Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

…Accelerating Teams Through Assessment and Training. It’s a sad fact of organizational life that only a small percentage of teams achieve high function. Most teams muddle along, and get the essential things done — or not. And, all teams can improve, with training. Teams Improve With Momentum Training.

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etventure

JANUARY 5, 2017

But how can we know whether a solution developed in line with this principle would ultimately be used by the target group? We’ll ask the sales team what the customers would need. Focusing on people is a key factor in design thinking /human centered design. And, if they didn’t use it, why didn’t they?

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

What it is: One of the most challenging aspects of innovation for most companies is not the generating of ideas, or the development of new innovations. They can cite a number of seemingly valid reasons for this, including: My team hasn’t got the time to resources or time to take ownership of this new thing.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

And companies regularly boast about how they are spending millions (and sometimes billions) of dollars into research & development to come up with innovative new offerings. Delivery: A team of people who have the ability to take rough ideas and develop them into a customer-facing innovation.

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Qmarkets

JULY 29, 2024

A well-structured innovation pipeline ensures that new ideas are systematically developed, refined, and brought to market, transforming potential opportunities into tangible results. Concept Development: The selected ideas are then developed into detailed concepts.

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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. .

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Co-Authored by Heather Hiscox and Amelia Klawon Get the full case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. Board members and executive teams can also have significant power. Innovation in the social impact sector can seem intimidating and unreachable.

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Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 15, 2019

Spark is a simple, self-guided innovation kit built for business teams who want to collaborate to de-risk business ideas. Have you (or your team) ever had an amazing business idea, but you were afraid to invest in something uncertain? This is why we created Spark. Spark is tools and knowledge applied in practice.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

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! That’s because only the visible artifacts of organizational culture can be designed. Design Thinking applied to cultural transformation.

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Cascade Strategy

JANUARY 15, 2020

In product management teams, much like in other teams in an organization, KPIs are used to create clear targets, guide decisions, celebrate success, and identify risks and issues.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Founder of Mulberry Retreats – focusing on leadership development. 14:00) On bad leadership behaviour and how not to fund projects. (16:00) 14:00) On bad leadership behaviour and how not to fund projects. (16:00) 14:00) On bad leadership behaviour and how not to fund projects. (16:00) I was so emotionally invested.

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Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

There’s no such thing as a bad idea – only an unfinished one. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Many innovation teams are so concerned with being agile and entrepreneurial that they spend precious little time understanding where to point their efforts. Bungle team composition.

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Planview

JULY 6, 2017

How might we capture and re-apply the knowledge that our veteran staff has developed over the years? Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence. Imagine, for example, an innovation community consisting of the client’s program team, the primary contractor, the key subs, and even the critical suppliers (e.g.,

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 29, 2020

What makes us believe that developing digital products is not only a solution to overcome the crisis, but also to generate business value after it too. The Economy is Digital; companies are born small, lean, lighter, and more innovative. Develop strategies to offer cheaper and yet quality products. We wouldn’t bet on that!

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Planview

JULY 6, 2017

How might we capture and re-apply the knowledge that our veteran staff has developed over the years? Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence. Figure 1: the six tenets of lean from the Lean Construction Institute. They ask—and rightfully so: What’s in it for me? How might the latter support the former?

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Lean innovation is an iterative approach to moving from the unknown to the known. I prefer lean innovation as representing the desired learning behavior. It is the integration of human-centered design, rapid experimentation, and working agile. Brant Cooper is the author of the NYT bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Companies must be organized into two parts: an extremely large execution army, ostensibly focused on pure execution activities, and a small exploration team, focused on breakthrough innovation. What has your innovation team been up to if not digital transformation? Brainstorm issues you and your teams are facing.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 29, 2019

Whether you are trying to drive engagement within your team, make a business case to your boss, or sell a product or service to a customer, the methods that you use to influence decision makers should be tailored to the situation and the individual you are speaking with. By UpBOARD.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 14, 2022

Innovation is the process of taking an idea and developing it further. Product innovation is the development of new products. It includes everything from developing new features and functions, to creating entirely new products. LEAN method. It was developed by Motorola in 1986. LEAN Method. The 5 Whys.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. A teacher figures out where a student is, their “zone of proximal development” The teacher then scaffolds the students thinking, using various tools, to make new connections and learn. Why Innovation Sessions Have a Bad Reputation. And there is a lot of sitting.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. 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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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

Meeting facilitators and Learning & Development professionals must evaluate these challenges and identify the best practices to overcome them to create the most valuable experience for the participants. The guide below is designed to help you overcome challenges that arise in virtual facilitation and elevate your capabilities.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 22, 2016

Here’s why: Modern market research methods, like Lean Startup, do a great job of focusing on customer-centric discovery. It generates insights through empathy (one of the 3 E’s of Lean Innovation, see 5 Ways to Spark Innovation at Your Organization ). They require two separate teams. Two bad things happen when this is the case.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 14, 2016

They are positioning themselves on a mission to find the right remedy for designing future growth engines by wanting to fill that gap by creating a set of tools for business strategy, business design and innovation. Shared language : tools align teams around a visual concept, making complex ideas clearer with an image.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

From start-ups to banks, design has never been more central to business. Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. Why is that fabled “seat at the table” so hard to find, and how can designers get a chair? Is design just a service, or can designers* lead?

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Planview

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Hyper Focusing on Agile Teams. Agile delivery teams are the execution arm of the Agile transformation. It’s natural for organizations to want their teams to be as efficient, productive, and successful as possible. But as Klaus points out below, hyper focusing on Agile teams can be short-sighted, if their work isn’t coordinated.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

In order to remain competitive, companies must continually develop new products, services, and processes that meet the needs of their customers. Efficiency Optimization Organizations have eliminated risk and variance in their operations through rightsizing, outsourcing, lean, and agile. A famous study says children are very creative.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. 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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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

Research confirms: development of exploration in parallel to exploitation capabilities proves to be mandatory for established companies in order to compete successfully and sustainably. One way for established organizations to strengthen exploration is by developing internal capabilities in order to overcome their inherent inertia.

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Leanstack

AUGUST 11, 2016

If the job is adequately getting done, that’s bad news for you because it’s hard to displace an existing solution with a similar-sounding value proposition. This emphasis on problem versus solution was the core mind shift I wanted to get across with the Lean Canvas and why I modified the original Business Model Canvas.

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

The Key to Effective Value Proposition Development. If you have an immediate problem to solve, we’ve found that bringing a cross-functional team together to tackle the problem head-on yields positive results fast. This step is typically easier if you’ve developed a solution for a problem. Let's build together.

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IM Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

This insightful and entertaining book was originally designed to assist with the teaching of University of Southern California students. (06:30) The aggregate or business level doesn’t help when the product is still being developed, Product/Market-Fit is not yet established, a profitable channel is still to be determined, and so on. (11:00)

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Boxes and Arrows

MAY 5, 2015

In the following article, I will give three areas in which we can focus our efforts: mentoring, client education, and our own team members. On a recent project, I was the designer paired with a recently-hired UX director, who was a little bewildered still by the new gig. Client mentoring as an investment.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. This was a very large and established tech company; its engineering organization developed the core day-to-day capabilities of the organization. There’s a much better way. What went wrong here?

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Strategy is often made by elite teams and thus can be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces. Post Covid-19, leaders need to develop innovation as a key organizational muscle. Assess your innovation culture in terms of leadership support, organization design, and innovation practice.

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