Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 24, 2022

You don't need a pill, you need a team. Red Team / Blue Team The idea of a red team (attacker or hacker) versus the blue team (defender or good guy) has become a staple of cybersecurity, but it has an older history than that. What should happen next, and rarely does, is the creation of a disinterested red team.

Underperforming Technical Team 217

Underperforming Technical Team Disruption Idea Generation Culture 217

Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2025

Passives (78) Satisfied but unenthusiastic customers who are vulnerable to competitive offerings. For example, a software company might find that its highest NPS scores come from customers using specific features, leading the marketing team to emphasize those features in outreach campaigns. Keep surveys short and relevant.

Software Review 130

Software Review Survey Underperforming Technical Team Marketing 130

Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

In today’s fast-moving business landscape, the ability to commercialize products quickly and efficiently is imperative. Companies that successfully bring new products to market rapidly, benefit from having a leg up on their competition while diminishing the negative effects of shrinking product life cycles.

Product Development 75

Product Development LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 75

Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. This will allow the corporate to more rapidly apply the benefits of the collaboration and develop the business.

Change 196

Change Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 196

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

To support you in building out your innovation competencies, capabilities and capacity that requires a deeper investment in skill development in a culture of continual learning. My value proposition is to work together to create something that shapes innovation for a meaningful change.

Change 173

Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Innovation 173

Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Corporations assign teams without skills or experience, rapidly conduct "brainstorming" exercises based primarily on current opinion or past experience and move as quickly as possible to present a small handful of ideas to a wary executive team. This crowds the product development process and eliminates room for new concepts to enter.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Product Development Exercises 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success In the ever-evolving business landscape, executive team offsites have become a cornerstone for strategic planning and decision-making. By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Strategy Software Review 100

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

We teach trend spotting and scenario planning to our customers to help them understand the importance of recognizing emerging needs and emerging segments, because the great ideas they generate won't become products or services very quickly. And then I ask them to tell me their firm's average product development process timeframe.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Product Development Development Team Review 100

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

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. They can cite a number of seemingly valid reasons for this, including: My team hasn’t got the time to resources or time to take ownership of this new thing.

Company 254

Company Innovation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team 254

Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

As a Business Planning Manager or Strategy Manager, understanding the role of AI and its potential benefits is essential to maintain a competitive edge in today’s market. Innovative Products and Services : AI can help in the development of new products and services by identifying market gaps and customer preferences.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Artificial Inteligence Underperforming Technical Team 100

Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

Agile 108

Agile Design Underperforming Technical Team Software 108

Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 23, 2023

Additionally, fractional CxOs are often more flexible in terms of their availability and can be brought on for specific projects or initiatives as needed, giving portfolio companies the ability to scale their executive team as their business grows. This could include areas such as sales and marketing, product development, or human resources.

Software Review 116

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Company Design Thinking 116

Qmarkets

AUGUST 1, 2024

But what exactly is an innovation strategy, and how can it be developed and implemented effectively? Think of an innovation strategy as a gameplan for a sports team. Here are some common types: Incremental Innovation : Focuses on making small, continuous improvements to existing products or services.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Strategy Innovation 52

Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Businesses that fail to adapt to disruptive changes risk losing their competitive edge and may eventually become obsolete. Competitive Advantage: By embracing innovation, you can differentiate your business from competitors and potentially capture a larger market share. Continuous education and training in future-relevant skills.

Disruption 100

Disruption Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 100

Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

This impact is evident across various facets of business, from operational efficiency and customer experience to product development and market analysis. The ability to harness data-driven insights for decision-making is now a critical competitive advantage.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Artificial Inteligence Change 100

Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

How will relatively stodgy companies compete when customer demands shift to expectations of interesting new products and experiences that are more like consumer goods expectations than automotive industry product development cycles? There's a sports analogy that's applicable here.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Trends Disruption Industry 100

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This process is widely adopted by managers, executives, and consultants to drive new product development, service innovation, and business model refinement. At the core of design thinking lies a commitment to putting users’ experiences and feedback at the forefront of product and service design.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Design Thinking Design Ideation 113

Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Design thinking is a step above “customer development” because it takes a real human approach to getting to the root of an intrinsic problem. Many large organizations tend to stop after prototyping solutions that indicate desirability, and subsequently revert to traditional development methodologies. Competition is now global.

LEAN 105

LEAN Examples Agile Innovation 105

hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

The increasing competition for customers, market share, and talent in almost every industry demands an innovative approach to business. Not only is innovation necessary for enhancing competitive advantage, it is a requirement for businesses to thrive as well as survive. They adhere to lean principles of product development.

Company 77

Company LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 77

Innovation 360 Group

AUGUST 25, 2019

Acknowledging the need for pursuing deeper impact over a wider area, the Growkomp Regional Development Project was designed to develop the innovation capacities of 22 manufacturing companies in the Småland regionof Sweden over a two-year period. The EU funded-development project was launched in 2016 with 8.2

Case Study 51

Case Study Underperforming Technical Team Project Study 51

Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The first article discussed the pros and cons of different UX team structures. For companies that depend on user experience for business success, a strong internal team is essential. They can be fantastic partners who drive real change, but their needs are very different from a product team.

Design 79

Design Underperforming Technical Team Project Technical Review 79

Moves the Needle

JANUARY 22, 2016

In lean startup, before beginning to test solution ideas, one focuses on developing empathy through customer development interviews. Market Research and Product Silos vs. Cross-Functional Teams For starters, product and market research are usually two separate activities. They require two separate teams.

Marketing 58

Marketing Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Report 58

InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How can design thinking help with product development? This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. Prototype: In this step, the team creates a rough model of the solution to test and evaluate. What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies?

Design Thinking 74

Design Thinking Design Underperforming Technical Team Ideation 74

Innovation in Practice

MAY 23, 2016

For most companies, the top marketer, usually called the chief marketing officer, is part of the senior leadership team and sits on the executive committee or management board. If you let things slip in terms of your team’s skills and effectiveness, you’re going to lose that seat. Product development goes to R&D.

Underperforming Technical Team 49

Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Leadership Groups 49

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

She naturally joined Louis Zero’s team as Shake my Firm project manager and then took on the development of Louis Zero workshop as a whole. 2) You have developed a bespoke innovation approach: Spot, Play, Go. We run an identification workshop with the project team, to assess the objectives, constraints and KPI?s

Underperforming Technical Team 75

Underperforming Technical Team Training Design Project 75

Leanstack

MARCH 29, 2018

Even though, his savings ran out 6 months ago, he has hit a comfortable groove using freelance consulting to keep his product development going. Maybe now he can get the support of his developer friends who failed to see his vision earlier? Hire 3 developers. But for that I need more developers. deployment day.”

Underperforming Technical Team 89

Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Meeting Product Development 89

Adam Hartung

MARCH 30, 2016

He pushed the board to shut down expensive R&D and product development to improve short-term earnings. Many big investors say that activists are the only way shareholders can do anything about lousy management teams that fail to deliver, and Boards of Directors that let management be lazy and ineffective.

Underperforming Technical Team 36

Underperforming Technical Team Change Leadership Policies 36

InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Here are 10 essential questions to discuss with your team when pricing your latest innovation. Price is such an integral part of product design yet is often overlooked until an MVP has been fully formed and perhaps even road-tested. This will also inform your decisions on what features and functionality the new product should deliver.

Underperforming Technical Team 63

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Design Groups 63

Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development.

Groups 45

Groups Case Study Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 45

Adam Hartung

DECEMBER 13, 2015

From humble beginnings, DuPont became well known as a leader in Research & Development, a consistent leader in patent applications, and the inventor of products that proliferate in our lives from nylon to Teflon pans plastic bottles to Kevlar vests. And it is too bad the leadership wasn’t in place to save it.

Leadership 36

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Competition Product Development 36

CorporateIntel

APRIL 1, 2012

Innovation is always factored by the ticking click, who gets the jump and the competitive advantage, when a cost center becomes a profit center. I have often heard the mantra from development teams: “Better, Faster, Cheaper—we can give you any two and a half.” ” Believe me, I understand trade-offs.

Software Review 40

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software 40

Huub Rutten

MARCH 9, 2021

Business people: I mean the Sales teams and their leaders. It takes years to recover from a bad launch in my business. And I don’t think that my colleagues of Product Management and R&D understand really the impact of not sticking to delivery dates. It is a big pain for the company, and for me and my team”.

Innovation Management 52

Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 52

Huub Rutten

MARCH 9, 2021

Business people: I mean the Sales teams and their leaders. It takes years to recover from a bad launch in my business. And I don’t think that my colleagues of Product Management and R&D understand really the impact of not sticking to delivery dates. It is a big pain for the company, and for me and my team”.

Innovation Management 52

Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 52

Huub Rutten

MARCH 9, 2021

Business people: I mean the Sales teams and their leaders. It takes years to recover from a bad launch in my business. And I don’t think that my colleagues of Product Management and R&D understand really the impact of not sticking to delivery dates. It is a big pain for the company, and for me and my team”.

Innovation Management 52

Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 52

The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It is what will drive an enterprise’s creative engine that is the source of long-term, future growth Most of today’s large corporate enterprises treat strategy, R&D, and innovation as separate and distinct functions – worthy of specialized teams, segmented funding, reporting structures and operational charters. This is starting to change.

System 52

System Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 52

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

She naturally joined Louis Zero’s team as Shake my Firm project manager and then took on the development of Louis Zero workshop as a whole. 2) You have developed a bespoke innovation approach: Spot, Play, Go. We run an identification workshop with the project team, to assess the objectives, constraints and KPI?s

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Training Design Project 44

Mike Shipulski

AUGUST 3, 2016

For startup companies, when times are good, it’s the right time to try something new – the resources are there and so is the motivation; and when times are tough it’s also the right time to try something new – the motivation is there and breathing room is a sign of weakness. But this is not a binary world. But it’s more complicated, still.

Company 40

Company Underperforming Technical Team Resources Competition 40