Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

And companies regularly boast about how they are spending millions (and sometimes billions) of dollars into research & development to come up with innovative new offerings. Delivery: A team of people who have the ability to take rough ideas and develop them into a customer-facing innovation.

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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. But that’s not the best way to do customer development. We need to start our lean startup process with discovery – and that is harder to hypothesise.

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CMOE

MARCH 12, 2025

While coaching can serve as a guiding force toward impactful development and outcomes, its an intricate tapestry that requires tailored approaches. Thats why our team of leadership coaching experts prepared a list of varied circumstances that call for coaching in the workplace, shedding light on insights and practical strategies to harness.

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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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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 24, 2020

How to Lean in To Empower Your Team. Empowerment is not about taking your hands off to let employees sink or swim, it is an active process that involves teaching and coaching team members to be adaptive, to self-serve, to make decisions and to make them right without needing instructions or rubber stamp approvals.

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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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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. Introduction to Leadership Development What is Leadership Development with regard to Lean Innovation? The phrase “leadership development” can mean different things to different people.

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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 Proud Leader. Secret Worries.

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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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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 19, 2016

Part 7 in The Lean Startup Series We interviewed the plant manager and he said that they didn’t have any problems with scale, but we know that they do! That’s what a team working on anti-scaling technology reported back early in the Lean LaunchPad process. We need to understand the needs of all of these people.

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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. Sharing your leadership values with the team.

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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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Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

There’s no such thing as a bad idea – only an unfinished one. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Many innovation teams are so concerned with being agile and entrepreneurial that they spend precious little time understanding where to point their efforts. Bungle team composition.

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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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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. The result will be: a new, Lean version of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Here’s how.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 21, 2019

They invest millions into these projects with the hopes of disrupting the norm, transforming their company culture, and catering to the markets of the future, but they have not actually figured out a fool-proof strategy for generating this innovation, let alone how they are going to align these innovation plans with their ultimate business goals.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2018

In this article, you are going to learn exactly what Loss Aversion is, why is creates crippling fear in middle managers and decision-makers, and a simple model for how you can reframe your company’s thinking which encourages more innovation projects to thrive.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Developers own the code, business owns the proposition, yet design is considered a “service.” 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. “If One team I’ve worked with helps bridge this gap on strategic projects by maintaining an “experience roadmap.”

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etventure

JANUARY 5, 2017

You just set up a working group, launch some digital projects under the auspices of the IT department and off you go. But how can we know whether a solution developed in line with this principle would ultimately be used by the target group? We’ll ask the sales team what the customers would need. So far, so good.

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Boxes and Arrows

MAY 5, 2015

Have you ever asked for an update on a project you’d invested a great deal of time and energy in, only to hear “they have completely redesigned it since then”? In the following article, I will give three areas in which we can focus our efforts: mentoring, client education, and our own team members. Client mentoring as an investment.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 27, 2016

Gates works as an artist, curator, urbanist and facilitator and his projects attempt to instigate the creation of cultural communities by acting as catalysts for social engagement that leads to political and spatial change. Gates describes this project as “real-estate art”… Wait! This had a bad impact on Dorchester.

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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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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using Lean methods. Two methods, Design Thinking and Customer Development (the core of the Lean Startup) provide the tactical day-to-day process of how to turn ideas into products. .

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

…Accelerating Teams Through Assessment and Training. It’s a sad fact of organizational life that only a small percentage of teams achieve high function. Most teams muddle along, and get the essential things done — or not. And, all teams can improve, with training. Teams Improve With Momentum Training.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

In a more up-to-date sense, this balance also comprises collaborating with external partners, e.g. teaming up between multinational corporations and startups or small companies. Open doors and listen vs. Be loyal to your team. As executing and developing a business requires increasing specialization (e.g.

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Planview

JULY 6, 2017

Employee retention in the skilled trades is a challenge, especially with those employees who have experience working on big, complex projects. How might we capture and re-apply the knowledge that our veteran staff has developed over the years? Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence. offers a way forward.

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Planview

JULY 6, 2017

Employee retention in the skilled trades is a challenge, especially with those employees who have experience working on big, complex projects. How might we capture and re-apply the knowledge that our veteran staff has developed over the years? Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence. offers a way forward.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? How can design thinking help with product development? This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. Prototype: In this step, the team creates a rough model of the solution to test and evaluate.

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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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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

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. David pointed out that startups or innovation initiatives in the Explore phase are essentially H3 projects. What’s the ROI?

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Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 15, 2019

Spark is a simple, self-guided innovation kit built for business teams who want to collaborate to de-risk business ideas. Have you (or your team) ever had an amazing business idea, but you were afraid to invest in something uncertain? This is why we created Spark. Spark is tools and knowledge applied in practice. Explore Spark.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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. But as Klaus points out below, hyper focusing on Agile teams can be short-sighted, if their work isn’t coordinated.

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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. But enterprise organizations have been known to exhibit “not built here” syndrome, meaning, they don’t trust solutions that weren’t developed in-house.

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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. Accountability in leadership is vital for the following reasons: Accountability encourages team members to stay rooted in honesty and integrity. Making mistakes is inevitable in the workplace.

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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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