gives the big shots at the top a game plan, making sure resources aren’t thrown around like confetti at a parade. Provide Resources : Make sure your team has the tools, training, and time to work their magic. Provide Resources Give access to the tools, skills, and time needed for innovation. That’s agility.

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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.

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Digital Tonto

APRIL 28, 2024

These efforts frequently devolve into transformation theater that goes nowhere, but wastes enormous amounts of resources. There is an enormous track record of failure—study after study finds that the vast majority do not succeed.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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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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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

They can cite a number of seemingly valid reasons for this, including: My team hasn’t got the time to resources or time to take ownership of this new thing. Suggested reading: There are not that many resources out there about this theory yet as it is quite new. like P&G’s Connect and Develop platform).

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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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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Companies that embrace this approach see clear benefits: streamlined operations, better resource utilization, and higher-quality outcomes. 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.

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Digital Tonto

AUGUST 31, 2016

While small, agile firms can move fast, larger enterprises have the ability to move deliberately. They have loyal customers and an abundance of resources. Related posts: How IBM Plans To Help. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Planview

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Verizon scaled agile methodologies and a product-driven model across their entire Consumer Group. Agile Methodology Reinforcement: Vanguard had used agile since 2006 but lacked proper CI/CD pipelines. Agile Methodology Reinforcement: Vanguard had used agile since 2006 but lacked proper CI/CD pipelines.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

To thrive in this landscape, product leaders need to prioritize three pillars: leaning into AI-powered experiences, modernizing how they run their business (i.e., Technology, customer expectations, and banking innovation are converging in unprecedented ways. A product strategy needs to include innovation and investing in new technologies.

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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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Idea to Value

MARCH 14, 2025

Contact me if you would like me to help your teams Strategic Investment: Allocate resources to explore and integrate AI into core processes. To get from levels 0 – 2, there are a multitude of excellent free resources online. Contact me , and let us see how I could help your company innovate with and execute your A.I.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

It will fundamentally change the type of resources innovation requires. 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.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 14, 2025

Innovators wonder why they are constantly pressured to move faster while being chronically under-resourced. 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. This makes it even harder to create new growth.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The framework I developed and use with clients is called the Lean Innovation Validation & Execution management (L.I.V.E.) And these capabilities will be different from someone inside an innovation project team, to someone managing multiple innovation projects, to a leader helping to set the innovation strategy and provide resources.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. The journey, by and large, is slow, linear, does not allow for change, and is governed by scheduling resources, versus based upon customer need or value creation. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of our innovative approaches or systems are based on very often just an internal perspective, restricted in available resources and limited knowledge and insights, often constraining the evolving new solutions and then limiting the impact and outcome. Let me explain these a little more for the remainder of this post.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Its not just about cutting costsits about creating systems that are more agile, productive, and capable of delivering consistent quality. Adopting a process improvement approach allows companies to stay competitive by streamlining workflows and making better use of resources.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

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. Impact and Intensity becomes the new mantra.

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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.” The Proud Leader.

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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. A couple of days after having had published my post, Paolo Lorenzoni from IDEO confirmed the complementary nature of Lean Startup and Design Thinking. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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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. Third, remember you’re designing for agility which means you’re only making a commitment to explore and evaluate. The key is to be nimble in how you introduce and build consensus around ideologies.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These words include adjectives such as "lean", "agile" and "rapid", to make the point that innovation should be stripped to its bare components, move as fast as possible and create minimum viable solutions. No amount of lean tools or agile methodology will change that. When can you move fast?

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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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Planview

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Consequently, modernizing PPM means supporting teams no matter what methodology they use – from waterfall projects, to collaborative, to Lean-Agile approaches to work delivery and beyond. For example, a project team focused on tasks and project plans has different needs than Agile teams focused on flow and throughput.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 20, 2019

This is where Lean Agile principles come into play. Keeping the Ball in Your Court: Understanding Lean Agile Principles. While being Lean means making the best use of what you have, being Agile means being able to adapt rapidly and flexibly to sudden changes. Lean and Agile principles complement one another.

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