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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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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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation? Check out our list of design thinking books to read. Books from 2020 & Earlier. Find it here.

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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. The final problems are with the last question.

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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. From the name, people often think of it as a prototype, but really, it’s a learning object. Here’s an example from our first Lean LaunchPad program. The best way to think of an MVP is an object for learning.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

This InnovationTraining.org guest article from Tendayi Viki is a selection from his latest book, Pirates In The Navy. This is a lesson I learned from making many mistakes in my own work. Adopting agile development, business model, lean startup and design thinking tools will help facilitate the innovation process.

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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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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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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

Speed of learning is the new unfair advantage. Much like failing becomes learning when you’re going fast, innovation becomes continuous. A brief history of the Continuous Innovation Framework The early scaffolding for the Continuous Innovation Framework was described in my first book: Running Lean.

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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. Businesses must learn first , rather than merely executing on the plan. But how can an enterprise organization re-invent product commercialization?

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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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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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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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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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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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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

This guest article on innovative teaching shares ideas and strategies from the The Startup Teacher Playbook: Turn Your Ideas Into Actions, Personalize Professional Development, and Create Innovative Learning Experiences for You and Your Students. Education is never going back to ‘normal’ or at least one would hope not.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

So as you search across industry you are framing the questions into “ how do we ”: adapt, enrich, customise, take one element and apply this, expand, learn, experiment, modify, fuse, blend or play with that alters our thinking. It is like knowledge building blocks (think Lego) that connect together.

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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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Destination Innovation

MAY 22, 2016

In his seminal book, The Lean Startup , Eric Ries defines the MVP as a version of the entrepreneur’s product which enables a full turn of the Build-Measure-Learn cycle with minimum effort and the least amount of development time. If the answer is negative then you have gained an invaluable piece of learning.

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IdeaScale

MAY 2, 2019

Nobody in the accounting department will object to a better invoicing system, but some may be concerned if you want to put the books in the cloud and automate the more repetitive processes. Encouraging the entire company to lean into both forms of innovation, with a focus on their goals, will be key. Refine Towards Goals.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 7, 2016

Part 3 in The Lean Startup Series Facebook currently has 1.55 In one of our Lean LaunchPad programs, we got Mick Liubinskas from Pollenizer and Muru-D in to talk about focus. You can also find a.pdf of the book he wrote with Phil Morle on this here. If you’re doing a lean startup, you need to do two things.

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 27, 2021

The speed afforded to us by 5G is astounding , making advancements like edge computing and machine learning even more efficient than ever before, which appears as a threat to some in certain careers. Learning to be anticipatory can change that and provide you with a new way to actively shape your future. This couldn’t be more wrong!

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

As you learn more MCPS thinking tools, creative power grows. It’s easy-to-learn, immediately useful, and only gets more powerful as thinking shifts towards more focused, improvisational, and creative, problem solving. The creator of MCPS is Gregg Fraley, the author of the creativity book, Jack’s Notebook.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. A new book by Silicon Valley tech veteran and innovation advocate Ann Mei Chang, Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good explores the unique challenges that can deter social innovation. Corporate philanthropy. Benefit corporations.

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Matthew May

AUGUST 28, 2015

I started developing a visual tool for team facilitation of strategy development over two years ago, after I learned the Playing to Win framework from Roger Martin. Lafley’s book, Playing to Win. Craft a “lean” experiment focused on your most worrisome what-must-be-true. The previous version was not standalone.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

The last two years have been tough for K–12 schools and educators, but these challenging times have not been without their bright spots—and there’s much to learn from them. Factor 1: Forward-leaning orientation. That groundwork is an essential precursor to having a forward-leaning orientation in a time of crisis.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

That part of the day spent on innovation, researching and reading, tends to partly stimulate my week ahead in different ways as I try to reinforce what I’ve learned by applying this to the work gathered around me at that point of time, it does help shape and influence it, it ‘fuels’ the coming in week in some part.

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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. That’s the topic of my book, From Reopen to Reinvent.

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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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Planview

JULY 30, 2024

Spear in a recent book: Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification. In their research, Gene and Steven reviewed common efficiency design systems like Lean, Agile, DevOps, and the Toyota Production System. Their conclusion?

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Matthew May

APRIL 24, 2015

It’s a simple learning mechanism, essentially an after-action process of asking: what I expected to happen (my hypothesis if you will), what actually happened, and what explains the gap, if there is one. The gap is where learning and insight live. And there invariably is. It creates new knowledge. It’s how I improve.

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

Speed of learning is the new unfair advantage. Much like failing becomes learning when you’re going fast, innovation becomes continuous. A brief history of the Continuous Innovation Framework The early scaffolding for the Continuous Innovation Framework was described in my first book: Running Lean. Stay tuned for more…

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 29, 2015

Today nothing has to be rigid or protected, we have to encourage and find a certain freedom to adapt, adjust, pilot and experiment within our innovation ‘system’ as the very solutions we desire are in constant in need of adaption from fresh learning. So we should be asking of ourselves “what are we capable of?”

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 2, 2022

The Khan Academy and Arizona State University Prep Digital’s partnership to launch the Khan World School, a virtual school for high schoolers, brings together two powerhouses in digital learning with the promise of creating a breakthrough schooling model. Honestly, that’s the stereotype of some in-person learning as well.

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Christensen Institute

MAY 21, 2024

As we described in our book, The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty , the average person wants to make progress. Leaning into these questions and others can help leaders develop employment experiences that match the importance of the work these African scientists are doing.

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