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.

LEAN 100

LEAN Course Project Learning 100

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Our individual problem often lies in the time we have to discover, learn and explore new and different things. We do need to ‘lean in’ on many specialists and experts to help us, not just business consultants! Develop a positive and proactive growth mindset and embrace failures as learning opportunities.

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LEAN Industry Learning Analysis 196

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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Course Training Idea Generation Innovation 26

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.

LEAN 100

LEAN Development Team Review Tools Marketing 100

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. Join us at Catalyst Ranch, a truly fun place to learn! A truly innovative culture?

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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. To learn more about strategies to spur innovation, join our newsletter ! Focus On The Speaker.

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Creativity LEAN Examples Video 182

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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LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Handbook 52

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!) The first thing that we’ve learned is that talking to people is essential. But this is dangerous, and risky.

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LEAN Case Study Tools Course 100

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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LEAN Resources Marketing Analysis 59

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. Suggested reading: Summary.

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 8, 2023

Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. 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. But how much time would it have taken?

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Entrepreneurship Leadership Course LEAN 130

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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Conference LEAN Culture Learning 45

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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Underperforming Technical Team How To LEAN Marketing 100

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. Sign up here to start submitting your questions.

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Conference LEAN Leadership Entrepreneurship 56

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. In time, the firms involved with this project will learn, get better, and expand into bigger markets. million monthly active users.

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Marketing LEAN Course Disruption 100

Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

So much more can be accomplished when organizations embrace the unknown, shift their perspective to focus on their different customers, learn from valuable insights gained via empathy and experimentation, and ignite the innovative spirit within their culture. These challenges, while significant, can be overcome.

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LEAN Case Study Change Underperforming Technical Team 75

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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Technical Review LEAN Innovation Social Innovation 100

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

“Organizations that encourage and set about learning consciously set about the search for new ideas and by having this already established ‘learning’, are far better at recognizing new ideas that might lead to innovation “ Exploring Diffusion and Adoption of New Innovation – Part 3, part 2 and part 1 (this links to part 1).

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 200

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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Innovation Radical Innovation Design Big Data 186

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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LEAN Agile Course Company 100

Christensen Institute

JANUARY 4, 2024

Despite these growing proof points, efforts to improve education lean on mental models, theories of change, and investment strategies that routinely ignore the social side of opportunity. Innovations making career-connected learning more student- (versus employer-) centric. But individuals need more than just skills.

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Policies Innovation ChatGPT Tools 116

Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Experiential Learning Accelerates Innovation. New Study: Drawing is the Fastest, Most Effective Way to Learn. I read with interest an article stating that drawing accelerates learning. Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. Yes, drawing accelerates learning.

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Learning Underperforming Technical Team Training Innovation 45

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. Big improvements and more effective solutions are available to anyone willing to learn and use MCPS.”

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Creativity Training Tools Culture 98

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Of course, much of what we have will still remain. Even with the proliferation of lean startup, design thinking, innovation labs, accelerator programs, hackathons and innovation marathons, crowdsourcing and a host of designer canvases that keeps pushing our advancement along, success is still piecemeal and random.

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Innovation Design Agile System 179

CMOE

JUNE 21, 2021

Fortunately, there are development opportunities for supervisors you can lean on. CMOE’s Supervisor Development Series consists of multiple, self-paced, digital learning courses that offer supervisors the opportunity to elevate their leadership skills. Learning plans. Kantola’s Employment Laws Learning Course.

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Underperforming Technical Team Resources Tools Training 98

CorporateIntel

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sometimes I wonder if the advancing of age and a leaning toward old-fashioned values are a hindrance to relevancy in our contemporary workplace. It was bosses and colleagues advancing in age and leaning toward old-fashioned values. We all can learn from each other if we choose to listen. Of course things are different.

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LEAN Policies Technical Review Learning 97

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Lean Innovation Project Management: Putting in place a structure which teams can use to focus limited time and energy on progressing ideas quickly, and validating progress. Here, you would do the assessment yourselves ( or preferably with the help of a trained facilitator ) over the course of 1-2 days.

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Company Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Leadership 285

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2016

We need to explore, experiment, prototype, adapt, become more agile, keep it lean, pivot on new learning and anything else that helps us to speed up the process and keep learning and churning. • The bottom of the pyramid is a place we continue to forget and others learn to play in and master its needs.

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Innovation Design LEAN Marketing 100

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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Entrepreneurship LEAN Case Study Agile 70

Planview

JULY 26, 2022

But then the pandemic happened, creating a domino effect of disruptions that we are learning to accept as part of daily life. We’ve learned to write our plans in pencil, and to keep our erasers nearby. We’ve learned to write our plans in pencil, and to keep our erasers nearby. Sound familiar? Plan for tomorrow, today.

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Agile eBook Disruption Resources 97

Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues. Of course not. To get started: Run internal lean startup hackathons, where the process rewards iterative learning over solution building.

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Company LEAN Underperforming Technical Team How To 75

Leapfrogging

JULY 29, 2015

For Amazon, the July deals were offered exclusively to Amazon Prime members (and of course to attract new Prime members wanting to get in on the deals). Learn more about the reasoning behind Why We Buy here. It’s more about shifting business models than rock bottom prices. And that’s where the topic of innovation comes in.

LEAN 100

LEAN Innovation Video Course 100

Leapfrogging

JULY 29, 2015

For Amazon, the July deals were offered exclusively to Amazon Prime members (and of course to attract new Prime members wanting to get in on the deals). Learn more about the reasoning behind Why We Buy here. It’s more about shifting business models than rock bottom prices. And that’s where the topic of innovation comes in.

LEAN 100

LEAN Innovation Video Course 100

Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Doing so means a new kind innovation management because the management most of us learned in school won’t quite do the trick. His very lean progressive assembly process was the result. For the consumer, this is awesome. For big business, it’s a threat that must be navigated successfully. The result is choice. Let’s do it!

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Innovation Management Management LEAN Design Thinking 61

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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LEAN Video Learning Study 81

CMOE

APRIL 19, 2022

Lean In : Consider the feelings, emotions, and perspectives of others and respond with fairness and logic. Learn more about this important skill by registering for CMOE’s self-paced digital course on Empathic Leadership. Reach Out : Have the courage to speak up and engage others to build understanding and validate assumptions.

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Leadership How To LEAN Policies 98

Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

For-profit and nonprofit companies are also continuing to grow to fuel the microschool movement—from Wildflower School’s Montessori microschools to Acton Academy and Kaipod Learning. But they have largely been passed in right-leaning states to this point. ESAs are not vouchers. What should schools do?

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Trends Artificial Inteligence LEAN Policies 80