Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Streamlining processes Lowering costs Improving clarity or confidence Offering instant support or access Gain Creators : How does your solution generate desired outcomes or added value? Lead Successful Innovation Projects! Lean Canvas Connects the value proposition to broader business modeling.

Software Review 130

Software Review Roadmap Tools Strategic Thinking 130

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

“We need to seek the opportunity to learn and grow, the possibilities of things to be discovered, not the certainties to be recovered.” 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.

Innovation 318

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 318

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.

Artificial Inteligence 182

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Innovation Agile 182

Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

By blending innovation into your strategy, you’re cooking up a plan that’s as flexible as a yoga guru and keeps you ahead of the pack. For a deeper dive, check out our piece on connecting business strategy and the innovation process. They make sure your company stays in the game, no matter how much the market shifts.

Innovation 113

Innovation Agile Creativity Brainstorming 113

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Hopefully, this change has enabled better value creation and learning how to innovate. Ideas and feedback are flowing back and forth throughout the innovation process. This iterative approach is driving innovation by ensuring that solutions are aligned with user needs and market realities.

Collaboration 147

Collaboration Artificial Inteligence Ideation Agile 147

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.”

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LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Project Technical Review 56

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Additionally, software systems like this do not replace people in the innovation process and cannot automate its management. This can lead to a much larger number of innovations being tested much more quickly, for a lower cost and at a lower risk than traditional management methods. Suggested reading: Summary.

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Company Innovation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team 254

IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We’ve all been “talked at,” and it can stall good ideas and innovative processes before they even start. Even if they’re not looking at you directly, you can show engagement with “open” body language such as sitting up and leaning forward. Really hearing what somebody says is always a bonus for innovation.

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Creativity LEAN Video Engagement 182

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. Interestingly, it looks like others support the idea of balancing and combining elements of both innovation approaches, too. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

LEAN 96

LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Design 96

Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 24, 2019

In my continuing series of posts about lessons learned from corporate innovation, today I'd like to expand on the idea of innovation language, and go even further. I'd like to riff on the idea of innovation as central, organizing idea in a business rather than an occasional distraction.

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Innovation Strategy Strategy LEAN 171

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve. Innovation is hard work yet we seem to make it harder because we “freeze” our understanding of it.

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Innovation Design Agile Innovation Processes 178

Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Lean Innovation Case Study: Bringing a New Product to Market Don’t have time to read the whole article? This is the story of how Edmunds.com used Lean Innovation practices to make their mission a reality. Eventually, they determined that Lean Innovation principles would be the best way to tackle this uncertainty.

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LEAN Case Study Innovation Study 58

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Innovation Technical Review System Change 174

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. Test and Learn : Share your prototypes with users to gather feedback.

Product Development 100

Product Development Strategy Strategy Artificial Inteligence 100

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

“We need to seek the opportunity to learn and grow, the possibilities of things to be discovered, not the certainties to be recovered.” 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.

Innovation 130

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

“We need to seek the opportunity to learn and grow, the possibilities of things to be discovered, not the certainties to be recovered.” 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.

Innovation 130

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

When you select a speaker whose expertise aligns with your company’s goals, you create a unique opportunity for growth and learning. They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable. Demonstrating how to embrace failure as a learning opportunity.

Innovation 113

Innovation Ideation Innovation Processes Leadership 113

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

This guest article on innovative teaching shares ideas and strategies from the The Startup Teacher Playbook: Turn Your Ideas Into Actions, Personalize Professional Development, and Create Innovative Learning Experiences for You and Your Students. We live in a system where ‘innovation’ is usually only permitted from the top.

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Learning Innovation Culture of Innovation Culture 81

IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

Easily utilize the tools and techniques of the innovation process to create value. Ask, “What can we learn?” Approve experiments and encourage Lean prototyping. Admit when you are wrong and capture the learning from failed inventions. Assign some of your best people to innovation projects. Be inquisitive.

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Handbook Innovation Leadership Project 150

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.

Innovation 185

Innovation Radical Innovation Agile Design 185

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has been one of the largest supporters of innovation in the U.S. Now they are starting to use the Lean Innovation process (see here and here ) to turn ideas into solutions. The result will be defense innovation with speed and urgency. Lean Innovation is a Process.

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LEAN Innovation Processes Project Technology 44

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

In the first place, experimentation is about testing assumptions and hypotheses by means of a scientific learning approach. Recently, experimentation in innovation management is particularly facilitated by intensified use of (rapid) prototyping. Culture of experimentation (and speed).

Innovation Management 100

Innovation Management Management LEAN Innovation 100

Values Centered Innovation

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The result can be profound insights into yourself and others that bring out your full, innovative potential, whether in small, daily tasks or major projects. . Jolt #28: Lean into myths, not just methods. Being innovative is not always easy. A comparable model of the innovation process mirrors this plotline: .

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LEAN Culture Innovation Processes Brainstorming 52

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should!

Innovation 113

Innovation System Design Innovation Processes 113

Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Experiential Learning Accelerates Innovation. Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. New Study: Drawing is the Fastest, Most Effective Way to Learn. I read with interest an article stating that drawing accelerates learning. Most corporate innovators have no training in using experiential tools.

Learning 45

Learning Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Training 45

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should!

Innovation 113

Innovation System Design Agile 113

InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation?

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Innovation Tips Design Thinking LEAN 97

Qmarkets

JULY 25, 2024

Development and Implementation: Building cross-functional teams to develop and implement innovative solutions. Monitoring and Improvement: Continuously tracking the progress and performance of innovation initiatives, making iterative improvements, and learning from successes and failures.

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Software Review Strategy Strategy Management 98

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma. I am a firm believer in defining a fungible innovation process - a set of steps to help ensure that innovators complete a set of activities and learnings before they recommend an idea. Develop real training to build skills.

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Innovation Culture Training Innovation Processes 120

Qmarkets

JANUARY 22, 2025

Strategic Approaches Proven frameworks like the Blue Ocean Strategy and Lean/Agile Innovation provide actionable pathways to achieve radical innovation. Lean and Agile methods, on the other hand, prioritize iterative experimentation, enabling organizations to test and refine disruptive ideas quickly and cost-effectively.

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Radical Innovation Examples Strategy Strategy 52

Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Ultimately, you build a portfolio of innovation projects and some will succeed. Part of the innovation process is also to kill projects, so that you can focus your investments on the projects that are working. You start to experiment, you learn, you fail, you kill the project.

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Technical Review Handbook Generative AI Innovation 59

Qmarkets

JULY 11, 2024

Implement robust processes to guide innovation activities from ideation to execution. Develop a stage-gate process for managing projects through different phases and use methodologies like Agile or Lean for flexibility and efficiency. Fostering a culture of innovation is crucial.

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Software Review Technical Review Strategy Strategy 104

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Mine is usually a mix of exploring and researching around innovation in the morning, a couple of hours at the gym, a walk to finish off and then a mixture of enjoying a nice home-cooked meal and a relaxing evening. We, in general, all seem to remain constantly disappointed at the end results of our innovation efforts.

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System Innovation Design Resources 147

Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! NCARB teams learned how to proactively reach out to customers to deeply understand them and to design quick experiments for testing potential solutions before building them.

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Marketing LEAN Case Study Innovation 65

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

This is a lesson I learned from making many mistakes in my own work. I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. And I have done it all – idea jams, hackathons, startup weekends, training workshops and innovation sprints. This is the best place to start your discovery process.

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Leadership Training Resources Innovation Programs 94

Leapfrogging

MAY 27, 2019

It is one of the early stages of the innovation process, and it is integral to the continued success of any organization. In fact, one of the most important parts of running a successful business is identifying the right concepts that can turn into real innovations that will help you meet your customers’ needs.

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Software How To Tools Brainstorming 100

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Unless we create a strategy to transform, how can we re-imagine our innovation processes? We talk so much about “innovation is critical” today and in our future, but is rarely achieved. This does require a transformation of how we design, structure and bring together all the relevant part of the innovation process.

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