Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As you may know, as a noted (ahem) blogger and voracious reader, I am sometimes asked to review books on strategy and innovation. Even after choosing some books to review, I often find myself asking - did the book actually meet my criteria? All this in advance of a book I want to like, but struggle to review, entitled A.L.I.E.N.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It is the twin of corporate accounting but instead it is appropriate for innovation projects. 00:04:30 – Traditional corporate accounting and analysis methods are not appropriate for innovation because they are used to reduce risk and improve efficiency, which do not work for innovation projects. Ground Control: [link].

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

If you have an event and are planning to book an inspirational speaker , ensure that the topic highlights how creativity can be enhanced, at any age. Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast , we speak again with author Todd Henry about his new book Daily Creative. By the time this podcast launches, the book has already been #1 on Amazon, so congratulations Todd. 00:07:15 – How the book is structured in order to be useful every day and repeatable.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 12, 2022

I'm lucky to have the opportunity to read and review a number of books in the innovation and strategy space, and I find many of the books have interesting insights or promote new ideas but often aren't overly actionable. It should be a book that all managers read. However, I've always found the insights of Roger Martin useful.

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Idea to Value

JULY 30, 2020

We go through how companies should measure innovation performance, and which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) actually make sense for these types of projects. 00:05:00 – The aspects which create a successful innovation culture are found nowhere in the accounting books. 00:19:30 – What is learning velocity?

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation? Check out our list of design thinking books to read. Books from 2020 & Earlier. Find it here.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

One of the most important pieces of creativity and innovation research from the past couple of decades can be found in the book The Progress Principle: Using small wins to ignite joy, engagement and creativity at work. Learning from problems and successes (including a culture of psychological safety ). Actively hindering a project.

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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2024

In this post, you’ll learn: Why Putting People at the Heart of Change Matters The Exciting Future Ahead for the PMO How AI Can Help Prioritize Impactful Work Meet Athena Smith Athena Smith hails from Georgia and is based in Atlanta. I eventually left the museum field after discovering that project management was my favorite part of the job.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This can result in people and projects trying to hide failure , or avoid trying things which challenge them at all so that they are less likely to fail. If there is a portfolio of 10 projects, and one brings a return of 100x, then it does not matter if the other 9 fail. Innovation projects are different.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Check out these popular JTBD book recommendations. These Jobs to be Done books cover the skills and techniques of this framework in an easy to follow and understand way. Check out our lists of innovation books and design thinking books to read. Looking for even more literary choices to help you innovate? Get it here.

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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

Innovation needs high level sponsors who are actively engaged in innovation projects. These have to be treated as learning opportunities. The Prosci Adkar Model is explained in this book: On Amazon.co.uk. You train people for other soft skills so why not train them to think laterally, to experiment and to implement ideas?

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

This InnovationTraining.org guest article from Tendayi Viki is a selection from his latest book, Pirates In The Navy. This is a lesson I learned from making many mistakes in my own work. I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. We can only do this via the process of discovery.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

By sharing, you learn and continue to build on this knowledge. You actually blend your own creation and learn from others, and that combination effect curates even greater knowledge and application. We can jump in and learn from experiments and straightforward learning, burning up our precious time and resource.

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Strategyzer Innovation

AUGUST 12, 2019

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve partnered with Stefano Mastrogiacomo, the creator of the Team Alignment Toolkit, for his upcoming book The Team Alignment Map to be part of the Strategyzer book series. The methodology is a key component to our work with large companies on Growth and Transformation projects.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Then, have a process for aligning strategy (which pulls you forward) with budgeting (which anchors you backward) with project governance (which is usually a total mess) with people’s incentives. Which means they do not believe small changes over time, failing, learning and adjusting can or will have a meaningful impact.

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Planview

JANUARY 9, 2025

When Dr. Mik Kersten published Project to Product a groundbreaking book that introduced the Flow Framework just over six years ago the term product operating model was relatively new. View the Executive Summary or Get the Full Report Sources 1 2024 Project to Product State of the Industry Report. Published on Oct.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Brought to prominence by Professor Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma , this important theory provides an explanation as to why large, established companies eventually get overtaken by smaller ones, and it introduced the concept of disruptive innovation. like P&G’s Connect and Develop platform).

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 18, 2022

These top Jeanne Liedtka’s books are a great source of information on innovation and design thinking. Design thinking books continue to be a popular topic on our blog, as many find them a useful way to learn about innovation and how to apply these techniques to organizational or personal challenges. Find it here on Amazon.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

It is a dilemma which Ed Catmull describes in his book Creativity Inc. He syas that if you give a great idea to a mediocre group, they will likely screw it up, because a movie or a project or a start-up involves many ideas and choices not just one. Pause for a moment and make your choice. appeared first on Destination Innovation.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 30, 2020

All of that leads to the company obviously learning more, but also creating measurable positive impact, which again fuels the desire for more innovation. They were a clear pioneer in their industry with a very strong collaborative and mission-driven culture, which Founder Ed Catmull describes in detail in his excellent book Creativity, Inc.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 12, 2016

From the name, people often think of it as a prototype, but really, it’s a learning object. That Resources page includes free.pdfs of two books on the topic, and they are both excellent. The Lean Startup approach is based on the Build-Measure-Learn loop. The best way to think of an MVP is an object for learning.

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IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

Achieve bigger innovation results through helping others learn and develop their innovation and ideation skill for the first time. Most have never learned the basics of ideation. Less than a half-day of effective training can make a big difference in helping people to generate more and better ideas for a crowdsourcing project.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 2, 2023

Agile software development involves “sprints” in which teams define short-term goals (typically two weeks), work diligently to achieve them, and then apply what they learned from the sprint to their next sprint’s goals. For example, you might have a project you expect to take three months to complete.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 11, 2025

In a recent Innov8rs Learning Lab Session, Hiroshi Maeda, Global Innovation Manager at SHV Energy , shared how he and his team successfully integrated innovation into the business’s core culture. “Instead of just talking about past successes, we wrote a book filled with stories of what the company’s future could look like.

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Boxes and Arrows

MAY 1, 2018

Editors’ note: This “Book in Brief” feature here on Boxes and Arrows is from. We’ll publish an excerpt, up to 500 words, of your book. The catch is that we’ll only publicize one book a month; first come, first serve. Piloting your experience principals on a project can also help others understand their tactical use.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 3, 2021

This means that I have been able to observe, engage with and participate, from both Israel and Australia, in the evolution of Presencing and Theory U as powerful resources and vehicles for effecting profound transformational change and learning. Intentional change and learning.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Thus it is that so many non-standard corporate activities and projects end up with poor preparation, later lamenting the fact that if only they'd taken more time to prepare, they would have done a much better job. The concept of a really well defined question is so important that Warren Berger wrote a book about it.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 13, 2019

She is the woman of the moment and can teach you a lot about agile project management! She is the woman of the moment and can teach you a lot about agile project management! In this article, in besides knowing better the Japanese sensation of the present, you will see what lessons she can bring us about agile project management.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

JULY 6, 2024

Readers & Writers: To contribute your own content and to browse amazing content – including articles/blogs, books, interviews, podcasts and videos, from our opt-in B2B thought leader, analyst and influencer community – Join Thinkers360 today ! Thinkers360: Tell us a bit about your background and areas of expertise.

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Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 31, 2020

New hires spend their first few weeks manning phones in the call centre learning how to respond to customer needs. Zappos has a culture book that is written and updated by employees. This book is given visitors and anyone who wants it. Tony Hsieh wrote a book, Delivering Happiness, describing the history and culture at Zappos.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

This guest article on innovative teaching shares ideas and strategies from the The Startup Teacher Playbook: Turn Your Ideas Into Actions, Personalize Professional Development, and Create Innovative Learning Experiences for You and Your Students. Education is never going back to ‘normal’ or at least one would hope not.

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Faisal Hoque

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Let me share how we’ve integrated the principles of Devotion and Detachment into our AI strategy and implementations, leveraging the OPEN and CARE frameworks outlined in our upcoming book, TRANSCEND. True experimentation requires the courage to fail and learn. Adapted from my book TRANSCEND.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 10, 2023

In all our writing, speaking, and travels, we have learned a lot about both the importance of market-creating innovations in spurring prosperity and the difficulties associated with implementing them. These learnings will guide our research agenda in 2023 and 2024.

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 1, 2019

These days, seemingly everyone is applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning. With the total worker output in construction at a standstill, it is no surprise that the areas where machine learning and AI could improve such statistics were minimal. More Productive Project Planning. More Productive Job Sites.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 10, 2021

Learn about this innovation framework and find training resources, articles, tips, and more. In this blog post, we’ll share helpful resources for Jobs to Be Done framework training, including expert articles, videos, and books to check out. Jobs to Be Done Books, Toolkits, Videos, Guides. JTBD Canvas. Case Studies.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 1, 2024

Further, while most corporations will pay lip service to innovation, and would enjoy new revenues and profits, they view innovation as a project or an activity that is discrete. It is not a capability or a project that you switch on or off, any more than you switch on or off a highly efficient supply chain.

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