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. What is Design Thinking?

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The framework I developed and use with clients is called the Lean Innovation Validation & Execution management (L.I.V.E.) framework, and is designed to speed up and reduce risk for a huge variety of types of innovation projects. [If If your company is interested, the L.I.V.E.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. Some of the aspects of Lean Innovation Management include: Encouragement of lots of small scale, cheap experiments instead of full launches.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Like, if you’re looking to reach more folks, putting some fresh thinking into how to tap into new audiences could make a big splash. For a deeper dive into mixing creativity with planning, have a look at our article on using design thinking to shape your game plan.

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Open Innovation EU

JANUARY 22, 2016

The main goal of OD would be to design the organization in such a way that it makes it possible for the company to reach its vision and thus facilitates the growth. But the world is changing, and the digital era calls for a fresh view on how to design organizations. Below you’ll find an overview of the model.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

If you need more pointers, swing by our article on how to use innovation to turbocharge your business strategy. For more on similar topics, mosey on over to our article on how to apply design thinking to the strategic planning process.

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helloFUTURE

MAY 22, 2023

In the world of product development, the only constant is change. The market is always evolving, customer expectations are constantly shifting, and your competitors are always on the move. As a corporate innovator, startup founder, or product manager, your task is to stay ahead of the game and churn out new products that not only…

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them. We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Look to processes like customer development, design thinking, and the build-measure-learn loop from lean startup.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

This is the second post looking more at collaboration and idealization and how and what has helped it evolve in this period. Hopefully, this change has enabled better value creation and learning how to innovate. Design thinking: Design thinking is another methodology that is gaining traction in innovation.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

But how can an enterprise organization re-invent product commercialization? Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle. But if deployed at all, they are typically inconsistent and uncoordinated.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using Lean methods. Two methods, Design Thinking and Customer Development (the core of the Lean Startup) provide the tactical day-to-day process of how to turn ideas into products. . Here’s why.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them Corporate innovation is hard. Failure to secure sustained funding We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. How can we do this? Innovation needs structure.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

How do you transform something as integrated as a business culture? That is the case of Design Thinking , a structured approach to innovation. Keep reading to understand how you can implement an innovation culture into your company with Design Thinking! Design Thinking applied to cultural transformation.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The lean startup methodology emphasizes the importance of agility and learning, with a mantra of “build-measure-learn” to minimize waste and speed up learning. At its core, design thinking involves five phases: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

Here are the top 5 to be aware of and some ideas on how to overcome them. Go ask some of your co-workers who they think is responsible for innovation. 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.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 19, 2018

It’s that time of year again: the temperature is dropping, leaves are changing colors, and after a sleepy summer, companies are ready to reflect on how they are going to improve their operation for the new year. Learn how to reduce waste with Social Impact Programs in this 30-minute, AMA style event.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Read on to understand how it works and how to implement it yourself. 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. How to assess your current innovation capability maturity.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them. We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Look to processes like customer development, design thinking, and the build-measure-learn loop from lean startup.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Design thinking Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that puts the user at the center of the design process. There are many design thinking exercises and activities. The ones you find below can be utilized at many stages of the design thinking journey.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Learn how they aligned teams, processes, and governance to support their product vision, creating coherence across the entire organization. Watch Now: Align Your Organization with Your Product Vision: A Verizon Story Spotify’s Decade of Product Success “How Do We Do Product at Spotify?

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

Here are the top 5 to be aware of and some ideas on how to overcome them. ” Go ask some of your co-workers who they think is responsible for innovation. 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.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. The obvious place to turn is innovation approaches such as design thinking , rapid prototyping , and open innovation. Corporate philanthropy. Benefit corporations. Nonprofits and non-governmental organizations. Sounds ideal.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

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. Every business wants to grow, and leveraging new thinking and innovative methodology is how they can achieve it.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

The first one shown, you could argue is more introducing the concept of mapping not explaining how to go about it and point to a recognized authority on this. It does not tell leaders how to manage their organizations” An introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation Managers.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2016

The two I have decided to summarize are 1) Beyond Design Thinking and 2) Minimum Viable Transformation. Beyond Design Thinking. Beyond Design Thinking – reflecting on its place. What is at the heart of design thinking? This is not what design thinking should be for.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwhile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives.

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Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

Recognize that best practices of innovation are different from how you’re used to working, and force your team to learn the real tricks of the trade – Discovery, Lean Startup, Ideation, Creative facilitation, Design Thinking, etc. Read our new report on “ How to Win at Corporate/Startup Collaboration 2016 ”.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Often we were missing the constants that are required to ‘set in place’ for innovation , I call these those anchor points , otherwise, we often are simply increasing the layering on, more and more , not giving enough emphasis on how to integrate these into a newly emerging practice of innovation that builds on a solid foundation.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

When following this staggered approach, either research, evaluations, and up front/initial design suffers, or seeing through the implementation of the design suffers. It turns out that Jeff Gothelf, author of Lean UX (the book I’m reviewing here) has also faced the same challenges. Lean UX has its own challenges.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

They didn’t realize how “sticky” their business model would get. When restaurants have several years of data in the system, the next several weeks of reservations lined up in it, a staff that’s been trained on how to use it, and a large percentage of their reservations coming through it, they’re essentially locked into the model.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The two I have decided to summarize are 1) Beyond Design Thinking and 2) Minimum Viable Transformation. Beyond Design Thinking. The key to design thinking is it begins by imagining a solution that does not exist yet, and then set about outlining a pathway to realizing it. All exciting, motivating stuff.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Design Thinking Design Thinking is a user-centered approach that focuses on understanding the needs of customers or end-users to solve complex problems creatively. What makes Design Thinking effective is its focus on developing practical, user-friendly solutions that address real needs.

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Qmarkets

JULY 29, 2024

By the end, you’ll understand how to optimize your innovation efforts and drive your organization towards greater success. Design Thinking: Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that focuses on understanding user needs and developing solutions that address those needs effectively.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 17, 2015

His very lean progressive assembly process was the result. The Toyota Production System largely grew out of this dilemma, attempting to leverage the “leanness” of Ford’s production system is a world of increasing complexity and market differentiation. This is Lean Startup. The result is choice. Let’s do it! Go scope it out.”

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Part of what we do at Moves the Needle is to work with large enterprise organizations on corporate innovation strategy and providing education on how to shift away from a traditional management mindset to think and act in a new way. You integrate several practices: Jobs to be Done, Design Thinking with a bit of Lean Startup mixed in.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I am a strong believer and advocate of agile, design thinking, and lean startup. How to Integrate Training into the Stack So here is what skill training and methodology can and should do. Discover Qualitative Insights Use Design Thinking to gain insights and empathy.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Are we going to sink innovation as the twenty-first century takes our beliefs in technology and science into new areas, without the necessary understanding of how to manage this, when so much of our understandings of how to physical manage this, are lagging.

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