Lean and Agile

Lean and Agile is a business methodology that emerged as a response to the unpredictable nature of today’s market and technology.

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Supplier

The person or entity that provides something to a company. Typically, a primary supplier provides a substantial portion of a company’s needs and has an ongoing relationship with that company.

North Star Metric

A company's North Star Metric is its key measure of success and drives strategic decision-making.

Innovation Self-Assessment

Innovation Self-Assessment: A tool to evaluate an organization's innovation capabilities and identify areas for improvement.

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Co-creation & Lean Innovation champion transformation - Blog

Co-creation and lean innovation are the keys to successful digital transformation. Involving customers in the process of creating a new product or service and using their feedback through iteration allows companies to stay competitive, engage with their ecosystem, and increase transparency.

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How customer instinct can help you innovate

Developing customer instinct can lead to successful innovation. Traditional market research may not yield the desired results, and new methods, such as observing and ethnography, should be explored. Customer relationships should be fostered, and lead users and emergent customers should be targeted.

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Current Clients, New Opportunities – Five Ideas to Discover New Growth

Discover new business opportunities with current clients by exploring their job responsibilities, challenges, vendors, purchase decisions, and issues caused by your organization.

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Extreme Creativity - 6 Lessons from Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives

Get extreme with your creativity! Take these six lessons from Diners, Drive-ins and Dives to be an extreme creativity force.

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Lean Methodology: What Is It and Why Do You Need It?

Lean Methodology is a business philosophy that aims to reduce waste and improve productivity. It prioritizes continuous improvement and respect for people, and can benefit organizations in various ways.

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Lean Blogs to Help You Improve Efficiency

Reading Lean blogs is essential for continuous improvement. Here are five Lean blogs to follow and become more efficient, less stressed and happier in work and life.

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Running = Innovation (Learning from Personal Record in Berlin Marathon)

Running equals innovation – that’s what the author learned from running the Berlin Marathon. This article explores the need for innovation in endurance running equipment and how running can teach us characteristics for successful innovation.

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Innovation Muscle

Building innovation muscle is essential for companies to keep up with changing landscapes. This involves training employees, using innovation methods frequently and having an innovation capability across departments.

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The New and Updated Humor Desk Policy

Humor Desk Policy provides guidelines for employees to manage their workspace effectively and boost innovation, morale and productivity.

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Trends in Training & Development | InnovationTraining.org

Learn about the latest training trends and practices that can help attract and keep top talent.

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Top Organizational Learning Books | InnovationTraining.org

Discover top organizational learning books about development and leadership to help grow your company.

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Do You Have 5 Minutes? The True Cost of Context Switching

Using a Kanban board can improve communication and eliminate the need for status updates, resulting in increased productivity and reduced interruptions.

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Personality Assessments for Workplace | Innovation Training

Personality assessments can help understand employees' work styles, leading to better collaboration and increased team effectiveness. Here are the best assessment tools to consider.

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The Surprising Thing That’s Killing Your Creativity

Distractions in the workplace can seriously hinder creativity and productivity. Learn how to overcome these obstacles and strive for innovation with these tips.

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Using Kanban to Improve Audit Management

Yuval Yeret of Agile Sparks discusses the potential benefits Kanban can bring to audit management within organizations.

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Utilizing Performance Improvement (LEAN/SixSigma) and Human Centered Design

Healthcare leaders are implementing structured problem solving techniques to tackle challenges in the healthcare system. Performance Improvement and Human Centered Design frameworks are being used synergistically to improve efficiency, reliability, and patient experience.

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Utilizing Lean Methodology In Remote Work Environment

Remote work is here to stay, and utilizing the lean methodology helps eliminate waste in the digital workplace.

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Ways to Improve Business Efficiency

Learn how to improve internal efficiency in your company with these simple steps such as time management, employee motivation, and using technology wisely.

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What Are the Causes of Employee Burnout?

Employee burnout is a major threat to their mental and physical health. This post discusses the causes of burnout and offers suggestions for reducing stress.

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What is Employee-Centered Company Management?

Learn about employee-centered company management and how it can benefit your organization by increasing efficiency, productivity, and employee satisfaction.

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What is the relationship between talent, creativity, skill and performance?

The article explores the relationship between talent, creativity, skill, and performance and how they differ.

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What Paloma Noyola Bueno Teaches Us About Ideas

Paloma Noyola Bueno, a fifth-grader from Mexico, scored high on a national test due to an environment of intellectual curiosity and interest-based learning. This approach to education can be applied to businesses as well, helping employees reach their potential.

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What The Karate Kid Teaches Us About Innovation

Innovation teams often lack the training they need to excel, and crave new techniques over mastery of basic tools, leading to missed opportunities.

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What’s New: Make IT Service Management Visible with New Kanban Board Templates

Kanban can simplify ITSM processes. New Kanban board templates based on ITIL guidelines offer visibility and clarity for teams, managers, and executives, resulting in faster resolution times and reduced costs.

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Why Innovators Ought to Focus on Product Deconstruction

Innovation should not only focus on building new products and services, but also on making them easily deconstructable for reuse and recycling.

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Why Lean-Agile Culture Shifts Fail

Leading companies need to embrace organizational agility to survive in an era of technological, cultural, economic, and political changes, but many fail to do so due to reasons such as traditional business structures, lack of leadership buy-in, and old school budgeting/planning cycles.

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Why Lean IT Operations is Business Critical

Lean IT Operations can improve business agility and collaboration across value streams. ITIL framework can provide a Lean approach to IT services management.

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WIP Limits: How to Journey Safely Into the Unknown (Part 1 of 3)

Limiting work in process (WIP) can improve flow and productivity, but it can be difficult. This article explores the benefits of applying WIP limits in knowledge work and why it's hard for us to do so.

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Zero Budget - A Boon to Innovation

Starting an innovation project with no budget can lead to more creative thinking and inventive solutions.

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How do Users Influence Innovation?

Users play a crucial role in innovation. Lead users are becoming inventors and innovators, while early adopters can provide a critical mass of users. Brand advocates can influence potential users, either face-to-face or virtually.

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How Product Managers Create Great Customer Experiences with Better Products [podcast]

Product managers need to focus on customer perception for great customer experience.

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Lean Manufacturing Concepts and How to Use Them

Lean manufacturing concepts can help organizations improve efficiency and profitability by reducing waste and increasing productivity.

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Lean Startup Kanban Boards Examples

William Pietri's approach to tracking experimental work through the value stream of a Lean Startup is outlined in this blog post.

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Lessons from Lego: Low risk innovation tools for everyone!

LEGO's turnaround from bankruptcy to brand success was due to their low-risk innovation strategies which can be used by any company or startup, as explained in the book Innovation Tools.

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Do’s and Don’ts for Agile Team Success

To ensure agile team success, follow these do's and don'ts, such as empowering them to be self-organizing, encouraging experimentation and creativity, and avoiding being obsessed with maximizing human resources.

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Innovation and the concept of Flow

Innovation success comes from achieving a state of flow, where challenge and skill are equally balanced. Teams need the right people and skill development to achieve this.

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Innovation definition, strategy and process

Innovation is creating new ideas and turning them into positive change. There are different types, benefits, strategies, cultures, and processes, and it links to an organization's goals and customer feedback.

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The Value of Incremental Innovation

Corporate innovation leaders should focus on incremental innovation rather than disruptive innovation to drive significant business results in the long run.

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Fluid Intelligence - Are you getting enough sleep to innovate?

Innovators need good sleep to come up with innovative ideas. Two studies have shown that lack of sleep can hinder creativity and decision-making abilities.

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Great Innovators Focus More on Post-Purchase than Pre-Purchase

The post-purchase phase is critical for consumer behavior. Innovators must ensure customer satisfaction to promote repurchasing and positive word of mouth.

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Health-Tech: 5 Startups Changing Healthcare and The World

Tech entrepreneurs are disrupting the healthcare industry with innovative products that allow individuals to take control of their health. Products like Fitocracy, Surgical Theater, ReWalk, HelpAround, and Telesofia are providing personalized solutions to enhance patient engagement.

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Innovative Workplace Benefits: Perks Employees Look For

Companies are innovating the way they reward their employees with new and unique perks that offer much more than just health insurance and 401k, encouraging happier and more productive staff.

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Finding Lead Users for Innovation

Google Slam is a platform where users can showcase creative and innovative ways of using Google products, making it a honeypot for Lead Users.

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Integrating Agile with Stage-Gate® – How New Agile-Scrum Methods Lead to Faster and Better Innovation

Agile methods like Scrum can be integrated with Stage-Gate to reduce development time and increase success rates of new products.

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Customer Co-Creation from the Coalface

Customer Co-Creation from the Coalface

Discussions on customer co-creation were held at the FT Innovate conference. Topics included co-creation skills, lead users and buying from customers.

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Design Sprint Training - Innovation Training | Design Thinking

Design Sprint Training - Innovation Training | Design Thinking

Google Ventures' Design Sprint is a 5-day approach to innovation that combines design thinking, lean startup, and agile methodologies.

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How Advancing Their Lean Startup Practice Helps Intrapreneurs Bust Organizational Roadblocks

How Advancing Their Lean Startup Practice Helps Intrapreneurs Bust Organizational Roadblocks

Learn how to effectively manage innovation projects in a large organization by attending the Advanced Lean Startup workshop that focuses on experience and the practice of innovation.

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How Can You Apply the Kaizen Philosophy in Workplace?

How Can You Apply the Kaizen Philosophy in Workplace?

Learn about Kaizen philosophy and how it promotes continuous improvement in the workplace through small incremental changes and teamwork.

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Kanban Calculations: How to Calculate Cycle Time

Kanban Calculations: How to Calculate Cycle Time

Learn how to calculate cycle time using Kanban calculations, a simple and straightforward process to measure work item progress from a customer's perspective.

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Kanban: What It Is and How to Use It

Kanban: What It Is and How to Use It

Kanban is an Agile project management methodology that focuses on efficiency, visualization, and feedback loops to improve workflows and minimize waste.

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Lean Startups 101: Adapt faster, be better + never stop learning

Lean Startups 101: Adapt faster, be better + never stop learning

Lean Startups aim to eliminate waste in the work process by getting feedback from consumers and continually learning from them. Stormboard is a virtual whiteboard software that can help implement Lean methodology.

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Respect for People: Lean’s Neglected Pillar

Respect for People: Lean’s Neglected Pillar

Respect for People is a crucial aspect of Lean thinking, but often overlooked in its implementation. By valuing front-line workers, emphasizing team effectiveness, and promoting autonomy and accountability, companies can foster a healthy work environment that ultimately leads to better results.

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The Human Side of Innovation: The Power of People in Love with People

The Human Side of Innovation: The Power of People in Love with People

Porcini shows that the key to real, world-changing innovation is to put people first—not only the people we innovate for but also the people who lead the innovation process.

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Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century

Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century

Ask your developer - The landscape has shifted from the classic build vs. buy question, to one of build vs. die. Companies have to get this right to survive. But how do they make this transition?

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Healthcare Disrupted: Next Generation Business Models and Strategies

Healthcare Disrupted: Next Generation Business Models and Strategies

Healthcare Disrupted captures this pivotal point in time to give executives and senior managers across medical companies an opportunity to step back and consider the changing landscape.

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Running Lean

Running Lean

Running Lean Review - What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. That’s the promise of Running Lean.

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The Customer-Driven Playbook

The Customer-Driven Playbook

Many product developers wish they could work more like a startup, with small, nimble teams capable of making quick decisions.

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The Lean Startup

The Lean Startup

Learn what your customers really want. It's about testing your vision continuously, adapting and adjusting.

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Lean Startup Principles to apply

Lean Startup Principles to apply

“Startup success can be engineered by following the process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.” Eric Ries

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