Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 31, 2015

I had the opportunity to speak to a leadership team that is considering building an innovation capability in their business. The answer that I think most leadership teams want is: good ideas. After all, it's easier to explain away the lack of innovation if you can say that most teams lack good ideas.

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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.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

A culture that is adaptable, innovative, and collaborative can better withstand market fluctuations and respond to challenges swiftly and effectively. 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.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 26, 2021

”, which relate to which customer groups and markets you are trying to sell to. Transformational: Breakthrough innovations for markets that don’t yet exist in the business (or even the world). Is this project trying to develop a business model which is completely new to our organisation?

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Understanding Innovation Culture Assessment Definition and Importance of Innovation Culture Innovation culture refers to an environment that encourages creative thinking and the advancement of new ideas. This type of culture is essential for businesses aiming to stay competitive and relevant in today’s fast-paced market.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 13, 2021

And, most executives operate and are judged on very short time periods - quarters at best - so to have an impact, ideas must get to market and prove their value quickly. 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.

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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.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

When you get evaluated in 90 day increments by the stock market, cutting or controlling costs is always an easier decision than investing in innovation. 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? But we are asking the wrong question.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

–based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Back then, unicorns by this definition were indeed as rare and magical as their mythical namesake. Of course, not all friction is bad. Drag is the resistance of air against a moving object.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The total weightings of the various indexes which then result in a net rank for each country compared to each other country, allowing the GII team to say which country achieves the overall highest Innovation Efficiency Ratio ranking (it’s Switzerland). Market Sophistication. Institutions. Human Capital and Research.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 24, 2020

How to Lean in To Empower Your Team. Empowerment is not about taking your hands off to let employees sink or swim, it is an active process that involves teaching and coaching team members to be adaptive, to self-serve, to make decisions and to make them right without needing instructions or rubber stamp approvals.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

But no sooner had business begun to slowly recover from the pandemic than the job market began to experience an unprecedented evolution: the Great Resignation. Safety is the new watchword in the corporate circle, and it is becoming increasingly expanded in its definition and inclusion of workplace concepts.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 16, 2016

It requires divergent thinking and exploration, the willingness to explore customer needs and market trends. The definitions I've just provided also align to what many of us know as the "three horizons" model - the idea that innovations can have different impacts. The question is: why don't innovation teams do the same thing?

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Matthew May

MAY 22, 2015

A significant portion of my strategic facilitation work is with internal functions, a click or two below corporate and business unit strategy: marketing, human resources, purchasing, and even internal strategy groups. There is good news and bad news in this. You MUST have customers other than yourselves. Automation? Disintegration?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 12, 2024

Definition of Emotional Intelligence Emotional intelligence refers to the capability to recognize and understand personal emotions and the emotions of others. Leaders with high emotional intelligence can inspire trust, motivate their team, and foster a positive work environment, thereby enhancing overall organizational performance.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With AI’s predictive analytics, machine learning algorithms, and natural language processing, leaders and innovators are unlocking new potentials in understanding user needs and market trends. These enhancements assist teams in navigating complex problems with greater precision and speed.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 18, 2016

I find that I've become increasingly irritated with all of the narrow interpretations and self-serving definitions of what is, or isn't, innovation. What research or background has been developed? Groups are often poor decision makers where information is less than perfect. Everyone knows this.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 14, 2016

The problem we are having, many of the traditional tools, many still taught in most management schools are lagging the changing market we are operating in. Shared language : tools align teams around a visual concept, making complex ideas clearer with an image. Get the facts : Every tool has strengths and weaknesses.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Lean Innovation Definition At Moves The Needle, we define lean innovation as “reducing waste in the discovery, creation, and delivering of new value to customers." Methods are needed that focus on the customer experience, allow us to adapt to new information, and help us make decisions based on market-based evidence.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Definitely. . Developers own the code, business owns the proposition, yet design is considered a “service.” One team I’ve worked with helps bridge this gap on strategic projects by maintaining an “experience roadmap.” The team also keeps the design vision up to date, updating it as they learn from customers.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 28, 2017

The importance of fostering beliefs and behaviors that encourage innovation within your team and organization cannot be overstated. A few of the early steps in playing the role of culture creator as a change agent include: Clarify your definition and expectations regarding innovation for your team. Make a contribution every day.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 29, 2015

In the previous article we talked about why site optimization is important and presented a few important goals and philosophies to impart on your team. We created the following minimum completion criteria for my past team at DIRECTV Latin America. I’d like to switch gears now and talk about more tactical stuff, namely, process.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

Research confirms: development of exploration in parallel to exploitation capabilities proves to be mandatory for established companies in order to compete successfully and sustainably. One way for established organizations to strengthen exploration is by developing internal capabilities in order to overcome their inherent inertia.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

By growing large you can distribute costs more effectively, serve more customers from the same basic set of products, scale revenues and introduce efficiencies and command market power and dominate sales channels. In a market where size matters, only a few players dominate and the rest compete for the leftovers.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

The Marketing Stakeholder Interview. Marketing stakeholders. Marketing stakeholders (such as marketing executives and most product managers) are usually responsible for promoting the company’s brand, identifying new market opportunities and products that could address them, or both. The Sales Stakeholder Interview.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 13, 2015

Web site optimization, commonly known as A/B testing, has become an expected competency among many web teams, yet there are few comprehensive and unbiased books, articles, or training opportunities aimed at individuals trying to create this capability within their organization. Let’s get started! A/B vs. multivariate.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 26, 2010

Richard Dalton and Rob Weening discuss two solutions they’ve developed at Vanguard to address this question. Sometimes it’s poor methods, poor team members, or the market. But more often, projects fail from poor decisions inside client organizations.

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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. But how do you get there from here?

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Rmukesh Gupta

APRIL 10, 2019

Suppose that the organisation has a history of not being able to come up with breakthrough innovations, cant suddenly develop them. Converting Strategy to behaviour: If the strategy development process results in a 10 slide powerpoint to explain the strategy, we can be sure that the execution of that strategy is going to be challenging.

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Integrative Innovation

MARCH 16, 2014

development of existing business) and exploration (i.e. In fact the people a large firm needs for this kind of innovation looks suspiciously like startup founders and the processes needed look like Customer Development [and Lean Startup]. Teaming up with small firms or startups.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 14, 2023

Through this process, senior management can lead innovation, implement strategy, and empower their teams to create new sources of growth. At the same time, decisions made in the absence of fact-based evidence can result in poor outcomes. These are just a few examples of what poor decisions can lead to. it didn't sell.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

After studying innovation among 759 companies based in 17 major markets, Gerard J. In a more up-to-date sense, this balance also comprises collaborating with external partners, e.g. teaming up between multinational corporations and startups or small companies. Open doors and listen vs. Be loyal to your team. Tellis, Jaideep C.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 23, 2022

As someone who is familiar with marketing tactics, I don’t usually fall for this stuff, and sure enough I didn’t — at first. Not exactly, but it definitely stands out in the world of whiskey. The focus on sustainable development is stronger than ever, especially since everyone has a stake in the future.

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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

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Marketing tends to have their own way of talking about innovation. It truly doesn’t matter which definition you land on. The desired outcomes are more important than the definition. Is it expansion of market share? Startups are often considered to be de facto innovators, but is that the case? All of the above?

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

The Key to Effective Value Proposition Development. If you have an immediate problem to solve, we’ve found that bringing a cross-functional team together to tackle the problem head-on yields positive results fast. Problem Definition. This step is typically easier if you’ve developed a solution for a problem.

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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. By then, they would have cornered the entire market!”

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