Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

To survive and thrive, it’s critical that you recognize the signs of disruption and understand the necessity of adapting to these changes. For insights on staying ahead of the curve, consider exploring creating business strategy in a world of AI-driven rapid change.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. In fact, according to some estimates by Doblin , 96% of all new innovations which established companies attempt fail to make a return on investment.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

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? Note that this is NOT a bad question to ask, because investors are constantly watching the effectiveness of the management team and want to see companies hitting their numbers.

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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2023

Whether you’re plotting the course for your product development or managing a portfolio of initiatives , you’re bound to face the daunting challenges of accurately predicting project milestones and costs and steering projects toward valuable, cost-effective conclusions.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Once attainable and proven useful, those tools change the way we live and work. Thus, the tools we created and shaped will eventually change and shape the way we live and work. What was an incredible innovation is now changing how we work and live. If you doubt this is true, look no further than the iPhone.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

Given the pace of change and the number of factors that are changing in the environment, taking some time to understand what may happen and, more importantly, what may happen in response, is very important. No matter how good your ideas are today, most firms cannot hope to realize them as new products or services for months or years.

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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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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

Although the term “innovation” has found a place in everyday diction, true, game-changing innovation still remains elusive. The most common aspect of some of the innovative companies is that they are also high-performing organizations. In innovative companies, innovation is not sporadic. Here’s what they are: 1.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 10, 2021

Companies that create strong listening programs that interact with customers and consumers to understand their needs and present real market and product opportunities to their business will be rewarded. The resistance to an outside-in innovation and new product development process has got to change.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Marketing Meeting 167

Adam Hartung

MARCH 30, 2016

It is not shy about seeking action at the Board level to change the direction of a company – by changing the CEO, seeking downsizings and reogranizations, changing dividend policy, seeking share buybacks, recommending asset sales, or changing other resource allocations. Activists have been around a long time.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Whitepaper called “ Product Complexity, Digital Transformation, and the Innovation Imperative- The race to reinvent how complex products are developed is here “ This made me a little jealous and a little wishing that ‘we’, across the whole of innovation management , could not have one of these platforms available today.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 15, 2016

The guy who stole a march on Ford, and really defined the automobile company structure that we have today was William Durant. Durant foresaw that people would want a range of products and options. He created what became General Motors by offering people more choice of options, more flexibility and product families.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This process is widely adopted by managers, executives, and consultants to drive new product development, service innovation, and business model refinement. 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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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Tune into the Pain of the Person You’re Talking To Forget about yourself and how excited you are about this great new idea or concept you want the company to implement. For example, you could say, “I know you’re dealing with… [lagging sales, poor internal communications, customer complaints, etc.]. Here’s how you do that.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Building an Innovative Company Culture. Executives love talking about “disruption” nowadays, but very few companies can achieve truly disruptive results. The reason: before you can disrupt an industry, you need to disrupt your own company culture first. Conformity abhors change. Contact Us.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The unprecedented shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many organizations to change ways they do business. Almost every business operation has been affected: from the manner firms talk to their customers to the logistics of product delivery to maintaining channels of communication between employees.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The unprecedented shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many organizations to change ways they do business. Almost every business operation has been affected: from the manner firms talk to their customers to the logistics of product delivery to maintaining channels of communication between employees.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Here you can see how the top 10 countries’ positions have changed over the past 4 years, and how Switzerland has remained steady at the top. And one thing I cannot argue against is that the wealth of data enables the team to provide some very interesting assessments of innovation. Top 10 Most Innovative Countries 2016, GII 2016.

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Underperforming Technical Team Data Report Innovation 100

Mike Shipulski

AUGUST 3, 2016

For established companies, when times are good, it’s not the right time to try something new – the resources are there but the motivation is not; and when times are tough it’s also the wrong time to try something new – the motivation is there but the breathing room is not. The environment is ever-changing on all fronts.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 22, 2022

People tend to resist change when change means altering or replacing existing norms of doing things. I think we can all agree that user adoption is the primary objective for all products. User adoption is not something that evolves at a particular point of a product development life cycle. What Is User Adoption?

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Amazon is one of the most innovative companies on the planet – launching successful, bold new products and services on a regular basis. If you want to create a successful, hyper-growth company, you've got to focus on empowering your teams to rapidly experiment.” Encourage bold/crazy ideas 2.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Ideation Artificial Inteligence 52

Acuvate

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When businesses have worked for long on traditional systems, they face calcified practices, legacy processes, and resistance to change from within the organization. Systems integration is a sophisticated undertaking and an opportunity to make real change within a business. But, would the investment be worth it?

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 6, 2022

What’s next for consumer products Innovating for new moments in consumer journeys. Every step on the consumer journey has changed and is continuing to change, and consumer products need to change as well to keep up. Discovery is now mostly digital, so packaging should be developed digital-first as well.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I had the chance to sit in and listen as Jim Carroll , the futurist, talked about a number of trends that will force changes in the way we make and sell products. He also talked about the increasing pace of change. That is, the vast majority of the life cycle of some of the products could be measured in a handful of months.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

It’s about the culture needed to win in an ever changing marketplace, especially after Covid 19. Would that be so bad? I was recently with a founder of a small Swiss tech startup, and he was all over the ‘how’ they are squeezing value out of a step-change technology, to generate as many user cases as possible, whichever they are.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Design thinking is a step above “customer development” because it takes a real human approach to getting to the root of an intrinsic problem. Many large organizations tend to stop after prototyping solutions that indicate desirability, and subsequently revert to traditional development methodologies. Others are being disrupted.

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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. If you let things slip in terms of your team’s skills and effectiveness, you’re going to lose that seat. Product development goes to R&D.

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Be-novative

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

To uncover the techniques that connect individuals, teams and organisations with a sense of purpose we involved best practices from our partner organisations. Many companies conduct surveys among their employees about their engagement and motivation. TEAMS CAN GEAR UP THE ORGANIZATION TO DELIVER ON THE IDEAS.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It is what will drive an enterprise’s creative engine that is the source of long-term, future growth Most of today’s large corporate enterprises treat strategy, R&D, and innovation as separate and distinct functions – worthy of specialized teams, segmented funding, reporting structures and operational charters. This is starting to change.

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System Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 52

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. As a workshop, we are open to all and exist simultaneously as an open place, to stimulate debates and meetings, and as a playground for companies, to imagine and create, together.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. But, without having regular customer empathy , companies miss out on collecting valuable insights from the people they are aiming to serve. And the current digital landscape doesn’t help this situation.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 9, 2020

In this blog post we talk about receptivity to change in Financial Services and some thoughts on how to move forward. Going forward, our customers and other stakeholders will be more receptive to change in how we engage with them and what we offer. This can be problematic in a time that demands change. Readiness for Change?

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IdeaSpies

JULY 21, 2019

Take Bell Labs, for example, an industrial research and development (R&D) company, now owned by Nokia but originally founded by Alexander Graham Bell in the late-1800s. In some cases, the TTO might ‘spin-out’ the technology into its own company. Fortunately, it can be bridged by collaborating with industry. .

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

*This post originally appeared on Mind the Product. The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has decreased from 67 years (1950’s) to about 15 years (today). 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.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Disruption Marketing 83

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Amazon is one of the most innovative companies on the planet – launching successful, bold new products and services on a regular basis. If you want to create a successful, hyper-growth company, you've got to focus on empowering your teams to rapidly experiment.”. Encourage bold/crazy ideas 2.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Ideation Artificial Inteligence 49

IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. They described 11 out of 1,435 companies that had shown the highest level of success over the decades. However, the majority of these great 20th century companies failed to sustain their level of greatness in the Open-Source era.

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Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 57

IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. They described 11 out of 1,435 companies that had shown the highest level of success over the decades. However, the majority of these great 20th century companies failed to sustain their level of greatness in the Open-Source era.

Software Review 57

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 57