Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I was reviewing the website of a strategy consulting firm recently, and their focus on strategy and team alignment felt like the same old, same old. But what struck me about their work is that they also focus on culture and change management. Management focus on culture and change management is sorely lacking.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It is the driving force behind the competitive edge that allows companies to stand out and meet the ever-changing demands of their customers. Incorporating innovative practices is essential for adapting to market changes and ensuring long-term success. Ensuring a timely and cost-effective product development life cycle.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Nurturing Innovative Team Collaboration In the rapidly evolving business landscape, innovative team collaboration has become a cornerstone for companies seeking to remain competitive and adaptive. In this context, team collaboration isn’t just recommended; it’s imperative for survival and success.

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Underperforming Technical Team Collaboration Creativity Software Review 113

Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The Age of AI and Business Strategy Understanding AI-Driven Rapid Change In the current landscape, AI-driven technologies are reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. Artificial Intelligence is not just a tool but a revolutionary force, catalyzing fundamental changes in how businesses operate, compete, and deliver value.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Having a robust strategy helps you anticipate and respond to changes, whether they come from emerging technologies, evolving customer preferences, or competitive pressures. The Role of Leadership in Strategy Development Leadership is at the heart of strategy development.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies. The collaborative process can also teach a seasoned team a lot about resiliency, agility, and dynamic thinking. Set goals around your innovation pipeline.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 30, 2010

Large scale websites require groups of specialists to design and develop a product that will be a commercial success. To develop a completely new site requires several teams to collaborate and this can be difficult. Particularly as different teams may be working with different methods. Do people get on with each other?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To delve further into the developmental aspects of organizational culture and how it can be shaped, explore our article on develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change. Conversely, a weak or negative culture can hinder business performance, stifle growth, and lead to organizational dysfunction.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Together, they reduce the risk of failure, improve the success rate of new ideas and can help build an organisation which is more resilient to change and able to grow. What it is: One of the most challenging aspects of innovation for most companies is not the generating of ideas, or the development of new innovations.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It’s common to encounter blind spots when you’re navigating an Agile transformation. They can show up as Agile practices that are meant to improve business agility but are applied so extremely that they end up making organizations less agile. Hyper Focusing on Agile Teams. Breaking Down all the Silos.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality. It is no wonder we’re growing increasingly pessimistic about making a positive change to a different transforming model within organizations. Every time we begin to call on innovation, we face negative forces.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

To survive and thrive, it’s critical that you recognize the signs of disruption and understand the necessity of adapting to these changes. For insights on staying ahead of the curve, consider exploring creating business strategy in a world of AI-driven rapid change.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This involves not only verbal encouragement but also the implementation of tangible policies and practices that empower your team to think differently and take risks. Effective leaders provide resources, create cross-functional teams, and ensure that innovation is aligned with business strategy.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

I believe today; the innovation management process requires this fresh mandate to drive change to bring the process into today’s more technical period where our systems need to operate seamlessly and flow across the organization and the entire innovation process. I believe we need to leverage technology, concepts, and design thinking.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In this article, etventure’s Head of Product Gregor Ilg will take a closer look at the buzzword “Agile” – and de-mystify Agile in a business context. We love Agile at etventure – but we also understand it can create stress and confusion. If it is not applied properly, agile development can easily turn into chaos!

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 6, 2017

Like so many other organizational leaders in China at that time, I had a very young team and we needed to skill-up. Within 18 months or so, they had developed a solid Innovation Skillset foundation. I needed to help my team and leaders cultivate an Innovation Mindset. A Great Innovation Skillset is Not Enough. And I found one.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 6, 2024

I wrote a piece last week introducing the idea that change is strategic, and that strategy should consider change competency as a core competency. Change is happening so quickly and from so many different directions and dimensions that companies cannot create strategy without also preparing for and being ready to change.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

The question management teams are asking and answering is: how can we manage our near term costs to keep the investors happy in the short run? Note that this is NOT a bad question to ask, because investors are constantly watching the effectiveness of the management team and want to see companies hitting their numbers.

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

Top 10 Characteristics of High-Performing Teams. Team Mentality. Outstanding business teams possess positive attributes that enable them to perform at a high level—and sustain that level of performance over years. Why Is Decisiveness Found in High-Performing Teams? Decisiveness. Alignment of Values. Confidence.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Drag in the business context often manifests itself at the strategic level and can be experienced by such adverse indicators as sluggish market moves, inability to change direction with agility, and companywide misalignment of strategies and objectives. Inertia is the resistance to any change in the current state of motion.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In our last blog , we proposed, rather than living in a world where everyone hates to fail, why not adopt a rethink, respond, regroup, thrive pattern, and experience failure as an opportunity for change, unlearning, and re-thinking? Critical art of re-thinking. Making time and space for re-thinking. The vital role of unlearning.

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CMOE

JULY 29, 2021

Being a great leader requires the ability to adapt to change. Unfortunately, not enough leaders are equipped with the right training or knowledge to effectively lead their team members through change; almost two-thirds of employers noted that a lack of change-management expertise was a problem during their recent initiatives.

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Planview

APRIL 24, 2024

Nothing frustrates software developers more than working hard on something that never ends up providing value. Whether because of changing priorities, miscommunication among teams, or other blockers, the hidden cost of waste can significantly impact productivity and bottom lines.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

When you feel the force of change running through the organization, you tend to have that same sensation, to resist the force with all your energy. Ignoring the power of choice within change is dangerous. So to make change we need context – the understanding of why we need to change and what we need to do with it.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

Given the pace of change and the number of factors that are changing in the environment, taking some time to understand what may happen and, more importantly, what may happen in response, is very important. And then I ask them to tell me their firm's average product development process timeframe. That can't be a good result.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. Developing customer empathy, validating or invalidating key business model assumptions through rapid experimentation, and leveraging data and insights as market evidence results in greater possibility of successful commercialization. What is Commercialization?

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

The authors report four characteristics that set top CEOs apart, According to the article, “roughly half the strong candidates had distinguished themselves in more than one of the four essential behaviors, while only 5% of the weak candidates had.”. Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Still I came away with a 50% achievement mark which was not so bad on the overall innovation intent I had set myself but one area was very frustrating to move forward upon- the subject of risk and how it is treated in innovation management. Blood pressure pills came in handy here also.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As we can see from the matrix, even though Apple is all about customer experience, their approach to innovation is still very technology-driven and focused on launching and pushing new products and services they’ve been developing and refining for lengthy periods of time. Facebook is almost a complete opposite of this.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 20, 2016

This poor strategic understanding creates a lack of alignment and directing innovation. An increased focus on innovation as a consistent discipline requires significant reflection on what needs changing, what impact this change will have and how do we proceed to implement it. Innovation needs a well-considered framework.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. Design thinking is a step above “customer development” because it takes a real human approach to getting to the root of an intrinsic problem. While agile focuses on build velocity, lean focuses on customer traction velocity.”

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 26, 2019

In a project where the waterfall Model is used, each such point represents a different stage of software development, and each stage usually ends before the next stage can begin. There are good and bad things about this approach. At this point, changes can be difficult (and expensive) to implement. Check them out.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

Can we find ways to be highly adaptable, agile and fluid in grabbing and taking the parts of the innovation system and constructing them into that design and process that works for that specific challenge? These help us to figure out what is changing. Today there is a relentless pace; we are facing a relentless change occurring.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 24, 2023

This lack of trust leads to poor collaboration, hampers problem-solving, and ultimately affects the overall success of the company. Hinders Responsiveness to Change In a rapidly changing business landscape, agility and adaptability are crucial. Example: P&G used Design Thinking to redesign its Pampers product.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Innovative Products and Services : AI can help in the development of new products and services by identifying market gaps and customer preferences. By recognizing the transformative impact of AI, you can ensure your business remains agile and innovative.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 9, 2020

The real challenge now is to stop fighting VUCA, stop trying to create a company that is resistant to volatility and change, and start create corporate structures and cultures that embrace VUCA. The markets and economic conditions have already been changing dramatically, even before VUCA. Fourth, be more nimble and agile.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In the spirit of the first Agility question below, rather than trying to imagine questions from across all the companies listed, we limited the focus to creative thinking questions inspired by the top ten most innovative companies’ innovation journeys and priorities. How is our B2B brand dramatically changing individuals’ lives?

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