Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Implementing the Lean Startup in any company is hard. Innovation at times seems like you’re swimming up hill. Now compound that level of effort with trying to put a Lean Startup culture in place in Japan. And weak leadership leads to a reluctance to change and the inability to mandate Lean as an innovation process.

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LEAN Company Leadership Innovation Processes 45

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

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investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it.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!

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Innovation System Design Innovation Processes 113

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investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it.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

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

Imaginatik

JULY 12, 2016

However, in complex innovation efforts, large operational problems may surface only after a certain scale is reached. Let’s take the present day drone as an example. Why the ability to “scale up” promising bets is critical to transformative innovation. This is especially true in highly regulated industries.

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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! ” — Guillermo Ortiz de Zárate, Chief Innovation and Information Officer, NCARB. Click here to download.

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Marketing LEAN Case Study Innovation 65

hackerearth

MAY 4, 2017

Eric Ries, Lean Startup. Doesn’t it surprise you that while most managers think of productivity being managed, quality being perfected, and human resources being tamed by adopting time-honed management principles, creativity and innovation, somehow, refuses to fall within the bracket? Figure 1: Innovation process map (Courtesy: IDEO).

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Management Innovation Technical Review Ideation 74

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations.

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Course Training Innovation Brainstorming 26

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

What started me on a given innovation “tack”was for a long time I have seen an awful lot of opinions, solutions, concepts that have been breaking down innovation into its many parts. The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.”

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System Innovation Design Resources 147

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

I took one look at the process they came up with and could have sworn that it was invented by the company’s competitors to throttle innovation. The new innovation process had lots of paperwork – committees, application forms and presentations, and pitches. There were no requirements for the innovator.

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Company Underperforming Technical Team Innovation LEAN 65

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. New tools for digital technology integration are presented including GFi’s Digital MoshPit. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking.

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Course Training Brainstorming Design Thinking 53

Planview

JULY 15, 2022

The paper outlines six key practices for accelerating new product development and innovations based on examples from companies representing various industries. However, our discussion with Dr. Cooper mainly focuses on three of those six practices: Effective Portfolio Management Lean Development Agile Stage-Gate.

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Product Development Agile LEAN Survey 52

InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? Innovation managers: Innovation managers use design thinking to drive innovation within the organization. This may involve leading design thinking teams, facilitating workshops, and developing innovation processes and strategies.

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Design Thinking Design Underperforming Technical Team Ideation 74

Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 15, 2019

Spark uses the iterative process of the Design-Test-Repeat cycle to adapt your course of action based on evidence. Most teams start out with a failed idea, but this high failure rate is not a bug, it’s a feature of the innovation process. Spark is tools and knowledge applied in practice. So, How Does Spark Work? Explore Spark.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Brainstorming LEAN 40

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

For instance, flipped staff meetings would let teachers get presentations emailed to them so time together could be dedicated towards collaborating and problem-solving. This would enable them to work on their own ideas, innovate, or even advocate so that we could achieve the changes our schools need. If you’re going to fail, fail fast.

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Learning Innovation Culture of Innovation Culture 81

Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t be held back by a restrictive innovation process model; be flexible on new ways to innovate. Once alignment is in place, broaden the innovation team to include more people from across the organization. Digital tech related ideation presents unique challenges to innovation project leaders and facilitators.

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Technical Review Ideation Innovation Big Data 55

Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

Today, organizations routinely ask their people for innovation, and then prevent it from happening. Costa Michailidis, Co-Founder of Innovation Bound. You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. Now you’re ready to innovate with your team.

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Innovation Design Thinking Training LEAN 40

ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Nevertheless, many market participants still face the enormous challenge of figuring out the blend of all necessary elements and the right mix for a successful innovation process. Even fewer have persistently developed and implemented habits and processes that foster sustainable innovation.

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Company Technical Review Software Review Innovation 57

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

I’ve spent the last six years teaching our country’s scientists how to rapidly turn scientific breakthroughs into deliverable products by creating the curriculum for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – now taught in 53 universities. An innovation process embraces and understands the different types of failure and risk.

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Technical Review Innovation LEAN Agile 42

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Yet for innovation, it has been the transforming effects applied to a very cumbersome innovation system that is undergoing a real force of change. There is a whole world of collaborative tools that are intent on speeding up the innovation process but we have not yet fully mastered these and built our complete toolkit.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Companies can deal with technological and market uncertainty, even ecosystem uncertainty, using innovation processes, methods and tools developed over the decades. There is a stark difference between the decision the executive leadership is leaning towards and how the rest of the company sees things.

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Leadership Product Development Groups Tools 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

This way, the innovations that do reach engineering will already have substantial evidence — about validated customer needs, processes, legal security, and integration issues. It also requires that they think through compatibility, scalability and deployment long before this gets presented to engineering.

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Innovation Processes Innovation Project Disruption 15

Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

In other words we have found that breakthrough innovations should be identified and implemented in iterative processes. More and more we also see firms opening up their innovation funnel at this stage to allow for external concepts to be pulled into the innovation funnel. References. [1] 1] Charles A. 2] Geoffrey A.

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Radical Innovation Technical Review Innovation Ideation 67

mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

And that is the death of creativity and innovation. Instead of brilliant presentations, it is better to use concrete prototypes exposed to customer criticism’s reality. People can relax and lean on the methodology. ? What do you think? Are you prepared to transform your organizational culture with Design Thinking?

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Design Thinking Design Culture How To 40

Hutch Carpenter

JULY 7, 2015

The lean startup movement was developed to address an issue that bedeviled many entrepreneurs: how to introduce something new without blowing all your capital and time on the wrong offering. It’s been a success as an innovation theory, and has penetrated the corporate world as well. And thus a promising idea was killed.

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Analysis Innovation LEAN Ideation 40

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

In most companies the future suffers at the expense of the present. This happens because managing the present often takes oxygen away from inventing the future. Steve Blank, father of the Lean Startup movement, stresses that you will never know enough about your customers if you are holed up inside a boardroom.

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Company Innovation Agile Competition 28

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. Of course, Sutherland and Schwaber weren’t alone in their search for innovative methods.

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Agile Software Review LEAN Software Development 14

Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

The fact that the most relevant competence for entrepreneurship – which is, as was argued before, ambiguity, or to say more specifically learning how to deal with or to tolerate ambiguity – has not been integrated in the present-day competency frameworks is not so strange. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 31(3), 616–635.

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Entrepreneurship Creativity Underperforming Technical Team Study 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As we are faced with interim failures in our innovation process, the narrative we construct is key. It's about learning the right kind of lesson, or what Lean Startup guru Eric Ries describes as validated learning. It's not just that you learn a lesson.

Disruption 22

Disruption Learning LEAN Innovation Processes 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As we are faced with interim failures in our innovation process, the narrative we construct is key. It's about learning the right kind of lesson, or what Lean Startup guru Eric Ries describes as validated learning. It's not just that you learn a lesson.

Disruption 22

Disruption Learning LEAN Innovation Processes 22

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

I didn't create any kind of ranking algorithm while making my choices, but did consider three basic criteria: Do the individual's ideas bring clarity to the quest of improving the predictability and productivity of innovation? Are the ideas presented in a way that a practitioner can put them to work immediately? Peter Sims.

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Innovation Open Innovation LEAN Tips 17

IM Insights

JANUARY 11, 2022

If you were talking about innovation projects, and you’re trying to create an innovation process for just your core business, okay, which is kind of known and you’re producing a lot of variations on the theme, as you said, you’re retiring something. I don’t know how to say that in a succinct manner.

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