Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

However, in every case, it is beneficial for a company to look inwards and see whether their people, processes and leadership are acting more as innovation enablers, or bottlenecks. 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.

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This comprehensive guide delves into the key leadership attributes and competencies that define exceptional leadership and provides valuable resources to bookmark along the way. Competencies are a roadmap for what good leadership looks like and for organizations, answers the question, “What does leadership mean for us?”

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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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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 22, 2018

These individuals become leaders after proving that they can create a vision and lead a team to it’s realization. Companies don’t grow to become large enterprises without systems and processes working at scale, backed by the executional prowess provided by strong leadership. However, innovative companies understand this fallacy.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Before and After Lean Innovation: Overview The City of Hayward, California wanted to break away from inefficient and ineffective processes for researching and launching programs, and remove organizational bottlenecks that stood in the way of serving citizens. Evidence: making decisions quickly based on insights and actual citizen behavior.

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CMOE

JUNE 21, 2021

The good news is, there are development opportunities for supervisors that can help you succeed in your role. With the right tools and resources by your side, you will feel more confident in driving your team forward. Supervisors are the linchpin that keeps team members—key contributors of an organization—on track.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 24, 2020

How to Lean in To Empower Your Team. Organizations are shifting from the conventional authoritarian leadership model to more empowered workers. To achieve this kind of empowerment, it is essential for leaders to lean-in and engage actively and effectively across teams, in addition to arranging coaching sessions.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput. Of course, not all friction is bad. Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation.

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CMOE

JUNE 1, 2021

Being a leader of any type can be a daunting responsibility, but as you adopt a leadership mindset and incorporate a few actions into your day-to-day activities, you can be a highly effective leader who inspires team members to do their best work. Trust is pivotal to your team’s success. Lay a Foundation of Trust.

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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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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. I complimented the team on how calm the assembly line seemed to run – and how clean the workshop looked. The company was losing its technology leadership.

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

Top 10 Characteristics of High-Performing Teams. Team Mentality. Outstanding business teams possess positive attributes that enable them to perform at a high level—and sustain that level of performance over years. Why Is Decisiveness Found in High-Performing Teams? Decisiveness. Alignment of Values. Confidence.

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CMOE

JULY 29, 2021

Unfortunately, not enough leaders are equipped with the right training or knowledge to effectively lead their team members through change; almost two-thirds of employers noted that a lack of change-management expertise was a problem during their recent initiatives. What Is Change Management in Leadership? Learn from failure.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Even staff members notice a serious gap: 91% express accountability as their employer’s top leadership-development need. Simply put, the time to bolster accountability is now, and this all begins with leadership. What Is Accountability in Leadership? Making mistakes is inevitable in the workplace.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 21, 2019

The fact is, exploring these new technologies can be exciting on the individual level, so teams may be drawn in those directions not based on any higher level strategic objectives, but rather, because it might be more fun and interesting for them on a personal level.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

At the heart of this transformation mindset is Lean Innovation. You also need your internal champions for innovation - the coaches - to educate and guide teams on how to work in this new way, and the systems in place to support their continuous development. But, that’s not all there is to it.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

They link innovation to their well-defined business objectives by establishing and maintaining dedicated innovation teams. Innovative companies provide the right platform for their employees to share and discuss ideas and have dedicated teams to turn them into prototypes and test the prototypes resulting from those ideas.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Developers own the code, business owns the proposition, yet design is considered a “service.” One team I’ve worked with helps bridge this gap on strategic projects by maintaining an “experience roadmap.” The team also keeps the design vision up to date, updating it as they learn from customers. Design itself is a product.

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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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CMOE

MAY 28, 2021

With the changing needs and demands of clinical care, technology, and spending, leadership in healthcare must stay agile to keep up with the shifting tides. Healthcare leaders must guide their team members through patient care, equipping them with the right knowledge and tools to protect the well-being of their patients.

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Retaining your team is crucial to your organization’s success. Morale: With people leaving, team members might become overworked to compensate for the lack of workforce. Avoiding these repercussions requires a robust retention strategy that encourages team members to stick around long term. Why Is Retention Important?

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit. With this in mind, if you’re a corporate executive or part of a product or innovation team, here are some key habits that you should stop doing if you want to innovate in the enterprise.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

The basics of innovation still form around building engagement, leadership, involvement, in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed, so as to allow innovation to evolve. We seem to be stumbling towards breaking out our innovation activity in more radical, distinctive and adaptive ways.

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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. I was the interface developer for an intranet project, and the client had a talented UI person who had questions about the CMS and approach we were using. Teams as an investment.

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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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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2018

There is no way to ensure that customers are going to see the same value in what you are developing as you do, and most companies are terrible at actually being able to execute on an idea. After all, CEOs are supposed to encourage their teams to focus on big ideas and growth.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

While just like for startups, large enterprises benefit from the tumbling costs of developing digital products, they face deep-rooted problems that come from being large and successful. Leadership Mindset A company’s leaders are paramount in driving the organization forward. Easier said than done.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Susie shares what good leadership behaviour looks like, the problems with short-term thinking and how to carve out the necessary space for a strategic approach to innovation. Founder of Mulberry Retreats – focusing on leadership development. 14:00) On bad leadership behaviour and how not to fund projects. (16:00)

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

But leadership should be agnostic about how they achieve the desired outcomes. Lean innovation is an iterative approach to moving from the unknown to the known. I prefer lean innovation as representing the desired learning behavior. Brant Cooper is the author of the NYT bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur.

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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

JULY 31, 2018

The business understands the market and has developed a proven, scalable blueprint to winning the market. The teams assigned to that metric are not regulated in any sense on HOW they achieve that metric. The entire business must transition to a growth driven organization. Easier said than done. Small startups can get away with it.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

This was a very large and established tech company; its engineering organization developed the core day-to-day capabilities of the organization. Essentially, the engineering organization was saying that innovation without a filter was as bad as no innovation at all. At least it succeeded in not distracting the developers.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit. With this in mind, if you’re a corporate executive or part of a product or innovation team, here are some key habits that you should stop doing if you want to innovate in the enterprise.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As an author, he has written two standard works on Kanban — Practical Kanban and Kanban Change Leadership. 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.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Workforce members understand what is expected of them, and they are more likely to achieve goals when they work collectively as a cohesive team. For example, the level of quality each team member must achieve for the department. Perhaps one current company initiative is enhancing communication between team members and departments.

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CMOE

APRIL 12, 2023

In today’s digital age, organizations lean heavily on eLearning to elevate performance and accommodate remote/hybrid working solutions. The Advantages eLearning Offers for Employee Development There are nine advantages eLearning offers for employee development. Team members can study and learn at their own pace.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

What should the team in the Outpost be doing day-to-day? Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. Each stage needs a clearly defined set of objectives, and the right team to match those objectives. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams. How do you staff it?

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