The Business Model Canvas explained
Have you ever wondered why are there so many canvases out there? It seems like every consultant or boutique agency in the innovation space has at least one. Well, we can blame that on the success of the business model canvas. The bad boy that started it all. In the ancient 2000s Alexander Osterwalder published […]
Learning is not mandatory
If your innovation teams are not creating reusable knowledge then they are creating waste by (most likely accidentally) discarding knowledge! Remember, kids, the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down! — is an appropriate quote from Adam Savage that comes to my mind. In order to eliminate discarding knowledge, Ward and Sobek advise us […]
Lean Startup fundamentals
How did Lean Startup come to be? Triumph of the Lean Production System by John Krafcik is the first paper on what is today known as Lean Thinking. It came out of the MIT International Motor Vehicle Program, as a part of the research for the book The Machine That Changed the World. Numerous other books followed, but as Michael […]
Bruno’s favourite canvases for strategy, experimentation, and customer experience
There are so many canvases out there that it is ridiculous. And most of them are just flat out bad, without any consideration of using it as a visual inquiry tool. Yves Pigneur counts conceptual model (ontology), shared visualisation (empty problem spaces), and directions for use (great UX) as the most important design principles of […]
Best books to master the Lean Startup
If you want to master the Lean Startup you need to have the right mindset, processes and tools. With a deluge of books it is difficult to understand which are worth your time, and will actually get you somewhere. I consider the following five books to be the fastest way to develop your mastery of […]
Of boastful innovators and sadistic innovation managers
In my work helping large corporations innovate and transform I usually encounter two distinct types of intrapreneurs: innovator and innovation manager. What’s the difference? Innovator is passionate about delivering something new and exciting to customers, like new products or services, or wants to introduce new technologies that could dramatically alter organisations’ value chain. Innovation manager is passionate about future-proofing […]
Faster horses logical fallacy
“We just had the perfect customer interview!“ A product lead I was coaching shared with great excitement how they conducted their best customer interview to date. “Once we had described our early adopters we reached out to a dozen of them to test some of our assumptions by asking specific questions. We prepared an interview […]
How to maximise learning from Playing Lean workshops
If you finish your Playing Lean workshop when one of the teams reaches the red tile you are missing a big learning opportunity! Recollection and synthesis are an important part of an effective learning process. That’s why we always suggest you create opportunities for them in your Playing Lean workshops. How can you do that? […]
False negatives and false positives
False negative and false positive are two terms that can cause a lot of discussions and misunderstandings. To put is as simple as possible, a false negative is a result that appears negative when it should not. On the other hand, a false positive is a result that appears positive when it should not. Playing […]