Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Developed by Alexander Osterwalder, this tool allows organizations to design, describe, analyze, and iterate on their business strategies. It provides a structured method to think through business design, adapt to market changes, and scale innovation efforts. Are assumptions validated? Are there any gaps or inconsistencies?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

The Value Proposition Canvas is a strategic innovation tool designed to ensure that a product or service aligns closely with what customers truly want and need. This tool is widely used in startups, corporate innovation teams, product management, marketing, and customer experience design. What is the Value Proposition Canvas ?

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Software Review Roadmap Tools Strategic Thinking 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

” Use lean methods to test early assumptions: Build low-fidelity prototypes. Learning milestones and success metrics. Plan for failure, learning, and adaptation. Hypothesis Testing Framework Guides learning experiments for new concepts. Run landing page experiments. Conduct small-scale pilots or simulations.

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Roadmap Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Trends 130

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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Product Development Agile Software Review LEAN 100

Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Discovery Driven Planning: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects Discovery-Driven Planning (DDP) is a strategic approach designed for uncertain, high-risk initiatives , where traditional planning methods may not be effective. Focuses on Learning and Adaptation Ensures strategies evolve based on real-world data.

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Strategy Strategy Project Data 130

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

The care within designing the narrative is you do not want contradictory narratives; they need to be in pursuit of complementary narratives. “We need to seek the opportunity to learn and grow, the possibilities of things to be discovered, not the certainties to be recovered.”

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Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 318

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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LEAN Examples Agile Innovation 105

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The belief that lean management principles will get the innovation out of the door quicker, has been one of those management adoptions that often trick us into believing we are achieving more than we actually are. Leans slows down and becomes increasingly burdened by fat being layered on, further down the innovation execution process.

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Innovation Processes Innovation LEAN Agile 206

Business and Tech

MARCH 16, 2023

Because the CHIPS Act encourages businesses to lean in by providing STEM spaces and equipment, offering scholarships, promoting employee volunteerism, funding competitions, and creating internships and apprenticeships, Broadcom Foundation is doing its part.

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LEAN Resources Trends Technology 299

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

Get instant strategy processes Get expert tools & guidance Lead projects with confidence Learn More Getting Started with the Value Disciplines Model To develop an effective strategy using the Value Disciplines Model , businesses must carefully evaluate and select their dominant discipline while ensuring minimum standards in the other two.

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Strategy Strategy Leadership Competition 130

Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 26, 2014

StartX , a nonprofit startup accelerator, recently devoted an entire day to the role of design in early-stage companies. Each panelist had made their mark on how design is done in start-ups: Laura wrote the influential O’Reilly book on UX for Lean Startups, and Todd penned the bestselling Rosenfeld Media Prototyping book.

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LEAN Design Learning Agile 103

Idea to Value

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Today I want to highlight another great episode on a topic I learned a lot more about: Taylorism. Firstly, while Taylorism aims to improve efficiency at any cost, it assumes that the manager designing the process can find the one “perfect” way. I already told you about their excellent episode on Disruptive Innovation.

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Management Innovation Guidelines LEAN 297

Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

Speed of learning is the new unfair advantage. Much like failing becomes learning when you’re going fast, innovation becomes continuous. A brief history of the Continuous Innovation Framework The early scaffolding for the Continuous Innovation Framework was described in my first book: Running Lean.

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LEAN Design Thinking Design Roadmap 76

Tim Kastelle

JUNE 19, 2016

I’ve been running Lean LaunchPad programs for a couple of years now, and all along, I’ve thought that the number of customer development interviews that a team does is a good indicator of how successful they’ll be. Consequently, I thought that the magic in lean startup is customer development. I was wrong.

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LEAN Data Tools Learning 80

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Suggested reading: This article on Effective Brainstorming , and this book by Bryan Mattimore, which elaborates our interview from the Innovation and Creativity Summit on various brainstorming techniques (premium content): 7 – Lean Innovation Management. 5 – Design Thinking. Suggested reading: .

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Company Innovation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team 254

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I am working through what I think this should become in design and application, involving providing the key innovation building blocks as components of the innovation stack, using the innovation stack to guide platform development and the platform to support this innovation stack.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Innovation Agile 182

HYPE Innovation

JANUARY 5, 2016

“Startup success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.”. 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.

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LEAN Design Learning Company 100

InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In this guest post, learn how to effectively implement a virtually-led design thinking project. Design thinking is a hot topic for business these days, and it’s no surprise. McKinsey & Company research shows that “Design-led organizations realize 10% more revenue than ones that aren’t.” Making Remote Teams Work.

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Design Thinking Project Design Brainstorming 138

IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2020

Learn what works in innovation from these ten books. Part of building a great innovation strategy is to learn about the history of innovation. Michalko’s book, designed to get you thinking and trying new approaches to problems, is one you’ll keep handy to jumpstart your innovative thinking processes.

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LEAN Innovation Creativity Creative Thinking 189

Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The challenge is that for all innovation projects, it is impossible to know what the final solution or target KPIs will be once all the investigation, design and iteration is complete. Therefore, it does not make sense to have the success criteria be a specific design, budget, business case or set of KPIs at the beginning.

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Innovation How To Creativity Training 304

Moves the Needle

JUNE 14, 2016

Lean Experiment Techniques There are many techniques to consider when designing an effective lean startup experiment, so we decided to capture a few of our favorites below. Mix-and-match each example to create a powerful experimental learning vehicle for your next concept.

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LEAN Examples Video Report 76

Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution) framework. There are numerous tools designed specifically for critical, timeconsuming parts of managing teams and projects. For all of these use cases, I can help your team learn about and adopt A.I. Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution) method. Understanding what A.I.

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT 140

IdeaScale

JANUARY 8, 2020

However, for every technological advancement, there seems to be a learning curve or adjustment period as we try to figure out how to implement automation into our daily lives. 1 The Devil in Design. Using developer tools will streamline and speed the design, build, testing, and release process. #2 source: pixabay.com.

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Technical Review Software Review Innovation Data 207

Open Innovation EU

JANUARY 22, 2016

Traditionally, organization design (OD) is an area of expertise focused on the roles and formal structures of organizations. 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. You can download the full infographic.

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LEAN Entrepreneurship Agile Innovation 75

CMOE

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

When team members spend 130% more time learning , and there’s a 159% increase in CEOs driving L&D initiatives at their organizations, there’s no overlooking the value of L&D. Lean on these 23 best learning and development blogs to gain insights on elevating L&D at your organization.

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Learning Tips Technical Review Training 98

Leanstack

JANUARY 10, 2019

A question I get a lot is: Why isn’t the Lean Canvas laid out more logically? Lean Canvas The main reason for this particular layout was legacy. Lean Canvas was derived from the Business Model Canvas. To compensate for usability, I published a suggested fill order in my first book: Running Lean. Which is the right order?

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LEAN Idea Generation Technical Review Exercises 81

Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

For a deeper dive into mixing creativity with planning, have a look at our article on using design thinking to shape your game plan. Learn more about this link in our article on strategic planning needs innovation in today’s disruptive world.

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Innovation Agile Creativity Brainstorming 113

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

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. Lean startup: Lean startup is a methodology that helps organizations validate their ideas early and often.

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Collaboration Artificial Inteligence Ideation Agile 147

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design.

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Innovation Radical Innovation Agile Design 185

Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. A couple of days after having had published my post, Paolo Lorenzoni from IDEO confirmed the complementary nature of Lean Startup and Design Thinking. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Design 96

InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We used AI to identify the most frequently asked questions about design thinking. Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers. You can also see our “human” responses to the big question: what is design thinking ? Design Thinking Frequently Asked Questions 1. Design Thinking Frequently Asked Questions 1.

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Design Thinking Design Underperforming Technical Team Ideation 74

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. Innovation is advancing but most of it has been designed for a different time, the old era of stable markets, predictable solutions and having a clear sense of your competition.

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Innovation Design Agile Innovation Processes 178

Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle. Businesses must learn first , rather than merely executing on the plan. But how can an enterprise organization re-invent product commercialization?

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Product Development LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 75

Planview

AUGUST 22, 2024

In this post, you’ll learn: Why Putting People at the Heart of Change Matters The Exciting Future Ahead for the PMO How AI Can Help Prioritize Impactful Work Meet Athena Smith Athena Smith hails from Georgia and is based in Atlanta. ” Our approach is designed to be accessible.

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Project Resources LEAN Technical Review 69

Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Youll also learn how to build an effective process improvement program and explore the benefits of using technology to support continuous improvement initiatives. Methodologies like Lean, Six Sigma , and Kaizen provide proven frameworks for process improvement. What Is Process Improvement?

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Examples Strategy Strategy LEAN 59

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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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 199