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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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. Developing customer empathy, validating or invalidating key business model assumptions through rapid experimentation, and leveraging data and insights as market evidence results in greater possibility of successful commercialization.

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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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput. Of course, not all friction is bad. Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation.

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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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Leanstack

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Many experiments invalidate a bad idea and leave you stuck. The challenge, of course, is that truly good ideas are rare and often indistinguishable from bad ideas at the outset. This is exactly what the LEAN Sprint is designed to do. The participants are different Scrum and agile are typically developer-only practices.

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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etventure

JANUARY 5, 2017

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. Lean startup is a suitable approach to begin the practical implementation in a streamlined way after the brainstorming.

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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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Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Anyone who has ever attended Lean Startup Conference (previously known as Lean Startup Week) in the past knows that this annual event regularly features invigorating speakers that divulge the newest insights and innovations in modern management for a wide array of industries and company types.

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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

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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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 21, 2019

The fact is, exploring these new technologies can be exciting on the individual level, so teams may be drawn in those directions not based on any higher level strategic objectives, but rather, because it might be more fun and interesting for them on a personal level.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 29, 2019

Whether you are trying to drive engagement within your team, make a business case to your boss, or sell a product or service to a customer, the methods that you use to influence decision makers should be tailored to the situation and the individual you are speaking with. By UpBOARD.

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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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Integrative Innovation

MARCH 16, 2014

development of existing business) and exploration (i.e. The corresponding integration of incremental and radical innovation can basically be achieved in different ways: Building ambidextrous and lean startup capabilities. Teaming up with small firms or startups.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 14, 2016

Shared language : tools align teams around a visual concept, making complex ideas clearer with an image. Get the facts : Every tool has strengths and weaknesses. Among them: Overall satisfaction with tools is moderately positive, but the rates of usage, ease of implementation, effectiveness, strengths and weaknesses vary widely.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

They link innovation to their well-defined business objectives by establishing and maintaining dedicated innovation teams. Innovative companies provide the right platform for their employees to share and discuss ideas and have dedicated teams to turn them into prototypes and test the prototypes resulting from those ideas. Conclusion.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 22, 2016

Here’s why: Modern market research methods, like Lean Startup, do a great job of focusing on customer-centric discovery. It generates insights through empathy (one of the 3 E’s of Lean Innovation, see 5 Ways to Spark Innovation at Your Organization ). They require two separate teams. Two bad things happen when this is the case.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Developers own the code, business owns the proposition, yet design is considered a “service.” One team I’ve worked with helps bridge this gap on strategic projects by maintaining an “experience roadmap.” The team also keeps the design vision up to date, updating it as they learn from customers. Design itself is a product.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We’re already at the 10 year anniversary of the Lean Startup. ideas that went on to spark the global Lean Startup movement. Yet, when we look around we don’t find the corresponding adoption across teams. often part of a mandated checklist imposed upon teams. Using a Lean Canvas does not a Lean Startup make.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues.

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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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Cascade Strategy

JANUARY 15, 2020

In product management teams, much like in other teams in an organization, KPIs are used to create clear targets, guide decisions, celebrate success, and identify risks and issues.

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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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Planview

JULY 6, 2017

How might we capture and re-apply the knowledge that our veteran staff has developed over the years? Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence. Imagine, for example, an innovation community consisting of the client’s program team, the primary contractor, the key subs, and even the critical suppliers (e.g.,

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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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Planview

JULY 6, 2017

How might we capture and re-apply the knowledge that our veteran staff has developed over the years? Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence. Figure 1: the six tenets of lean from the Lean Construction Institute. They ask—and rightfully so: What’s in it for me? How might the latter support the former?

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