Insights & Blog

R&D Labs Don’t Bring New Innovations to Market

Research and Development labs don’t bring new innovations to market because they are charged with inventing new technology, but not the commercialization of those inventions. In this post, discover the 3 reasons why these inventions don’t get to market, and how to think about innovation from a new perspective.

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The Importance of Aligning Innovation Strategy with Business Goals

Recent studies suggest that enterprise leaders are struggling to find parallels between corporate and innovation strategy. This article explains how executives can play a bigger role in communicating strategy, setting expectations and goals for innovation, and ensuring those efforts are headed in the right direction.

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Using Lean Innovation in the Product Development and Commercialization Process

Just as with startups, the reason why enterprise product launches fail is that they don’t take the time to learn before they execute. This article explains how enterprise organizations can use lean innovation methodologies to bring new products to market successfully.

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Nonprofit Innovation: NCARB Brings New Product to Market

Read the story of how innovative non-profit NCARB (The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards) used rapid experimentation to test assumptions and bring a new product to market that delivers real value to their customers.

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4 Resources for Growing and Transforming Your Enterprise

What new ideas should corporate leaders be exploring in the coming months? Here’s a brief list of books, articles, videos, and tools to promote innovation, transformation, and growth within the enterprise.

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Top 5 Digital Transformation and Innovation Management Consulting Firms for 2019

While we also offer assistance for large organizations looking to grow and transform through Lean Innovation principles, these are the top five consulting firms we applaud for their contributions to the industry.

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Open Innovation Interview with Brant Cooper and Marco De Polo

In this compelling interview, our CEO Brant Cooper spends some time speaking with special guest Marco De Polo, Head Global Strategic Insights & Open Innovation at Roche Diabetes Care, a company that is already working to employ this new mindset. 

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Putting Humanity at the Forefront of our Social Impact Work

The concept of humanity in the social impact sector was at the forefront of this year’s Upswell conference. In this event recap, discover how connection and empathy play a leading role in driving long-lasting and impactful change.

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Customer, Culture, and Learning: Takeaways from the Lean Startup Conference

This year’s Lean Startup Conference more than ever before, guided us as organizations to focus on the things that truly matter, and be better at business for the higher good. Don’t miss the key takeaways about customer, culture, and learning gleaned from the 2018 event in Las Vegas.

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Lean Innovation in the Social Impact Sector

In this “ask me anything” style video, Heather Hiscox of our Social Impact team tackles several prominent questions on the topic of Lean Innovation in the social impact sector, and how focusing heavily on the customer can change the way these organizations drive impact.  

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Leadership Development: What Skills Should an Innovation Leader Possess?

An overview about what leadership development means within the context of lean innovation, and seven skills all truly amazing innovation leaders must possess.

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The Ultimate Guide to Building an Internal Innovation Coaching System

Building an internal coaching system allows organizations to scale lean innovation skills, develop a new mindset, and ignite entrepreneurial action. In this guide, discover everything you need to know about creating and scaling an internal coaching system so that you can realize your vision for growth and continuous innovation.

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How to Nail Your Most Valuable Metrics Using the Customer Journey

An exploration into the process of creating products and services that provide value by using the “Diamond Nugget” hidden within this brand new innovation tool.

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How SAY San Diego is Using Lean Innovation to Create Real Change

The story of how non-profit SAY San Diego used Lean Innovation to break down organizational silos, improve employee retention, diversify their funding streams and create the systems and process required for vetting and implementing new initiatives without waste.

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Using Lean Innovation to Transform the Way the City of Hayward Solves Problems

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. This is their innovation transformation story.

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