Kainexus

MAY 29, 2020

That’s the mindset of a Lean organization. That ideal is unattainable, of course, but Lean organizations try to get close to it every day, and in doing so, reach a level of success that their competitors can only envy. Every Lean organization is unique, but there are some core qualities that they tend to have in common.

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Kainexus

APRIL 22, 2021

We spend a lot of time and effort on this blog digging into the details of how to start, spread, and sustain a Lean culture. We think it is important to get very specific about the Lean tools and techniques that produce measurable results for healthcare organizations. and Leonard L.

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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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Open Innovation EU

JANUARY 22, 2016

Think about The Lean Start-Up (Ries), Agile, Business Model Generation (Osterwalder) and Customer Development (Steve Blank). In my quest to place these tools into perspective, I generated a new integrative model: The Lean Scale-Up – how to get from start-up to scale-up. Below you’ll find an overview of the model.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 14, 2025

Frank Mattes CEO at Lean Scaleup The Problem Of course, in some cases, missing clarity and scaling expertise might be the reason for the lack of new growth. Most of these corporate frameworks are based on the Lean Startup but the Lean Startup was never designed for corporates, as Steve Blank, the founder of the movement, says.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

Course Description: Innovation Intensive is a one day, deep dive, into fundamental and advanced concepts in innovation. It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. This is a compelling and informative training course.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

I would also remind everyone that all people who register for a free account with Idea to Value get access to a free mini-course on introducing the science of improving your creativity ( click here to get yours now ). Allocating small initial budgets to get to the next stage in a lifecycle early on (e.g.

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Leanstack

MARCH 5, 2021

The challenge, of course, is that product/market fit takes roughly 2 years on average to achieve and 80% of products never make it. Getting to product/market fit (aka the inflection point in the hockey-stick curve when a product's traction starts rapidly growing) is one of the most significant milestones for a startup. output) driven.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you’re in the Chicago or Denver areas, check out these innovation training course offerings. Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi) is offering three public courses in late October and early November. Click on the course title to register. It’s fall and it’s time to go back to school. REGISTER NOW. REGISTER NOW.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 16, 2016

Part 6 in The Lean Startup Series The day before we started our first Lean LaunchPad program with the CSIRO, Bill McKeague and I talked strategy over coffee. I often refer to that first one as our Minimum Viable Lean LaunchPad. It was, of course, classic Build-Measure-Learn. We didn’t get there on the first try.

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Leanstack

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The challenge, of course, is that truly good ideas are rare and often indistinguishable from bad ideas at the outset. 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.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Lean’ is the buzzword of the last decade, challenging old school thinking that dictates that a successful business must be resource-heavy to achieve sustainable growth, whilst also giving credence to those who want to launch “almost-there” app startups today to achieve market domination tomorrow. Pros for a lean app startup.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 4, 2016

Part 2 in The Lean Startup Series Why do new ventures fail? Here is what the Lean Startup team says : If you’re wondering which kind of risk you face, let me help you out: It’s customer risk. One of the key reasons for using a Lean Startup approach like Lean LaunchPad is that it helps you address all three types of risk simultaneously.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Of course, some of us struggle to make eye contact, out of shyness, for example. Even if they’re not looking at you directly, you can show engagement with “open” body language such as sitting up and leaning forward. If somebody’s uncomfortable with eye contact, don’t make them do it. Focus On The Speaker.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 6, 2017

Of course, the MVP version still requires you to load the cheese manually, but it’s a start. Here’s a short video that I made that talks about this a bit for an online short course called Ideas to Impact : Also, it’s an honour to be included on this list of the World’s Most Influential Innovation Blogs.

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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. The Lean Startup approach is based on the Build-Measure-Learn loop. Note: Over the past year, I’ve been running (with help, of course!)

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 8, 2023

With this new online Udemy course you can quickly absorb the key ideas and principles in best-selling busines books by watching short video lectures. Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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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. Over the past year, I’ve been running (with help, of course!) Lean startup tools are a great way to discover the right business model for your new thing.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We do need to ‘lean in’ on many specialists and experts to help us, not just business consultants! Stay flexible, agile and adaptable, and have up-to-date contingency plans in place to adjust course if needed and, in a controlled manner, options to existing business strategy. As well, and ask, are we really interested?

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This is the story of how SAY San Diego is using Lean Innovation to create real, powerful change in their community. For SAY San Diego, we ran two Lean Innovation Bootcamps and Accelerators , and facilitated a two-hour leadership session in order to begin shifting their culture from status quo to value creation.

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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. Of course, not all friction is bad. Your subtitle refers to “lean” principles; I’m assuming they respond to these restraining forces? Lean Process targets waste directly. Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Lean Startup Week - this year known as Lean Startup Conference - has traditionally been a staple in the innovation industry for bringing both startups and enterprise companies alike into the same sphere in order to discuss advancements in strategy, tactics, ideas, and social impact.

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Kainexus

MARCH 18, 2021

It is a key tool of the Six Sigma methodology, but it can be implemented as a standalone improvement method or as part of other process initiatives like Lean. It brings structure to the improvement process and helps teams explore potential solutions, decide a course of action, and implement process controls in short order.

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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. Sounds ideal.

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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. If you’re doing a lean startup, you need to do two things. Note: Over the past year, I’ve been running (with help, of course!)

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 13, 2016

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. Lean is about stripping away unnecessary assets to focus on doing the most with the least. Lean is about stripping away unnecessary assets to focus on doing the most with the least.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 19, 2016

Part 7 in The Lean Startup Series We interviewed the plant manager and he said that they didn’t have any problems with scale, but we know that they do! That’s what a team working on anti-scaling technology reported back early in the Lean LaunchPad process. Note: Over the past year, I’ve been running (with help, of course!)

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

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. Enter the book. And it has its own challenges—doubtless you’re thinking of some in your head now.

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Matthew May

DECEMBER 4, 2015

There’s nothing wrong with operational excellence of course, but in my view, that’s merely one aspect of organizational fitness. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it completely ignores the raison d’etre of any organization: the consumer. Also, operational excellence can simply mean that you get a great return on assets.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Anyone who has ever attended Lean Startup Conference (previously known as Lean Startup Week) in the past knows that this annual event regularly features invigorating speakers that divulge the newest insights and innovations in modern management for a wide array of industries and company types.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

Of course, this shift requires really big changes in strategy, operations, the organization and in each individuals orientation. The design needs to be customer-centric, agile, experimental, lean, standard as much as it can be, with simplicity and adaptive as being central to this. They are all becoming digital endeavors.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 6, 2017

Of course, the MVP version still requires you to load the cheese manually, but it’s a start. This is what is built into the lean startup approach , which is a good method for breaking out of the linear model problems. The other startup is described as Uber for Mousetraps.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2018

At IdeaScale we help Kane is Able and many other clients achieve their continuous improvement strategies such as Lean, Kaizen or Six Sigma. Each has a set of required conditions for successful execution, and even when these are met some simply run their course. Limits in applicability or scope. Methodology agnostic” you might say.

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Tim Kastelle

MAY 5, 2016

As he’s been working more with established firms trying to innovate, his view has evolved – now he shows how discovery and execution integrate : This, of course, is another version of the ambidextrous organisation issue that Ralph Ohr has been digging into deeply.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Of course there are numerous others also provided within the Hype Methods & Frameworks , written by other contributing authors giving their own slants to these. These cover Lean, Co-creation, Collaboration, Ecosystems, Open Innovation, Ten Types of Innovation, User-Led Innovation and others.

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Open Innovation EU

MARCH 30, 2016

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. Source: www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/when-toyota-met-e-commerce-lean-at-amazon.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 2, 2018

You can use Lean Innovation techniques -- Empathy, Experiments, and Evidence to ensure the driving force is sustained through the integration. But of course, the real question is, “What do you mean by innovation?” Lean Innovation’s empathy work helps avoid this outcome by understanding what’s necessary to keep both parties happy.

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