Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

It could be too early or too late in the market window, or it could simply have the wrong pricing or distribution. A new product may lack key features or components, or like some successful products take years to build an audience. I'm actually more interested in the 90+% of ideas that never make it to product development.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

When should it be used: Any organisation that wants to enable their staff who have an idea to “try it out” or do an initial market experiment. Put simply, it theorises that small companies can disrupt the market of large companies by releasing a new version of an offering which appeals more to a subset of the customers.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

We teach trend spotting and scenario planning to our customers to help them understand the importance of recognizing emerging needs and emerging segments, because the great ideas they generate won't become products or services very quickly. And then I ask them to tell me their firm's average product development process timeframe.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 17, 2021

I'm a fan of military history, and it is always striking to me to see how much new product development and innovation can learn from the military and vice versa. Too often, executives and military leaders don't want to hear the "bad news" and that leads them to double down on poor strategies. Communicate.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 24, 2018

Product development cycle times are now longer than shelf lives. You simply cannot crank enough efficiency in the development, launch and marketing phases to win back enough revenue to account for a poorly constructed exploration phase. Instead you must shift people, resources and focus to the exploration phase.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 10, 2021

What we've been told to do is to build a product or service based on our capabilities and convince people that they need it. Well, when it was difficult to compare products and services, and when people had less information, it was easier to market a product that didn't fit, or only partially fit, a consumer need.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 13, 2018

In these early stages of product development, it can sometimes seem like all of the good ideas have already been taken. When you apply this train of thought to innovation, it becomes apparent that some of the most successful products and services in human history were developed by recycling existing ideas.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

As a Business Planning Manager or Strategy Manager, understanding the role of AI and its potential benefits is essential to maintain a competitive edge in today’s market. AI tools can assist in various strategic facets, such as market research, operational efficiency, and customer engagement.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 22, 2016

Market research often falls short when it comes to innovation. Here’s why: Modern market research methods, like Lean Startup, do a great job of focusing on customer-centric discovery. In lean startup, before beginning to test solution ideas, one focuses on developing empathy through customer development interviews.

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Traditional health benefits administrators have bad networks. Many software development companies have what’s called distributed teams, which means people working around the globe on products. What types of benefits and rewards are employees seeking today? How do you achieve effective collaboration across time zones?

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 23, 2023

Additionally, fractional CxOs are often more flexible in terms of their availability and can be brought on for specific projects or initiatives as needed, giving portfolio companies the ability to scale their executive team as their business grows. This could include areas such as sales and marketing, product development, or human resources.

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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. 4.3.3 – Domestic market scale, bn PPP$.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The integration of AI technologies has led to the emergence of new business models and has disrupted established market dynamics. This impact is evident across various facets of business, from operational efficiency and customer experience to product development and market analysis.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Here’s why adaptation is crucial: Sustained Relevance: Staying in tune with market changes ensures that your business remains relevant to your customers’ evolving needs. Competitive Advantage: By embracing innovation, you can differentiate your business from competitors and potentially capture a larger market share.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 23, 2015

Nine out of ten companies believe that they are too slow to market with new products. In the consumer goods category around 80% of new products fail. These are some of the reasons why senior corporate executives are increasingly turning to separate innovation labs to spearhead their new product development.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 1, 2024

When markets shift and new technologies emerge, having a strategic blueprint becomes crucial for businesses aiming to thrive. But what exactly is an innovation strategy, and how can it be developed and implemented effectively? Think of an innovation strategy as a gameplan for a sports team. What is an Innovation Strategy?

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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. At the core of design thinking lies a commitment to putting users’ experiences and feedback at the forefront of product and service design.

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Innov8rs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Innov8rs | How product teams can tackle ambiguity, meet business aims, and prove their worth. With organizations asking why product teams are important, and what to expect from them, how can product teams respond? The reason for that makes sense, because product development is difficult.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 30, 2010

Large scale websites require groups of specialists to design and develop a product that will be a commercial success. To develop a completely new site requires several teams to collaborate and this can be difficult. Particularly as different teams may be working with different methods.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

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. When designing something, (ie: a technology, a product, a marketing material…) it is paramount to keep the needs of the end user in mind.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When it comes to the development and commercialization of new products , no one holds more accountability for the product’s ultimate success than the Product Manager. Product Manager” isn’t exactly a title that fits neatly into a box.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

*This post originally appeared on Mind the Product. The market is changing faster than ever, and an organization’s ability to move at the speed of the Internet is the only chance at surviving and thriving. We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit.

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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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Innovation 360 Group

AUGUST 25, 2019

These businesses are close to the action and markets, allowing them to easily adopt a need-seeker approach, a strategy highly correlated with radical innovation, the kind that shakes up markets and innovates from the inside out—from operations and processes though to business models and products. million Swedish crowns.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

The increasing competition for customers, market share, and talent in almost every industry demands an innovative approach to business. They link innovation to their well-defined business objectives by establishing and maintaining dedicated innovation teams. They adhere to lean principles of product development.

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Innovation in Practice

MAY 23, 2016

For most companies, the top marketer, usually called the chief marketing officer, is part of the senior leadership team and sits on the executive committee or management board. In other words, marketing has a “seat at the table.”. Eventually, the manufacturing team will step in and take over forecasting.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

*This post originally appeared on Mind the Product. The market is changing faster than ever, and an organization’s ability to move at the speed of the Internet is the only chance at surviving and thriving. We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit.

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Betterific

AUGUST 2, 2016

Welcome to the second part of our new “Brainstorming with…” series, where we interview two sets of people – the innovation challenge winners and the product developers and innovation experts that sponsor the challenges. And most importantly I’ve learned about the end-to-end cycle of product development.

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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.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How can design thinking help with product development? This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. Prototype: In this step, the team creates a rough model of the solution to test and evaluate. What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies?

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Or maybe sales are down or they just lost the head of marketing to a competitor. For example, you could say, “I know you’re dealing with… [lagging sales, poor internal communications, customer complaints, etc.]. You want to show how your solution can help increase sales, increase innovation, increase product development, etc.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

The Marketing Stakeholder Interview. Note that it’s as important for in-house teams to ask most of these questions as it is for consultants; you may know one answer, but do you know this particular stakeholder’s answer? What’s your role with respect to this product? Many thanks to Ms. Understanding the Business.

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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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etventure

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In this article, etventure’s Head of Product Gregor Ilg will take a closer look at the buzzword “Agile” – and de-mystify Agile in a business context. If it is not applied properly, agile development can easily turn into chaos! Commence development – which might take many months to complete. What is Agile?

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