Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Developed by Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan , Discovery-Driven Planning is ideal for: New product development. Invest resources efficiently , preventing costly failures. Aligns resources with proven opportunities. Agile Development Adapts product evolution based on customer insights.

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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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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. The result is wasted resources, low satisfaction scores, and disengaged team members.

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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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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It gives the big shots at the top a game plan, making sure resources aren’t thrown around like confetti at a parade. Provide Resources : Make sure your team has the tools, training, and time to work their magic. Provide Resources Give access to the tools, skills, and time needed for innovation.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Even if they have agreed on the importance of innovation and have set up teams or departments to develop new value-adding, innovative products and services, these products may end up never being launched because nobody in the existing business units will take responsibility and take the risk of launching them.

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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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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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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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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Companies that embrace this approach see clear benefits: streamlined operations, better resource utilization, and higher-quality outcomes. Key Objectives of Process Improvement Increasing Efficiency: Streamline workflows to complete tasks faster and with fewer resources.

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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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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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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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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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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

There are significant shifts underway towards digital innovation in R&D and new-product development. The importance of big data, the speed of technology adoption, mobile products, digital design, and technology platforms are at the heart of innovation. It will fundamentally change the type of resources innovation requires.

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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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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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Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Culture Exercises 125

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Understanding the Start-up Ecosystem as a distinct entity helps in developing targeted policies, support structures, and resources to foster entrepreneurship and drive economic growth through new venture creation. Start-up Ecosystems can be geographically concentrated (like Silicon Valley) or distributed across a region or country.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

This model, when tried, almost always results in a collapse of the innovation team, but it is rarely tried since it requires so many additional resources. Talent - you'll want to consider who is part of the product concept, product development and product realization team, and consider it an end to end capability.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 2, 2018

A failed acquisition is detrimental for both the acquirer and the acquiree and results in a tremendous amount of waste, in terms of dollars, resources, time and opportunity costs. You can use Lean Innovation techniques -- Empathy, Experiments, and Evidence to ensure the driving force is sustained through the integration.

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Planview

MARCH 18, 2022

As a result, we will gain insights on how her teams collaborate, the Planview culture, and career advice for those seeking employment in the Product Development (PD) automation field. Here is what Geetika had to say: Explain your role as a Software Development Engineer Test Manager and a few of your responsibilities.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They provide narratives on how rapid prototyping accelerates the innovation cycle, thereby reducing time and resources spent on product development. They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2015

But what we should be asking, in much the same way the "lean startup" folks are asking about bare essentials and "minimum viable products", is: what is the minimum investment it takes to make my (team, product group, line of business, company) more innovative? And of course time for the product development process.

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Leanstack

MARCH 29, 2018

Even though, his savings ran out 6 months ago, he has hit a comfortable groove using freelance consulting to keep his product development going. Investors today don’t fund ideas, or product development, but traction. Are there tools or resources you can point me to?” Rome, after all, wasn’t built in a day.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? How can design thinking help with product development? What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? Design thinking and Lean UX are related but distinct concepts. It is often used in the design of products, services, and experiences.

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Leanstack

AUGUST 4, 2016

I spend a lot of time at the intersection of “business modeling” and “lean startup” and have been looking for the right category label to describe this type of work. You create a quick sketch of your business model using a tool like the Lean Canvas. The third step is lean startup.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Waterfall Development.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

Startups have finite time and resources to find product/market fit before they run out of money. and how to price the product. for new product development that emphasize immediate returns. But running a Lean Startup inside an organization designed for execution is an exercise in futility.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Source: Six Sigma Global Institute Lean Six Sigma: By combining lean management principles with Six Sigma’ s focus on process improvement, this approach helps enterprises reduce inefficiencies and solve operational problems.

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Planview

MAY 5, 2023

Regional teams used different work methodologies such as Agile, waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma. These circumstances made managing the global product portfolio a challenge. Founded in 1917, the company has 14,500 employees, 22 production companies in twelve countries, and locations in 74 countries.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization. In other cases, the expectations held by different members of the scrum team about the timing and relationships between design and development activities appeared to be out of alignment.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

However, they have the resources to conduct experiments in order to explore new fields of businesses, concurrently with exploiting their existing business. The right amount of experimentation depends not only on a company’s resources, but also on the pace of change in its industry. Sure, there are some companies, such as W.L.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 12, 2015

One of the riskiest assumptions for any new product or feature is that customers actually want it. Product teams need to combine the detection of an effect (i.e., Many teams mistakenly focus energy and resources acting on statistically significant but inconsequential findings. difference mean?

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

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. Now, every website change or product update is expected to have data and evidence to back it up.

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Mike Shipulski

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The best known method is the Lean Startup method. The Lean Startup is also quite good when money’s tight. And then there’s the VC/Lean Startup combo. A set of high potential projects run in parallel, each using Lean’s build, show, refine method to learn at light speed. The front end of innovation work is resource light.

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