Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2023

I've been leading innovation work for close to 20 years, writing about it on this blog and in my book (Relentless Innovation). I've made some great friends along the way and been influenced by a range of great innovation thought leaders. Too much time at the innovation coal face was making me a bit cynical.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 30, 2020

Here in Europe, it is often suggested that “Europe is the cradle of creativity”, perhaps but I think the United States is “the crucible of innovation”, it forges ideas and takes them to market far better. The back-end of innovation, executing, is the rugged part. So easy to say, yet it does seem so very hard to achieve.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 1, 2024

This blog explores the role of mindfulness in strategic decision-making, offering insights into how leaders can harness this practice to navigate the complexities of the business world with clarity and compassion. This can lead to stress, burnout, and decision fatigue, compromising the quality of their choices.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 21, 2020

Gary Pisano, a Harvard Business School Professor, wrote an excellent article in HBR last year on the hard realities of what innovative company cultures actually look like, which I highly recommend every aspiring innovator to read. Innovative company cultures are not all fun and games”. The bottom line? Gary Pisano.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 16, 2024

But not disrupted—as the word is understood when we’re talking about the Theory of Disruptive Innovation that Christensen coined. But not disrupted—as the word is understood when we’re talking about the Theory of Disruptive Innovation that Christensen coined. Disruptive innovations initially expand the pie, in other words.

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Leapfrogging

JULY 29, 2020

As a result, many teams wait until the end of the quarter, or year, to assess their real progress. As a result, many teams wait until the end of the quarter, or year, to assess their real progress. You get what you measure when it comes to business performance. And by that time, it’s usually far too late for a course correction.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 12, 2020

While it’s obviously smart to prepare for a potential downturn by setting priorities, focusing on the essentials and then cutting back on the rest, we’re also unfortunately seeing a number of organizations ramp down innovation until a “better time” emerges in the future. That is, however, quite shortsighted.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

I am convinced my working days are shorter or the clock is moving faster or worse still, I am being “deflected” even more by everything “digital” I never seem to finish what I had intended to complete by the end of a day or week. Often our innovation activities face the same dilemma. I’m not sure it does.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 6, 2021

For many years, in writing this blog, and in leading innovation projects for my clients, I tried to advocate for the benefits of innovation. The companies that do make the bet, and that do focus on innovation, often show the benefits in terms of higher profits, greater market share and higher stock prices.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 16, 2023

As conflicts become more nuanced, leaders seek innovative methodologies for resolution. The evolving nature of business, influenced by technological advances and ever-changing consumer demands, necessitates a flexible, innovative approach like Design Thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 26, 2019

Different reasons, different focus areas partly although innovation keeps us together, well me checking in on them, I’m not so sure it is the same their end. Nesta is an innovation foundation. Nesta is an innovation foundation. They state: “For us, innovation means turning bold ideas into reality.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These activities are designed to help organizations get started with innovation. Our ability to adapt and innovate is essential in an ever-changing technological landscape. The use of innovation activities is one way to accomplish these goals, spur creativity, and drive business or organizational growth.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

One of our favorite design thinking and innovation software tools , Miro, offers templates and resources for innovators looking to better explore and understand user experience and the customer journey. This simple and easy to use template helps you thoroughly lay out each stage of the customer’s process. User Journey.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 19, 2019

Well, I had a reflective moment on some points I consider within innovation that need re-emphasizing. So my reflective points were these as we always should consider the whole connected system of innovation. Extending innovations value – appreciating the whole system. There is always a time to reflect.

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IdeaScale

MAY 26, 2021

Innovation is critical to establishing new solutions and is something that every business handles. It can come in many different forms and styles, but regardless of the methods you use, innovation cannot be ignored. However, when working in a digital workspace, creating lasting innovative solutions is much more difficult than usual.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 16, 2021

Amazon’s unique approach to innovation helps teams “work backwards” to create breakthroughs. This means envisioning customer problems as well as ideal solutions to those problems before actually developing a product or service–and this is exactly how Amazon innovates. Step 2: Define the ideal product solution.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 30, 2022

Reorganizing a company to solve complex problems, introduce innovation, improve business operations, and identify market opportunities requires design. Design Thinking can be used as a tool to transform or reorganize a company to identify innovative solutions to current problems. Design Thinking Applied to Re-Organizations.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 18, 2019

When we are designing innovation for the future, the search is even more centered around strategically connected value creation. We need to draw on insights, creativity but most importantly have a growing sense of the context we are thinking through to search for new ideas, concepts, and eventual new innovating solutions.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Since I am an innovation consultant, working with Fortune 500 companies to build innovation capacity, and I regularly blog on this site about innovation topics, I often have the opportunity to review new books about innovation. In this blog, I am going to be reviewing the book Built to Innovate by Ben Bensaou.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Brainstorming is the foundation of any innovation exercise and the foundation for most ideation sessions. This allows for you and your team to work quickly and efficiently with each other to process ideas, organize them in the correct places, and run through a ton of different possibilities. . What is our end goal?

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 11, 2019

I'm going to start a series of blog posts about what 15 years of innovation consulting has taught me. I'm happy to say I've learned a lot about innovation in corporations, and also somewhat excited to say I'm still learning, because the pace and nature of innovation is changing so rapidly.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 16, 2021

Amazon’s unique approach to innovation helps teams “work backwards” to create breakthroughs. This means envisioning customer problems as well as ideal solutions to those problems before actually developing a product or service–and this is exactly how Amazon innovates. Step 2: Define the ideal product solution.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 18, 2024

The report highlights innovators in the field, including deep dive case studies that highlight what separates new approaches from traditional models. In this piece, I highlight another innovator, Strengthening Indiana Families (SIF), providing a deep dive into their approach to enhance well-being. Christensen and Mark W.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 3, 2020

It makes sense: The consulting industry is plagued by a stagnant business model ill-suited for today’s innovation-driven digital world. But the days are numbered for implementation services and their armies of well-dressed consultants plunking down in cubicles at client’s headquarters for weeks and months on end.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 19, 2018

I'm an innovation consultant. I've been working in the innovation space for over 12 years. I have a somewhat (cough) vested interest in writing a blog post about why you should work with an innovation consultant. The real purpose of this blog is to answer the question: why should I work with an innovation consultant?

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Leapfrogging

JULY 29, 2020

As a result, many teams wait until the end of the quarter, or year, to assess their real progress. As a result, many teams wait until the end of the quarter, or year, to assess their real progress. You get what you measure when it comes to business performance. And by that time, it’s usually far too late for a course correction.

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Leapfrogging

JULY 14, 2020

As a result, many teams wait until the end of the quarter, or year, to assess their real progress. As a result, many teams wait until the end of the quarter, or year, to assess their real progress. You get what you measure when it comes to business performance. And by that time, it’s usually far too late for a course correction.

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Stephen Shapiro

JUNE 10, 2022

As mentioned in yesterday’s blog post, I’m going to try an 8-week experiment. It was selected as the best innovation & creativity book of the year by 800-CEO-READ (now Porchlight). The book contains 40 strategies for driving innovation. The only way to survive is to stop treating innovation as a one-time event.

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IdeaScale

JULY 9, 2019

And to stay relevant in digital marketing, you need to be innovative. While it can be difficult to keep up, we believe there are ways companies can innovate and stay ahead of the game. While it can be difficult to keep up, we believe there are ways companies can innovate and stay ahead of the game.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It processes and analyzes data in extraordinary volumes, discerning intricate patterns in behavior and sentiment. The agent knows just how to console them — that’s the future we can build. This isn’t the storyline of a utopian novel; it’s the reality that’s taking shape in boardrooms and brainstorming sessions around the world.

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Exago

JUNE 14, 2017

We've seen how you can locate your position in the Daily Innovation Model, built to help companies see innovation as a daily function of their job. When we place the continua on two axes - incremental to radical and process to product - things get interesting and we end up with four quadrants.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Enterprise businesses are constantly on the lookout for their next ‘eureka’ moment – an innovative solution to a strategic business problem. Of course, most recognize that simply happening upon these solutions is not an option, and that innovation needs to be cultivated and managed effectively in order to become sustainable and repeatable.

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Yet2

MAY 23, 2023

yet2 ’s holistic scouting process combines our proprietary database and internal networks alongside a client’s prior knowledge, creating a search that considers geographic areas of interest, end markets/users, and regulatory timelines. What are your manufacturing requirements (e.g., GMP), and budget constraints (i.e.,

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Recognizing the pivotal role that ideas play in driving innovation, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has introduced ISO 56007 guidance on tools and methods for managing opportunities and ideas. This standard serves as a comprehensive guide to managing innovation opportunities and ideas.

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whataventure

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Nicola Büsse, Co-Founder of MOBIKO, is one of those intrapreneurs who managed to make the jump with her team from an internal innovation project to a successful spinoff. The story of MOBIKO starts at Audi Business Innovation in 2017. (and how yours can be successful). The story of MOBIKO. You lack motivation in your team.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 2, 2022

Considering I am constantly giving advice on the ways that companies can improve their innovativeness, and people can come up with new business models and business ideas based on their creativity. But with all types of innovations, it makes sense to start small, learn fast, and continue improving.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Traditionally the Innovation funnel is a stage-gate process that organizations use to define their approach to ideation. In this blog, we’ll give you a step-by-step guide to our ‘Innovation Ecosystem’ , providing you with multiple ways to discover and manage innovations at your enterprise.

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