Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

In the course of several interrelated blog posts Paul and I will be talking about innovation, the necessary “ecosystem” for success, why good innovators won’t think about products, services and business models in isolation, and how platforms contribute to greater innovation success. Ecosystems. Seamless experiences.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 3, 2023

Specifically, it will focus on what the theory of Jobs to Be Done may forecast. I’ve written extensively about Jobs Theory in the past, but a quick recap can be summarized as follows: A “job” is the progress someone seeks in a given situation or circumstance. But what would theory predict?

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Idea to Value

MAY 12, 2020

If you’ve been working in innovation for at least some time, you’re probably sick and tired of hearing people talk about “thinking outside the box”, or the need to create “outside the box innovations”. The phrase has become one of the most overused clichés out there. How are outside the box innovations born? Creating outside the box innovations.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Effectively, I’m wondering if this offering has been designed around individuals’ Jobs to Be Done , or if it’s instead the result of a supply-driven vision to “get healthcare to the whole planet.” Without understanding the job, and organizing around it, organizations are effectively “competing against luck.”

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Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In this situation, Jobs Theory could provide a helpful framework for finding solutions for loneliness, thus improving our health. Using a Jobs lens could help us reduce loneliness and social isolation in the US Developed by late Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M. They are all detrimental to our health and life expectancy.

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Christensen Institute

JULY 27, 2023

This is the first blog of the series. All she needs is to make phone calls, send the occasional text message, and check on her Facebook friends; those are the three jobs she hires a cellphone for. These phones tend to be older version androids that have simple, basic features good enough to get her three jobs done.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 25, 2024

Well, recently, we interviewed families across the country and found three Jobs to Be Done spurring their decisions. In fact, one of the three Jobs centered on the simple reality that many kids were struggling in their conventional schools. Why did families pick these options…and why are they continuing post-pandemic?

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2023

From completing an MCI bootcamp for policymakers in Uganda and finishing a report on market-creation for Nigeria’s solar sector by breaking down the large projects into weekly tasks that I could easily allocate time and attention to, to launching a Thursday Theory Tips blog series by establishing a disciplined and regular writing schedule.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Paul Hobcraft and I have been writing a series of blog posts about innovation, ecosystems, platforms and what we believe customers will ultimately demand: seamless experiences. Take, for example, "jobs to be done" methodologies. Christensen and Ulwick propose the idea that customers hire products to do jobs for them.

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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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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Start with the simplest tools that get the job done. The Importance of Staying Scrappy in an AI-Driven Era In an age of rapid technological advancements, companies everywhere are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to modernize their operations. As companies scale up, they gain more customers, resources and clout.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Innovation management is a tough job. In this blog, we will recommend strategies for choosing the best features for your innovation roadmap along with the do’s and don’ts of feature prioritization. . In this strategy, feature prioritization is done by understanding which problems are not being solved at present.

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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'm ready to dive back in, to write about innovation, to lead innovation projects and to build up an innovation competency in the firms where people want to get good work done.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 30, 2023

Using a powerful theory and methodology called Jobs to Be Done —developed and validated through extensive research in many sectors—the Institute set out to uncover the factors that motivate teachers to use new practices (i.e., According to the theory, teachers change their practices when they have an unmet “Job” they need to fulfill.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 14, 2022

In this blog post, we’ll share some of the most popular design thinking exercises and activities, validated by research shared in a popular design thinking book, the Design Thinking Toolbox. Jobs to be done. Interviews. One of the simplest ways to do this is to simply talk with your users and potential users. Empathy mapping.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 12, 2021

If decision-making related to innovation is done poorly in an organization, none of the above will make a real difference. By definition , it’s about doing something new that hasn’t been done before. What’s more, your team hasn’t done this before , so you can’t create a very realistic project plan for implementing it either.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 1, 2017

In a fast-paced corporate environment where there are many expectations and a steady stream of work, how (and more importantly) why, would you carve out time to contribute to your company’s new ideation platform? It turns out that successful incentive programs require a flexible, multi-faceted approach.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 9, 2022

Authentic Leaders Delight in the Success of Others. The cornerstone to growing as a company is teamwork. Teamwork is about getting excited for our peers’ wins and helping them win. Authentic leaders primary focus is caring for others and championing their success. Employees need to feel supported instead of being tested. Be a Good Follower.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

In the course of several interrelated blog posts Paul and I will be talking about innovation, the necessary “ecosystem” for success, why good innovators won’t think about products, services and business models in isolation, and how platforms contribute to greater innovation success. Ecosystems. Seamless experiences.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 13, 2022

The reason for this is that too often leaders think their job is to have people follow them. How to and Why Be Genuine as a Leader. There is a significant difference between leadership and management. Leaders create and move things forward; managers handle things. Leaders lead people, managers manage stuff. Self-Awareness.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 30, 2018

And it’s of great value to offer a sense of purpose in the workplace : people feel more engaged, have better job satisfaction, and even perform their tasks with more accuracy. All of these people, in general, have a genuine motivation for putting in the hard work that has to be done. What sets nonprofits from other organizations?

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

I've written before, both on this blog and on the blog I share with Paul Hobcraft about platforms and ecosystems about the need for seamless experiences. Engineers believed they'd done their jobs well because the product did its job well. It's our stipulation that the future is about seamless experiences.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 7, 2021

As readers of this blog (and you know who you are) are bound to know by now, I am a movie fanatic. Take the blue pill and go back to your regular job, toiling away on the TPS reports (hint: movie reference) and supporting the overall machine. I love good movies, average movies, older movies and so forth. Very Alice in Wonderland-esque.

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Planview

MARCH 8, 2024

She spoke at length about the first decade of her job life, when women officers were rare in the Indian banking sector. In fact, International Women’s Day (IWD) is now an official holiday in more than 25 countries, with thousands of marches, debates, concerts, and talks taking place each year. Planview is proud to participate.

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 27, 2023

Today’s guest blog post comes from Todd Dunn, Vice President of Innovation at Advocate Health. Below, Todd shares his three-step process, grounded in Christensen’s theories, on how to shift innovation from a vague buzzword to a clear way to make progress. Read on to learn from how this innovator in action is leveraging theory for progress.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 19, 2018

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? In many organizations this isn't someone's job so it doesn't get done. But I digress.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 9, 2021

The dreaded "day job" That's why so much new product development and innovation is accomplished in teams of people who are working beyond their normal responsibilities. These folks have a "day job" that is their primary responsibility and sole source of advancement and compensation. As if there is a magic number!

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 4, 2024

As I note in the analysis, Amazon may well “win” with this offering if they are able to better serve consumers’ Jobs to Be Done than existing offerings in the marketplace. So, while retail giants may not “disrupt” health care this year, it’s quite possible they will launch services that better serve consumer or customer Jobs.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In Part 1 of this blog series, I highlighted that disruption in health care is increasingly present at many points along the consumer value chain. On top of that, some new models are serving women’s health-related Jobs to Be Done better than incumbent offerings. . What happens when disruptors move up-market?

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 2, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll walk through key steps that a sales leader should take to establish sales in a new market, including conducting market research, designing a sales plan, building the right sales team, and establishing key partnerships. This can be done through interviews, surveys, and other forms of customer research.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 2, 2021

Perfectionism is concerned with “doing the thing right,” with how things APPEAR and with whether others think it was done correctly. They are so opposed to one another that the only way to accomplish excellence is to not want perfection. So, let’s look at the major distinctions between the two. Excellence is about self-accountability.

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Inceodia

MARCH 9, 2017

The Job-to-be-Done Approach. A much better approach to customer feedback focuses on the customer’s job-to-be-done. With that job-to-be-done in mind, the milkshake can be designed purposely to fit the task and will ultimately better meet the customer’s needs. So a response to the question, “do you like it?”

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 16, 2021

While these are all important, there is another more important attribute of the job that causes concern. Whether it’s through a blog post, an ad, or a radio commercial, marketers have to come up with new and interesting ways to get people interested. Marketing requires many types of creativity and innovation to be successful.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Boredom is one of those facets of life that consistently amaze. How can any person be bored when there is so much around us that stimulates our intellect and inspires our awe? And why do we continuously and mindlessly scroll through television channels and facebook feeds instead of focusing our energy on creating something of beauty or value?

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

MARCH 8, 2024

Readers & Writers: To contribute your own content and to browse amazing content – including articles/blogs, books, interviews, podcasts and videos, from our opt-in B2B thought leader, analyst and influencer community – Join Thinkers360 today ! Before founding CJ Young Consulting, she retired from the U.S.

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Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Some want students to not only learn how to solve problems but also how to find them. Others fear that training students to seek out problems is creating ruinous pessimism. There’s a better way forward that splits the difference between the two camps. There’s a wide range of adherents. At a surface level, this approach makes sense.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

In the course of several interrelated blog posts Paul and I will be talking about innovation, the necessary "ecosystem" for success, why good innovators won't think about products, services and business models in isolation, and how platforms contribute to greater innovation success. But, one step at a time.

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