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

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The image here is the list of exactly which capabilities your company needs to succeed at innovation. Almost every business leader will tell you that they value innovation and that it is a positive & important factor for their company. Now, I’m going to outline step by step what enables a company to deliver those ideas.

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Idea to Value

MAY 19, 2017

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Tendayi Viki on what exactly “Lean Innovation” is. Things we discuss in today’s episode: What lean innovation is, “Doing the right things at the right time” (02:30). The difference between startups and established companies (11:30).

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

The Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop is a core concept from the Lean Startup methodology, designed to help organizations test new ideas quickly and learn from real customer feedback. Teams often use agile or lean methodologies to manage these cycles within two-week sprints or experiment windows. What is the Build-Measure-Learn Loop?

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Leanstack

APRIL 26, 2021

In this post, Alejandra shares her perspectives on when and how to incorporate lean, agile, and design thinking into your product lifecycle. For the company where I worked, that was far too long and risky. For the company where I worked, that was far too long and risky. And, the de-risking process won't happen.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Did you know inefficient business processes cost companies up to 30% of their revenue? Enter Lean Six Sigma Management (LSSM), a proven methodology that combines the best of two worlds: Lean’s focus on reducing waste and Six Sigma’s emphasis on quality and consistency. What is Lean Six Sigma Management?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

It is widely used in agile innovation, design thinking, lean startup, and product development methodologies. By aligning team efforts around what matters mostthe riskiest and most uncertain parts of an ideathe Experiment Canvas prevents wasted resources and accelerates the path to product-market fit.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 17, 2025

I personally have worked with companies who believed they needed a “statistically relevant” sample size of feedback before making a decision on whether to progress an idea (which in their view meant more than a hundred responses). Consider a company developing a new app. But liking an idea is different from using it.

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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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Kainexus

JUNE 12, 2024

In an era where efficiency and agility are paramount, Lean business transformation has emerged as a pivotal strategy for organizations aiming to streamline operations and enhance value creation. By adopting Lean principles, companies can significantly reduce costs, improve quality, and accelerate time-to-market.

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Kainexus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Picture this: A company overwhelmed by a sea of projects, each vying for attention, resources, and precious time. How can Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) help this company survive and thrive in a world of ever-increasing complexity and competition?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

White Space Innovation is a strategic framework used to identify and pursue growth opportunities beyond a companys current product lines, markets, or business models. Companies that embrace White Space Innovation aim to break out of stagnation, stay ahead of disruption, and create long-term competitive advantage.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

For insights into how agile integrates into newer practices, explore how it aligns with the lean startup methodology , which emphasizes the MVP concept for efficient product validation. Lean Lean development draws from the principles of lean manufacturing, focusing on creating more value for customers with fewer resources.

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Kainexus

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In a world where efficiency is the lifeblood of success and waste is the silent killer of profits, there exists a methodology that promises to transform businesses and organizations into lean, mean, profit-producing machines. This article will look into the heart of this transformative force.

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Kainexus

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

More and more companies embrace the Lean methodology for continuous improvement and waste reduction. Whether your organization is new to Lean or you need to introduce the idea to new employees and provide ongoing skill development, a successful Lean training program is crucial. Others prefer an in-house approach.

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Kainexus

MAY 3, 2022

Organizations have adopted the Lean methodology worldwide to improve work processes, reduce waste, and achieve overall performance optimization. Modern companies leverage Lean management software to ensure that continuous improvement is productive and efficient.

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Tim Kastelle

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Your new idea, your proposal to the company, your new venture, your innovation—no one knows about it. Related Stories The Magic in Lean Startup is Hypothesis Testing How to Make Good Lean Startup Hypotheses How to Find Your First Customers. That’s the only way to cross the Gulf of Disapproval.

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Kainexus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The lean community recently lost a brilliant mind and a warm heart, Chris Burnham. Today, we want to pay tribute to Chris and celebrate his life and the profound impact he had on our company and our community. Despite his lean expertise, Chris was always ready to learn more, and he extended his learning into every interaction he had.

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Board of Innovation

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In order for innovation to be a viable undertaking for any company, the outcomes of the innovation need to be maximized, while the risk involved needs to be contained as much as possible. The post Shifting gears between design thinking, lean startup, and agile appeared first on Board of Innovation. Continue reading.

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Kainexus

JANUARY 25, 2022

When many people think about Lean processes and management , they assume that the goal is to optimize each process with a step-by-step approach to reduce waste and implement incremental improvements. Because people who innovate have bold ideas, but it's Lean thinking that turns fantastic ideas into realities.

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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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Kainexus

JANUARY 6, 2022

Lean process management is a method for building a company culture that supports continuous improvement. The primary objective of Lean process improvement is to create value for the customer by optimizing resources and creating an uninterrupted workflow based on near real-time customer demands.

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Digital Tonto

JANUARY 26, 2025

Yet when its consumer business was disrupted by fintech startups, Jeff Softley saw that the same data and technology infrastructure the company had built to serve large enterprises, could also be put to work to empower consumers to improve their access to credit and measurably improve their lives.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers. ” The value of the innovation narrative is it should offer beliefs about the company’s ability to innovate.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

A well-structured discovery-driven plan ensures that companies: Minimize risks by identifying and testing key assumptions early. How Discovery-Driven Planning Supports Strategic Decision-Making Identifies Assumptions Instead of Making Predictions Helps companies avoid costly miscalculations. Market entry strategies.

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Kainexus

JANUARY 27, 2022

Lean product management addresses these challenges by applying Lean thinking to product development and strategy. It offers a framework for making product decisions that align with company goals, performance indicators, and customer desires. The result is wasted resources, low satisfaction scores, and disengaged team members.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 12, 2021

A few months ago, I had the privilege of sitting down with Steve Blank, widely credited as the founder of the Lean Startup movement, for a fascinating podcast interview. A company needs to be able to exploit its current core business to make a profit.

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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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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

While the massive layoffs at meta are terrible, it sadly shows one of the major issues that companies struggle with when they try to grow and innovate too quickly … facebook tried a huge number of innovation projects which failed. These are “Zombie projects” But then there are companies which do it even worse.

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Viima

AUGUST 31, 2023

53% of Fortune 500 companies use Six Sigma and up to 82% of those in the top Fortune 100 embrace the business improvement methodology. Research says that Six Sigma has saved companies over $400 billion. Research says that Six Sigma has saved companies over $400 billion. One can only wonder: is this yet another gold rush?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

It proposes that companies must focus on one of three primary value disciplines to achieve market leadership and sustainable success : Operational Excellence Delivering low-cost, reliable, and efficient products or services. Improves Resource Focus Ensures investments align with the companys primary value discipline.

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Kainexus

MAY 25, 2023

Companies constantly seek ways to improve process efficiency and reduce waste in today's rapidly changing business landscape. One approach that has gained widespread popularity is Lean Business Process Management.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 25, 2022

Dunbar’s number of 150 people maximum has been found by other researchers in fields as diverse as how many other people users on Twitter interact with , tribe sizes during the Pleistocene and Neolithic , or even the ideal number of people in an office discovered by trial and error by innovative company WL Gore.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Define Customer Relationships Explain how your company interacts with each customer segment. Channels may include: Direct sales (online or physical store) Partner channels (distributors or affiliates) Digital platforms (apps or websites) List all touchpoints across the customer journey, from awareness to post-sale support.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 11, 2023

The issue was that the company now had no idea which of the ideas should be taken forward. There was only one person in the company in charge of the innovation initiatives, and they were already working at capacity. So being able to validate all of the potential ideas in an unbiased way was proving more or less impossible.

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Viima

JANUARY 2, 2024

One such approach that I will be diving into in this article is the Lean Startup method. This approach is not viable for all companies, especially small and emerging startups. So, let’s break the Lean Startup down, and let’s see how it can modify the traditional way of starting a new venture.

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