Lean Value Innovation™ is a framework to form High-Value delivery organizations. Innovation is not a highly sophisticated endeavor but rather an activity that can take place at all levels of the organization to create new ways of adding value with a positive economic impact. It combines of 4 key aspects: innovation fostering thinking, innovation fostering environment, methods and tools that facilitate innovation, and acknowledges the human factor as the most important asset to make an organization successful.

The Lean Value Innovation Prism

Tom Poppendieck commented on our founder Masa K Maeda's Lean Value Innovation proposal for an international conference taking place early 2012:
  Agile needs to push beyond the limits of implementing software quickly and efficiently and simply responding to externally driven change and move on to a focus on learning quickly what the best thing to build is so as to deliberately create change. Applying lean ideas to innovation is one of the major advances to expect in the next decade. [...] lean innovation may be as important as the Agile Manifesto when we look back 10 years from now.

Innovation is the introduction of something new anywhere in the organization, the project, the product, or the service that has a positive economic impact towards the customer, the organization, or the project.