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Eliminating innovation unknowns - definitions

Jeffrey Phillips

Yesterday I wrote a post about the need for executives to eliminate the "unknowns" when they want their teams to innovate. But when we call on people to innovate, there are a host of unknowns and uncertainties. How do we prioritize existing projects and new innovation work? But note the range of definitions.

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Shared innovation language accelerates innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I was leading an innovation workshop recently with a company that invited in some of its customers to talk about the future. I was hired to lead a trend spotting and scenario planning workshop, but I had successfully convinced my client that we needed to establish a common framework and language about innovation first.

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Why innovation portfolios matter

Jeffrey Phillips

At this point in business evolution, every CEO understands the need for more innovation. After a decade of reading about it, getting pounded over the head with the Jobs/Apple story and watching new innovations disrupt entire industries, businesses are starting to react. Innovation does require creativity and expansive thinking.

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Why innovation must become the new core competency

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been thinking a lot lately about innovation in corporations, first, because that's what I've been doing for close to twenty years, and second, because I kept wondering when the switch would flip and we'd see more consistent innovation from large corporations on a continuing basis. Don't get me wrong. Here's where the issues start.

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Episode 16 How to Manage Change and Create Resilient Organizations Through Innovation – Part 1

IM Insights

About the Episode Elijah Eilert is talking to Kumuda Suppayah an Innovation strategist, and business transformation expert in the Oil and Gas sector. Part 1 of the episode is designed around three main questions: What is innovation? How should innovation be measured? Topics and Insights [02:28] What is Innovation?

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Innovation: Exploiting and Exploring

Jeffrey Phillips

Take innovation for example. No matter where you turn companies and experts are creating all sorts of innovation dichotomies. Products or services? Incremental or disruptive? There's nothing wrong with incremental innovation. First, transformative or disruptive innovation is unpredictable.

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The "whole product" is more relevant than ever

Jeffrey Phillips

You simply must tip your hat to Geoffrey Moore and others who created the concept of the "whole product". I've written about this concept several times, and I raise it again because the underlying ideas are about to become really important in innovation circles. Whole Product (2.0) First, product innovation is almost passe.