The Lean Innovation Cycle
eBook - ePub

The Lean Innovation Cycle

A Multi-Disciplinary Framework for Designing Value with Lean and Human-Centered Design

  1. 194 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Lean Innovation Cycle

A Multi-Disciplinary Framework for Designing Value with Lean and Human-Centered Design

About this book

Currently, businesses are forced to be more innovative than ever before. Organizations must be sensitive to global trends -- such as digitization, globalization, and automation -- and at the same time build resilience and flexibility to combat unexpected changes in customer demand. The coronavirus pandemic is just the most recent and pronounced example of this new-normal business necessity. Amidst the disruption, many businesses are caught not knowing how to proceed. How ought one pursue or achieve innovation for the company? Are there different innovation strategies? Why might a business leader choose one over the other?

The Lean Innovation Cycle addresses these concerns by introducing a new multidisciplinary framework for both thinking about and pursing innovation. By taking key concepts from the quality management practices of Lean and Six Sigma, the framework augments these tools and disciplines by incorporating other problem-solving and design techniques, including Human-Centered Design. The result is a view of innovation that many business leaders will find fits nicely into their existing paradigm of strategy and operational discipline.

After the introduction of the framework, the book turns to understanding the differences, advantages, and tradeoffs in pursuing Lean Innovation in lieu of traditional, technologically driven innovation approaches. To this end, the book considers issues of sustainability, organizational strategy, and competitive advantage. The result is a thought-provoking dialogue that informs the reader about the key considerations of how best to pursue innovation within their business and the business environment, as well as the circumstances that might make one innovation strategy more congruent to an organization's culture, goals, and objectives than the other.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Endorsement Page
  3. Half Title Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Author
  10. Introduction Innovation, Customer Value, and Lean
  11. Chapter 1 Lean Innovation and the Lean Innovation Cycle
  12. Chapter 2 Hoshin Kanri
  13. Chapter 3 The Gemba
  14. Chapter 4 Customer-Driven Analysis
  15. Chapter 5 Ideation
  16. Chapter 6 Kaizen
  17. Chapter 7 Differences between Approaches to Innovation
  18. Chapter 8 Sustainable Innovation
  19. Chapter 9 Innovation and Organizational Strategy
  20. Chapter 10 Innovation and Competitive Advantage
  21. Index