Indicators to Assess the Strength of Your Rapid Learning Cycles Program Key Takeaways Monitor the health of your program with a combination of observations and a handful of quantitative metrics. Five metrics will provide the most important information to assess your team’s effectiveness and efficiency in the Product Development Process and allow comparison across programs. […]
Start Here: Rapid Learning Cycles 101
Is Your Innovation Program a Long, Slow Learning Cycle?
Most innovation programs are one long, slow learning cycle. Once an idea has passed the screening phase and acquired the budget and resources necessary for execution, it typically passes into a product development process. If it’s a different type of innovation, sponsors still expect teams to make plans for this work. Sometimes teams need to […]
Elements of the Rapid Learning Cycles Framework
A Glossary of Key Concepts and Useful Terms You may have heard some of these terms used elsewhere. The precise definitions we give here are one of the secrets to our repeatable success. By applying rigor where rigor is useful, we avoid miscommunication around the most important things our teams need to discuss. A -C […]
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Three Ways to Replan When Your Learning Cycles Plan Needs Updating
How to Adjust Your Learning Cycles Plan
When I went in search of a tool to support virtual Rapid Learning Cycles kickoff events, the main requirement was that it duplicate the experience of working with sticky notes as closely as possible.
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“We were huge idiots and didn’t know what we were doing.”
High Velocity Innovation opens with the saga of the Tesla 3’s production challenges. In July of 2018, just as I was settling into writing the 2nd draft, Elon Musk gave an interview to Tom Randall of Bloomberg News who asked Musk how this happened. Musk said, “Because we were huge idiots and we didn’t know what we were doing.”* [Read More…]
Five Components of High Velocity Innovation
In my upcoming book, High Velocity Innovation, I outline the five key components of High Velocity Innovation. These are the things that an innovation team needs to have in place so that they have the pull they need to accelerate innovation. The combination of these pieces builds a “center of gravity” that pulls innovative ideas into the organization. [Read More…]
Myth: Innovation Can’t Be Done on Schedule. Truth: Timebox Innovation to Accelerate Inspiration
In this series of articles, I’ll debunk some common myths about innovation.
I always cringe a little inside when I hear someone say, “You can’t innovate on schedule.” [Read More…]
The Meaning of Pull and How to Create It
If you want to create change in an organization, you need to understand “pull” and how to create it.
I admit that the concept is a bit abstract, especially to people [Read More…]