Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 12, 2019

Today, I'd like to write about sponsorship, and why it is critical to have engaged sponsors for ideas and for innovation. This idea is important enough that I took the extra 30 seconds and looked up the definition of sponsor. I think this is as close as we can get to what an innovation or idea sponsor is.

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ITONICS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A well-defined innovation process is crucial for companies to maintain competitiveness and achieve sustainable growth. While the specifics may vary across industries, the best innovation operating models share common characteristics: they are structured, repeatable, and fit the conditions.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2021

In reality, design thinking is a process that overlaps with traditional innovation in many different ways, making it extremely useful for innovative ideation. In this article, we’ll discuss design thinking and the impact that using it can have on the innovative process. Design Thinking and Innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

I've been writing, speaking and consulting about innovation for over 15 years, and I'm constantly amazed by the different perspectives and definitions about innovation. This is because there is little management engagement or support, a lack of preparation and skills, and a narrow definition of discovery and risk.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 15, 2017

What rationale do innovators have to work on interesting or disruptive ideas if they have no stake in the outcome? We ask them to take risks through the innovation process for a small reward or some recognition if the idea succeeds, and the potential they might lose their job if the innovation fails.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 11, 2021

It's actually not possible to write a short post about innovation, much less the conditions necessary for innovation to succeed, but I've tried to simplify this into nine critical factors for success. With those basics in mind, you can do a lot of good innovation. And, the work isn't free and requires air cover.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 28, 2018

Jeffrey and I believed, even more so today , that the innovation space needs a common starting point – a collaborative reference model. As I said, on my recent re-visit it seems to stand a test of time and forms a fundamental bedrock of collaborative innovation in all its different dimensions and guises.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Innovation is one of those activities that constantly “swim against the currents of the dominating culture of the organization” We cripple our creative process as it is often not visible or transparent; the innovative process can be seen as a “black box” by many in the organization; they only can judge the end result.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

At some moments in my career I've blamed this phenomenon on lack of breadth - the idea that too many companies shrink innovation activities down to idea generation and rapid evaluation. I'm talking about the depth of commitment of the organization, so that innovation isn't a flavor of the month.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 22, 2017

We need to exploit it and extract what it can offer to enhance all the work we do in innovation. We need to appreciate always its terms, its definitions (and limitations) and the related performance values that can help to improve our performance and in our achievements of working increasingly with others.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Companies that have a rapid pace of innovation, by definition, have both of these covered. By eliminating any unnecessary barriers and friction in decision-making, development, and innovation processes, you can achieve extremely high speed and still fulfil all of those qualitative requirements for your products and services.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 29, 2019

What is the Agile Innovation Process, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? This process can be transformative to businesses across various industries, especially in the realm of software development and manufacturing. By Upboard. Today, everyone wants to be agile.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 23, 2018

By definition, nonprofits must be very innovative as the goals they pursue regularly change, and the organization is forced to keep moving. A vast number of stakeholders, the complexity of operations, and levels of social engagement (voluntary work and donors), all pose challenges towards the implementation of ideas.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 29, 2016

Rather than attempt to fully explore the innovation possibilities, managers first attempt to get a handle on what they believe innovation is, and how it should be conducted, managed and governed. Large corporations cannot survive with wild hare ideas sprouting everywhere and little definitive structure or guidance.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 27, 2016

Perhaps one of the biggest challenges innovators face is the lack of shared conventions or definitions. This starts with the definition of innovation, which we all agree is important but no two people agree on the definition. Let's not stop with the emergence of explore and exploit.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Demonstrate that innovation depends on finding the most innovative people, who by definition are rarely the more efficient people. Innovative people wonder why we aren't doing better or something new, or why we are sticking with these products long after they've been superseded in the marketplace.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 20, 2024

The Key Components of an Innovation Framework An effective framework is built on several key components that work together to ensure a systematic and successful approach to innovation. These components provide the structure needed to guide the entire innovation process , from idea generation to implementation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2022

The extract offers much for any innovation pathway we might be considering. The Innovation Pathway. ” Innovation fits with a designer’s definition of design: the ability to move from the existing to the preferred. Innovation is the path by which we seek the future we prefer.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

If the company isn't all that good at innovation, and what they delay for a few quarters is only incremental innovation that does not radically change the product portfolio, then I think it's reasonable to suggest that delaying isn't all that risky. What work can be done to improve innovation and shorten time to market?

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Business banter talks a lot about “the process for innovation,” which is usually referenced in the singular and stated definitively, leaving most business leaders scratching their heads. It makes us think that there is one correct process, the secret sauce that top companies have and follow. Continue reading →

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Innovation “fights” to attract resources, gain management attention or understand its difficulties in the time it takes, its potential risks and its need for a more ambitious and bold commitment of support. Often innovation activity frustrates senior management.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In order to accelerate the pace of innovation and increase the amount of innovation that's done, we need to simplify it, or at least remove some of the uncertainty. To do that I'm going to argue in this relatively short post that innovation has three important deliverables: problem definition, ideas and solutions.

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IdeaScale

MAY 31, 2017

Even in their first case study with IdeaScale, the Department of Labor outlined a repeatable seven step process which they have used for numerous citizen engagement campaigns: 1. Process Definition. Articulating the Challenge. Build the Team. Stimulate the Dialogue. Data Analysis. Implementation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 4, 2015

This shouldn't be surprising, since incremental innovation is more predictable and less costly. Still poorly defined We also asked you about the definition of the "front end" of innovation. There is still a lot of opportunity to define and improve front end skills and methods.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 11, 2019

The English term inbound open innovation refers to a type of innovation that happens when a company appropriates an innovative idea created by other entities, so that it can be transformed through its own innovation process, in order to generate value for itself. Open innovation benefits.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I've written previously about having a bias for innovation in your culture , seeking and finding important and unmet needs or opportunities , and introducing discovery and exploration in your innovation process. Agile, lean and rapid methodologies meant to accelerate the innovation cycle?

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

So many organizations set out to innovate, but lose their way close to the finish line. All of the time, money, and energy invested loom over them like an ominous shadow of failure ready to overtake the whole scene. What happened? There was so much momentum, good will, collaboration, and then—the painful, public crash into the wall.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 15, 2016

Here lies the rub: Just like Henry Ford, most corporations have perfected the innovation process, as long as it's a product. Beyond New Product Development (NPD) teams I was thinking about this issue recently when talking to a client about their innovation process.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 24, 2022

.” Recently in Stanford Social Innovation Review, an article on the “ Adoption of Innovation ” by Benjamin Kumpf & Emma Proud is well worth the read as adopting any innovation process is a tough, slow one. Each of these needs a definitive engagement process by the business platform provider.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 29, 2015

Also embedded in this idea is the concept that people must be trained on innovation tools and processes. A definition of innovation. What is innovation for your company? Without these shared definitions, people will define their own scope and outcomes, and will usually revert to conservative definitions.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Here are some common approaches to this problem: Look for Creative Employees Creativity is most definitely a component of innovation, but only one component. It turns out there are seven other skills that drive innovation business results.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 12, 2018

Many of you reading this have created or operated innovation or insights programs for organizations of a variety of sizes, or are curious about how to go about it. Operating an innovation program or leading an insights group is definitely much different than creating one. In some ways it is easier, because things are already.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

When you do not have a clear definition of design thinking of where and how it can actually fit, how it works or means, it continuously suffers from a lack of clear assignment, it makes it feel a little bit of an oddball. You might like the idea but will the boss?

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 25, 2021

So, for the first 3/4ths of the book, the text and what it says seems a rehash or a repeat of many innovation books, full of vignettes with senior leadership, with the introduction of new frameworks and some new insights. Then, in Chapter Ten, Bensauo introduces the BTI seven step innovating process, built on work from INSEAD.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 14, 2015

In 1998, when I was running the strategy group at HP, we invited Clayton Christensen , the iconic Harvard professor who wrote The Innovator’s Dilemma and coined the term “disruptive innovation,” to come speak to us. We asked him a simple question, “How do you do disruptive innovation?”. He shared compelling examples.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 10, 2021

In the innovation process, this really comes down to trying to find better ways of accomplishing this JTBD, rather than focusing on the product itself. This book by Jim Kalbach is one of the definite guides to using these theories in your own innovation projects and workflows.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 13, 2021

The second worst thing you can to is to start an innovation activity without understanding customer wants and needs, or what emerging trends or markets are about to unfold. If you have a good problem or opportunity definition and are reasonably confident of customer wants and needs, your ability to "go fast" is greatly enhanced.

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