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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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. Robert Cooper in the Journal of Product Innovation Management. Addressing Agile-Stage-Gate PPM Implementation Challenges.

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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.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Whether you’re creating a new product, service, process, or business model, innovation is about keeping an eye on costs while pushing forward to create novel new solutions. Work with other companies to lower the costs–and the risks–around new product development. Leverage external innovation. Rethink waste.

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Planview

MARCH 18, 2022

As a result, we will gain insights on how her teams collaborate, the Planview culture, and career advice for those seeking employment in the Product Development (PD) automation field. Here is what Geetika had to say: Explain your role as a Software Development Engineer Test Manager and a few of your responsibilities.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? How can design thinking help with product development? Reading books and articles: There are many books and articles available on design thinking that can provide an introduction to the concept and its key principles.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We’re already at the 10 year anniversary of the Lean Startup. Yes, it was a little over 10 years ago that Eric Ries started sharing a series of blog posts and giving talks on a new way of building products?—?ideas ideas that went on to spark the global Lean Startup movement. Using a Lean Canvas does not a Lean Startup make.

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Leanstack

AUGUST 4, 2016

I spend a lot of time at the intersection of “business modeling” and “lean startup” and have been looking for the right category label to describe this type of work. You create a quick sketch of your business model using a tool like the Lean Canvas. The third step is lean startup.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 29, 2023

However, the rise of Lean Startup methodologies, popularized by Eric Ries in his book “The Lean Startup,” brought rapid experimentation to the forefront. Ries’s emphasis on Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) sparked a paradigm shift. An MVP is a product experiment with a very high degree of fidelity.

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The BMI Lab Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

While some of us will try to overcome the Zoom-Fatigue by disconnecting from the digital world and find inspiration in books or nature, others prefer to stay connected and enjoy good, insightful content to make the best out of their free time. If you want to find out more about our lean startup approach, check out our Launchpad.

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Leanstack

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

In my book, Running Lean , I advocate using customer problem interviews and observation techniques for this, but I have recently been experimenting with another approach called jobs-to-be-done. Last week, I co-hosted a joint Running Lean + Switch workshop with Bob and his team ( Chris Spiek and Ervin Fowlkes ) here in Austin, TX.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We’re already at the 10 year anniversary of the Lean Startup. Yes, it was a little over 10 years ago that Eric Ries started sharing a series of blog posts and giving talks on a new way of building products?—?ideas ideas that went on to spark the global Lean Startup movement. Using a Lean Canvas does not a Lean Startup make.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The top person chooses one or more of the pitched ideas to put into the product development pipeline for introduction. If you don’t have a pipeline, start one, and test the idea as cheaply as you can before you advance to the next stage of development (as in Lean Product Development ).

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IM Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

Elijah Eilert speaks to Paul Orlando about his book Growth Units to discover how to best calculate Customer Acquisition Cost and Lifetime Value. Get the Book. 01:00) Introducing Paul Orlando and his book Growth Units , the foundation of this episode. Paul gives an example from his book. About the Episode. price per unit

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Leanstack

AUGUST 17, 2017

In my first book, Running Lean , I outlined a Problem Interview script for uncovering problems worth solving. Inspired by the Scientific Method, the search for Problem/Solution fit starts with creating a model — specifically a business model using a Lean Canvas. Problem Interview Script 1.0

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Therefore, corporate R & D programs need targets to ensure that the product development portfolio includes growth projects that carry more risk and have a longer payback. I believe that every person who touches product development has the ability – and the responsibility – to deliver innovative products to the market.

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Leanstack

DECEMBER 4, 2015

A basic tenet of running lean is validating a product or feature ideally without having to build it first. This makes complete sense when you look at every product or feature as its own customer factory. The first battle isn’t fought on the ground but in the customer's mind.

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Mike Shipulski

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The best known method is the Lean Startup method. The Lean Startup is also quite good when money’s tight. And then there’s the VC/Lean Startup combo. A set of high potential projects run in parallel, each using Lean’s build, show, refine method to learn at light speed. When money’s tight, the VC model is not your friend.

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Planview

AUGUST 12, 2022

Instead of splitting product knowledge across numerous teams and piecemealing tasks together, a product-based team is responsible for every aspect of the product, from its overall design to the budget, market research, and product development. How strong is customer centricity? How clear is the definition of value?

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Once upon a time, in the heyday of the Industrial Age, a young marketing, design, or engineering student would graduate from college and go to work for a large corporation, slowly melding into the steady, rhythmic din of bureaucratically-managed, organizationally-structured execution work in product development.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

The horizon model originally came from the book “The Alchemy of Growth” by Stephen Coley, Mehrdad Baghai, David White. The purpose for the model was to help businesses think about their need to develop new revenue sources over time. Product development just doesn’t work that way.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. This is the third in a series on the changing models of corporate innovation co-authored with Steve Blank. Read part one on the Evolution of Corporate R&D and part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley. .

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. This is the third in a series on the changing models of corporate innovation co-authored with Steve Blank. Read part one on the Evolution of Corporate R&D and part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley. .

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The Inovo Group

AUGUST 5, 2019

The processes, methods and tools used for New Product Development (NPD) are insufficient for strategic innovation [1] and strategic innovation is necessary for the accelerated growth that companies demand. Sometimes new product development (NPD) is relatively straightforward, although it may be extremely costly and difficult.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Therefore, corporate R & D programs need targets to ensure that the product development portfolio includes growth projects that carry more risk and have a longer payback. I believe that every person who touches product development has the ability – and the responsibility – to deliver innovative products to the market.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. Before moving to Stage 3, the Innovation Outpost must answer these 5 questions: Do we have corporate buy-in to build a product?

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. Before moving to Stage 3, the Innovation Outpost must answer these 5 questions: Do we have corporate buy-in to build a product?

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Nearly all that training is for dedicated innovation teams , or employees who are focused on new product development. Or, book a full day immersion in Innovation Concepts. And that’s a good thing.

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Leanstack

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

A year later, Steve is still building his product. He has no product revenue and relies on part-time freelancing work to fund his product development. And he works alone. On the other hand, Larry has a growing customer base, revenue, and team. How did each of them end up in such a different place?

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In James Surowiecki’s book of the same name, he cites four conditions required to achieve ‘wisdom’: (1) independent opinions, (2) diverse opinions, (3) decentralized input, and (4) a way to aggregate the results. What major problems does the North American office see with new product development?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

It’d be hard to choose two words that feel less descriptive of life inside a large organization than “lean” and “startup.” ” Lean startup, popularized by writers and entrepreneurs like Eric Ries and Steve Blank, can deliver big benefits inside big companies. Ramazan Balay. First, the benefits.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. Before moving to Stage 3, the Innovation Outpost must answer these 5 questions: Do we have corporate buy-in to build a product?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

” Arkilic had been reading Steve Blank’s blog , as well as his book, The Four Steps to the Epiphany , which would later spawn the lean startup movement. From Product Development to Customer Development. ” And I think that underlines something we often miss about the lean startup movement.

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Corporate Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. His insights about how corporations are adopting Lean Startup will be at the core of this series of four co-authored blog posts. and the emergence of new industries, markets and customers.

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Corporate Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. His insights about how corporations are adopting Lean Startup will be at the core of this series of four co-authored blog posts. and the emergence of new industries, markets and customers.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

This problem was well described in the classic book, The Innovator’s Dilemma. Support your innovators Provide training in iterative, experiment-rich approaches to innovation and new product development. because most things don’t go to plan!

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. This is the third in a series on the changing models of corporate innovation co-authored with Steve Blank. Read part one on the Evolution of Corporate R&D and part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley. .

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