Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 5, 2018

At that meeting a good friend was presenting a new book, entitled Who Moved My Cheese? He was recommending this book to all of us in the leadership team of a mid-sized ERP consulting firm. Today, we need to think more about "built to change", more agile, more nimble and more creative than in the past. What to do?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 7, 2017

At present I have SIX channels open on innovation advice or advisory service that has made my life partly more complicated but more importantly, able to separate my thinking into these parts as they deserve a ‘deeper’ dive or broader exposure. Agility Innovation Specialists. Its areas of focus: [link]. In summary.

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The Human Factor

MAY 2, 2018

Running a successful business, no matter how big or small, starts and ends with effective leadership. These leadership principles apply to all types and sizes of businesses. From my perspective, here’s what effective leadership looks like in a small business. Get clear on winning. Teach employees the business of the business.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

I have been spending some significant time on questioning the current innovation business model, from both the customers (clients) perspective and the innovation consultants’ one. In my research I certainly felt also the innovation consultant is struggling. The innovation consultants’ dilemma. It simply pisses the employee off.

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The Human Factor

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

In today’s warp-speed business world, strategic agility – the ability to move fast with flexibility and focus – is no longer a competitive advantage. Interestingly, when I talk about this concept in keynote presentations or small groups of business leaders, I always get the same response. That’s what consultants do.

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Be-novative

JUNE 16, 2021

Creating a Circle of Leadership Development professionals in HR to work together more efficiently and create more value means you can bring together the best knowledge and experience inside the company spread across different units and countries. Her questions were around: How to take initiative as a member of a self-organized group?

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ImagineNation

MAY 3, 2022

This principle has since evolved as the foundation for conscious leadership by encouraging people and teams to step up and not blame, justify or deny what is really going on, and not defend their position or role in contributing to the problem or situation. Back to Leadership Basics.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 21, 2017

These build into increasing frictions where the eventual performance of innovation seemingly disappoints the leadership of organizations. Organizations continue to struggle with obtaining that higher level of agility and flexibility required for innovation speed of response and delivery. So why is that?

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Both of these are causing disruptive and unpredictable workforce changes, the need for new working practices, and a different set of mindsets and behaviours founded in cultivating an independent will, mental toughness, and emotional agility. Cultivating discomfort resilience, mental toughness, and emotional agility.

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ImagineNation

JULY 4, 2022

Happily completing my thirty-fifth year in corporate consulting, learning and coaching, and reviewing some of my most impactful successes, mistakes, failures , and learning experiences, I have learned to appreciate the value of the sacred pause. Back to leadership basics. Creating the place – the sacred pause.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 4, 2023

We stated that innovation-led growth is absolutely critical and that people need to be enabled and equipped to adapt, connect and collaborate in new ways to kickstart change in agile, constructive, equitable, and sustainable ways to innovate in uncertain times. Strategy #4. Strategy #6. Find out more about our work at ImagineNation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

This allows managers, executives, and consultants to focus on more strategic elements of innovation. Teams can iterate designs with agility, supported by AI’s predictive analytics to forecast the success of design choices. Test AI systems simulate user interactions for immediate feedback.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

After the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos drew to a close, Martin Reeves , Senior Partner & Managing Director, Director of the BCG Henderson Institute shared his reflections of the event with the Boston Consulting Group. Innovation and vitality (agility) to create differential growth against a backdrop of declining aggregate growth.

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Strategos

JANUARY 26, 2017

Framing innovation challenges is of critical importance when leadership decides to engage their employees in innovation activities. The business problem is presented as an innovation challenge to a large audience in order to gain diverse perspectives and approaches. How do we go about framing innovation challenges?

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

At ImagineNation we are celebrating 10 years as a global innovation consultancy, learning, and coaching company. Better adapt, respond to, and be agile in fast-changing circumstances, uncertainty, instability, and to random and unexpected Black Swan events, like the global Covid-19 Pandemic.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Building these is the core of my innovation offering in consulting, in advising, mentoring and coaching. The entrepreneurial skill set is how much agility, flexibility, change, risk taking, new knowledge, and expertise is gained and then applied to solutions pursued, that builds confidence. They go hand in hand in our connected world.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Rapidly changing customer behaviours, disruptive digital technologies, and the emergence of agile fintech start-ups means that disruption is an ever-present danger. Total Systems Services (TSYS) – a fintech giant with more than 13,000 employees worldwide – presents a great example of the results this kind of initiative can deliver.

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 8, 2016

Leaders must change before they have to, and they must enable their organization to surf the incoming global shockwaves with intelligence, agility, strength, and command.”. “When they do, leaders and organizations can actually accelerate performance,” adds Sweetman. His projects have received prizes in the areas of leadership and change.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The outcomes included increased cohesion, collaboration, and agility, making them resilient and sustainable as high performing and fast-moving effective teams – who responded quickly to change, often in the face of disruption and adversity. Especially in a competitive and globalized world, where speed and agility matter most!

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. New tools for digital technology integration are presented including GFi’s Digital MoshPit. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking.

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Acuvate

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The primary reason for this huge shift in BI towards data discovery is that it goes beyond traditional static reports and presents actionable insights and outliers in a visual and easy-to-understand format with interactive navigation. It would require leadership buy-in and support, in particular. Agile BI Development.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 3, 2020

It requires leaders and managers to strategically mine and evoke their previous decades of stability to unearth their deep wisdom, knowledge, experience, and inner strength, and bring these elements to the present. Whose measure of your Mental Fitness is called PQ (Positive Intelligence Quotient).

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 20, 2016

Like many of you I look forward to the annual reports about innovation that a number of larger corporations and consulting firms publish. Each year BCG and other consulting firms release an innovation report. Look at the data itself and how it is presented. Second, analyze the analysis. Page 36 - Having an innovation strategy.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The basics of innovation still form around building the engagement, leadership, and involvement , in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed , so as to allow innovation to evolve and thrive. Then there is that need for a constant investment in people , in our networks and relationships , that all need to come together.

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Moves the Needle

JULY 31, 2018

We had the pleasure of co-hosting this amazing event with six-time entrepreneur David Binett i and special guest Kent Beck (one of the original signatories on the Agile Manifesto ), and the discussions held by each of these three innovation powerhouses was a sight to see. This was the primary topic of David’s talk. What’s the ROI?

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The best practices that we’ve developed indicate that the very first choice you make should be to select a strategic objective for the innovation project — one that is directly linked to the growth strategy of the organizations leadership.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” So, in response the company had hired a global consulting firm to help solve the problem. A shorter version of this post first appeared on the HBR blog. There’s a much better way.

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Strategos

MARCH 1, 2018

Identifying broad opportunity platforms, articulating winning business models, and executing commercialization through agile approaches are all prerequisites before the cash register begins to ring. And in boom times, it requires real leadership to set the stage for future prosperity in both good times and bad.

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ImagineNation

DECEMBER 5, 2018

I outlined some of my many mis adventurous occurring in the first ten years in the management consulting & learning & development space. Being largely project based, developing diverse, cohesive & collaborative, & hard-core agile teaming skills were the critical success factors for effective project execution & delivery.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

Kaihan is a strategy, innovation, & transformation keynote speaker , author of 5 books, founder at Outthinker -a consulting firm and network connecting senior executives with peer professionals and thought leaders-, and senior advisor at Coplex -a tech ventures starter-. The internal innovator is put at the central role for innovation’.

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Legacy Innovation Group

JULY 22, 2021

But nevertheless that is where their focus is set – all the while never losing sight of the realities and necessities of the present day (that comes next). Those who are attuned to the trends of their day know the right turns to make, as so well evidenced in Satya Nadella’s leadership of Microsoft now.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

Kaihan is a strategy, innovation, & transformation keynote speaker , author of 5 books, founder at Outthinker -a consulting firm and network connecting senior executives with peer professionals and thought leaders-, and senior advisor at Coplex -a tech ventures starter-. The internal innovator is put at the central role for innovation’.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 6, 2019

It is now a reality present in the lives of ordinary people and within reach of companies of all sizes and in the most varied market segments. For this, BI platforms deal with historical data that lead to the present, and what you do with that information is up to you. Expand the analytical power of leadership.

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etventure

OCTOBER 6, 2016

All this about companies being in a huge transition because of digitization, about disruption in the ‘old economy’ because of new, agile, digital competitors – none of it is true, he says. The tendency as we see it is that IT consultancies have actually missed the boat with this trend. The current focus is on new employee profiles.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Structuring the team as a consultancy can be a natural step as many UX professionals have agency experience; the difficult part is establishing the practice internally. Many firms understand that Agile development is difficult with a team in multiple physical locations, not to mention time zone and language or cultural challenges.

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 10, 2008

Part two will address whether a person has the right ‘hard’ skills and ‘soft’ qualities like communication style, creativity and leadership ability to fit your particular organizational context. The in-house Dreamteam is also better suited to agile development methodologies, which rely heavily on face-to-face contact.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

And it’s been focused on the one hand coaching and advising leadership, how to develop innovation strategies, how to measure what they’re doing within the organisation, sort of the beginning of an innovation accounting system, etc, processes and so on and so forth. I hope I don’t have to cut this out later.

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