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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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. Why is there so much failure in the front end of innovation? As much as any can be, these are good failures.

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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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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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Idea to Value

JANUARY 26, 2021

Originally developed by the strategy consultants at Monitor (now part of Deloitte) and made famous by a breakthrough article in Harvard Business Review by Geoff Tuff and Bansi Nagji, the Ambition Matrix is a tool which helps companies identify ways to execute their strategy around where to play and how to win.

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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. It also sets the stage for developing targeted innovation training programs that align with your strategic goals.

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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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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

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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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). Innovation Leader, Achievers and Underperformers, GII 2016. How did we get it?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Back then, unicorns by this definition were indeed as rare and magical as their mythical namesake. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput. Of course, not all friction is bad. Friction occurs when moving parts rub against each other.

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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. Assume Diverse Teams are Strong Teams In 30 years of research on innovation teams, a slight correlation was found between diversity and innovation team results.

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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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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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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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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 15, 2016

There's an innovation analogy today Currently, many innovation teams are shaping up a lot like Henry Ford's company. We've even got separate names for the different activities: "fuzzy front end" where ideas are generated, and "new product development, or NPD" for the activities where the ideas are converted into products.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

It starts by building a work culture that puts the employees first, one focused on the growth and development of the individuals in the team, and then, in turn, the success of the company. 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

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? I didn't catch the reference for that statistic, but it's definitely possible in the scientific community.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 6, 2017

She focused on just a handful of breakthrough innovators, going deeply into their development and lives. This deep dive presents some interesting data, but since the population of innovators is small and, to say the least a bit strange in its selection, I wonder if everything she reports is definitive. Suggestive but not definitive.

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Matthew May

MAY 22, 2015

There is good news and bad news in this. The bad news is how many internal functions don’t think strategy applies to them. ” Wake-up call to internal functions: you most definitely are not the only game in town. Sam realizes his team is all over the map, essentially firefighting without focused priorities.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 16, 2016

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. Good product management requires that we consider the maintenance and investment to sustain older products and contrast that with the effort to develop and launch new products.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

There are definitely technical skills and knowledge involved, but I believe the most important skill for a UX practitioner is empathy, not Photoshop or CSS or how to read heatmap reports–as handy as those skills are to have and despite what many of the recruitment agencies would have you believe.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 24, 2015

It's interesting to me how little we appreciate the depth of knowledge and discipline that has been developed over the years where innovation is concerned. Young probably wasn't the first to notice this concept, but was perhaps the first to detail the concept so definitively.

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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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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. Share tools, ideas.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 1, 2021

There are several ways in which you can develop authenticity for yourself and those around you. Here are multiple ways in which you might go about developing the life skill of authenticity: Become Self-aware. Reflecting and introspecting on your own weaknesses and strengths allows you to be more compassionate towards others.

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Cris Beswick

JUNE 22, 2023

At OUTCOME , we believe innovation is a system game, meaning it’s a team sport. The challenge is that many organisations have lost sight of the true definition of a team. 1] Let’s also differentiate between a department or group inside an organisation, as a group does not necessarily constitute a team.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 14, 2016

For Strategyzer they define a business tool through Alex Osterwalder’s definition: ’Business Tools’ are conceptual frameworks that are specifically designed to help business practitioners solve a concrete (and limited) business problem in a real-world context. Get the facts : Every tool has strengths and weaknesses.

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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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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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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. These enhancements assist teams in navigating complex problems with greater precision and speed. It encompasses five key stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 26, 2012

It’s not that design pattern libraries are bad, but that in a world of limited resources, it is it is not clear that the investment is worth it. Should your team invest time in making a pattern library as a training tool, or just change the way they work? Developers operate under time pressures and need a spec to code to. .

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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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Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 9, 2019

That meaningful work encompasses working with a strong team in addition to having your dream job and realization as a valued member of the company. It’s important to develop strong relationships with team members, project managers, senior management, vendors, clients, customers, direct reports and administrators.

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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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CMOE

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Once you know why and when workplace conflict occurs, its effects, and other vital information, you can learn how to help your teams go through it and find the rewards beyond it. There have been multiple studies over the years that have provided varying definitions of conflict. Figuring out which team members should take which tasks.

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