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

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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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Developed by Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan , Discovery-Driven Planning is ideal for: New product development. Complementary Tools & Templates for Success To enhance Discovery-Driven Planning, integrate these strategic tools: Lean Startup Framework Encourages rapid testing and iteration. Market entry strategies.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 26, 2014

Each panelist had made their mark on how design is done in start-ups: Laura wrote the influential O’Reilly book on UX for Lean Startups, and Todd penned the bestselling Rosenfeld Media Prototyping book. Mike founded an influential Lean UX community in San Francisco. . Below is Laura Klein expounds on these key themes of lean research.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2019

What new product development strategy might an Idea Magnet employ to pursue a fresh path to new ideas? This is Turner’s personal perspective on his new product development strategy. Climbing Down and Finding a New, New Product Development Tree. Idea Magnets and New Product Development.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

But what about lean startup, rapid sprints, agile But aren't there entire methodologies that are meant to get to good ideas faster? Agile, lean and rapid methodologies meant to accelerate the innovation cycle? Getting a product to market can take years or even decades. Getting to a good idea can be a relatively short affair.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 28, 2019

Susana Jurado is Head of Innovation Portfolio-Product Innovation at Telefónica since 2015. She has developed expertise in.

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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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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Here’s a table to outline possible innovation hotspots: Area Opportunity Potential Innovation Product Development Demand for green products Develop sustainable product line Marketing Low clicks in digital campaigns Use AI-driven marketing tools Operations High costs in operations Try out lean manufacturing techniques By pinpointing these spots, (..)

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Planview

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

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., introducing a standardized product operating model), and streamlining compliance operations to allow room for innovation.

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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. Robert Cooper in the Journal of Product Innovation Management. Addressing Agile-Stage-Gate PPM Implementation Challenges.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Steve Blank, a contemporary innovation thinker (and, dare I say, philosopher), popularised the widely accepted principle “Get Out Of The Building,” urging entrepreneurs to engage directly with customers early in the product development cycle, challenging critical assumptions.

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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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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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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Suggested reading: This article on Effective Brainstorming , and this book by Bryan Mattimore, which elaborates our interview from the Innovation and Creativity Summit on various brainstorming techniques (premium content): 7 – Lean Innovation Management. Suggested reading: 6 – Business Model Canvas.

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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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etventure

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Product development is confronted with the constant challenge of supplying the customer with a product that exactly meets his needs. In our new blog series, etventure’s product managers provide an insight into their work and approach. The focus is on hypothesis-driven product development.

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etventure

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Product development is confronted with the constant challenge of supplying the customer with a product that exactly meets his needs. In our new blog series, etventure’s product managers provide an insight into their work and approach. The focus is on hypothesis-driven product development.

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etventure

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Product development is confronted with the constant challenge of supplying the customer with a product that exactly meets his needs. In our new blog series, etventure’s product managers provide an insight into their work and approach. What is the secret of successful product development?

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By integrating practices like the lean startup methodology and agile product development into your product development life cycle , you can position your business to pivot quickly and effectively when disruptive opportunities arise. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive to the changes in the market.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These words include adjectives such as "lean", "agile" and "rapid", to make the point that innovation should be stripped to its bare components, move as fast as possible and create minimum viable solutions. Risk avoidance and current revenue are often more important than potential profitable products and services.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

It helps organizations create products and services that truly resonate with their customers. Lean startup: Lean startup is a methodology that helps organizations validate their ideas early and often. This human-centred approach emphasizes understanding user needs and behaviours, rapid prototyping, and iterative refinement.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

A software developer practicing "agile" thinks of it as a short, iterative cycle of work, often weeks or months, rather than seconds. An entrepreneur practicing "lean startup" methods thinks of it as minimally viable product development effort of a week or less.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

It turns out that Jeff Gothelf, author of Lean UX (the book I’m reviewing here) has also faced the same challenges. The answer situates itself within the Lean approach to product development. Lean UX has its own challenges. Enter the book.

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Collectivecamp

OCTOBER 30, 2017

If any industry is in need of applying emergent strategy to its product development methods, it’s health insurance. The health insurance industry is facing significant disruption on a number of fronts.

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Collectivecamp

APRIL 13, 2020

If any industry is in need of applying emergent strategy to its product development methods, it’s health insurance. The health insurance industry is facing significant disruption on a number of fronts.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

There are significant shifts underway towards digital innovation in R&D and new-product development. The design needs to be customer-centric, agile, experimental, lean, standard as much as it can be, with simplicity and adaptive as being central to this. To achieve this innovation has gone digital, pure and simple.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2018

At IdeaScale we help Kane is Able and many other clients achieve their continuous improvement strategies such as Lean, Kaizen or Six Sigma.

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Open Innovation EU

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The Lean Startup (Ries). The Lean Enterprise. New Product and Development Service Process (Hauser). New Product Development Front End (Khurana). Revolutionizing Product Development (Wheelwright & Clark). New Product Development Funnel (Katz). PACE NPD Funnel. MIT CIPD Funnel.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

Although failure is a stigma to the corporate world, Eric Reis, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur-turned-VC-turned author and founder of Lean Startup Movement, encourages companies to embrace the concept of “failing fast”. They adhere to lean principles of product development. They are tech-savvy.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 2, 2018

You can use Lean Innovation techniques -- Empathy, Experiments, and Evidence to ensure the driving force is sustained through the integration. Lean Innovation empathy work is a great way to understand the human side of acquisitions and again, this is from both sides of the table, acquirer and acquiree.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 24, 2018

Much of the last 30 years of management thought has been consumed with improving exploitation skill - Six Sigma, Lean, Outsourcing and right-sizing are all efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the exploiting portion of your business. Product development cycle times are now longer than shelf lives.

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Imaginatik

JULY 12, 2016

In many cases, it’s the only way to achieve a scale that justifies the often-substantial investments in the development of technical prototypes and operations. In many product development processes, companies tend to create incremental improvements within the fairly well known scope of their current production and distribution scale.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Distinguishing factors: High-risk, high-reward environment Emphasis on rapid growth and scalability Focus on disruptive innovations and new business models Strong emphasis on networking and peer support Iterative approach to product development (lean startup methodology) Unique funding mechanisms (crowdfunding, pitch competitions) Focus areas: Idealization (..)

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