Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

We all sketch before we design, but too often the sketches go in a drawer when the project starts, often never to be seen again. One team I’ve worked with helps bridge this gap on strategic projects by maintaining an “experience roadmap.” The roadmap is a collection of prototypes showing what each release will look like.

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Leanstack

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Early this year, I rolled out my last seven years of learning — spanning two best-selling books, hundreds of workshops, and thousands of hours with entrepreneurs, as a new feature in the LEANSTACK platform —  The Roadmap.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Do Purpose First, Select a Framework, Then Do Projects. Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor. It happens through projects. The best innovators organize their efforts around projects.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. Creativity, and creative ideas, are essential ingredients, and, without other fundamentals , like projects and implementation — great ideas are a waste of time. Projects change culture.

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Qmarkets

JULY 12, 2024

Each sprint focuses on developing a small part of the project, allowing teams to test and refine their ideas continuously. Instead of waiting until a project is fully completed, this type of innovation promotes the delivery of incremental improvements.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Quantifying the Disconnect Between Business Leaders and Technology Teams Consider one of the most startling findings from The 2023 Project to Product State of the Industry Report. I bring up Planview, which has Roadmaps, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), and Flow Metrics tailored to exactly what I am interested in.

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

No matter how you get work done, whether it’s Agile, traditional waterfall, Lean, or something in between, organizations must be able to establish an innovation culture where ideas are collected, evaluated, prioritized, and then turned into amazing products, services, and efficiencies that your business and your customers want.

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Leanstack

MARCH 8, 2017

To get at your purpose, first consider the following question: “What other than money do you want to achieve with your project?” Your minimum success criteria is the smallest outcome that would deem your project a success 3 years from now. A good roadmap should call out your significant milestone markers along the way.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes. Speakers may discuss project management tools and techniques that can help streamline the implementation process and ensure that the innovative solutions achieve their intended impact.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

brand, Jason’s Lean Change Management book and workshops, and Learning 3.0’s Because of this, he was able to build his own company Workshop Butler which solves this problem and three of the other funders were some of its first customers, providing candid feedback in return for helping to steer the product roadmap.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

According to a study done by Wipro Digital, 1 in 5 senior executives “admit that they secretly believe that digital transformation projects in their company are a waste of time ,” even though there is mounting evidence that digital transformation is the only option for future survival. The resistance you encounter is real.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 5, 2019

SAFe is an agile framework for development that has been gaining a lot of prominence among developers and managers of software projects. Based on a combination of agile and lean principles, it calls for close collaboration and alignment between teams and aims to centralize decision-making. Check it out! What is SAFe?

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. No time is considered for design of the overall framework. Scrum teams jump into feature releases. They’re building inside out instead of outside in or holistically.”.

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Leanstack

JUNE 7, 2018

Front and center was this high-level roadmap along with a checklist: The rest of the links in the document were tactical how-to guides for attracting prospects, running interviews, testing offers, and designing MVPs. Taking the First Business Model Snapshot “Set a timer for 20 minutes and take a first snapshot of your idea on a Lean Canvas.”

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Leanstack

MARCH 19, 2019

In the world of innovation, if you incentivize innovation managers simply to run hackathons or launch accelerators, the money gets spent: t-shirts get printed, foosball tables get purchased, Lean Canvases get hung. Think People, Not Funnels Yes, we all want more successful projects than failed projects.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Adopt an agile and lean innovation framework to ensure that ideas are analyzed and validated quickly. The Ezassi Ideation platform will provide you with a collaboration tool to manage your innovation team and projects in real time. Put a master plan in place for the longer term and prepare a flexible multi-year roadmap.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

There is a rub here, most transformation projects seem to fail. We need to encourage the ‘art’ of not just minimum viable product practices from lean practices, but far more importantly minimum viable transformation that has at its core validated learning, how it all interacts to form a cohesive innovation delivery point.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

Of course, speaking to customers about their problems without having any defined product or solution roadmap in mind may seem awkward and even scary to many corporate employees (especially engineers and product developers). Yet the predominant enterprise culture prevents and even punishes these bold behaviors.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

The purpose of an innovation process model is to reduce uncertainty and risk by providing a clear roadmap. A key feature of this model is the use of stage-gates—decision points at the end of each phase where progress is evaluated and the project is either advanced, revised, or halted.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Establishing the right department goal and roadmap is key to overcoming companies’ execution challenges and obstacles. Some examples of goals that align with the vision and mission of the organization include: Improving project completion by X% by the end of October. Metrics vary depending on the project. The results?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

There is a rub here, most transformation projects seem to fail. We need to encourage the ‘art’ of not just minimum viable product practices from lean practices, but far more importantly minimum viable transformation that has at its core validated learning, how it all interacts to form a cohesive innovation delivery point.

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Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 120

Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

Of course, speaking to customers about their problems without having any defined product or solution roadmap in mind may seem awkward and even scary to many corporate employees (especially engineers and product developers). Yet the predominant enterprise culture prevents and even punishes these bold behaviors.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

As a result, some, often large, companies spend a lot of time and money on basic research or foundational R&D, only to find themselves having a hard time commercializing those projects, until they eventually run out of money or patience. But, there’s more to being too early than just technology. Wright’s Law.

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ITONICS

APRIL 4, 2018

Having a clear strategy and a purposeful, structured process for implementing new business models and/ or gradually adapting existing ones to new business models will determine the success of digital transformation projects and company’s market position. How to develop a clear strategy in the context of digital transformation? How to start?

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Qmarkets

JUNE 26, 2019

In this article I’d like to focus on 5 of the most useful best-practices which I’ve identified in my experience working on cutting-edge innovation management projects with leading companies across the globe. Having long-term goals for your innovation project is important. Let’s dive in! Feeling stuck?

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Leanstack

MARCH 19, 2019

In the world of innovation, if you incentivize innovation managers simply to run hackathons or launch accelerators, the money gets spent: t-shirts get printed, foosball tables get purchased, Lean Canvases get hung. Think People, Not Funnels Yes, we all want more successful projects than failed projects.

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David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product. Further the company should have a balanced portfolio of projects across different innovation horizons, and various areas of its value chain. Management would have experienced a paradigm shift and divert resources to an iPhone beater.

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Innov8rs

AUGUST 22, 2023

To succeed with corporate venture building, lean on one of the main resources you already have: your people. Christian has seen that the optimal balance would be to welcome 3-4 troublemakers out of 10 team members, with those other 6-7 to be more process-oriented project managers. The question really is – how?

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The manager also assigns projects to each person to boost their performance and abilities. Amplify Accountability at Your Organization with CMOE For more guidance, lean on CMOE’s Effective Delegation & Accountability workshop. The sales manager creates a mentorship plan to help underperforming team members.

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Leanstack

JUNE 7, 2018

Front and center was this high-level roadmap along with a checklist: The rest of the links in the document were tactical how-to guides for attracting prospects, running interviews, testing offers, and designing MVPs. Taking the First Business Model Snapshot “Set a timer for 20 minutes and take a first snapshot of your idea on a Lean Canvas.”

Survey 40

Survey LEAN Meeting Technical Review 40

David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product. Further the company should have a balanced portfolio of projects across different innovation horizons, and various areas of its value chain. Management would have experienced a paradigm shift and divert resources to an iPhone beater.

Industry 40

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David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product. Further the company should have a balanced portfolio of projects across different innovation horizons, and various areas of its value chain. Management would have experienced a paradigm shift and divert resources to an iPhone beater.

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IM Insights

APRIL 23, 2022

She has mentored several hundred startups amongst other as an investor at next startup ventures , lead mentor in the Rockstart accelerator programs and lean startup machine weekend. Usually they’re prioritized , usually they’re prioritized project by project. Make sure to check them out. Hi , Ester.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

The term comes from the English and is based on the Lean Startup Model by Eric Ries. Innovative companies usually adopt the “20 percent rule” , which allows employees to dedicate 20% of their work time to projects that have nothing to do with their job description. Top Model Principle.

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