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Innovation: 4 Part Recipe for Sustaining an Innovation Pipeline
In today’s era, organisations especially large enterprises are often challenged with shrinking revenues from existing products and services. Furthermore technological breakthroughs and incremental product development no longer necessarily provide the competitive differentiators to grow their business. Management need to investigate … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, Business Model Canvas, customer driven development, Design Thinking, innovation, Lean Startup
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Kaizen Camp Australia 2013 event reflection
Kaizen Camp was held in Melbourne this week, 20-21 May 2013. Kaizen Camp is an unconference held in the style of Lean Coffee with 8 sessions, 60 attendees and over 50 topics discussed. It was the first Kaizen Camp in … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, continuous improvement, Kaizen Camp, kanban, lean, Lean Coffee
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Passed the PMI-ACP Exam
Yesterday I passed the PMI – Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) exam with Proficient results. Woo Hoo!! I took a very very light weight approach to my preparation. I am currently very time poor which has led me to do minimal … Continue reading
Posted in Lean-Agile, Project Management
Tagged certification, PMI - Agile Certified Practitioner, PMI-ACP
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LAST Conference 2012 Notes
Last week I attended the LAST Conference (Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking) held at Swinburne University. The LAST Conference is a big departure from the Agile Australia 2012 conference I attended earlier this year. There was no fanfare, no big build … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Culture, Lean Thinking, Lean-Agile, Software Development, Systems Thinking
Tagged agile, conference, kanban, lean, scrum, systems thinking
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Agile, Walt Disney Creativity Strategy and Ritual Dissent
Recently a colleague and I were facilitating an agile project initiation workshop. To help the team to come up with ideas and formulate solutions for the problem they were trying to solve we used a method that combined the Walt … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, creativity, Disney Strategy, ideas, innovation, Ritual Dissent, workshop
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Innovation through customer collaboration and feedback
Nordstrom is one of USA’s leading fashion specialty retailers and is a Fortune 500 company (2011 – ranked 254). When I think of a fashion retail company, innovation isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. So how does a … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Culture, Lean-Agile
Tagged agile, case-study, culture, flash build, innovation, kanban, lean, Nordstrom, teamwork, video
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Quotes from Taiichi Ohno
I came across a great article by Masaaki Imai on Gemba Panta Rei celebrating Taiichi Ohno’s 100th Birthday which contained some of his brilliant quotes on management and thought I will re-post them: “Let the flow manage the processes, and … Continue reading
Posted in Lean Thinking, Lean-Agile, Management
Tagged lean, management, quotes, Taiichi Ohno
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Is this the ultimate test on usability?
Apple have been innovative in their great customer experience with their touch screen gesture controls in their iPhone and iPad products. Is this video showing the ultimate form of usability (UX) – a baby using a product? You will notice … Continue reading
Posted in Lean-Agile, Software Development
Tagged Apple, iPad, iPhone, usability, UX
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Email is a time waster
Reading the paper on the train home from work I came across this article. Banning corporate email seems to be an extreme approach, but I do agree emails are sometimes a waste of time as its a poor form of … Continue reading
Leadership styles
Donald Gray has written a great and interesting article on Three Leadership Styles, based observations on managing traffic at an intersection. In the article the most successful leader is the one that sees people as “adults that most of the … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Lean-Agile, Management, Project Management
Tagged leadership, management, self organization, servant leadership
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