Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

There's an old joke about perspective and laziness I love and have used before on this blog, because it illustrates many of the challenges (and opportunities) of corporate innovation. The joke goes that a young man steps out of a bar, and spies another person, obviously drunk, peering intently at the sidewalk under a street lamp. Curious, the guy just leaving the bar goes over to the drunk and asks "what are you doing?

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Innovation needs to create value, both short-term and progressively over time. It fuels the growth and fires the imagination. Yet our innovation activities are constantly coming up short for the leaders within our organizations, who continue to remain disappointed in its final outcome to stimulate and drive the growth they want to see. It is actually the classic “chicken and egg”.

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Braden Kelley

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Recently I was identified in a mini research study as one of the top Key Opinion Leaders in change management on Twitter by Maven7, and they were curious about some of my opinions about organizational change, and asked me these … Continue reading →

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Exago

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

‘If you want to improve a process, enhance customer experience or create and perfect a product or service, the solution likely lies within your organisation.’ So, ‘Instead of using substitute brains, why not harness this collective intelligence to solve business. Read More. The post Sitting on untapped potential – Exago’s director in ‘Switched on Leadership’ appeared first on www.exago.com.

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HYPE Innovation

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Talk and action often exist in different universes. That's one reason why disruptive innovation sometimes appears to arrive out of nowhere. Plenty of organizations talk a good game about innovation, and meanwhile those who actually are innovative are busy changing the world.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In the aftermath of a terrible tragedy, or an act of malice, we are called upon to remain strong. We take it upon ourselves to stand together and to remember what gives us strength and unity. This is what the people of Paris, the people of France and all of us citizens of the world are doing now-remembering what gives us fortitude. On Friday night when the horrific news broke, the first thing I did was reach out to family in France and friends in Paris to be sure that they were safe.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

I have been really struggling in the past few weeks. Partly a niggling health issue finally got resolved with a ‘delightful’ week in hospital, a couple of operations later, with a reasonably speedy recovery now thankfully under way. 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.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Report Management 179

Braden Kelley

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

When I first wrote about Building a Global Sensing Network I wrote in the specific context of the war for innovation and the need to make sure you’re fighting it outside your organization — not inside.

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Exago

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

As part of our eight-year anniversary celebrations, we’ve decided to give an amazing gift: one free idea management programme (software and services) for a whole year, starting January 2016. Could it be you? The winner will be able to: Use. Read More. The post It’s our anniversary, but you’re the one getting the gift! appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Matthew May

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

It came together fast. Perhaps too fast. The proposal and contract for a new book, that is. It took all of a couple weeks to go from a 1-page concept to signed contract. Most authors would rejoice at that kind of speed, and indeed I did. The problem was that under ordinary circumstances, the publisher would take a year to get the book out. Crazy, right?

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Speaker: John Mansour

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In the aftermath of a terrible tragedy, or an act of malice, we are called upon to remain strong. We take it upon ourselves to stand together and to remember what gives us strength and unity. This is what the people of Paris, the people of France and all of us citizens of the world are doing now-remembering what gives us fortitude. On Friday night when the horrific news broke, the first thing I did was reach out to family in France and friends in Paris to be sure that they were safe.

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Destination Innovation

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Phil Libin. I heard Phil Libin speak at the FT Innovate conference in London. He was a founder of Evernote and now works as a partner at General Catalyst who manage venture capital funds. He explained that when we compare different opportunities there is a natural inclination to select the least bad. This is because the primeval part of the brain is programmed to assess risk and to value the reduction of threat above opportunity.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Exploiting and exploring are two terms my good friend Paul Hobcraft uses to delineate the activities most corporations SHOULD be conducting every day. Exploiting existing models, processes, markets and frameworks to obtain all of the available revenue and profit possible. This concept of exploiting existing models and existing reality is something that today's corporation is relatively good at doing, if not completely optimized to do.

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Braden Kelley

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

In my last article and the first free download from the Change Planning Toolkit™ on The Five Keys to Successful Change™ we looked at the five different disciplines that must come together to make any organizational change effort (or even … Continue reading →

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Exago

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Liberty Seguros Portugal, awarded several times for being ‘a great place to work’ and promoting ‘excellence at work’, wants to take its employees’ creativity and engagement to a new level. The insurance company has set in motion the ‘People@Liberty’ programme, Read More. The post The challenge is on: ‘People@Liberty’ launched on Innovation Open Day appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Do we know what are the dependencies and commentaries are for building and sustaining innovation success? How do you sustain innovation, is it more through the structuring of everyday work, by creating a particular set of social rules and resources that foster specific routines? We work really hard at maintaining these but often we end up with simply incremental innovation that might just ‘nudge’ the growth needle but does little more than sustain us in the present.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

From start-ups to banks, design has never been more central to business. Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. Why is that fabled “seat at the table” so hard to find, and how can designers get a chair? Designers yearn for a world where companies depend on their ideas but usually work in a world where design is just one voice.

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Digital Tonto

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

We can no longer think of success in terms of clawing our way to the top of the heap. Rather, we need to learn to nudge ourselves to the center of networks. Related posts: 4 Reasons Microsoft is. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Learning Technology Management Innovation 82

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

For years people have debated the reasons why some companies innovate and others don't. To some extent, the business models and corporate strategies dictate where and how much innovation is done. For example, when I worked at Texas Instruments, the strategy was to drive costs out of products that other firms created. No one knew better how to drive the costs out of the manufacturing process for DRAM than TI.

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Braden Kelley

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Consulting firms sell expertise, and their currency is trust. Large consultancies like Boston Consulting Group, Bain, McKinsey, Deloitte, Accenture and others make their money from being a trusted advisor to companies around the world. Why do companies trust them?

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Exago

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

We just cannot understand the evolution of idea management metrics without understanding first the evolution of innovation in the corporate world. What was considered an 'innovation' in the 50s, in the 70s? And how did we gauge its results? The post How innovation has become everyone’s job appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Open Innovation EU

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Over a week ago, I gave a TED talk about the role of simulation games in higher education and how they could disrupt the education system as we know it. Below, you’ll find the video, the slides I used and the full transcript of the text. Are you interested in helping me to make this game ready to enroll in a couple of years? 7 Billion Universities | Jan Spruijt | TEDxVenlo.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The majority of our work at Google has involved conducting user research with small business owners: the small guys that are typically defined by governmental organizations as having 100 or fewer employees, and that make up the majority of businesses worldwide. Given the many hurdles small businesses face, designing tools and services to help them succeed has been an immensely rewarding experience.

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Digital Tonto

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Instead of carnival barkers, we must begin to think like concierges, helping and assisting customers as we collect data in real time. Related posts: Marketers Need To Rethink The Customer Decision. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Lately I've worked with or encountered a number of corporate clients who are trying desperately to innovate. Their executives and management teams recognize the importance of innovation, and even include innovation as top three priorities or as a component of the annual strategy. What's worse, unlike in the past, executives are starting to demand action on innovation, rather than simply use it as a speaking point or throw-away line.

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Innovation Agile Disruption Product Development 173

Matthew May

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

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Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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Xplaner

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

A new kind of company is emerging. A kind of company that is more innovative, leaner and faster. Companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook, who seem to be able to operate at massive scale and still maintain the agility of a startup. Fascinated by these fast-moving, agile organizations, I spent several years researching how they operate. I wrote a book that summarized what I found, called The Connected Company.

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Open Innovation EU

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I recently ran into an article (Walrave et al 2011) that analyzed a simulation of investing in exploration vs. exploitation. The decision to invest in (mainly short-term oriented) exploitation or to invest in (mainly long-term oriented) exploration is one of the key concepts of management and often referred to as ambidexterity. Model of Exploration vs.

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Corporate Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

I first met Steve Blank when he started his enterprise software company Epiphany. Steve has spent 21 years as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur in eight startups and the last 13 years as an educator – currently teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and NYU. Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship.

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Digital Tonto

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Most organizations are highly efficient at specific tasks, but often fail when presented with a problem they weren’t designed for. Related posts: Why We Need To Change The Software In Our. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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