Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 11, 2021

It's actually not possible to write a short post about innovation, much less the conditions necessary for innovation to succeed, but I've tried to simplify this into nine critical factors for success. With those basics in mind, you can do a lot of good innovation. And, the work isn't free and requires air cover.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

I've been writing, speaking and consulting about innovation for over 15 years, and I'm constantly amazed by the different perspectives and definitions about innovation. This is because there is little management engagement or support, a lack of preparation and skills, and a narrow definition of discovery and risk.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 17, 2024

Discontinuous innovation represents a seismic shift in how industries function and evolve. By definition, it refers to the introduction of groundbreaking products or services that fundamentally change market dynamics, often rendering existing solutions obsolete.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 12, 2019

Today, I'd like to write about sponsorship, and why it is critical to have engaged sponsors for ideas and for innovation. This idea is important enough that I took the extra 30 seconds and looked up the definition of sponsor. I think this is as close as we can get to what an innovation or idea sponsor is.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

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. Demonstrate that innovation depends on finding the most innovative people, who by definition are rarely the more efficient people.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 15, 2017

Second, describe the benefit to the organization, business or community of an incremental change and/or a radical or disruptive change. Third, give the innovators and entrepreneurs a stake in the outcome. What rationale do innovators have to work on interesting or disruptive ideas if they have no stake in the outcome?

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Innovation is not synonymous with good and innovation practitioners are not necessarily making the world a better place. Innovation: Good Intentions May Not Be Enough Dams for Hydropower: Built to harness clean energy from rivers, they’ve often disrupted local ecosystems and displaced communities.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It begins by defining innovation as a departure from the norm and highlights the importance of tying innovation to specific outcomes. The discussion then delves into different types of innovation, including incremental, sustaining, and disruptive, with real-world examples illustrating their significance.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 31, 2020

In a recent post, I mentioned a labor strike as a productive analogy for developing strategies during this time of global disruption. We’ve always preached that the definition of strategic doesn’t include a time component. Prioritize Strategic Issues. Ask (and re-ask) what matters right now, in a month, and two months.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 4, 2015

Incremental to Disruptive While executives talk about "disruptive" innovation, our survey results so far demonstrate that the vast majority of respondents report that their innovation work is very incremental. Two-thirds of respondents to date place their innovation focus at very incremental or incremental.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 29, 2016

In many corporate settings where we've done innovation consulting we see this play out over and over. They want the outcomes of exciting, disruptive innovation without the variability and costs associated with what happens in the wild. Managers and executives want and need stability, repeatability, predictability.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

That’s because your pace of innovation, or your rate of improvement, has compounding, exponential, returns and thus a clear competitive advantage. As long as you keep improving at that consistent pace, your competitors can only catch you if they move even faster – or if they change the game entirely by disrupting the market.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 13, 2021

The worst thing you can do is to start with a poorly identified opportunity or problem, or fail to fully understand the scope (incremental or disruptive) or type (product, service, business model) of innovation that is expected. The wrap up So, there's a logic tree that ends this post.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Here are some common approaches to this problem: Look for Creative Employees Creativity is most definitely a component of innovation, but only one component. It turns out there are seven other skills that drive innovation business results. These are the 8 instrinsic skills required for success in innovation.

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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 10, 2022

This article originally appeared on Innovation Leader. Launching an innovation management system does not have to be guesswork, and it is a lot easier than most organizations imagine it to be. Innovation by definition is very different from typical business processes, and it should be in a constant state of flux.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

And despite innovation supposedly being a mature topic inside organisations worldwide, the number one global blocker to innovation culture is the lack of consistent definitions of innovation inside organisations! Leaders who drive this proactive approach help avoid the stagnation of current offerings.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I think we often over complicate the work of innovation, because we believe it cannot be simple and straightforward. After all, how can an activity that can disrupt an industry, create compelling new products or services and reap significant riches be simple? Ideas are simply a waypoint in an innovation process or exercise.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A great deal of activity has been happening under the topic of ‘open innovation’, however we have found very different initiatives launched by our clients that challenge a common definition of the term. The open innovation process here self-organizes the proper fit for start-up-to-problem-solution pairing.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 15, 2016

There's an innovation analogy today Currently, many innovation teams are shaping up a lot like Henry Ford's company. Instead of cars, they are working on innovations. And you can have any innovation you like, incremental or disruptive, as long as it results in a tangible product.

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IM Insights

AUGUST 8, 2023

Topics and Insights [00:00] Teaser & Innovation Metrics Podcast Intro [01:35] Introducing the Guests, Susie Braam & Ed Essey Susie and Ed have known each other and worked together for a while. 03:22] What is Innovation? The importance of a shared language within organizations for understanding innovation is emphasized.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 29, 2015

Also embedded in this idea is the concept that people must be trained on innovation tools and processes. A definition of innovation. What is innovation for your company? Incremental change or disruptive change? They argue that many companies don't measure innovation. One of my favorites.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

We are probably in the middle of the biggest disruptive change in the market since industrialization. To succeed, companies need greater crisis awareness, the right skills and tools, and a clear plan with definite milestones. The solution is an innovation process that shortens the time from prototype to launch.

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etventure

OCTOBER 26, 2016

So, the industry simply carried on with business as usual – putting innovation on the back burner. Disruption Defined. What is the essence of disruption? Our definition – “when an innovator finds a way to deliver the product or service you offer in a radically better way than you do.”. The Threat.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 13, 2016

You tell everyone what you’re disrupting. And here are the symptoms of Innovation Theatre inside an organisation: You talk a lot about what Google Apple would do. You buy innovation management software, and expect it to create innovation. You need to build an innovation process. Instead, let’s act.

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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. For me, the process and management of innovation really does need to be definitely questioned.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 4, 2021

Probably one of the most common myths and misconceptions we come across is that people think that if something isn’t a big technological breakthrough or a patentable invention, it isn’t “real innovation”. That is understandable, given how we have countless definitions for the term, and how the media often uses it in misleading ways.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Operational excellence is a business principle which is currently supported by a range of process management tools and methodologies, however, these approaches fail to utilize the most valuable resource at the disposal of all large organizations - their employees. How has the landscape of process excellence changed?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

So we recognise digital transformation needs to lead somewhere, well it is really most likely to fundamentally alter your (innovation) business model. I like this as a definition to tighten down digital but it opens us up to the darker side of digital transformation, the risk of digital disruption.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

So we recognise digital transformation needs to lead somewhere, well it is really most likely to fundamentally alter your (innovation) business model. I like this as a definition to tighten down digital but it opens us up to the darker side of digital transformation, the risk of digital disruption.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 18, 2016

I find that I've become increasingly irritated with all of the narrow interpretations and self-serving definitions of what is, or isn't, innovation. 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. How disruptive or incremental should the ideas be?

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

But if you don’t start believing that you need to disrupt yourselves before somebody else does, you’re likely going to get disrupted by somebody else. Lots of times, it’s just too difficult to ask the same people working on what your business is already doing to spend time breaking or disrupting it. Governance & Metrics 1.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

Unfortunately, too many corporation’s investment practices measure the return on individual innovations rather the return on the portfolio of innovations. At the end of that exercise you get an appreciation of the nearly infinite field of innovations available to you.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

But if you don’t start believing that you need to disrupt yourselves before somebody else does, you’re likely going to get disrupted by somebody else. Lots of times, it’s just too difficult to ask the same people working on what your business is already doing to spend time breaking or disrupting it. Governance & Metrics.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

Unfortunately, too many corporation’s investment practices measure the return on individual innovations rather the return on the portfolio of innovations. At the end of that exercise you get an appreciation of the nearly infinite field of innovations available to you.

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Innovation 360

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

What’s the hardest part of commercialising innovative concepts? First, the Innovation Process consists of four phases; Ideation, Selection, Development, and Commercialization. In our global analytic tool and database, InnoSurvey™, we measure the Innovation Capability needed in each an one of this phases.

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Strategyn

JUNE 20, 2017

The job-to-be-done, by definition, is always bigger and more encompassing than a product category. One Job Manager would have been focused on helping businesses “obtain new customers”, a job that was better addressed and disrupted by non-traditional competitors. They would have created two Job Manager roles.

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Innovators Alliance

MAY 18, 2018

Yet we all throw around terms like creativity, breakthroughs, and disruptive innovation. Innovation is going to shape the future. Some might argue that innovation is impossible to quantify. Why aren’t more companies measuring innovation? Because innovation is nebulous. Definitions differ.

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