Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 14, 2021

I've been asked several times lately to write about, or perhaps more specifically, to opine about, innovation strategy. If you are a somewhat regular reader of this blog or my work generally, you may know that I think talking about innovation strategy conflates two very important ideas that are related but not the same thing.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

For insights on staying ahead of the curve, consider exploring creating business strategy in a world of AI-driven rapid change. Businesses that fail to adapt to disruptive changes risk losing their competitive edge and may eventually become obsolete. This proactive stance equips you to handle the unpredictable with confidence.

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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. For insights on building robust business strategies in this disruptive environment, explore our guide on building business strategies for a disruptive world.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Dual Paths of Leadership: Immediate Gratification vs. Long-term Growth In the arena of leadership, two divergent paths often present themselves: one focused on immediate gratification and the other on long-term growth. Consider offering workshops, courses, or stipends for educational advancement.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking. These gatherings are critical for aligning leadership on company vision, strengthening interpersonal relationships, and making decisions that will steer the company’s future.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Understanding Strategic Thinking for Executives Strategic thinking is a critical component of successful leadership, particularly for senior executives who chart the course of their organizations. With the right support and resources, you can overcome these hurdles and cultivate a more strategic approach to leadership.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Understanding Strategic Thinking for Executives Strategic thinking is a critical component of successful leadership, particularly for senior executives who chart the course of their organizations. With the right support and resources, you can overcome these hurdles and cultivate a more strategic approach to leadership.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

I encourage you to get it and embrace these strategies, whether you’re running a startup or in a big company. Competition aside, both face opposing physical forces that must be overcome to win. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput.

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Planview

APRIL 29, 2024

Most strategies carry with them a failure rate of 60-90%. This isn’t a revelation: Organizations have been dealing with failed strategies for decades. If leaders want their AI bets to pay off, they need to transform strategy implementation from organizational weakness to core competency.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Power of Organizational Culture Organizational culture is the bedrock upon which companies build their strategies and operational approaches. For strategies on leading this change, delve into lead culture change for greater innovation & business growth and develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change.

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Phil McKinney

JULY 31, 2023

In the 21st Century, the leadership landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace. The need for change is more pertinent now than ever before, as traditional leadership models prove insufficient in addressing the complexities of our modern world. It is what some are calling collective leadership.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 12, 2024

In my last two blogs, I made the argument that given how fast change is happening, your strategy must incorporate and address external change and the ability to change internally. Otherwise, you are creating strategy that ignores exceptionally powerful forces that are creating change and shifting the competitive markets in real time.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In today’s marketplace, one of the most relevant factors in gaining a competitive advantage is probably not listed among the business-success factors you learned years ago. Leaders in the most competitive organizations today know that having a diverse workforce is critical to long-term success and profitability.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Unpacking Organizational Culture Defining Organizational Culture Organizational culture embodies the collective values, beliefs, and principles of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, strategy, type of employees, management style, and national culture.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 22, 2021

leadership doesn’t know if they are falling behind their competition. For a limited time, I am offering you a free strategy video call , where we can talk face-to-face (virtually), I can find out more about you and we find solutions to how best you improve the creativity and innovation capabilities of your people.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 26, 2024

Many of us who work in the consulting and strategy space often talk about the difficulties in understanding and more importantly, changing a corporate culture. I need to state here that this analysis is based on reading about Boeing and its leadership. This shift was led by executive leadership.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. For deeper insights on leading such initiatives, explore our article on leading executive team offsites for business strategy.

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Digital Tonto

JULY 23, 2023

Traditionally, strategy has been seen as a game of chess. Organizations could build up sustainable competitive advantage by painstakingly building up bargaining power within the value chain. We need to be more iterative, see what works and change course as needed.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Poor Leadership and Management Practices Leaders and managers set the tone for the workplace, and their practices can either contribute to or alleviate toxicity. Authoritarian leadership styles, inconsistent policies, and a lack of empathy can all create an environment that feels hostile to employees.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2022

In this video conversation of around 13 minutes , we explore why the leadership of organizations needs to get deeply involved in the innovation activity. The reason top leadership needs to be fully involved. ” It is harder to revive or effectively compete in today’s highly competitive global world. .”

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Digital Tonto

APRIL 2, 2023

That is, of course, a reasonable and worthy objective, but the one-dimensional use of the term is misleading and limits its value. When seen only through the lens of making others more comfortable, empathy can seem like a “nice to have,” trait rather than a valuable competency and an important source of competitive advantage.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 5, 2021

The report “ Five Bold Steps Towards a Reimagined American Innovation Agenda “, written in February 2021, argues for embracing these five bold steps of story, stewardship, strategy, scaling, and system reimagine innovation for the decade ahead. leadership as a birthright, as a matter of course. We all want that.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

Most organizations are seeking solutions to the necessary connections between Strategy and Innovation. Often it is within the strategies that should be outlined, lies the potential new spaces to play for innovation’s design. Innovation needs a much stronger alignment to strategy, they need connecting far better.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

What makes this so difficult for large organizations is that a single innovation just isn’t enough to turn the course of the company. And, if you don’t have customers, the reason really isn’t your competition, it’s you not providing them with enough value. Regardless, the gap is still huge. It just makes sense.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We can also find out which leaders will adopt innovative measures, and change the cultures of their businesses, and which will "stay the course". In other words, they'll bring along the existing leadership and the existing corporate culture. Which matters most - executives, strategy or culture? Getting smaller faster?

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 21, 2019

Executives are not investing in innovation simply for the fun of it, but recent trends have uncovered that leaders inside many enterprises are still struggling to find strong parallels between corporate and innovation strategy , and a large portion of these companies are still making “blind bets” with their innovation investments.

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Phil McKinney

AUGUST 24, 2023

Leadership is at the center of every successful organization. It is the foundation on which a leader builds a strategy for achieving the organization's desired future state. A unique sense of fulfillment and inspiration comes from envisioning a brighter future and charting the course toward it.

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Avoiding these repercussions requires a robust retention strategy that encourages team members to stick around long term. Below, we discuss the three key elements required in an employee-retention strategy. The 3 Elements of a Successful Retention Strategy. Robust Onboarding Strategy. Why Is Retention Important?

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 16, 2022

In a previous blog post, I wrote about the differences between working "in" the business for strategy and innovation versus working "on" the business for strategy and innovation. Doing work on the business is stepping back and examining how the business actually operates, and trying to define future opportunities or new strategies.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2020

This is the second in a series of articles about the convergence of strategy and innovation. For more information about the series, and a list of published and upcoming articles, please visit A New Era of Strategy and Innovation. Most strategies are built on specific beliefs about the future. Highlights. They chose another path.

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Rebel & Reason

JULY 25, 2019

Without a steady dose of innovating, reimaging, and redefining what's possible, today's biggest industry disruptors can quickly become tomorrow's status quo, losing both their place within the market as well as their competitive edge. While most people use the terms interchangeably, change management and leadership are not the same.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 5, 2021

The report “ Five Bold Steps Towards a Reimagined American Innovation Agenda “, written in February 2021, argues for embracing these five bold steps of story, stewardship, strategy, scaling, and system reimagine innovation for the decade ahead. leadership as a birthright, as a matter of course. We all want that.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

However, the good news is that there are a few attributes of the privateer persona that can and should be emulated to enhance your innovation leadership skills (and we should emphasize that this doesn’t involve getting anyone to walk the plank). Good innovation leadership means remaining focused on three distinct horizons.

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PlanBox Innovation

JUNE 27, 2023

As a leader, you understand the importance of innovation management in maintaining a competitive edge, much like a motorcyclist constantly adjusts their balance and direction when navigating a challenging road. Step 2: Leadership “Don’t lead the pack unless you know where you’re going.”

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 5, 2021

The report “ Five Bold Steps Towards a Reimagined American Innovation Agenda “, written in February 2021, argues for embracing these five bold steps of story, stewardship, strategy, scaling, and system reimagine innovation for the decade ahead. leadership as a birthright, as a matter of course. We all want that.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 3, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll explore the importance of adaptability and continuous learning in navigating the future of work and discuss practical strategies to develop these essential skills. The Need for Innovation In today’s competitive business landscape, innovation is crucial for success.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 12, 2021

And since they have gotten to leadership positions, they obviously have a lot of responsibility for the company – and also a lot to lose on a personal level. That is, of course, easier said than done when you’ve had a lot of success working the other way for years or even decades.

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