Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements. Innovation as a project Of course, almost all innovation is a project - starting with a specific need or desire to create a new product or service, or to generate new revenues or gain new market share.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Nuanced Art of Leadership: When to Step in and When to Guide When it comes to team dynamics and organizational behavior, leadership remains a constant beacon guiding the ship. But how does one lead effectively, ensuring team growth while also achieving the organization’s objectives? Leadership isn’t a one-size-fits-all endeavor.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

…Accelerating Teams Through Assessment and Training. It’s a sad fact of organizational life that only a small percentage of teams achieve high function. Most teams muddle along, and get the essential things done — or not. And, all teams can improve, with training. Teams Improve With Momentum Training.

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etventure

JANUARY 5, 2017

Of course, we could do that – hold a brainstorming session and off we go. But how can we know whether a solution developed in line with this principle would ultimately be used by the target group? We’ll ask the sales team what the customers would need. And, if they didn’t use it, why didn’t they?

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

I'm actually more interested in the 90+% of ideas that never make it to product development. Failure - the good, the bad and the ugly Let's first admit that some failure is necessary. This is the bad side of failure. Why is there so much failure in the front end of innovation? Prototype, prototype, prototype.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 7, 2021

If a company developed a way of doing things in 2015, then it was likely the ideal one at the time. Technology improves; companies grow and tap into new resources; new people are hired and incorporated into the team; the standard of innovation and best practices for entire industries can shift dramatically.

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Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 15, 2019

Spark is a simple, self-guided innovation kit built for business teams who want to collaborate to de-risk business ideas. Have you (or your team) ever had an amazing business idea, but you were afraid to invest in something uncertain? This is why we created Spark. Spark is tools and knowledge applied in practice. Explore Spark.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Workforce members understand what is expected of them, and they are more likely to achieve goals when they work collectively as a cohesive team. Defining measurable goals allows you to track progress and make adjustments where necessary to stay on course. If done right, department goals must be aligned closely with company objectives.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

I bet the post title got your attention, but of course in this modern age of digital content we bloggers need headlines that pop through all of the noise and gain attention. It helps, of course, that I'm of the opinion that the headline is provocative, and has, as Kissenger once said, the added benefit of being true.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 9, 2016

I thought by this year in history (2016) everyone in the business world would have a clue as to how to do ideation (aka brainstorming) properly. If you read my post here and feel like this would make sense — h ere are my course offerings. Wide open questions will get you thousands of ideas — mostly bad ideas.

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Stephen Shapiro

APRIL 21, 2020

Back then, companies would use software to automate bad processes, speeding up bad results. This is the modern-day version of automating bad processes. Sometimes these are real-world problems that teams need to solve using the tools. You can, of course, repeat the process multiple times. BEYOND PRESENTATIONS.

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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

Meeting facilitators and Learning & Development professionals must evaluate these challenges and identify the best practices to overcome them to create the most valuable experience for the participants. Back: You focus on the needs of your team members. You provide team members the opportunity to speak up and share their ideas.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

They go straight to brainstorming without preparing minds, and that’s a big reason sessions fail. A teacher figures out where a student is, their “zone of proximal development” The teacher then scaffolds the students thinking, using various tools, to make new connections and learn. The reason? Get in touch!

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

This cycle should involve the following steps: implementation, connectivity development, ensuring a ‘first and foremost’ focus on innovation, ideation and brainstorming, and finally, implementing a formal innovation management system. Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 30, 2017

This cycle should involve the following steps: implementation, connectivity development, ensuring a ‘first and foremost’ focus on innovation, ideation and brainstorming, and finally, implementing a formal innovation management system. Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 29, 2015

In the previous article we talked about why site optimization is important and presented a few important goals and philosophies to impart on your team. Review data sources and brainstorm new test ideas. We created the following minimum completion criteria for my past team at DIRECTV Latin America. Optimization process.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 18, 2016

I'm happy to climb up on a soapbox again to talk about one of the most common scapegoats for innovation, the act of brainstorming. So I rise today to neither praise nor bury brainstorming, but to place it in its proper context. Brainstorming is a group technique to generate, socialize and evaluate ideas. Everyone knows this.

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Leanstack

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Not a bad way to be introduced to the Alps… I drove back with Fabi. and Team Formation (2015) Shortly after that, Fabi started an eMBA course and convinced his Professor to use the flight simulator for the class project. Cisco used the simulator during offsite all-hands employee events for team building.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Co-Authored by Heather Hiscox and Amelia Klawon Get the full case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. Board members and executive teams can also have significant power. Innovation in the social impact sector can seem intimidating and unreachable.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs of this blog post and will now cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or not understood by the members of your team. How might you frame the questions you want your team thinking about this week?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

This impact is evident across various facets of business, from operational efficiency and customer experience to product development and market analysis. To foster a strategic mindset among your leadership team, consider the insights from 10 ways to get your leadership team thinking strategically and building the best business strategies.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. This, of course, is perfectly understandable.

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The BMI Lab Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Basically, over the course of 2 days (September 21-22) we invited Covestro´s selected senior managers to Switzerland. We identified and discussed strong areas and weak areas. Self-reflection is really important in a BMI process, since we need to build upon our strengths and develop our weaknesses to build up innovation capabilities.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. This, of course, is perfectly understandable.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. This, of course, is perfectly understandable.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

What it is: One of the most challenging aspects of innovation for most companies is not the generating of ideas, or the development of new innovations. They can cite a number of seemingly valid reasons for this, including: My team hasn’t got the time to resources or time to take ownership of this new thing.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 16, 2016

Fast Company Article “Brainstorming is Dumb” Misses the Point. Brainstorming, Done Properly, Is Not a Tool, It’s A Multi-Step Process. And yet another major publication publishes a misleading article about brainstorming — Brainstorming is Dumb. Brainstorming as a technique is beside the point.

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Mills-Scofield

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

Of course you should avoid name-calling and finger-pointing. Don’t say things like “I feel so bad about saying this” or “This is really hard for me to do,” because it takes the focus away from the problem and toward your own neediness. There are some basic rules you can follow to keep from pushing your counterpart’s buttons.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

And companies regularly boast about how they are spending millions (and sometimes billions) of dollars into research & development to come up with innovative new offerings. Delivery: A team of people who have the ability to take rough ideas and develop them into a customer-facing innovation.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 6, 2009

This article is about a method drawn from storytelling that can help us build a better story about our product, unify teams, inspire design concepts and get us closer to evoking the pleasure, emotion and meaning of the experience we intend to deliver to users through the products and services we design. With a theme, of course.

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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.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 22, 2016

At the SAP Design & Co-Innovation Center (DCC), we frequently organize the so-called “Method Mondays,” a regular one-hour meeting series in which the team members share, practice, and test different methods. Brainstorming: The Walt Disney method. Afterwards, we brainstorm on how this exemplary daily sequence could be improved. “A

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 19, 2015

This article will likely be part of a book on the front end of innovation that’s in development, stay tuned. It certainly doesn’t happen in most brainstorming sessions. How to effectively do Mash-Ups, either alone or with a team, is not a simple answer. Meanwhile I hope you find this guide useful.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 30, 2013

It included various utilities, and of course a rock-paper-scissors game. What would be so bad about it?” Me: And what would be so bad about that? Because the great products, the ones we revere, are invariably the work of product teams brave enough to make choices. So I made a better one. It sold two copies.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Intuit had developed its mobile platform late in the game, creating an inconsistent experience. Hanson, in turn, put together a team of nine people to help her. This core team would become known as the Innovation Catalysts. The design principles unified, inspired, and guided the developers.

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