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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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Whitepaper called “ Product Complexity, Digital Transformation, and the Innovation Imperative- The race to reinvent how complex products are developed is here “ This made me a little jealous and a little wishing that ‘we’, across the whole of innovation management , could not have one of these platforms available today.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 10, 2021

Companies that create strong listening programs that interact with customers and consumers to understand their needs and present real market and product opportunities to their business will be rewarded. The resistance to an outside-in innovation and new product development process has got to change.

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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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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Here you can see how the top 10 countries’ positions have changed over the past 4 years, and how Switzerland has remained steady at the top. Knowledge and Technology Outputs. And one thing I cannot argue against is that the wealth of data enables the team to provide some very interesting assessments of innovation.

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Underperforming Technical Team Data Report Innovation 100

Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

So if you know that the CEO’s greatest pain is the fact that the sales team isn’t communicating with marketing or manufacturing, resulting in lower sales and poor customer experiences, then you have to look at what you’re proposing and figure out how it can ease that pain or even solve that problem. As you do this, state it clearly.

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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. I think we can all agree that user adoption is the primary objective for all products. User adoption is not something that evolves at a particular point of a product development life cycle.

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IdeaSpies

JULY 21, 2019

Take Bell Labs, for example, an industrial research and development (R&D) company, now owned by Nokia but originally founded by Alexander Graham Bell in the late-1800s. The tried and tested route is to start by speaking with the university’s technology transfer (or research and innovation) office.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Navigating a Disruptive Business Environment In today’s fast-paced and technology-driven landscape, businesses are frequently faced with disruptions that can significantly impact their operations and long-term viability. Recognizing the early signs of these disruptions is key to responding effectively.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

Although the term “innovation” has found a place in everyday diction, true, game-changing innovation still remains elusive. They link innovation to their well-defined business objectives by establishing and maintaining dedicated innovation teams. They adhere to lean principles of product development.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2016

In lean startup, before beginning to test solution ideas, one focuses on developing empathy through customer development interviews. Market Research and Product Silos vs. Cross-Functional Teams For starters, product and market research are usually two separate activities. They require two separate teams.

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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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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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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

*This post originally appeared on Mind the Product. The market is changing faster than ever, and an organization’s ability to move at the speed of the Internet is the only chance at surviving and thriving. We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit.

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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

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?”

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Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 57

Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

*This post originally appeared on Mind the Product. The market is changing faster than ever, and an organization’s ability to move at the speed of the Internet is the only chance at surviving and thriving. We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture Disruption 72

Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

An organization may have many channels of communication with the end-users, but the messages spoken by the business unit can be very different than those of the product development team or customer support team. If we don’t like a particular color, we know how to change it. Where to from here?

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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. But the tools used today to chart a path into the future – customer insight, market research, business intelligence, technology roadmapping and many others – are built for a continuation of today.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

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Mike Shipulski

AUGUST 3, 2016

For startup companies, when times are good, it’s the right time to try something new – the resources are there and so is the motivation; and when times are tough it’s also the right time to try something new – the motivation is there and breathing room is a sign of weakness. The environment is ever-changing on all fronts.

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Mike Shipulski

MAY 10, 2017

Teams are asked to solve the problem three or four ways and explain the rationale for choosing one solution over the other. With manufacturing and product development, it’s all about Gantt charts and hitting dates. It’s like they have a will of their own, and, sometimes, they have a bad attitude.

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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. Engineering / Science / Technology.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 27, 2021

In this movement, two disciplines emerged to act as engines of change and facilitate this process: UX and UI. knowledge, considered complementary, easily integrated into teams, and used together in business strategies, there is confusion surrounding the non-specialized public’s minds regarding experience, interaction, and usability.

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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. Over time and iteration, this new technology will begin improving to handle more demanding uses. If this doesn’t work, it is going to make me look bad.

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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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hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

The world is moving around you - customer expectations are changing, competitors are always catching up and threatening to take away your business.”. Jobs began by changing the company’s image and ran his “Think Different” advertising campaign, which glorified individuality. If you thought GameCube was bad, Wii U was worse.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Colin Palombo, Managing Partner at Innovation Framework Technologies, explains how experimentation and innovation should work hand in hand to produce groundbreaking results. Amazon is one of the most innovative companies on the planet – launching successful, bold new products and services on a regular basis.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The unprecedented shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many organizations to change ways they do business. Almost every business operation has been affected: from the manner firms talk to their customers to the logistics of product delivery to maintaining channels of communication between employees.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The unprecedented shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many organizations to change ways they do business. Almost every business operation has been affected: from the manner firms talk to their customers to the logistics of product delivery to maintaining channels of communication between employees.

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Crowdsourcing Tools Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 52

Acuvate

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

According to a report by IDG , 89 percent of enterprises plan or already have adopted a digital-first strategy by weaving data analytics, private cloud, and mobile technology into their operations. Any technological upgrade or replacement in any of the components can create a ripple side-effect in multiple other parts of your business.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

When designing something, (ie: a technology, a product, a marketing material…) it is paramount to keep the needs of the end user in mind. Design thinking is a step above “customer development” because it takes a real human approach to getting to the root of an intrinsic problem. Others are being disrupted.

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LEAN Examples Agile Design Thinking 105

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Colin Palombo, Managing Partner at Innovation Framework Technologies, explains how experimentation needs to be a key part of your innovation process. If you want to create a successful, hyper-growth company, you've got to focus on empowering your teams to rapidly experiment.”. Encourage bold/crazy ideas 2.

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