Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Innovation and change destroy complacent, unchanging business structures and models. Zara, H&M and others are disrupting the fashion industry through a focus on speed. Tesla is trying to disrupt automotive sales and distribution, attempting to sell directly to consumers rather than through dealers. Every time. Every where.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

From new medical devices to new banking products, to new consumer appliances and more, I've worked on a number of innovation projects in a wide range of industries. Over time, as innovation has matured somewhat, many innovation consultants began to reference Doblin's Ten Types model.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 28, 2019

Business model innovation is a fundamental restructuring of the beliefs that underlie existing ways that businesses create value. To a greater extent than product innovation, business model innovation forces rethinking of core beliefs about how businesses operate. Why Are Businesses Wary of Business Model Innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We are facing greater disruption and an increasing innovation pace. The prospect of new innovation potential will eventually work through into the world of Industry 4.0 Innovation is ready for those accelerating and being fully committed to their 4IR journey. Innovation is the unlocking mechanism.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 7, 2019

I wrote my obligatory look back at 2018 article on innovation recently, so it is natural that we should turn our attention to where innovation will take us in 2019. Or perhaps the stock was overvalued and Apple has become more interested in margin than in innovation. What do we know about the state of innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

It is equally holding a new form of innovation back, one that is highly collaborative where partners come together to work on more complex problems. There also continues today that industry disruption is increasing, by those spotting both opportunity and weakness in present market players.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Speed-to-market is a primary driver for innovation.?. Hill talked to the Harvard Business School publication Working Knowledge about embracing the digital transformation and creating an innovation management strategy based on “ecosystems” of innovation. How to Build Ecosystems as Part of an Innovation Strategy.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2019

Where possible, we also need to consider how an existing or future product - no matter how "smart" or dumb the product is - will create data or use data - and what the data will mean as part of the value proposition. What's all of this have to do with innovating? Where does each benefit?

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IdeaScale

MAY 28, 2019

Companies in every industry are accepting that complacency and failure to innovate are tantamount to negligence. Failing to innovate can cause even a large established business to lose ground to competitors that more fully embrace innovation. It requires more than just saying “Innovation is good.” Innovation Consultant.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The problem of scaling can confuse those innovating and can this be changed? You can follow their work over on innovation-3, where they help companies to set the Scaling-Up of a fully validated innovation concept up for success. The risk of being highly scaled is fast becoming a point of disruption for others.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

There is still a real reluctance that the supplier of innovation software solutions has to change. Secondly, if open innovation has gone way beyond a one to many relationships into a many to many then does the reliance on single entity software provision makes sense? They want to navigate the new world order of digital disruption.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

I was leading an innovation workshop recently with a company that invited in some of its customers to talk about the future. I was hired to lead a trend spotting and scenario planning workshop, but I had successfully convinced my client that we needed to establish a common framework and language about innovation first.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 7, 2018

Innovation has had a bigger brother moving into the house next door; Digital Technology and between them, they have been busily knocking the walls down, to share the future going forward. The reliance on deeper insights, more data, greater communications is changing the way we undertake innovation. A virtuous loop.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 22, 2017

As many of our business organizations seek to optimize their processes across the company, they are constantly reaching more outside to gain growing partnerships and greater innovation interactions. They are looking to complement and reinforce existing capabilities through more open innovation thinking and approaches.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 5, 2022

There's been a significant number of posts on LinkedIn and other social media about innovation lately, especially focused on the type of innovation that companies perform. The idea of diversification across the three horizons was the key point, not the amount of innovation in each horizon. First, it isn't gospel.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 4, 2025

Genius is often sparked by a single ideabut turning that idea into real innovation takes insight, action, and the right mindset. This article explores 12 thought-provoking innovation quotes, each revealing a key lesson in crowdsourcing, collaboration, idea management , or continuous innovation.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

While digital transformation focuses on integrating technology into all aspects of a business, digital innovation goes a step furtherits about creating entirely new value through technology. Companies that fail to innovate digitally risk being left behind as competitors leverage new tools, business models, and strategies to drive efficiency.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 10, 2017

So, after over a decade of innovation consulting, I can say without doubt that companies that are just starting to innovate have it much better than those that were attempting it years ago. That's because as more companies try more innovation, more tools are vetted, more methods explored and exposed.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 30, 2015

Take innovation for example. No matter where you turn companies and experts are creating all sorts of innovation dichotomies. Products or services? Incremental or disruptive? There's nothing wrong with incremental innovation. First, transformative or disruptive innovation is unpredictable.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

So many companies make so many claims about innovation, and yet so few are really, deeply engaged in innovation. In the next decade we'll say goodbye to some of the firms who are talking about innovation but aren't exercising the muscles. Disruption and market transformation will occur (will?

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

You simply must tip your hat to Geoffrey Moore and others who created the concept of the "whole product". I've written about this concept several times, and I raise it again because the underlying ideas are about to become really important in innovation circles. Whole Product (2.0) First, product innovation is almost passe.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

It is always welcome to read a thoughtful article that reminds me, no, it actually inspires me, by reinforcing my own belief that innovation is progressing, even if this is sometimes frustratingly slow. So the article “ Want to Win at Business Model Innovation? But this work is merely the table stakes for staying in the current game”.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 16, 2016

At this point in business evolution, every CEO understands the need for more innovation. After a decade of reading about it, getting pounded over the head with the Jobs/Apple story and watching new innovations disrupt entire industries, businesses are starting to react. Innovation does require creativity and expansive thinking.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 23, 2016

Accenture has recently published an innovation survey of 500 executives in the US. I'm particularly partial to portions of this survey because the authors identify a real and growing problem - the gap between what executives want from innovation, and the organization's ability to deliver. This isn't new.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 2, 2024

Blockbuster. GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You know the stories. Kodak developed a digital camera in the 1970s, but its images weren’t as good as film images, so it ended the project. Decades later, that decision ended Kodak. Blockbuster was given the chance to buy Netflix but declined due to its paltry library […]

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Finding opportunities for Innovation and Growth is hard work. I believe any design of workshops must meet your needs, to push the thinking and to generate new returns in innovation understanding. Which end of the innovation spectrum do we need to go? Find ones that are 100% focused on engaging with and accelerating innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 29, 2016

Of course any quote taken out of context can be used in any way I choose, but I like to think that Browning was writing about innovation. In my way of thinking, Browning was exhorting all of us to innovate in ways that stretched us beyond our capabilities and comfort zones. But that's what innovators do.

Innovation 100

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 11, 2019

I've had the good fortune over the last six weeks to reach out and talk to a significant number of my colleagues, friends and some new acquaintances in the innovation space. What I've been trying to find out is 1) what is happening in the innovation space currently and 2) what do people think the future opportunities for innovation are?

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

I've been thinking a lot lately about innovation in corporations, first, because that's what I've been doing for close to twenty years, and second, because I kept wondering when the switch would flip and we'd see more consistent innovation from large corporations on a continuing basis. Don't get me wrong. Here's where the issues start.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

It seems fitting that on the first day of a new month, early in a new year I'll pen what is my 1000th post on innovation. Looking at that number makes me think that innovation is either a vast topic or that I repeat myself quite frequently. Happily, I believe both alternatives are true, keeping with the both/and mantra of innovation.

Innovation 100

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Introduction to New Product Development In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and shifting consumer preferences, the ability to innovate and execute new product development (NPD) effectively is a cornerstone of business success. Your ability to innovate determines the sustainability and growth of your company.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

There's a real sense that we in the corporate world are standing on the brink of an amazing transition, moving from relatively older, static models of competition based on corporate size and mass, to new competitive realities dictated by speed, agility and innovation. This is both the promise and the danger of business model innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 15, 2017

It seems strange to me, after working for over 12 years in innovation, that so many people can view the same set of circumstances and opportunities in so many different ways. Our economy is awash in innovation opportunities, and the opportunities are growing and expanding.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 23, 2023

What do you think about when you hear the word innovation ? For many people, it evokes brands that created something so new that it changed the way we interact with certain products or services forever: Uber. First Things First: What is Incremental Innovation? Let’s get started. Take Microsoft’s operating system Windows.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 15, 2016

Henry Ford is perhaps one of the most well-known innovators in the US. After all, it was his mass production line that helped people make the shift from horses or high cost / low quality automobiles to a reliable, affordable car - the Model T. Ford was a synthesizer and a manufacturing innovator.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2015

The realization that innovation goes way beyond product innovation is a massive hurdle for many of our existing organizations to overcome, certainly in what they are offering today as solutions. Producers of innovation need to transition radically into a different innovation delivery & design structure.

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