Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

In a real-world project, White Space Innovation might look like a legacy logistics firm exploring on-demand mobility services, or a health insurance company developing wellness apps to engage members outside of claims-based interactions. ” Use lean methods to test early assumptions: Build low-fidelity prototypes.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Discovery Driven Planning: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects Discovery-Driven Planning (DDP) is a strategic approach designed for uncertain, high-risk initiatives , where traditional planning methods may not be effective. Innovation-driven projects. Make data-driven decisions , rather than relying solely on projections.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It’s built on the foundation of iterative progress, where you can assess and adjust the direction of a project throughout its development. For insights into how agile integrates into newer practices, explore how it aligns with the lean startup methodology , which emphasizes the MVP concept for efficient product validation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

This tool is essential in real-world projects for several reasons: It serves as a foundation for product development, ensuring that features are prioritized based on customer relevance. Lead Successful Innovation Projects! Lean Canvas Connects the value proposition to broader business modeling.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

Value Disciplines Model: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects The Value Disciplines Model , developed by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema , is a strategic framework that helps organizations identify and pursue a distinctive competitive strategy. Lead Successful Strategy Projects! Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

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Idea to Value

MARCH 14, 2025

For team leaders, company directors, project managers , innovators and senior leadership, understanding the stages of AI maturity is essential for harnessing its power to drive innovation and efficiency. AI for project managers Important: Want to get FREE access to my curated list of the top 65+ A.I. in their work.

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Kainexus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Picture this: A company overwhelmed by a sea of projects, each vying for attention, resources, and precious time. Now, imagine a systematic approach that aligns these projects with organizational goals, ensures efficient resource allocation, and maximizes return on investment.

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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2024

In this post, you’ll learn: Why Putting People at the Heart of Change Matters The Exciting Future Ahead for the PMO How AI Can Help Prioritize Impactful Work Meet Athena Smith Athena Smith hails from Georgia and is based in Atlanta. I eventually left the museum field after discovering that project management was my favorite part of the job.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Part Eight in the Lean Startup Series When teams start out with lean startup, they often build hypotheses that are too precise – we assume we know more than we do. We need to start our lean startup process with discovery – and that is harder to hypothesise. The final problems are with the last question.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Companies which want a structured system to manage a funnel of ideas and projects (e.g. What it is: Inspired by a number of Lean Startup principles along with aspects of Design Thinking and Agile Development, Lean Innovation Management is a framework to manage innovation projects in a more agile way than traditional project management.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like. And one of the most important ways to have facilitate this in your projects is to ensure you have clarity and alignment from the very beginning on what the definition of success is for all teams.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In this guest post, learn how to effectively implement a virtually-led design thinking project. There’s no question that teams are capable of great things when working remotely, and there is no shortage of project management tools, virtual whiteboards and prototyping software out there to help. Speak and meet regularly.

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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. From the name, people often think of it as a prototype, but really, it’s a learning object. Here’s an example from our first Lean LaunchPad program. The best way to think of an MVP is an object for learning.

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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. Download this case study to show to your colleagues, board of directors, or boss.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Learn more about this link in our article on strategic planning needs innovation in today’s disruptive world. Agile’s all about being quick on your feet and staying nimble with projects. Tiny Steps, Big Wins : Break projects into bite-sized tasks to test and tweak ideas lickety-split.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

These on-demand sessions from the Project to Product Summit 2024 feature three distinct perspectives that answer this question. Product Orientation: The shift from temporary project teams to permanent product teams reduced setup overhead, preserved expertise, and enabled continuous performance improvement.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I think of the Gartner Hype Cycle here as we have gone through each of the stages of recognition of the application and the learning from this; we have the innovation triggers first, then a peak or inflated expectations, followed by troughs of disillusionment and finally by the slope of enlightenment, to give a new plateau of productivity.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 24, 2020

How to Lean in To Empower Your Team. 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. Importance of Leaning in. The expansion of remote work demands much more empowered and learned team members today.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

For example, a project team with strong capabilities to deliver innovation can be prevented from succeeding by a management team with inappropriate governance processes. Lean Innovation Project Management: Putting in place a structure which teams can use to focus limited time and energy on progressing ideas quickly, and validating progress.

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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. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.”

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 16, 2016

Part 6 in The Lean Startup Series The day before we started our first Lean LaunchPad program with the CSIRO, Bill McKeague and I talked strategy over coffee. I often refer to that first one as our Minimum Viable Lean LaunchPad. It was, of course, classic Build-Measure-Learn. We didn’t get there on the first try.

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Leanstack

JANUARY 30, 2019

In my last post , I described how sketching an idea on a Lean Canvas is akin to stacking a chain of beliefs. If your customer and problems assumptions are not yet grounded in empirical learning, it’s prudent to first get them in order. my new project focused on finding better problem discovery techniques. How do you that?

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Planview

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are a number of benefits that come from following Lean Portfolio Management principles in your organization. In order to achieve enterprise Agility, Lean-Agile principles and practices must also be applied to the entire enterprise well before work is delivered by Agile teams. projects, programs, portfolios). The reason?

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 4, 2016

Part 2 in The Lean Startup Series Why do new ventures fail? This tendency is amplified when the projects are based on scientific research. 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. Market(or customer) risk: does anyone want it?

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Youll also learn how to build an effective process improvement program and explore the benefits of using technology to support continuous improvement initiatives. Methodologies like Lean, Six Sigma , and Kaizen provide proven frameworks for process improvement. What Is Process Improvement?

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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. A couple of days after having had published my post, Paolo Lorenzoni from IDEO confirmed the complementary nature of Lean Startup and Design Thinking. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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Imaginatik

MARCH 1, 2018

They realize that new digital technologies – everything from drones to machine learning – threaten to make their current business practices obsolete. 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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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

Almost any new idea and project eventually hits major obstacles or encounters people who say it could never work. Ask, “What can we learn?” when projects do not turn out as expected. Approve experiments and encourage Lean prototyping. Admit when you are wrong and capture the learning from failed inventions.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 13, 2019

She is the woman of the moment and can teach you a lot about agile project management! She is the woman of the moment and can teach you a lot about agile project management! In this article, in besides knowing better the Japanese sensation of the present, you will see what lessons she can bring us about agile project management.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 4, 2016

Part 1 in The Lean Startup Series Henry Ford famously didn’t say: If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. a bunch of Lean LaunchPad programs with the Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation ( CSIRO ) aimed at increasing the impact of all the great research that they’re doing.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

So much more can be accomplished when organizations embrace the unknown, shift their perspective to focus on their different customers, learn from valuable insights gained via empathy and experimentation, and ignite the innovative spirit within their culture. These challenges, while significant, can be overcome.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Their only reality are shadows projected onto a wall by objects passing in front of a fire behind them. The lesson from both Plato’s Cave and the Lean Startup is clear: true progress comes from confronting reality, no matter how uncomfortable it may be. To these prisoners, the shadows are reality.

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Planview

JANUARY 26, 2023

As a project management leader, you’ve likely encountered the challenges of using multiple project execution methodologies (such as: waterfall projects, as well as collaborative and Lean-Agile work delivery). Joe has learned quite a few things in the process. One of those things?

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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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Qmarkets

MARCH 28, 2025

This framework often incorporates established methodologies such as Six Sigma continuous improvement, lean management , and process mapping to streamline operations and minimize defects. Originally developed in lean manufacturing, Kanban helps businesses prevent bottlenecks and ensure smooth task progression.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 8, 2020

This is a critical fundamental attribute for successful innovation, not just on a project by project basis, but enterprise wide. This has been brought about by a range of management thinking, including Six Sigma and Lean work, right sizing, outsourcing and cost containment. Compensation.

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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. When there's no evidence, there's no customer jobs, pains and gains, you want to be able to kill those projects.

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