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

MARCH 10, 2025

Complementary Tools & Templates for Success To enhance Discovery-Driven Planning, integrate these strategic tools: Lean Startup Framework Encourages rapid testing and iteration. For example, Blockbusters failure to adapt to streaming demonstrated the risks of ignoring market shifts. Pivot successfully in dynamic industries.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 16, 2023

Because the CHIPS Act encourages businesses to lean in by providing STEM spaces and equipment, offering scholarships, promoting employee volunteerism, funding competitions, and creating internships and apprenticeships, Broadcom Foundation is doing its part.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 12, 2020

Hard Trends and the Pandemic. These leaders also know that technology-driven Hard Trends have all dramatically accelerated during the global pandemic. This trend has grown for decades, mostly in white-collar office jobs, but will expand to several other industries as well, as witnessed in telemedicine.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Finally, we have to allow time to explore Micro, Macro and Mega Trends. There are so many trends to tap into and explore by having this questioning hat on. If you can lay your hands onto a trends map that could inspire you so much the better?

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution) framework. Powered Research Assistants: Tools like Perplexity help teams conduct in-depth market research, trend analysis, and competitor insights. Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution) method. Example: Lindy Generative A.I. for Document Preparation and review: A.I.

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Business and Tech

APRIL 8, 2022

There are so many unique and wonderful ways for employers to embrace their new cultures—they can lean on software to enable and foster connection online. This trend is not going away any time soon.”. For example, Lattice is a great place to build in conversation starters between manager and employees in the weekly check-in report.”.

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As we move through the beginning of 2024, parent power, rethinking assessments, and career and technical education (CTE) for every student are some of the trends rippling through K–12 education. Here are six top trends for educators, parents, and policymakers to understand. My read is slightly different. It may even be declining.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This means a lot of interesting and reasonably important activities like problem and scope definition, exploration and discovery, trend spotting and customer insight work are hurried or in most cases avoided. But what about lean startup, rapid sprints, agile But aren't there entire methodologies that are meant to get to good ideas faster?

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 27, 2021

Recognizing what I call Hard Trends, or future certainties that will happen , and understanding the difference between those and Soft Trends, or future maybes that are open to influence, is where anticipation begins. So in banking, the most identifiable Hard Trend in blockchain technology is people’s response to buying Bitcoin.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 24, 2020

How to Lean in To Empower Your Team. To achieve this kind of empowerment, it is essential for leaders to lean-in and engage actively and effectively across teams, in addition to arranging coaching sessions. Importance of Leaning in. This transition requires a complete behavioral change from top to bottom of any organization.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

The tool and techniques that stand out for me, in their contribution, value and my use have been, in no specific order, cover the jobs-to-be-done , ten types of innovation, crossing the chasm , blue ocean, business model canvas and value proposition canvas, building core competencies , lean start-up, agile and design sprints.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Lean’ is the buzzword of the last decade, challenging old school thinking that dictates that a successful business must be resource-heavy to achieve sustainable growth, whilst also giving credence to those who want to launch “almost-there” app startups today to achieve market domination tomorrow. Pros for a lean app startup.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Pinpointing these gaps lets you tweak and twiddle your strategy into a lean, mean innovation machine. The innovation journey never stops, and your game plan should shift with the trends and insights you dig up. Customer Feedback Snag insights from the frontlines about surprises or sour notes. Flexibility : Be ready to pivot.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Here are some tech routes you might explore: Big Data Analytics : Dive into data to see what makes your customers tick, and spot trends and efficiencies. If you need more pointers, swing by our article on how to use innovation to turbocharge your business strategy.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We do need to ‘lean in’ on many specialists and experts to help us, not just business consultants! Our individual problem often lies in the time we have to discover, learn and explore new and different things. As well, and ask, are we really interested?

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Last week we held an event to share best practices in the fields of digitalisation lean for large organizations. Knorr-Bremse built their processes based on Toyota lean. Through the challenge results, he soon discovered that Lean management’s responsibility is to guide the company closer to perfection step by step continuously.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 19, 2025

Real-time analytics are helping organizations optimize supply chains, personalize marketing strategies, and predict market trends more accurately. Lean Transformation Approach The Lean transformation approach is centered on efficiency and value delivery.

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Idea to Value

JULY 15, 2020

Trends and regulatory changes. The final, unequivocally more ambiguous, part of the puzzle is understanding the big trends and upcoming regulatory changes in a given industry, and even across industries. These are all trends that will, without a doubt continue to grow for decades to come.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 28, 2025

This framework often incorporates established methodologies such as Six Sigma continuous improvement, lean management , and process mapping to streamline operations and minimize defects. Originally developed in lean manufacturing, Kanban helps businesses prevent bottlenecks and ensure smooth task progression.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Lean startup: Lean startup is a methodology that helps organizations validate their ideas early and often. By focusing on rapid experimentation and learning, lean startup enables organizations to identify and eliminate waste, reduce risk, and increase the likelihood of success.

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Planview

JANUARY 15, 2025

Read Next: Trends in AI: Should You View Data Like a Product? Patrick highlights how DevOps practices around platform teams and shared services can help organizations build centralized AI infrastructure while maintaining team autonomya critical balance for successful AI implementation.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The lean startup methodology emphasizes the importance of agility and learning, with a mantra of “build-measure-learn” to minimize waste and speed up learning. This iterative process aligns with the lean startup methodology and agile product development practices, which emphasize flexibility and rapid iteration.

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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. You should not move quickly if moving quickly simply means ignoring customer needs and emerging trends. When can you move fast?

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Idea to Value

MARCH 14, 2025

Contact me , and let us see how I could help your company innovate with and execute your A.I.

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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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Qmarkets

JANUARY 22, 2025

For example, technology scouting platforms can help businesses identify cutting-edge trends and position themselves at the forefront of change. Strategic Approaches Proven frameworks like the Blue Ocean Strategy and Lean/Agile Innovation provide actionable pathways to achieve radical innovation.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 8, 2020

If your devices aren’t as lean and efficient as when they were new, a few tweaks and some maintenance will improve their performance. Being self-employed, she does her best to stay on top of the current trends in business and tech. Another common issue is with bloated systems that become bogged down over time.

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Integrative Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

As the study is in German only, some of its identified key trends and conclusions are going to be shared subsequently in translated form (quotes from the study report in Italic ). Trend 1: Corporate-wide Innovation Ecosystems. Trend 2: Duality of the Digital Innovation Unit Scene: Incremental vs. Radical / Disruptive.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 3, 2020

I’ve already written about how the management-consulting industry is being disrupted by various trends like emerging technologies, the commodification of knowledge, and outdated business models. Remote work , lean budgets , and the need for contingency plans are three big trends impacting the industry.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 20, 2023

Ariana Smetana, CEO and founder of Accel IQ, said: “Staying competitive in the rapidly changing marketplace requires building faster new capabilities, and increasing efficiencies through lean innovation and transformative initiatives.” That’s where we come in.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Digital signage-based experiences are vital to future-proofing retail in ways that allay concerns post-pandemic, lean in to Gen Z, and make life a whole lot more convenient. Beth Warren SVP Marketing and Retail Strategy, Creative Realities, Board Member, Digital Signage Federation.

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Be-novative

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Last week we held an event on this topic where 3 invited experts shared their best practices in their fields and organizations:

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Algorithms tailor your personal viewing experience, providing the streaming service with data to analyze trends and viewing patterns – driving their content creation investment. Adopt an agile and lean innovation framework to ensure that ideas are analyzed and validated quickly.

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whataventure

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Du lebst Lean Startup, Design Thinking, New Work. Interesse an Trends und Innovationen sowie eine Affinität zu neuen Technologien. 5 Trends That Are Shaping The Ski- And Winter Sport Industry In 2020. 6 Trends Driving Innovation In The Hotel Industry. 8 Trends Driving Innovation In The Ski And Winter Sport Industry.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

Even though this is a trend for all, there is a growing digital divide. 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. This agility needs the tools of testing, feedback, and adaptation to accelerate the innovation process.

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