As more large companies begin to embark upon audacious transformation plans and set up innovation teams, more corporate professionals are being introduced to a world in which terms like design thinking, lean, agile, pivot, experiment, fail, adapt and so on are used almost interchangeably.
Overnight successes are usually anything but. In most cases, what appears to be a sudden rise to prominence is often the the manifestation of years of frustration, trial and error and time spent honing one’s craft.
While there’s much talk emanating out of Silicon Valley nowadays that “pivot is the new fail”, when the term first gained popularity off the back of the lean startup movement in the early 2010s it effectively meant making a fundamental shift in your business model, based on customer learnings, towards one that is designed to bring you closer to product market fit.
Here's our list of 20 best books on innovation. These are essential reads are relevant for innovation management, creativity and entrepreneurship for 2016, 2017 and 2018.
In order to get the most out of a corporate hackathon and generate some quick wins that organisers and innovation champions will be able to use to build a case for subsequent initiatives and further development of ideas, taking the time to consider and prepare the following 12 things can make a world of difference.
There are countless tools we use with clients to build fast, learn fast and measure fast in order to determine what will ‘wow’ customers enough to extend or generate new lines of revenue and remain a competitive force well into the future.
Design Thinking is just one piece of the corporate innovation puzzle and it alone is never enough.
The story of a 3M researcher, $99 purchase orders and a $60B empire.
Innovation labs are popping up all over the world. A recent report noted that 88 innovation labs opened their doors globally…
The role that Government should play in fostering entrepreneurship.
Why your ideation tools aren’t working and how to bring ideas back to life. In this article, we cover the definition of the ideation process steps, followed by recommended approach, examples and techniques. This is essential for the execution of design thinking.
The rituals and routines of guests from the Future Squared podcast.
The Mills Oakley Accelerator has been established to commercialise legaltech.
What not to do when it comes to innovation and new product development.
The Australian Government could be doing more for innovation.
Do you have what it takes to be a great Innovation Manager?
Hailing from Austin, Texas, Ash Maurya is the founder of Leanstack. Since bootstrapping his last company seven years ago, he has launched five products and one peer-to-web application framework.
Mills Oakley is launching Asia-Pacific's first Legal Startup accelerator.
Pascal Finette heads up Entrepreneurship at Singularity University as well as SU Labs, its accelerator program which grows startups that are focused on tackling the world’s most intractable problems leveraging exponential technologies.
The team at Lemonade Stand are proud to announce that we have successfully secured $100,000 as part of LaunchVic's $6.5m first round of funding allocations.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Whitney Johnson, author of Disrupt Yourself, and formerly co-founder of Rose Park Advisors alongside Clayton Christensen, way back when in episode #13 of Future Squared.
Half of the S&P500 will be replaced over the next 10 years at current rates of churn. 187 companies in the list today first entered it in the past 10 years alone
Could a company outsource prototyping for a new idea completely and let a third-party organisation do all the testing and market validation?
Check out the video to hear how it went when we taught one of Australia's largest bookmakers how to use the lean startup methodology.
General Electric, with $493B in assets and 200,000 employees is applying lean startup.
The perfect prototype is the one that’s imperfect. Time and time again, new founders will make excuses like, it's not ready yet”, or “I just want to add a few more things to it” to explain why they haven’t launched their prototype yet. This mentality has slowly suffocated many-a startup.
Hackathons are a great way to bring together teams with the goal of quickly identifying and solving problems.
Collective Campus had the pleasure of hosting a panel talk recently with Stile Education on the future of K-12 education entitled ‘Getting Students Future Ready’.
As disruptive technology takes over, kids need to learn how to adapt and be empowered by skills that will prepare them for the future
Our recent Lemonade Stand program Lemonade Stand brought kids together to develop their entrepreneurial mindset and capabilities.
Collective Campus recently held its first Lean Startup Short Course. The course, held for 20 hours over four weeks, brought together seven budding entrepreneurs and exposed them to the world of build, measure and learn.
We’ve been working on our own Lemonade Stand program at Collective Campus, which will be rolled out these summer holidays for children from Grades 5 & 6through to Years 7-10. The program aims to instill business fundamentals, the innovator’s mindset and innovation practices such as human centred design and lean startup into the psyche of today’s youth.
I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at IBM’s annual A/NZ Partner Symposium at Luna Park in Sydney yesterday where the hot topics of innovation, disruption, transformation and startup agility were central to the day’s discussions.
