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Innovation: 4 Part Recipe for Sustaining an Innovation Pipeline

Posted on June 4, 2013 by

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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Kaizen Camp Australia 2013 event reflection

Posted on May 24, 2013 by

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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LAST Conference 2012 Notes

Posted on August 4, 2012 by

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 →

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Agile, Walt Disney Creativity Strategy and Ritual Dissent

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

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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Innovation through customer collaboration and feedback

Posted on March 9, 2012 by

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 →

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Useless sprint goals

Posted on November 18, 2011 by

A sprint goal helps to enable the team to focus on for the next 2 weeks.  What does everyone want the team to work on next?   The Scrum Guide [Oct 2011] states: The Sprint Goal gives the Development Team some … Continue reading →

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Learning from mistakes – it’s all about continuous improvement

Posted on August 18, 2011 by

Kaizen (改善), Japanese for “improvement”, or “change for the better” refers to philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous improvement of processes. Teams I coach frequently ask me for “best practices”.  Do not assume that “best practices” in previous projects … Continue reading →

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I am an Agile Plumber

Posted on July 10, 2011 by

I am an Agile Plumber – I eliminate waste, remove blockages and increase flow. This week we had an agile workshop to establish some goals and create some epics for next quarter’s release for the agile change team at an … Continue reading →

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I want to run an agile project

Posted on June 21, 2011 by

This is all too funny!  Whilst the video is intended to be humorous, the pain of the “Agile Guy” maybe all too familiar for some.  Agile changes many things we have become use to over many years – agile questions … Continue reading →

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Don’t collaborate here!

Posted on June 20, 2011 by

I saw a few of these signs posted up around an office site I visited today and was amused by it.  The office cubicles were also very high (‘Dilbert’ cubicles come to mind).  In fact they were high enough that … Continue reading →

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