Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

2023 could turn out to be one of the hardest for innovation and leadership teams in decades… … or, with the right focused effort, it could be one of the best. Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

The original process showed how an idea should first follow design thinking principles, before being turned into a solution using agile development, and finally being piloted and launched. As Peter Drucker famously said: What gets measured, gets managed.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Management: A flexible approach to management and governance which enables leadership to understand direction and progress, but gives authority to the team to do their best work with reduced bureaucracy. Leadership: Guidance and support from executives in the company to build an organisational culture where new ideas can be pushed.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.” The Proud Leader.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Use Innovation Accounting to Drive the Metrics that Matter Most for Your New Venture or Start-Up As the field of innovation management matures, many entrepreneurs and companies have built solid capabilities in design thinking, rapid prototyping, portfolio management, open innovation, and the list goes on.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 3, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You know ALL the innovation tools and frameworks: Design Thinking Lean Startup Disruptive Innovation But knowing and doing are two different things. When I first learned Jobs to be Done, it felt painfully obvious, exactly like the customer research I did for five years at P&G.

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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. Social Impact AMA with Heather Hiscox.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2016

Finding time to read and extend our thinking is a real struggle and going that extra mile to read thought leadership views can be a step to far, I know but I can’t help myself, it is part of my job and certainly for me, many are really worth it. The two thought leadership pieces I have chosen. Beyond Design Thinking.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. 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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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

It does not tell leaders how to manage their organizations” An introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation Managers. “The key today is to think like a designer in the way you lead, explore, create and innovate” Some were provided before this over the last year or so, but I feel are worth exploring.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Check out our list of design thinking books to read. The Leadership Innovation Manifesto. This book by Nathan Furr covers tips and techniques learned from design thinking, innovation, and the lean startup business model which has grown in popularity in the last few years. The Lean Startup.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Finding time is a real struggle and going that extra mile to read thought leadership views, long often drawn out reports or academic papers can be a step too far, I know but I can’t help myself, it is part of my job and certainly for me, many are really worth the read in a positive end result of new learning. Beyond Design Thinking.

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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. Within this view by Day and Shea, they point out that managers are never short of advice.

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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. Within this view by Day and Shea, they point out that managers are never short of advice.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The basics of innovation still form around building the engagement, leadership, and involvement , in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed , so as to allow innovation to evolve and thrive. Then there is that need for a constant investment in people , in our networks and relationships , that all need to come together.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

With lean budgets for innovation a reality at many large organizations, managers are often reluctant to allocate funding and staff to projects they perceive as risky, or that don’t help them achieve their short-term performance metrics. Successful innovation requires aligning your innovation model to your business strategy. Solutions Teams.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

Some examples of interdisciplinary skills that are important in cross-sector innovation collaborations include communication, leadership, creativity, strategic thinking, and project management.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

When it comes to innovation leadership, keynote speakers can: Show how leaders can set a precedent for innovation within their teams. They may share insights on techniques for effective ideation such as design thinking, mind mapping, and leveraging technology for collaborative brainstorming sessions.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. There are three main elements that intrapreneurs need to think about before they start working; Leadership Support Organization Design and Innovation Practice. This is a lesson I learned from making many mistakes in my own work.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. Senior team not aligned or embracing Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. 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.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 10, 2017

Whether it's lean innovation or design thinking or open innovation or whatever, the tool becomes the focus, when in reality there are a range of tools for a range of outcomes, and many paths to get to your destination.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. An authentic desire to improve or invent.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 10, 2020

We are here to help you leverage Lean Innovation skills to (remotely) harness customer empathy, run rapid experiments, and de-risk decisions quickly with evidence, to build confidence for solutions to the very real issues you’re currently facing.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

The basics of innovation still form around building engagement, leadership, involvement, in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed, so as to allow innovation to evolve. Other real changing forces influencing innovation. Both being rapidly embraced within our organisations, large and small.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 20, 2024

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack Like many others, I invested time in isolation during the pandemic to engage in various online learning programs.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

The emphasis on thinking through new business models, combining design thinking, lean management, customer development, prototyping, experimenting outside the lab, collaborating with clients, finding different partners, the different exploitation of research techniques are all breaking out in different forms and combinations.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we? Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. In the innovation space there is endless discussion about frameworks. Which is best? Can I blend frameworks?

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Imaginatik

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

They followed best practices of design thinking, lean startup, and rapid prototyping to turn early-stage ideas into high-potential opportunities. The Best-Laid Plans. At the food services company, the innovation team quickly began producing a steady stream of creative new product concepts.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Not Design Thinking?” After a bit of gab about projects, Design Thinking, and other industry buzzwords, I promised to get back to him with a more thoughtful answer — and then I changed the topic! I added my punchline, “because if you’re not doing projects you’re not doing innovation.”

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

“Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking is comprehensive in its approach and provides compelling methods, insights, tools, and stories from master trainer, Gregg Fraley. Innovation Training. Why innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

These “change forces” are making many organizations and the leadership a little weary and wary, they seem to ‘double down’ They become risk averse, defensive and determined to ‘weather it through’. These statements are just covering up the serious cracks appearing in the design process for new products.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

There is this increasing need to understand and incorporate ecosystems, platforms, and the greater use of analytics, big data and reliance on technology into our innovation thinking. To shift innovation we need to think this is our value creation point. Our leadership really does a poor job of providing a compelling innovation vision.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 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. To get started: Run internal lean startup hackathons, where the process rewards iterative learning over solution building. “We need more big ideas! Excuses are a trap.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. If you don’t have Talent, superior talent, you’ll fail.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

At its core, innovation in the workplace empowers employees to think outside traditional structures and continuously seek opportunities for growth and improvement. Leadership and team dynamics play a critical role in fostering this innovation. Here are four proven methodologies that help organizations systematically foster innovation.

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