Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

The primary goal of an MVP is to minimize risk by validating key assumptions about customer needs and market demand before investing heavily in full-scale development. In innovation projects, the MVP approach helps businesses explore ideas, experiment with solutions, and learn through real-world interactions.

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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.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Check out our article on mixing business strategy with the innovation process. The Perks of Innovation in Your Game Plan Let’s face it: innovation is the secret sauce in any killer business strategy. Being innovative lets businesses flip the script and dive into ventures nobody’s dared to try.

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helloFUTURE

MAY 22, 2023

In the world of product development, the only constant is change. As a corporate innovator, startup founder, or product manager, your task is to stay ahead of the game and churn out new products that not only…

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

But how can an enterprise organization re-invent product commercialization? Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. It does not include product development. Most companies have a product development process that is completely separate from their go to market strategy.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

In the past, we’ve discussed the history of innovation , what it means to be innovative, and some of the challenges facing organizations when it comes to straight up innovation. But now, it’s time to talk about something more specific.lean innovation. In this way, lean innovation and design thinking go hand in hand.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. Suggested reading: 13 – Budgets for Micro-Innovations.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Developed by Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan , Discovery-Driven Planning is ideal for: New product development. Innovation-driven projects. Accelerates innovation by testing assumptions quickly. Enhances Innovation Capabilities Encourages iterative improvements rather than rigid execution.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I've been writing an occasional series on some of the fundamental building blocks for innovation success - at least those that I think are critical, intangible and often overlooked. All are important to understand and all are critical to successful innovation. There's another time that is also important.

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Kainexus

JANUARY 27, 2022

Another sad reality is that it is common for organizations to make product decisions without really understanding what matters most to the customer. Lean product management addresses these challenges by applying Lean thinking to product development and strategy.

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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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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2019

Suppose you’ve been successful innovating. What new product development strategy might an Idea Magnet employ to pursue a fresh path to new ideas? That’s a question guitar innovator Rick Turner faced. This is Turner’s personal perspective on his new product development strategy.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 28, 2019

Susana Jurado is Head of Innovation Portfolio-Product Innovation at Telefónica since 2015.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 27, 2024

By Elijah Eilert Did the philosopher Plato lay down one of the most crucial startup and innovation principles? This approach flips the traditional product development cycle on its head. “Get out of the building” pushes innovators to test their most critical assumptions in the real world.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 3, 2019

For quite some time we've been hearing about how important it is to do things quickly, with many new adjectives placed in front of the word "innovation". What has worked in more traditional settings - manufacturing, process improvement, etc - is now being applied to innovation. That is, not everything in innovation should move quickly.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Power of Disruptive Innovation Understanding Disruptive Innovation Disruptive innovation, a term you might have encountered frequently in today’s business lexicon, refers to a process where a product or service starts at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves upmarket, eventually displacing established competitors.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2018

An operations manager at a Fortune 500 hundred company recently asked me: “what are your thoughts on the best innovation ‘models’ to serve as guides for how individuals or teams can structure some of their thinking?”. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Technology, customer expectations, and banking innovation are converging in unprecedented ways. To thrive in this landscape, product leaders need to prioritize three pillars: leaning into AI-powered experiences, modernizing how they run their business (i.e., Success requires more than surface-level digital transformation.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 5, 2016

Can you truly predict a customers’ reaction to a new innovative product and then scale the success of the product? Lean practitioners say you can, if you measure the right metrics, interpret them correctly, and focus on the problem and the uncertainties that arise. Continue reading →

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Collaboration, Idealization and the enabling of innovation I have have been looking back at innovation and how it has changed over the last twenty-five years. In a series of three posts, I have asked Google’s Gemini to answer five questions to track and trace the progress innovation has made and where it seems to be heading.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. Q&A from Accelerating Innovation: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Enhancing Customer Satisfaction: Deliver higher-quality products and services by improving processes. Methodologies like Lean, Six Sigma , and Kaizen provide proven frameworks for process improvement. Lean eliminates waste, Six Sigma minimizes defects, and Kaizen fosters a culture of continuous improvement.

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Open Innovation EU

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

A while ago I sat down with Machiel Wetselaar & David van Dinther to create a list of innovation methodologies for a course we’re developing. Up to now we’ve gathered 71 different methodologies for implementing innovation in your organization. Innovation Cycle (Avans). The Lean Startup (Ries).

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Ever since Eric Reis published his bestselling book, The Lean Startup, the idea of a minimum viable product (MVP) has captured the imagination of entrepreneurs and product developers everywhere. The idea of testing products faster and cheaper has an intuitive logic that simply can’t be denied.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Lately I've worked with or encountered a number of corporate clients who are trying desperately to innovate. Their executives and management teams recognize the importance of innovation, and even include innovation as top three priorities or as a component of the annual strategy.

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Imaginatik

JULY 12, 2016

But the imperative of any innovation program is in its ability to scale and realize its financial promise. It is critical in any development process that innovation ‘show stoppers’ are recognized and nurtured quickly. Why the ability to “scale up” promising bets is critical to transformative innovation.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

Although the term “innovation” has found a place in everyday diction, true, game-changing innovation still remains elusive. The increasing competition for customers, market share, and talent in almost every industry demands an innovative approach to business. Then why is innovation such a rarity? Here’s what they are: 1.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Unleashing Innovation with the Best Keynote Speakers Importance of Keynote Speakers in Corporate Events Keynote speakers play a pivotal role in corporate events, as they have the power to set the tone and energize the audience. They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable.

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Board of Innovation

APRIL 24, 2017

This post is written for innovation managers & corporate lean startup coaches. Here are the 9 biggest challenges for corporates to implement lean startup and 23 great best practices to tackle them: CHAPTER 1: Organizations designed to maximize efficiency Product development/Engineers have no direct contact with clients.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2015

The idea I'd like you to contemplate until my return is that we are all making innovation far too complicated, and we need to stop dressing up the activity with lots of talking points and stop working ourselves and our management into a tizzy about commitments and investments. Innovation requires time.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The best innovations reduce costs while adding value at the same time. With all the hype these days around the impending disruptions on the horizon such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and the like, it’s natural to assume that breakthrough innovation requires breakthrough technology.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Ever since Eric Reis published his bestselling book, The Lean Startup, the idea of a minimum viable product (MVP) has captured the imagination of entrepreneurs and product developers everywhere. The idea of testing products faster and cheaper has an intuitive logic that simply can’t be denied.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

The first time I was advocating the idea of a dual innovation approach, here also referred to as organizational ambidexterity, is now more than 5 years ago. As recently outlined, I consider organizational ambidexterity to be a key innovation issue for organizations in 2016 and beyond.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Shaping Innovation through Entrepreneurial and Start-up Ecosystems By including Start-up and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems into the Interconnected Business Framework, it becomes more comprehensive and reflective of the full spectrum of business activities. it has its own unique characteristics and focus.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Doing so means a new kind innovation management because the management most of us learned in school won’t quite do the trick. His very lean progressive assembly process was the result. Today, the cost and time it takes to build, launch, and deliver new products at scale is lower than ever. For the consumer, this is awesome.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Recently, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has published key findings of their latest “ Most Innovative Companies 2014 ” survey. According to BCG’s research, successfully innovating companies approach innovation as a system. Adaptability and innovation culture. Innovation. Tellis, Jaideep C.

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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! The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards ( NCARB ), a national non-profit organization, develops standards for licensure and credentialing of architects.

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