by Tendayi Viki | Aug 2, 2018 | Featured
In my experience, there are plenty of innovation and startup teams that feel stuck. Despite using lean startup tools, they feel like they are running around in circles and making no progress. It seems as though they have forgotten why they started using lean startup...
by Tendayi Viki | Aug 1, 2018 | Uncategorised
Every entrepreneur wants to be Steve Jobs. But the Steve Jobs they want to be is the Steve Jobs on stage presenting the new iPhone at an Apple event. Not many entrepreneurs want to learn how to be Steve Jobs the day-to-day innovation grind. Innovators in large...
by Tendayi Viki | Aug 1, 2018 | Uncategorised
The Lean Startup began as a grassroots movement that took root within the startup ecosystem. Over the last decade, the movement has developed a powerful toolbox of techniques and methods that help innovators navigate their way towards sustainably profitable business...
by Tendayi Viki | Aug 1, 2018 | Uncategorised
In previous posts, I have defined innovation as the combination of creative ideas with sustainably profitable business models. While it is good that companies invest in R&D, there is also the need to find “the architecture of revenues” for all the breakthrough...
by Tendayi Viki | Aug 1, 2018 | Uncategorised
In a previous post, I wrote about how large companies are poised to be the greatest beneficiaries of the lean startup movement. We are entering an era of technology that is well suited to the resources that large companies have (i.e. The Third Wave). This next wave of...
by Tendayi Viki | Aug 1, 2018 | Uncategorised
Corporate leaders often talk about creating a “culture of innovation” within their companies. When having these conversations, they often act as if organizational culture is some mythical creature that comes down from the mountain to greet the people. Most leaders...
by Tendayi Viki | Aug 1, 2018 | Uncategorised
In a previous post, I wrote about why corporate leaders may be right to shut down non-performing innovation labs. That article focused on what innovation managers get wrong when they engage in innovation theatre rather than real innovation, which is the combination of...
by Tendayi Viki | Jul 3, 2018 | Uncategorised
Innovation labs are all the rage these days. Most companies have one, are thinking about creating one or have had employees pushing management to start one. There are several innovation labs being launched monthly to great media fanfare. To name a few examples from...
by Tendayi Viki | Jul 1, 2018 | Uncategorised
Steve Blank likes to joke that the two groups of people that require five year plans are Venture Capitalists and the Soviet Union. I would like to add a third group to that list, large successful companies. In order to get funding within a large corporation for any...
by Tendayi Viki | Jun 6, 2018 | Uncategorised
When 2016 came to a close, it may go down in history as a political turning point. Contentious elections and referendums in Europe and America have provided a series of unexpected shocks. One constant theme in all these major political events has been the debate...
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