InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. These innovation-focused book recommendations will help teach you the skills and techniques needed to grow your business and improve your company’s innovation efforts. Check out our list of design thinking books to read. Books from 2020 & Earlier.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Together, they reduce the risk of failure, improve the success rate of new ideas and can help build an organisation which is more resilient to change and able to grow. But I would also recommend the following books: 8 – Effective Brainstorming. Let’s get started: 15 – TRIZ.

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Kainexus

MARCH 25, 2021

The Lean methodology is an evolution of the Toyota Production System that the Japanese automaker implemented following World War II to improve the efficiency and flexibility of its manufacturing. Two important books, The Machine That Changed the World (1990) by James P. Jone and Lean Thinking (1996) by James P.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Today was one of those times when an email dropped into my inbox stating that Palgrave Macmillan, the publisher of my latest book Charting Change is offering it at a ridiculous Cyber Week Sale price of $9.99 Every so often something comes through your inbox that seems too good to be true. on the USA.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

Overall I found Lean UX to be an incredibly insightful and helpful compilation of principles and suggestions for practice/improving process and collaboration as outlined in my review of the book. Are there ways of, for instance, breaking into smaller teams for Lean UX while still tackling larger solutions that you have seen work well?

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Leanstack

JANUARY 10, 2019

A question I get a lot is: Why isn’t the Lean Canvas laid out more logically? Lean Canvas The main reason for this particular layout was legacy. Lean Canvas was derived from the Business Model Canvas. To compensate for usability, I published a suggested fill order in my first book: Running Lean. External changes 7.

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LEAN Idea Generation Technical Review Exercises 81

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. What sparked that change? Solving PMO Challenges How do you navigate the change management challenge?

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

If you have an event and are planning to book an inspirational speaker , ensure that the topic highlights how creativity can be enhanced, at any age. The framework I developed and use with clients is called the Lean Innovation Validation & Execution management (L.I.V.E.) If your company is interested, the L.I.V.E.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

This InnovationTraining.org guest article from Tendayi Viki is a selection from his latest book, Pirates In The Navy. Adopting agile development, business model, lean startup and design thinking tools will help facilitate the innovation process. On Understanding Your Company Before You Start Innovating.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. His latest book, What a Unicorn Knows , is available on Amazon and reveals the secrets to building high growth startups. Here’s a Q&A with Matt that highlights the key points in the book.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Industry borders are blurring, there are increasingly smaller, agile and highly disruptive companies working to change the existing into the new preferred. Changing established perceptions is extremely hard but potentially very rewarding. Established players that continue to choose the familiar are at increasing risk of missing out.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

To help innovation officers and wannabe innovators in their task, we’ve put together the best books to inspire you and help your company and workforce stay relevant. Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker In this classic book published in 1985, Peter F. Obviously, the books is rife with exciting anecdotes and case studies.

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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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Kainexus

MAY 16, 2019

For those of you who aren’t familiar with him, Mark is an internationally-recognized expert in the field of “Lean Healthcare” and the author of LeanBlog.org and author of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award-winning book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement.

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Matthew May

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Luckily, a new book by Daniel Markovitz entitled Building the Fit Organization lends that helping hand. Much of what you write is what I would categorize as “lean thinking,” so I’m wondering if organizational fitness is like human fitness in that you be “lean” but not necessarily “fit”?

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 27, 2021

Identifying that connection speeds will only continue to increase as a linear change is a huge step in finding ways to pre-solve predictable problems that come with such a disruption. They know that you cannot change the past, but you can shape the future based on the actions you take in the present. This couldn’t be more wrong!

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IdeaScale

MAY 2, 2019

For example, if your long-term goal is to shift from an industry you feel is beginning to fade in relevance to one that’s rising, often your short-term goals should reflect the details of what needs to happen for that change. Encouraging the entire company to lean into both forms of innovation, with a focus on their goals, will be key.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. They have helped businesses break through inertia and build game-changing products, but are still surprisingly uncommon when it comes to social good. And a new mindset is needed, Chang contends. Corporate philanthropy. Benefit corporations. Sounds ideal.

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Technical Review LEAN Innovation Social Innovation 100

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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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 24, 2016

If your organization is seeking to create a continuous change capability, it must have a strong focus on increasing its organizational agility. As you use the Change Planning Toolkit™ to kick off your next project or your next change initiative, keep thinking about what the minimum viable progress (MVP) might be in order to maintain momentum.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

He eventually honed the scope and changed the name to OpenTable. Find a Good Name But Recognize It May Change. What you think is a perfect name on day one will likely change as you get customer feedback and see the market’s response to your products and business model. I went to high school with Chuck.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 13, 2016

We'll know we've reached peak innovation insanity when someone writes the "Chicken Soup" for innovators souls book. 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. Most are already lean, but not intentionally.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma. The creator of MCPS is Gregg Fraley, the author of the creativity book, Jack’s Notebook. It could be used to start a business, or, for a career change. Mindset is where culture change starts.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.” It so often, does not yield the impact we require from innovation; successful outcomes that accelerate growth or make for substantial change. So where was I going this Sunday morning?

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

There I find that their confidence levels do not always align with the needs for change in the new organization. With many corporate startups taking inspiration from sources such as Steve Blank’s book The Lean Startup, which was never designed for the context of a large organization, are they in fact doomed to fail? “

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Technical Review Handbook Innovation Generative AI 59

Matthew May

AUGUST 28, 2015

Lafley’s book, Playing to Win. Disclosure: Roger Martin has seen the various iterations and advised me on changes.). Craft a “lean” experiment focused on your most worrisome what-must-be-true. I’m currently using the A3 to map out the strategy for my new book, which will be out next year.

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Leanstack

JANUARY 10, 2019

A question I get a lot is: Why isn’t the Lean Canvas laid out more logically? Lean Canvas The main reason for this particular layout was legacy. Lean Canvas was derived from the Business Model Canvas. To compensate for usability, I published a suggested fill order in my first book: Running Lean. External changes 7.

LEAN 40

LEAN Idea Generation Technical Review Exercises 40

Matthew May

APRIL 24, 2015

The first two are constants, and hold true nearly 100% of the time in my innovation coaching and lean training engagements. Read my articles on “The Myth of the Best Practice here and here , or better yet, pick up my friend Steve Shapiro’s great book, Best Practices Are Stupid.) What appears to be the solution, isn’t.

Strategy 100

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 29, 2015

In recent years our innovation understanding and its management have significantly changed, due to numerous factors that have been happening. Innovation is imperfect, we start with certain ideas or concepts and these over time and discussion seem to change shape, sometimes way beyond their original simplicity or need.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Innovation LEAN Software Review 100

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I had the chance to take a look at the new book “Built to Innovate” by INSEAD professor Ben Bensaou. With lean budgets for innovation a reality at many large organizations, managers are often reluctant to allocate funding and staff to projects they perceive as risky, or that don’t help them achieve their short-term performance metrics.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

A social entrepreneur is anyone who works toward affecting social change, solving problems – macro and micro – and making a difference in at least one life. brand, Jason’s Lean Change Management book and workshops, and Learning 3.0’s How do you decide on who you’re going to work with?

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

Factor 1: Forward-leaning orientation. One of the major hurdles for any leader in times of change and uncertainty is figuring out how to convince everyone who needs to cooperate to coordinate their efforts and pull in the same direction. Leadership tools only work when the people in the organization have shared goals and purpose.

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Technical Review LEAN Agile Culture 88

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Change is all around us, it is accelerating not abating. You often hear of volatile trading conditions, a more complex market and situations changing constantly and moving faster than ever. I remember one phrase in a great book to read “ Moments of Impact ” written by Chris Ertel and a wonderful associate of mine, Lisa Kay Soloman.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

I ran into more examples today in Carlota Perez’s brilliant book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. We’re currently running a small Lean LaunchPad course at University of Queensland, and listening to the updates on Friday got me thinking about this all over again – all the teams were aiming too broadly.

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Parents are also exerting themselves within schools by advocating for changes in curriculum and instruction—whether that’s to move to reading instruction in line with the evidence of how students become good readers, or in the way the books in a school library reflect a community’s values. They’ve struggled with chronic absenteeism.

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Trends Artificial Inteligence LEAN Learning 80

The BMI Lab Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

This thinking in “markets” and “technologies” changed with the rise of customer centricity, human centered design, and design thinking in the mid-2000s. Lean startup, coined by Eric Ries and previously described in the book “The Four Steps to Epiphany” (2005) by Eric’s mentor Steve Blank, is singing from the same song-sheet.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Industry borders are blurring, there are increasingly smaller, agile and highly disruptive companies working to change the existing into the new preferred. Changing established perceptions is extremely hard but potentially very rewarding. Established players that continue to choose the familiar are at increasing risk of missing out.

Industry 100

Industry Trends LEAN Innovation 100