Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

The question management teams are asking and answering is: how can we manage our near term costs to keep the investors happy in the short run? Note that this is NOT a bad question to ask, because investors are constantly watching the effectiveness of the management team and want to see companies hitting their numbers.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 17, 2021

I'm a fan of military history, and it is always striking to me to see how much new product development and innovation can learn from the military and vice versa. Too often, executives and military leaders don't want to hear the "bad news" and that leads them to double down on poor strategies. Communicate.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Training Disruption 144

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

Given the pace of change and the number of factors that are changing in the environment, taking some time to understand what may happen and, more importantly, what may happen in response, is very important. No matter how good your ideas are today, most firms cannot hope to realize them as new products or services for months or years.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This process is widely adopted by managers, executives, and consultants to drive new product development, service innovation, and business model refinement. At the core of design thinking lies a commitment to putting users’ experiences and feedback at the forefront of product and service design.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 24, 2018

With all of this insight, we must ask: how can a business win as the explore:exploit model continues to change? How might we win as the explore:exploit model changes? Product development cycle times are now longer than shelf lives. Instead you must shift people, resources and focus to the exploration phase.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Corporations assign teams without skills or experience, rapidly conduct "brainstorming" exercises based primarily on current opinion or past experience and move as quickly as possible to present a small handful of ideas to a wary executive team. This crowds the product development process and eliminates room for new concepts to enter.

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Underperforming Technical Team Product Development Innovation Exercises 100

Adam Hartung

MARCH 30, 2016

It is not shy about seeking action at the Board level to change the direction of a company – by changing the CEO, seeking downsizings and reogranizations, changing dividend policy, seeking share buybacks, recommending asset sales, or changing other resource allocations. Activists have been around a long time.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The Age of AI and Business Strategy Understanding AI-Driven Rapid Change In the current landscape, AI-driven technologies are reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. Artificial Intelligence is not just a tool but a revolutionary force, catalyzing fundamental changes in how businesses operate, compete, and deliver value.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How can design thinking help with product development? This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. Prototype: In this step, the team creates a rough model of the solution to test and evaluate. What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies?

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IdeaSpies

JULY 21, 2019

To this end in the UK, the research funding councils set up the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in the mid-2000s, which ranks each UK university in terms of the quality and impact of its research, accordingly allocating funding and resources based upon the results. . Fortunately, it can be bridged by collaborating with industry. .

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It is what will drive an enterprise’s creative engine that is the source of long-term, future growth Most of today’s large corporate enterprises treat strategy, R&D, and innovation as separate and distinct functions – worthy of specialized teams, segmented funding, reporting structures and operational charters. This is starting to change.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 9, 2020

In this blog post we talk about receptivity to change in Financial Services and some thoughts on how to move forward. Going forward, our customers and other stakeholders will be more receptive to change in how we engage with them and what we offer. This can be problematic in a time that demands change. Readiness for Change?

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company). The answer, to me, is how the meaning of innovation has changed. The question is “Why?”

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company). The answer, to me, is how the meaning of innovation has changed. The question is “Why?”.

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Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 57

Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

It’s about the culture needed to win in an ever changing marketplace, especially after Covid 19. Would that be so bad? I was recently with a founder of a small Swiss tech startup, and he was all over the ‘how’ they are squeezing value out of a step-change technology, to generate as many user cases as possible, whichever they are.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development.

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IdeaSpies

AUGUST 31, 2018

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company). The answer, to me, is how the meaning of innovation has changed. The question is “Why?”

Software Review 57

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 57

Be-novative

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

To uncover the techniques that connect individuals, teams and organisations with a sense of purpose we involved best practices from our partner organisations. Card game builds on chronic large-scale organizational problems and in a gamified way it encourages teams to talk about likely and unlikely situations to solve meaningful problems.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

To survive and thrive, it’s critical that you recognize the signs of disruption and understand the necessity of adapting to these changes. For insights on staying ahead of the curve, consider exploring creating business strategy in a world of AI-driven rapid change.

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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. In this case, plan how to communicate and launch the change permanently to production. shopping cart checkout pages, detail pages of your most expensive products, etc…).

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The various discussions about user interface, product usability, and user engagement have been an enlightening experience for me as well, and it is very positive to see that everyone involved in the product thinks so highly about improving the user experience. If we don’t like a particular color, we know how to change it.

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Mike Shipulski

AUGUST 3, 2016

For established companies, when times are good, it’s not the right time to try something new – the resources are there but the motivation is not; and when times are tough it’s also the wrong time to try something new – the motivation is there but the breathing room is not. The environment is ever-changing on all fronts.

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Be-novative

MAY 13, 2021

Or even more, what if you are part of the minority group as a consultant or as team lead? Having built her international business up and leading an international team, she often finds herself in a situation where her being a female leaves her feeling taken less seriously. INVOLVE YOUR TEAM THAT SUPPORTS YOU.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Let our team of non-conformists help you build your innovative company culture. A conformist company culture stifles innovation and breeds weakness. While middle management can keep the company strong in the near-term, the stifling of innovation makes the organization weak in the long-run. Conformity abhors change.

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Leanstack

MARCH 29, 2018

Even though, his savings ran out 6 months ago, he has hit a comfortable groove using freelance consulting to keep his product development going. Maybe now he can get the support of his developer friends who failed to see his vision earlier? Hire 3 developers. But for that I need more developers. deployment day.”

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Leanstack

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The stereotype of the entrepreneur has changed. A year later, Steve is still building his product. He has no product revenue and relies on part-time freelancing work to fund his product development. On the other hand, Larry has a growing customer base, revenue, and team. And he works alone. What is he to do?

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Lack of attention – Companies do not have the time and resources to spend on futures when so much effort and time are required to deliver the next quarter and on one-to-three-year plans.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

The lens through which the entrepreneurial mind sees the world is generally one of how to create something totally new and cool – sometimes something that will "unbundle", or disrupt, an existing industry – that will allow them to make history and potentially change the world.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Together, they reduce the risk of failure, improve the success rate of new ideas and can help build an organisation which is more resilient to change and able to grow. 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.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When it comes to the development and commercialization of new products , no one holds more accountability for the product’s ultimate success than the Product Manager. Product Manager” isn’t exactly a title that fits neatly into a box.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

If you want to create a successful, hyper-growth company, you've got to focus on empowering your teams to rapidly experiment.” When data-driven experiments are run (like market surveys), they often take too long, cost too much or deliver little new insight to develop the idea. Encourage bold/crazy ideas 2.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

The system is rooted in experimentation, and, like all adaptive systems, it evolves over time as the external environment and internal needs change. However, they have the resources to conduct experiments in order to explore new fields of businesses, concurrently with exploiting their existing business. Tellis, Jaideep C.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Applying these principles or methodologies throughout an enterprise helps mitigate the risk of producing products or services no one wants , and allows the allocation of capital and resources to ideas that create value. In many companies, older products are coming to end of life and they need to make way for new ideas.

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LEAN Examples Agile Design Thinking 105

Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The first article discussed the pros and cons of different UX team structures. For companies that depend on user experience for business success, a strong internal team is essential. They can be fantastic partners who drive real change, but their needs are very different from a product team.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

[caption id="attachment_21197" align="alignleft" width="330"] Jeff Holden - "Build a team that has an experimental ethos"[/caption] Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon, states : “Our success at Amazon is a function of how many experiments we do per year, per month, per week, per day…”. Encourage bold/crazy ideas 2.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

[caption id="attachment_21197" align="alignleft" width="330"] Jeff Holden - "Build a team that has an experimental ethos"[/caption] Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon, states : “Our success at Amazon is a function of how many experiments we do per year, per month, per week, per day…”. Encourage bold/crazy ideas 2.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Ideation Artificial Inteligence 40

Integrative Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

The system is rooted in experimentation, and, like all adaptive systems, it evolves over time as the external environment and internal needs change. However, they have the resources to conduct experiments in order to explore new fields of businesses, concurrently with exploiting their existing business. Tellis, Jaideep C.

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