Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 19, 2016

A good movie, The Big Short, noted that this same philosophy, mixing up a number of bad loans into a new package, is what caused the sub-prime lending disaster. This concept of a basket of weak or bad ideas is not practiced just in Hollywood, however. Did Apple runs its innovation course when Jobs left the scene?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the landscape of leadership development. Benefits of Integrating AI into Leadership Programs AI can revolutionize leadership development programs by providing personalized, data-driven insights. Efficiency : Automated processes can save time and streamline scheduling, administrative tasks.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

And companies regularly boast about how they are spending millions (and sometimes billions) of dollars into research & development to come up with innovative new offerings. Delivery: A team of people who have the ability to take rough ideas and develop them into a customer-facing innovation.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Have you ever watched a TV Show or movie where a Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) or international spy team pull up a blurry image on a monitor (like from a satellite photo), the Team Lead says something like “Enhance it!”, Yes, it was pure Hollywood ridiculousness. Yes, it was pure Hollywood ridiculousness.

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CMOE

JUNE 21, 2021

The good news is, there are development opportunities for supervisors that can help you succeed in your role. With the right tools and resources by your side, you will feel more confident in driving your team forward. Supervisors are the linchpin that keeps team members—key contributors of an organization—on track.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 12, 2024

Components of Emotional Intelligence Emotional intelligence is generally broken down into four or five core components, each playing a distinct role in leadership development: Self-Awareness: The ability to recognize and understand one’s own emotions and how they affect thoughts and behavior.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 16, 2021

At the time we were looking to raise capital (between 2011 and 2013), businesses with women on the executive team received only 7 percent of the venture funding. Of course, I can’t speak for all women, but I can share that the perceived lack of credibility often contributed to my own self-doubt and lack of confidence.

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Technical Review Technology Management Underperforming Technical Team 246

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. Of course, not all businesses go the accelerator route.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 2, 2022

This requires you actually spending the time figuring out what customers would find valuable enough to pay for, and then execute and develop, test and launch that. They make it incredibly easy and fast to develop pages specifically designed to convince someone to give you their email address, or even high-converting sales pages.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements. Innovation as a project Of course, almost all innovation is a project - starting with a specific need or desire to create a new product or service, or to generate new revenues or gain new market share.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Whitepaper called “ Product Complexity, Digital Transformation, and the Innovation Imperative- The race to reinvent how complex products are developed is here “ This made me a little jealous and a little wishing that ‘we’, across the whole of innovation management , could not have one of these platforms available today.

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Product Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Innovation 221

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.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It encompasses the leader’s capacity to navigate social complexities, remain calm under pressure, and inspire and motivate teams through understanding and empathy. Empathetic leaders can foster loyalty and trust within their teams, leading to improved morale and reduced turnover.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In a sense, innovation requires you to go back to the drawing board, but that’s not a bad thing. You start by considering the problem to be solved (development of a new process, implementation of new technology, a new way of responding to customers, etc.) Understand the Stages of Innovation. from a fresh perspective.

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How To Underperforming Technical Team Software Innovation 190

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

For strategies on leading this change, delve into lead culture change for greater innovation & business growth and develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change. This involves identifying the existing cultural strengths that can be harnessed and weaknesses that may need to be addressed.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Thus, the more that workers bump into each other and have conversations, the better the chances of developing and advancing more and better ideas. There’s a limit to this concept, of course. Office design matters for innovation. . Similarly, your workers need certain things to thrive. You want your employees to bloom, don’t you?

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Design Creativity Underperforming Technical Team Survey 189

CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Understanding the 3 As of Strategic Thinking Every leader and team member desires the ability to think strategically; however, the process of building your own strategic thinking skills can be difficult, as can encouraging strategic thinking in your team members. Do I (we) understand our companys current strengths and weaknesses?

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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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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Mentors see themselves as people developers. A manager would work with them to develop the business case. When is it time to stick to an idea, and when is it time to listen to others and change course? When is it time for individual vision and when is it essential to collaborate and build a strong team with a shared vision?

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Handbook Project 189

CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Positive Effects of Strategic Thinking: Operational Benefits for Your Business Effective leaders use strategic thinking to approach team building and operational action. Companies that develop comprehensive growth strategies are 97 percent more likely to achieve above-peer profitability.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The Role of Leadership in Strategy Development Leadership is at the heart of strategy development. This involves not only setting the path but also empowering your team to contribute their ideas and insights to the strategy. It’s about making informed choices and encouraging your team to think beyond the day-to-day tasks.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Strategy Technical Review 100

Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

I'm actually more interested in the 90+% of ideas that never make it to product development. Failure - the good, the bad and the ugly Let's first admit that some failure is necessary. This is the bad side of failure. Your goal is to have the appropriate amount of good failure (early) and reduce or eliminate bad failure (late).

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success Importance of Leadership Team Offsites Leadership team offsites play a pivotal role in shaping the future of an organization. By stepping away from daily operations, you and your team can focus on long-term goals, engage in deep discussions, and forge stronger bonds.

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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.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 13, 2021

When to go slow Finally, no matter how fast you want to go with innovation, no matter how much you are willing to train the team or build the process, you should ALWAYS go slow at the beginning of an innovation activity. Your team or project is exceptionally likely to fail. You cannot speed up what does not exist.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Tools Training 129

Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 17, 2021

I'm a fan of military history, and it is always striking to me to see how much new product development and innovation can learn from the military and vice versa. Too often, executives and military leaders don't want to hear the "bad news" and that leads them to double down on poor strategies. Communicate. Be a bit humble.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Disruption Training 111

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 1, 2016

As the only designer on my team, I tend to design on an island. I’m outnumbered by sales reps, account managers, and overseas developers. Besides my manager, there aren’t team members I can easily turn to for feedback and guidance. As a solo designer, my role is to teach my team about design.

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Design Innovation Management Underperforming Technical Team Management 113

Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

I bet the post title got your attention, but of course in this modern age of digital content we bloggers need headlines that pop through all of the noise and gain attention. It helps, of course, that I'm of the opinion that the headline is provocative, and has, as Kissenger once said, the added benefit of being true.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Product Development Exercises 100

IdeaScale

APRIL 7, 2021

If a company developed a way of doing things in 2015, then it was likely the ideal one at the time. Technology improves; companies grow and tap into new resources; new people are hired and incorporated into the team; the standard of innovation and best practices for entire industries can shift dramatically.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 20, 2017

“What do we do if a bad idea is gaining support?”. In these two blog posts, we will discuss five best practices for setting a course for idea implementation and managing expectations along the way: Engage experts and stakeholders in the process from start to finish.

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Innovation Management Management Crowdsourcing Underperforming Technical Team 150

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput. It’s a common cause of slow adoption speed, poor customer experience, retention/renewal difficulty (aka “churn”), and undelivered customer outcomes. Of course, not all friction is bad.

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 130

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

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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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Creativity Agile 128

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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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

But we shouldn’t judge poor Charles too harshly, after all, we are all guilty of similar cognitive bias on a daily basis. Of course, we’ve developed new materials and designs, but the mechanical structure has remained the same – until now. Remarkably, the wheel hasn’t changed much in the time since then.

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Course Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Design 53

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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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Product Development Innovation Processes 135

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The plan of course was for me to really use this confinement period as one of those opportunities to catch up on an awful lot of reading around innovation, planning out some areas to focus upon in the coming months and year ahead. Blood pressure pills came in handy here also. Risk and innovation has frustrated me in this recent period.

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