Qmarkets

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Enter Lean Six Sigma Management (LSSM), a proven methodology that combines the best of two worlds: Lean’s focus on reducing waste and Six Sigma’s emphasis on quality and consistency. What is Lean Six Sigma Management? Improve : Implement targeted solutions, leveraging Lean and Six Sigma tools to optimize processes.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Evolution of Product Development Product development has transformed significantly over the years, adapting to changes in consumer behavior, market demands, and technological advancements. Lean Lean development draws from the principles of lean manufacturing, focusing on creating more value for customers with fewer resources.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.” We must think differently and that might mean whole innovation system thinking. It is the dynamics within the innovation system that can make it transformational.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. As Peter Drucker famously said: What gets measured, gets managed.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Outdated Tools and Methods: Relying on legacy systems like Excel, SharePoint, and Outlook can lead to missed opportunities for efficiency and speed gains through modern tools. Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution) framework. for Document Preparation and review: A.I. Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution) method.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. Lean Startup: This approach was about creating a minimum viable product (MVP) and testing it in the market to get customer feedback. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. It is this ‘raw’ power of technology that is transforming much. This often needs different perspectives to form the final position.

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Planview

JANUARY 15, 2025

In the latest Mik + One podcast , Dr. Mik Kersten, Chief Technology Officer at Planview, sat down with Patrick Debois, known as the “godfather of DevOps,” to explore this question. Podcast Key Takeaways DevOps principles of resilience engineering and observability are essential for AI system success.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 28, 2025

It also examines how well-honed strategies and technology can support these methodologies, ensuring long-term success. This framework often incorporates established methodologies such as Six Sigma continuous improvement, lean management , and process mapping to streamline operations and minimize defects. What Is Continuous Improvement?

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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2024

We review projects each quarter to determine if they remain a priority and if they’re delivering the expected ROI. As a project management leader passionate about process improvement, how have you applied Lean or Agile methodologies to enhance efficiency and reduce waste? I start with a clear North Star and communicate this clearly.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Its not just about cutting costsits about creating systems that are more agile, productive, and capable of delivering consistent quality. The goal is to identify and eliminate inefficiencies and ensure production systems are optimized for both current and future needs. Minimize costs by eliminating unnecessary steps or materials.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Digital technology, the accelerated pace of change, and the evolving relationship between businesses and their customers all have an effect on how organizations must operate in order to remain relevant in today’s shifting business landscape. At the heart of this transformation mindset is Lean Innovation.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Our panel of experts discusses the political, technological, social, and educational resources the cannabis industry needs to succeed. What kind of technology should cannabis businesses be prioritizing today? I hope our industry leans into the good we’re doing for society, because that message will resonate and motivate.

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Qmarkets

JULY 11, 2024

However corporate innovation is often the most complex and challenging due to its scale and scope. Many organizations face difficulties in establishing effective innovation programs, often due to misaligned strategies, unclear processes, and inadequate tools. Are there unmet customer needs that innovative solutions could address?

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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.” The Proud Leader.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. ScaleUps, and those that invest in them, face the next-level challenge of growing revenue at scale; that is, exponentially relative to expenditures in capital, people, and technology. Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the perfusion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. In particular for industrial products this, in turn, has been stimulated by maturing 3D printing technologies.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Many of the problems they reported indicated that both UX professionals and technical staff lacked a shared understanding of each others’ team roles and responsibilities. Being transparent about the UX process helped some respondents foster trust between themselves, their product managers, and the technical staff on their scrum teams. “I

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Elijah Eilert is talking to Joseph Brookes about the Innovation Metrics Review , a report that assesses the way Australia is currently measuring innovation, and then makes recommendations on how it can be improved. The review was released by the new government on September 30th 2022. Topics and Insights . (01:00) About the Guest.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 29, 2015

In recent years our innovation understanding and its management have significantly changed, due to numerous factors that have been happening. These have been advances in technology, methodology or design- thinking and we do need to stop and think about how we could do ‘things’ differently by asking “what is possible?

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Qmarkets

JULY 25, 2024

You’ll discover strategies for bringing the right people on board, setting up effective reward systems, and establishing clear stage gates. Trend Monitoring and Technology Scouting: Keeping abreast of market trends, emerging technologies, and industry developments to identify new opportunities and threats.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

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. Idea Generation: Generate creative new ideas that address the identified challenges, beyond basic brainstorming exercises.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This is the story of how SAY San Diego is using Lean Innovation to create real, powerful change in their community. They were having recent trouble operating efficiently and keeping their programs fresh due to a lack of process around testing new ideas and exploring potential opportunities.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

Prepared schools also had strong and flexible systems, a pattern that resonates with research on using “heavyweight teams” to tackle new challenges. Factor 1: Forward-leaning orientation. A mission-driven, agile culture that prioritized relationships was also a common feature of prepared schools.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Has there ever been a moment in time when so many new technologies are washing over us all at once? The elephant in the room is that the new technology requires a truly different approach. Innovating with digital technology requires a blended approach, truly diverse teams, training, and new ideation methods.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

Often this reluctance to dispose of these old systems, processes and inadequate frameworks is holding innovation back. Where does design thinking, lean management, the early thinking to focus more on changing the business model come in? They need designing into a new innovation system so they become commonplace and required.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

Often this reluctance to dispose of these old systems, processes and inadequate frameworks is holding innovation back. Where does design thinking, lean management, the early thinking to focus more on changing the business model come in? They need designing into a new innovation system so they become commonplace and required.

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Innovation System Design Agile 113

Inceodia

MARCH 26, 2020

Interviews conducted with the member organizations across the US provided insights to design an easy Change of Condition checklist for drivers to follow and a system for them to submit alerts that indicated a change of condition in the people they visited in their homes. The Solution.

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Planview

JULY 22, 2024

By adopting these cutting-edge technologies, organizations can not only improve productivity and decision-making but also foster a culture of innovation and efficiency. AI Bias and Errors AI systems, while powerful, can exhibit biases in pattern recognition, leading to erroneous and potentially harmful outcomes.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

I could outline countless ways to work through different examples, set about a strategic and operational digital transformation roadmap, to combine effective knowledge from people and excellence gained from what you need to do in IT and your technologies to get this going, but I will not here, as this is an opening primer, not a solution.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Lean on these 23 best learning and development blogs to gain insights on elevating L&D at your organization. Compared to other L&D blogs, ELM offers articles that lean into the psychology and science of learning and how to leverage that to bolster growth at your company. CMOE is here to drive you in the right direction.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Rick’s article just gave me the chance to go back and review my thoughts and relate his excellent suggestions and thinking into some of the work I have written about in this area. So I think it will be fundamentally different in this architecture that underpins these four pillars.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It can reveal what it takes for an innovation system to be persistent. Persistent system – They focused on building a strategic innovation system to survive changes in people or organization, even new leaders of the group itself (there have been 4), or new CTOs (there have been 3). Techniques change, times change, they did too.

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Planview

JULY 30, 2024

Technology companies want to deliver products better and faster, but as it is, demand often exceeds capacity, visibility is limited, rework is too common, and investments lack focus. In their research, Gene and Steven reviewed common efficiency design systems like Lean, Agile, DevOps, and the Toyota Production System.

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The BMI Lab Blog

JANUARY 26, 2018

We can summarize their business approach in the following points: The Chinese customers are avid buyers of technology. Lean value” focus: This approach is supported by the nature of the market. To the contrary, Alipay (the payment system for Taobao) made escrow an essential component of the online buying experience.

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Technical Review Innovation LEAN Software Review 73

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

On top of this, from an incumbents’ point of view, there are legitimate reasons for rejecting a new technology. Moreover, if the innovation is truly different, then the incumbent would have to overhaul its systems and operations to adopt it. The Stanford Social Innovation Review also looked at how to do this inside of not-for-profits.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

There is this sense that consultants are resolutely staying very internally driven, self-promoting, still trying to convey the story of innovation mastery, when clearly this is lacking in rapidly changing market and technology conditions and due to this staying ahead of the knowledge curve are actually failing the client.

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