Tim Kastelle

JUNE 19, 2016

I’ve been running Lean LaunchPad programs for a couple of years now, and all along, I’ve thought that the number of customer development interviews that a team does is a good indicator of how successful they’ll be. Consequently, I thought that the magic in lean startup is customer development. I was wrong.

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Innovation Leader

MARCH 3, 2021

Slides on applying the lean startup from the former Director of Digital Innovation at a lighting manufacturer. Lean startup is not a bible,” he writes, but “rather a recipe book…”

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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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HYPE Innovation

JANUARY 5, 2016

The Lean Startup was published in 2011, yet its impact has been enormous. Companies are still getting to grips with the ideas set out in the book, most of which were not new in the first place. “Startup success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.”.

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Kainexus

DECEMBER 3, 2020

James Womack and Dan Jones are the founders of the Lean Enterprise Institute and the Lean Enterprise Academy (UK), respectively. Their book, Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation , is considered by some to be the bible of Lean manufacturing.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 26, 2014

Each panelist had made their mark on how design is done in start-ups: Laura wrote the influential O’Reilly book on UX for Lean Startups, and Todd penned the bestselling Rosenfeld Media Prototyping book. Mike founded an influential Lean UX community in San Francisco. . Boxes and Arrows is grateful for her time.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2020

Learn what works in innovation from these ten books. Here are ten books every innovator should crack as they build a new innovation approach. This book lays out how businesses can do everything right and still lose out on innovation. Running Lean , by Ash Maurya Innovation strategy starts with a plan.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Part Eight in the Lean Startup Series When teams start out with lean startup, they often build hypotheses that are too precise – we assume we know more than we do. We need to start our lean startup process with discovery – and that is harder to hypothesise. Part eight: How to Make Good Lean Startup Hypotheses.

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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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Rapid Innovation in digital time

AUGUST 25, 2021

The Lean Startup was published by Eric Ries 10 years ago in 2011. It's still utterly accurate, so clear-cut phrased, as illustrated by selected punchlines from the book. How did it fare across time? In my opinion, it hasn't aged a bit.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

If you have a project or team needing leadership and management, book an appointment with me now and we can speak about how I could help you. Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution) framework. Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution) method. Book an appointment with Nick Leverage A.I.

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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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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Brought to prominence by Professor Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma , this important theory provides an explanation as to why large, established companies eventually get overtaken by smaller ones, and it introduced the concept of disruptive innovation. What is it: Every company knows about brainstorming.

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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. Are you ready?

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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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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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Kainexus

JULY 23, 2020

Lean Thinking , by James P. Jones, covers the five principles of Lean manufacturing. Peter Drucker called it, “A very important book.” Peter Drucker called it, “A very important book.” Here are 5 principles of Lean manufacturing: Womack and Daniel T. Truly remarkable.

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

A brief history of the Continuous Innovation Framework The early scaffolding for the Continuous Innovation Framework was described in my first book: Running Lean. March 9, 2012 - Running Lean Meta-Process - Lean Canvas Continuous Innovation Framework 2.0?—?June Version History Continuous Innovation Framework 1.0?—?March

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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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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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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle. How Lean Innovation Re-Invents Product Commercialization Production As discussed above, in most companies, product development is considered “pre-commercialization.”

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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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Kainexus

JANUARY 27, 2023

We recently had the honor of hosting Nick Katko, President and Owner of BMA and author of several books, including The Lean CFO - 2nd Edition and co-author of Practicing Lean Accounting , on a webinar with KaiNexus Senior Advisor Mark Graban, and Senior Director of Lean Strategy, Chris Burnham.

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Leanstack

OCTOBER 1, 2015

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. We have successfully applied LEAN Sprints internally in our team and across several dozen entrepreneurial teams at startups and large organizations.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Ever since Eric Reis published his bestselling book, The Lean Startup, the idea of a minimum viable product (MVP) has captured the imagination of entrepreneurs and product developers everywhere. The idea of testing products faster and cheaper has an intuitive logic that simply can’t be denied.

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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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Kainexus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

James Womack and Dan Jones are the founders of the Lean Enterprise Institute and the Lean Enterprise Academy (UK), respectively. Their book, Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation , is considered by some to be the bible of Lean manufacturing.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 4, 2016

Part 1 in The Lean Startup Series Henry Ford famously didn’t say: If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. a bunch of Lean LaunchPad programs with the Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation ( CSIRO ) aimed at increasing the impact of all the great research that they’re doing.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

It tied in quite nicely with the book I’m reviewing here. Enter the book. It turns out that Jeff Gothelf, author of Lean UX (the book I’m reviewing here) has also faced the same challenges. The answer situates itself within the Lean approach to product development. Lean UX has its own challenges.

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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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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 27, 2022

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers In his book, The Four Steps to the Epiphany, Steve Blank described what has become the gospel of lean startup methodologies: Customer validation, customer discovery, customer creation and company building The path to sickcare digital transformation is … Continue reading →

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Leanstack

JUNE 6, 2019

If you’re a long time reader of this blog, chances are high you’ve read my first book: Running Lean. But did you read my second book: Scaling Lean ? You’ve probably been waiting to pick up the second book for when you’re actually scaling your product. Therein lies the challenge for books like these.

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Kainexus

MARCH 17, 2021

There are hundreds of books and countless blog posts with advice on how to improve quality. Some organizations choose to adopt comprehensive process management methodologies like Six Sigma , Lean Manufacturing , or the Toyota Production System. Quality management is a subject that's often studied in business.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 8, 2018

In Eric Ries’s bestselling book, The Startup Way, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur explains how he helped lead General Electric’s transformation from a stodgy industrial era dinosaur into a lean, entrepreneurial enterprise.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 12, 2016

Part 5 in The Lean Startup Series The idea of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is frequently misunderstood. Here’s an example from our first Lean LaunchPad program. That Resources page includes free.pdfs of two books on the topic, and they are both excellent. The best way to think of an MVP is an object for learning.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Ever since Eric Reis published his bestselling book, The Lean Startup, the idea of a minimum viable product (MVP) has captured the imagination of entrepreneurs and product developers everywhere. The idea of testing products faster and cheaper has an intuitive logic that simply can’t be denied.

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