Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This analogy aligns so well to what corporate America does when it comes to a focus on innovation - intent discovery on things that don't matter, while purposefully ignoring the factors that must change to make innovation successful. Thus corporations emphasize the unimportant and rush away just as the real work begins.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

As I delved deeper into the processes that underpin effective innovation management that AI could transform, I realized the potential for even greater disruption than I had thought. Managing Change in the Organization The introduction of AI into established phases and gates processes can result in significant organizational change.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 8, 2020

First, some definitions Open innovation has traditionally meant getting ideas or technologies from individuals or teams outside your company. To my knowledge, the phrase "closed innovation" hasn't ever been a thing, but if it was, it would define doing idea generation entirely within a company, with no input from the outside world.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 23, 2023

For many people, it evokes brands that created something so new that it changed the way we interact with certain products or services forever: Uber. Whereas Netflix’s streaming service is a clear cut case of disruptive innovation, its content recommendation capabilities is a great example of incremental innovation. Let’s get started.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The status quo of the existing places an increasing drag on the forces of change. Then disruption suddenly hits. Am I happy with this, no of course not but in my view “nothing can change until something does change” What do I mean by that? The other valuable point for me was another insight from the survey. “

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

In most discrete innovation projects, the ideas generated are not distinguished from existing products or services, and thus many times the activity is deemed unsatisfactory or even a failure. Some will be short and focused on incremental change, while others are longer and focus on more disruptive ideas.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 7, 2024

Because it is currently being challenged by poor sales performance, it has bunkered down and frozen any change initiatives, learning programs or new projects until mid-2025. GenAI’s most prominent contribution is in idea generation and validation—innovation’s divergence and convergence phases.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 1, 2017

I continue to investigate and explore as much of the thought leadership on innovation as I can, it continually points to a change in how we approach innovation. Delivering this changing message becomes simply a cause in itself as so many are failing to recognize it as radically different from their past innovation management.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Their talks can be a catalyst for change, encouraging your team to pursue innovation with renewed vigor. The best innovation keynote speakers talking points often cover the challenges of scaling innovations, the importance of cross-functional teams, and the strategies to overcome resistance to change.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 7, 2020

FFE is the starting point of NPD and is where new product ideas are generated before entering the formal development process. Developing a strategy here is key in creating an efficient and cost-effective idea generation process, but how should you approach this?

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Brunner

MARCH 18, 2021

Disruption becomes a part of your DNA so you can achieve the previously unthinkable when delivering measurable value. . 1 = you feel your brand is constantly subject to change, 10 = you feel your brand remains constant. . . Q5) Is being disruptive a part of your company’s culture? . Being a Challenger Brand has benefits.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This reduces the risk of innovation and increases visibility Introduce the idea of innovation portfolios and the need to innovate across the three horizons. A company needs to make reasonable bets across the incremental, transformative and disruptive horizons in proportions that make sense based on competition and speed of change.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 16, 2017

Boundaries seem to be continually pushed in business, nothing seemingly stands still, yet many things stay caught up in not being changed. Something has to change, we need to jettison old ways. This is changing as the very core is changing to adapt to more volatile conditions, changing landscapes and more disruption.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

It allows for a more agile response to market changes and unforeseen disruptions. For instance, by analyzing patterns in supply chain data, AI can anticipate disruptions and suggest alternative suppliers or solutions. These predictive insights enable us to proactively address issues before they escalate into bigger problems.

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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. The idea generation phase involves various possible solutions, then the designers start prototyping, gaining feedback, and ongoing iterations. All these step-by-step processes after idea generation eliminate bad design.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 23, 2024

Building the Case for the Hierarchy of Ecosystem Needs: In the rapidly evolving business landscape, we face constant change and recognise complexity is rapidly becoming the norm. It enables agile responses to internal and external changes, ensuring the organization can navigate uncertainties effectively.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 15, 2022

No matter that the questions, you can prepare yourselves ahead of time without disrupting the business. In the present economic situation, when your business is surrounded by instability, pandemics, and disruption, planning to innovate business strategies or prepare for recessions is prudent and wise.

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Board of Innovation

JULY 20, 2023

Harnessing AI for idea generation In the first phase of an AI-powered innovation sprint, businesses can utilize AI to generate a wide range of ideas. By combining the power of AI with human creativity, businesses can uncover unique and groundbreaking concepts that have the potential to disrupt industries.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 15, 2016

The subject was the changes occurring at the front end of innovation. My argument was the results we have obtained from a disconnected set of front end activities was poorer than they should be and this needs changing. So here is the newsletter, I will be explaining the impact and change potential that can be made in a future post.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Failure in a funded project in a corporation is typically judged rather harshly, and over the last 3 to 4 decades with outsourcing, rightsizing, cost reductions, six sigma and more, we've trained a management cadre to dislike change, risk and uncertainty. So any new idea is often called into question, and closely examined for risk.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 7, 2020

Let’s start with my experience: We decided to follow agile principles in our quest to implement an autonomous ‘idea generation’ process to fight boredom and channelize extraneous energy. I used the new learning with the team in my lab, in the background of Covid-19 and the changing times.

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Michael Roberto

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

People got worse at one type of idea generation, even as they thought they were getting better at it.” Change things up! Disrupt routines quite intentionally. Even change the time of day perhaps. Huang concludes, "To practice creativity effectively, we have to change how we define practice.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

It connects the present with the desired future and identifies the ‘seen’ disruptions which might occur in moving towards a vision” Shifting our present Measurements and Metrics to Ultimate Outcomes. . ” Thinking in different horizons prompts you to go beyond the usual focus of fixing innovation just in the present.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

Yet far more of our business organizations are continuing to really struggle on their innovation activity for a whole host of reasons that seem never-ending, disappointing in end result and stuck in management quicksand to ever really change. Perhaps we are in urgent need to change the very dynamics of how we undertake innovation.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 18, 2016

What simple thing can a company do to change their conversation / perspective about innovation? In reality, if the customer doesn’t perceive the changes as having value, then they won’t be compelled to purchase it. What simple thing can a company do to change their conversation / perspective about it?:

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 20, 2016

Without an agreed standard, and considering the wide array of potential outcomes for innovation (incremental to disruptive, products, services, business models, experiences and channels to name only a few), there is no one way to do innovation, and so many variations as to make training impossible, except in very narrow capabilities or tools.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 18, 2016

So, when people refuse to play the same game again - even though the management has changed - people are perplexed. Has this request been made before, and what happened when people presented ideas? Companies are like elephants: they are large, resist change and have long memories. But you've got to define that for them.

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Wazoku

AUGUST 17, 2018

Idea management is the process of generating, collating, analysing and implementing ideas that solve real business problems, as part of a wider innovation strategy. Effective development and implementation of meaningful ideas will empower businesses to improve quality, while reducing costs. Not setting clear objectives.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

I was leading an innovation training session, talking about the reasons for conducting trend spotting and scenario planning prior to idea generation. I described why we advocate trend spotting and scenario planning as a component of innovation, especially as the expectations of an innovation activity are more disruptive.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The trend data you gather can be based on anything from new technologies and services to new disruptive business models. This differs to the normal parameters of idea generation, as it is entirely focused on improving something that already exists rather than creating something new.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The trend data you gather can be based on anything from new technologies and services to new disruptive business models. Benefits of Crowdsourcing Trends Facilitate Focused & Efficient Ideation Within innovation, knowing where to focus your ideas by basing them on trend data is extremely efficient.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2017

Something to Think about for Your Business: Do your innovation metrics track performance from idea generation to R&D, and through business results? We tackle: Whether facts or emotional appeals are ideal to challenge fear of innovation-driven change. Letting Go when an Innovation Strategy Isn’t Working.

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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. This left employees sceptical of the idea that future programs would be any different. TSYS deployed A+B’s methodology in three stages.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 31, 2017

This helps ensure that they become exemplary corporate citizens capable of helping graft significant change onto the organizations that they work for. An example highlighted by Gartner involved a telecommunications company that was embarking upon a major changes in its workflow. Stage 3: Learn lessons.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Qualitative Consumer Verbatims Lead Directly to New and Improved Ideas. Disruptive Innovation Requires Reframing of Consumer Words and Need States. They’re not bad, but they rarely lead to disruptive innovation. ” These higher order problem frames could lead to an idea like the ATM, a disruptive innovation.

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Idea Drop

OCTOBER 5, 2017

With innovation comes disruptive change and innovators will inevitably face a myriad of dismissals in pursuit of an ideation strategy. Often caused by a disconnect between the idea generators and decision makers, innovation can never truly thrive unless every person within a law firm is onboarded.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Adapting to change drives business strategy and innovation drives change. Innovation must adhere to the overall aims of business strategy but that strategy should be flexible enough to pivot, where needed, to the disruption that innovation leaders seek to drive. Skill Four: Generating Ideas.

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