Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 18, 2023

I define sneaky innovation as the innovation work that is often started and completed in disparate locations in the business, is not strategic and is often completed without a lot of fanfare. Sneaky innovation is about doing small but impactful innovation, without asking for permission or waiting to see who will approve.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 18, 2022

Many women business owners find the biggest obstacle they face when starting out is acquiring the funding they need to launch their company. The best lending partner is traditionally one that takes the time to understand your business, offers the type of financing you need to accomplish your goals, and aligns with your personal values.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 29, 2021

What could possibly be wrong with lots of small experiments all throughout the company on different types of innovation? In reality, what this leads to is lots of small projects, where many aren't focused on important new opportunities or markets that are vital for the longer term success of the company.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 1, 2024

Every business has a culture. A culture of continuity is informally established to ensure that businesses can do the everyday things, regularly and consistently, to continue to exist. A good deal of innovation in larger corporations is accomplished by acquiring startups or very small companies with great new ideas.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The numbers tell the story: More than 100,000 small business owners were forced out of business during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and more than half of those were minority- or woman-owned. . 1 woman for entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter , says the fact that women of color have started businesses at 4.5

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Business and Tech

MARCH 18, 2022

So in response, some communities came together to create unique opportunities for businesswomen of color as well, like the founders of Staten Island’s Minority Women in Business Association (MWBA). . Kim Avilez Co-Founder and President, Minority Women in Business Association of Staten Island.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Since I've had the opportunity to work for funded startups and for larger corporations, I've seen the differences, and, while I'd like to say it's getting better all the time (Modern English reference there), it's actually getting worse, for both parties. Innovating as a startup No one starts a business without a great idea.

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Business and Tech

AUGUST 5, 2021

Overall, you may use your wallet a lot less — and your smartphone a lot more — to make payments, send funds, and buy goods online. Before advancements in financial technologies, consumers and businesses seeking funds would have to go to a physical bank, fill out paperwork, and wait to hear back about the loan amount and terms.

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Idea to Value

JULY 16, 2021

Some technology seems to improve gradually over time, and continuously get incrementally better through small steps. For example, the iPod was enabled by a hard drive which was small and power efficient enough to carry 1,000 songs in people’s pockets, for a price which was affordable enough for consumers.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 17, 2022

Small, minimum monthly payments aren’t going to pay down the principal, and credit cards almost always use variable interest rates, so even if you pay each month, the balances increase.” “Compared to other options, a personal loan is FAST,” notes Lunsford. “In People can get trapped in credit card debt,” notes Lunsford.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 5, 2020

Keep the Experiments Small. Keeping your experiments small invokes a more innovative mindset with a higher tolerance to risk. This keeps the experiments centered around the business and leaves more room for idea-sharing. Establish Clear Criteria when Funding Projects. Projects are funded in phases.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

We need to understand successful innovation actually touches all aspects of a business, by contributing to improving business processes, identifying new, often imaginative, ways to reduce costs, building out existing business models into new directions and value and discovering new ways and positioning into markets.

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Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) recently announced the Africa Localization Initiative, designed “to direct more funding to local organizations based in sub-Saharan Africa.” The first goal of the initiative is to direct up to 25% of the agency’s funding to local organizations. It has happened before.

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Who, or what is to blame for these negative business outcomes, and more importantly, for the lost lives and negative health impact? We can’t apply the specific reasons why one organization failed or succeeded to all organizations receiving the same type of funding. For startups to get off the ground, they need funding.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Business model and business plan. Managing your business. You might have discovered a real problem enough people face, but without having tested your solution on a small scale you won’t know how well your solution answers their needs. While starting too late may lead to going out of business before even really launching.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

What are the factors that dictate the success or failure of a business, and which of them can we control? Luck and timing play a part in the success or failure of any business, but what's more important is management focus, alignment, communication and setting priorities. This takes me back to a funded startup in the early 1990s.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Importance of the Startup Ecosystem for Corporate Growth For corporates, the startup ecosystem presents a fertile ground for innovation, offering fresh perspectives and cutting-edge technologies that can complement or revolutionize existing business models. More about fostering startup innovation can be found through this link.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Benefits that could be achieved from innovation seemed the right way to convince business executives and government officials that they should commit to innovation projects, and eventually to innovation capacity. These ideas may indicate significant changes are required in the existing business model. This is a trade-off cost.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 12, 2019

Since it is easy to generate lots of ideas, every business has plenty of incremental and disruptive ideas floating around. Idea sponsors typically don't sponsor ideas out of the goodness of their hearts - this isn't a charitable exercise - but for purposes of advancing a new opportunity that has value to them or to their business.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 14, 2023

The Growth Board’s responsibilities include assessing and determining which opportunities to fund, clarifying areas to focus on, holding project teams accountable, allocating budget and resources, removing roadblocks, and creating an environment where innovation teams can thrive. Do: Establish a Growth Board with cross-functional membership.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 28, 2023

The impact of the products we use to clean, protect, maintain, and disinfect our homes and workplaces might seem small compared to things like our energy use, but it all adds up. We also advocate for funding and development of third-party certifications and use standard ingredient names to promote consistency in product labeling.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 15, 2017

Universities, businesses and even cities and regions are talking about innovation and the need to create accelerators or innovation enablers. Second, describe the benefit to the organization, business or community of an incremental change and/or a radical or disruptive change. This is especially true in business settings.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

.” Hosted by what was at the time the agency’s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, the idea was inspired by funding rounds in the VC sector. Small Business Administration. Start Small And Build. The event was so popular it quickly became an ongoing program.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Meet America’s new digital entrepreneurs: the students, the fully employed, the previously unemployed, the retired, the stay-at homes, and millions more who are turning their passions and ideas into businesses and brands overnight at unprecedented rates. million new businesses formed in the U.S. Ultimately, 50 amazing U.S.-based

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100%Open

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

But what do they mean for our businesses and business practice in general? Net zero emissions have become a key goal for many companies, both large and small. Being ahead of the curve means new business opportunities. Climate change, sustainability, net zero: these are phrases we’re all acquainted with by now.

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Phil McKinney

JUNE 7, 2023

I provided the executive air cover and the dark funding while Henry put it together and mentored the projects. Dark Funding Keeps Innovation Hidden When trying to fund a high-risk project, dark funding can provide the necessary resources while keeping the project under wraps.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. Corporations and startups operate differently by nature due to the differences in their culture and business environment.

Change 180

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

What employees need is clarity about what is "innovation" and more importantly, which innovations are useful and acceptable and are likely to get funded. What I've found over my 15 years of innovation consulting is that innovations either "fit" with how the company thinks and does business, or they don't. Why do definitions matter?

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 20, 2018

But in the end the business decided not to commercialize his idea. That decision was probably influenced by the second issue: while the need was easily defined, the customers were dispersed and difficult to serve, and the business couldn't amount to more than $10M a year if everything went well. It is a distraction.

Innovation 181

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Christensen Institute

JULY 25, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed a small but noteworthy student migration into the wild west of schooling. As these programs grapple with questions about their operational strategies, required resources, funding mechanisms, and more, those decisions determine the value networks in which they operate.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 1, 2021

Usually, a dollar amount is set for a small but significant percentage of the company. Yet, when it comes to innovation strategy, the show can teach businesses quite a bit about how to refine and launch ideas. Here are six things the show can teach businesses about innovation strategy. The show makes this clear, however.

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Continuing its acquisitions and purchasing OSH allows CVS to 1) expand and diversify its primary care offerings, which is a stated strategic priority; 2) further establish itself as a provider organization, and 3) capture revenue from other payers (plus recapture the small amount of revenue that Aetna pays to OSH).

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Spanish monarchs were busy with the Reconquest of Spain. The Portuguese king was busy discovering and claiming Africa, and trying to keep Columbus from sharing his ideas with others. All he had was commitment, passion and the desire to stick with his ideas until someone decided they would fund them.

Innovation 167

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 11, 2018

However, in Steve's story - rebuilding a broken human, making him better, faster and stronger - is a story that is powerful for today's business executives and their challenge to improve innovation. Even the figure, a huge figure by 1970s standards, now seems rather small to most corporations.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 17, 2022

What if businesses only accounted for their bills (taxes, electricity, and employer salaries), but didn’t account for all the miscellaneous costs of running a business (delivery/shipping expenses, advertising, fluctuating inventory expenses)? My top piece of advice is to start off small.

Tips 182

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

In the US, 16 states, Puerto Rico, hundreds of cities and nearly 2,000 businesses are committed to honoring Paris Agreement standards, but how we get there is still up in the air. This approach could be used by other cities, businesses, and government organizations. The crowd has grid solutions, battery storage ideas, and more.

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Business and Tech

JANUARY 11, 2023

USDA Agricultural Research Service researcher Philip Owens also reported on the benefits of precision agriculture, sharing that, “tractor guidance systems can be profitable for small farms and improve efficiency gains by 20%. Funding the future of food. economy for every $1 of spending. agriculture remains competitive globally.

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