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Like Google, Apple has its lean innovation programs fine tuning and improving its internal processes.
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The lean innovation process, the agile approach rather than the controlled approach, is oriented more towards involving users in the evolution of the product.
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That said, there is increasing evidence that an over-reliance on planning, management and measurement in the front-end of innovation as evidenced by the movement of back-end processes such as lean and six sigma to the front end of innovation, are producing poor returns on innovation effort.
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