Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

I've been writing a series of blog posts focused on some of the most fundamental building blocks. An ideator loves to generate ideas but may not be all that committed to realizing an idea. A developer likes to develop raw ideas as prototypes or pilots, but may not enjoy implementing the idea.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 23, 2018

Tackling massive problems such as social injustice, income inequality, healthcare availability, sustainability (among others) requires innovation, a process by which ideas are transformed into implemented services or products. Leverage the manager’s influence. Solutions: Harness the shared interest among all participants.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In our last blog for Qmarkets we introduced you to the concept of Three Horizons and explained how this methodology can help you create a balanced long-term innovation portfolio. In the last piece we shared 7 critical success factors for a three-horizons approach to innovation management.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2020

The real stories behind some of the famous examples people usually refer to when they talk about big aha moments and overnight successes are often quite different. A good 7 years after the visit, Darwin had just managed to narrow in on the key concepts, and had created a 35-page pencil draft of the theory. Newton and the Apple.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 4, 2022

Manage social and market changes. ? However, even though their processes have brought out successes in productivity and efficiency, they could not bring out the needed innovation throughout the required sectors. These are the primary factors that must occur within organizations and companies to achieve successful innovation. .

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Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

Ten key trends surfaced from that request with great potential for driving innovation, reshaping R&D practices, and redefining product portfolio management. In this way, organizations can gain more confidence and clarity that resources are allocated to the products with the highest potential for success and profitability.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2021

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. But what is innovation management , exactly? What is innovation management?

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Businesses that adopt this usually start off by narrowing down their challenges, gathering ideas around them, reviewing said ideas, and then implementing them. 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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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. Over the next few blogs posts I'll focus on one aspect of innovation that I believe is overlooked, ignored or simply given short shrift. Lacking that, all innovation success is luck. Beyond the why is the how.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This blog covers the principles of empathy and equivalence, emphasizing their importance in creating a more positive and productive work environment. Equivalence, meanwhile, challenges traditional hierarchical structures by treating all employees’ ideas and contributions as equally important.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 21, 2020

Truly innovative companies have cultures that manage to strike productive balances that harness these opposing forces. When organizations start to look for more innovation, we usually start with all kinds of creative endeavors, such as ideation workshops, hackathons, and idea challenges. An idea is just a starting point.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

Successful organizations understand that innovation should be embedded directly into their culture and way of doing business. In this article, we’ll discuss what innovation teams are, how they are formed, how you can help them be successful, and how to sustain them both long-term and virtually with digital collaboration.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

MARCH 31, 2024

Highlighted Content : Why People Reject Ideas , Seven Essential Elements for X-Factor Ideas. Thought Leader and Influencer Interview Thinkers360 thought leader interviews profile prominent members of the Thinkers360 community who embody the power of ideas in their work. Wishing you lots of success.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 13, 2022

In this article we will explain what considerations we make when helping companies to structure their exploration activities and explain how an innovation management platform can help with that. 7 Success Factors for Innovation Exploration. Ensuring Management Buy-in. What has happened here?

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PlanBox Innovation

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In an era where ideas are currency, innovation has never been more crucial. To harness the power of innovation effectively, organizations must navigate the intricate world of intellectual property (IP) management, a process that involves safeguarding novel ideas, inventions and creations while optimizing business potential.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 30, 2020

Even if an innovation does miraculously get off the ground in that kind of a culture, it will quickly run out of fuel when the person working on it needs to get dozens of people to sign off and approve of their idea to get permission to do anything. People constantly talk about the importance of innovation and new ideas are encouraged.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Importance of Choosing the Right Keynote Speaker The selection of a keynote speaker is a critical decision that can significantly influence the success of your event. An innovation keynote speaker brings a forward-thinking perspective and stimulates a culture of creativity and progressive ideas within organizations.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

There's an old joke about perspective and laziness I love and have used before on this blog, because it illustrates many of the challenges (and opportunities) of corporate innovation. Therefore, everyone focuses like crazy on the idea generation, safe in the knowledge that they won't be called on to actually attempt to implement them.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Businesses that adopt this usually start off by narrowing down their challenges, gathering ideas around them, reviewing said ideas, and then implementing them. 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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Cris Beswick

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

But as essential players in that process, people need psychological safety, i.e. when they feel they can comfortably express ideas and opinions without fear of repercussions or judgement. Still, the rewards are well worth it, as teams that feel safe communicating and taking risks are more productive, engaged, successful and innovative.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 15, 2017

There are only 3 graphs and 3 tables in this initial release, but each can be segmented according to the four factors our customers use most commonly to organize their community: campaign, group, custom field response and/or by custom profile question – and each has a particular set of use cases in mind. Not the final product.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2018

An operations manager at a Fortune 500 hundred company recently asked me: “what are your thoughts on the best innovation ‘models’ to serve as guides for how individuals or teams can structure some of their thinking?”. Each has a set of required conditions for successful execution, and even when these are met some simply run their course.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 30, 2023

None of their ideas will succeed unless those ideas gain traction among the teachers who carry forward the work of education on a day-to-day basis. So, how can school leaders better understand teachers’ needs and motivations, and then communicate and align their new ideas toward successful adoption?

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 23, 2020

Tel Aviv, 23rd January, 2020 – FeaturedCustomers recently released their Winter 2020 Idea Management Software Customer Success Report. The report also factors in vendor momentum based on web traffic and search trends, as well as additional data aggregated from online sources and media properties.

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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 10, 2022

Launching an innovation management system does not have to be guesswork, and it is a lot easier than most organizations imagine it to be. Question 1: How can we build a system if we have not settled on an innovation management process? . Question 2: Who in the organization should manage innovation?

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Idea to Value

JULY 15, 2020

If you manage to get the timing just right, your innovations will obviously benefit from huge tailwinds when entire industries are transitioning from the old to the new with you riding at the top of the wave. On the other hand, get it wrong, and you’ll fail almost inevitably, no matter how great your idea and execution are.

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whataventure

MARCH 26, 2021

In the past months, we have talked to multiple innovation managers from various corporates to collect and analyze their challenges and learnings in our corporate innovation study. They bring together innovative ideas in the form of an incubator, investing in startups or executing innovative projects for its mother company BITO Lagertechnik.

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whataventure

MARCH 26, 2021

In the past months, we have talked to multiple innovation managers from various corporates to collect and analyze their challenges and learnings in our corporate innovation study. They bring together innovative ideas in the form of an incubator, investing in startups or executing innovative projects for its mother company BITO Lagertechnik.

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Cris Beswick

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore precisely how key leadership skills associated with Empathy can be a powerful tool to aid organisations that strive for success through innovation and why research has shown that Empathy is an essential leadership skill. As a leader, what are my expectations of managers’ DRIVING’ the innovation agenda?

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Cris Beswick

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Organisational culture plays an essential role in fostering successful innovation, yet it is often overlooked or discounted by those responsible for driving that growth, i.e. the executive team. Concerning innovation, culture plays a significant role in determining the success or failure of new ideas and endeavours.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 4, 2021

So, when you see someone who’s great at it, and seemingly effortlessly keeps coming up with brilliant out of the box ideas, it’s easy and natural to attribute that virtuosity to them just being born with it. For that, our blog and our online course The Innovation System are great resources. You just have it, or you don’t.

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Tullio Siragusa

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

All businesses aim to create a successful product or service that will sell and meet customer expectations. Business metrics are quantitative measures used to track, monitor, and analyze the success or failure of a business operation. It aids in the efficient decision-making process for corporate management. .

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2023

04:03] Different Types of Innovation: Elijah and Kumuda explore the idea that innovation can encompass both large and small changes. She emphasizes the importance of implementing measurements that serve the needs of top management while also motivating employees with achievable targets.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 15, 2017

One frequent prioritization approach works well when we have tons of ideas in a strategy workshop and need to quickly (and spontaneously) narrow them to a manageable number. We get there by estimating how many ideas we have, taking 1/5 of that number of ideas (assuming that 20% of the ideas at most have near-term applicability).

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The focus is only on numbers , without any stories of success and aspirations for what the dollars are expected to do. General managers and non-financial executives are placed in unfamiliar and poorly-performed accounting roles. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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The BMI Lab Blog

MARCH 30, 2021

In her book The Digital Transformers Dilemma , BMI Lab co-founder Karolin Frankenberger analyzed 100+ legacy businesses that managed to “Uber themselves before they got Kodak’ed” (The Digital Transformers Dilemma, 2020). What is digital transformation? Karolin Frankenberger and her colleagues visualize these parallel efforts as two s-curves.

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Qmarkets

JULY 20, 2022

“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.” Margaret Heffernan – Entrepreneur, CEO and writer Few would disagree with the notion that innovation is driven by the sharing of good ideas. The iPhone is a famous example of a product created as part of a closed innovation process.

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