Kainexus

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

More and more companies embrace the Lean methodology for continuous improvement and waste reduction. Whether your organization is new to Lean or you need to introduce the idea to new employees and provide ongoing skill development, a successful Lean training program is crucial. Others prefer an in-house approach.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 25, 2022

Dunbar’s number was first predicted by Dunbar based on research he did on brain sizes of primates, based on how large the social groups of those primates were. This is approximately the number of people which one individual can keep ongoing relationships with.

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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. Where design thinking ends, Lean Startup begins.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Fortunately, the group at Google re:Work who popularised Psychological Safety after analysing what separated high performance teams from the rest have this simple list of activities you as a leader or manager can begin doing today: 1. Be aware of your body language; make sure to lean towards or face the person speaking.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Alongside an extraordinary group of people, they progressively built up a growing understanding of differences between stories and narratives and take out narratives to a clearer institutional level. In contrast, a narrative is a system of stories that links values and events to establish a broader and often new cultural meaning.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

Overall I found Lean UX to be an incredibly insightful and helpful compilation of principles and suggestions for practice/improving process and collaboration as outlined in my review of the book. Are there ways of, for instance, breaking into smaller teams for Lean UX while still tackling larger solutions that you have seen work well?

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2020

Running Lean , by Ash Maurya Innovation strategy starts with a plan. Building on methodologies such as Lean Startup, Customer Development, and bootstrapping, the book is a must-read for innovation leaders. Maurya’s text is great for any plan, including an innovation strategy.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

One such technique, which may seem counterintuitive at first but really works, is to have people write down their initial ideas in silence before any group discussion begins (this is called brainwriting , and is especially good at getting creative suggestions out of more introverted people).

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Leanstack

OCTOBER 30, 2018

I often get asked if one can or should model a non-profit using a Lean Canvas. The lean canvas makes defining how we create value for the donor explicit. There are several variations of the lean and business model canvases now floating around for non-profits and social ventures. Why the lean canvas?

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 28, 2019

She joined Telefonica in 1998, where she has worked for Telefónica Digital PDI’s (Product Development & Innovation), and in the Research & Innovation direction (Telefonica I+D which coordinates the global strategy of digtal innovation across the group). She has developed expertise in.

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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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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Breakout Sessions : Break it down into smaller groups to tackle focused topics. Group Discussions : Come back together to share golden nuggets from the breakout sessions. Assign each task to someone or a group, slap a deadline on it, and you’ve got the beginnings of a real action plan. Nail down decisions and next moves.

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Kainexus

JUNE 5, 2020

The Standard Group is a print management and marketing logistics company based in Reading, Pennsylvania. The team at Standard Group has been using KaiNexus to spread their improvement culture since 2017, when Nick Shonsky, their Director of Continuous Improvement, learned about our software from a friend using KaiNexus at another company.

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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2024

As a project management leader passionate about process improvement, how have you applied Lean or Agile methodologies to enhance efficiency and reduce waste? We aim to simplify project management best practices by minimizing steps, driving value, and applying Lean principles for efficiency and ease of use.

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Imaginatik

MARCH 1, 2018

Executives are hoping for big things from the innovation group. Despite high hopes and active exec support, the innovation group has struggled to find its footing. It’s a sharp contrast from “Horizon 3” transformative innovations, where concept development is typically incubated within a “lean” or “stealth” team.

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Kainexus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

James Womack and Dan Jones are the founders of the Lean Enterprise Institute and the Lean Enterprise Academy (UK), respectively. Their book, Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation , is considered by some to be the bible of Lean manufacturing.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In any group, one of the most fundamental needs is to be heard. Even if they’re not looking at you directly, you can show engagement with “open” body language such as sitting up and leaning forward. We’ve all been “talked at,” and it can stall good ideas and innovative processes before they even start. Focus On The Speaker.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

As you can see from the visualisation below, these foundational elements fit into the three primary groups of people responsible for various aspects of innovation (Delivery, Management, and Leadership), while the Enablement stream is applicable to all people in an organisation. The Three Pillars of what makes innovation work in any company.

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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.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 12, 2016

Part 5 in The Lean Startup Series The idea of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is frequently misunderstood. Here’s an example from our first Lean LaunchPad program. The ASPIRE team was in that group – and they’ve recently launched their platform. The Lean Startup approach is based on the Build-Measure-Learn loop.

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Idea to Value

JULY 1, 2020

This is why “lean” and “agile” have become buzzwords today. Performance management in practice means dividing people into two groups, the judges and the judged. Their power structures and jobs are threatened and they mobilize to deny or resist the new developments. Now imagine you are an invisible spirit looking around an organization.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 14, 2023

They often have students of mixed age groups and one or two educators who facilitate the learning experiences. As with minimills, the physical facilities of most microschools are also small and lean. Microschools are small, independent schooling programs.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Verizon scaled agile methodologies and a product-driven model across their entire Consumer Group. In this session, two Verizon leaders share how their Consumer Group made this fundamental change. Find out how Spotify works with OKRs , agile practices, data insights, continuous discovery, design thinking, and lean UX.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 7, 2016

Part 3 in The Lean Startup Series Facebook currently has 1.55 And within a couple months of launching, nearly everyone in that group was using the site. In one of our Lean LaunchPad programs, we got Mick Liubinskas from Pollenizer and Muru-D in to talk about focus. If you’re doing a lean startup, you need to do two things.

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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. That’s also a pretty specific group.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Schibsted Media Group Case Study Founded in 1839, Schibsted Media Group is a Norwegian media group with operations in 29 countries, the most important being Norway and Sweden. With 6,900 employees, Schibsted aims to become a global leader in online classified marketplaces.

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Planview

MAY 9, 2017

At some point the lean practice came to make sense to you. You began your lean journey. You convened your first value stream mapping exercise with a group of “friendlies.” Today, you find yourself with practical understanding of the value of the lean approach, along with its limitations. You seek continuous improvement.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

The first group are recent ones providing a really good depth to them. These cover Lean, Co-creation, Collaboration, Ecosystems, Open Innovation, Ten Types of Innovation, User-Led Innovation and others. Great views, opinions and contributions have been building in a very methodical way.

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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. To get started: Run internal lean startup hackathons, where the process rewards iterative learning over solution building. Start with a closed group.)

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 6, 2017

When I see stats that show a group of people whose innovation system looks like Mousetrapia’s, I don’t see a commercialisation problem – I see a bunch of people solving the wrong problems. **. We talk to people a bit to understand what problems they’re struggling with, then build something that might help with that to see if it works.

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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. Sometimes these are structured as skunkworks or new ventures groups. Key Opinion Leader Networks.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

This needs significant process redesign and the redesign into small, nimble teams and cross-trained groups who collectively gather around a problem to solve it and then disperse and reform in different shape and form to address the next need. I liked the suggested digital design principles that BCG outlined in their report.

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Destination Innovation

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

It contains many unexpected and incongruous items covered with flowers e.g. an Emirates Airlines plane, two cars stacked one on the other or two houses leaning together. Your corporate Miracle Garden could be used by individuals who want somewhere for serious contemplation or by groups for a creative brainstorm meeting.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Here are some of the many ways you can use Instant Coffee: Brainstorming Incremental Planning Story Mapping Lean Coffee Impromptu Meetings PI Planning Retrospectives SWOT Analysis Standup Meetings. Lean Coffee. The Lean Coffee format is a structured, but agenda-less, meeting designed to facilitate collaborative group discussions.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

OCTOBER 16, 2016

They understand intuitively that the idea is important, but so is the ability to explain it , whether in writing or in front of a group. You need to follow a Lean Startup process and test your idea with customers. Nobody has “Lean Startup” or “Customer Development” skills. Running lean experiments & innovation sprints.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Alongside an extraordinary group of people, they progressively built up a growing understanding of differences between stories and narratives and take out narratives to a clearer institutional level. The level of careful dissection of failures and cues from rapid prototyping, frugal experimentation, and lean methodologies was strong.

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