Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Innovation teams have too little information or context about corporate direction, strategy, funding mechanisms or risk tolerance to decide whether or not the ideas they've created are useful or meaningful. Innovation teams struggle with the fear of making a decision. So teams are left with the question - which big bet should we make?

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

…Accelerating Teams Through Assessment and Training. It’s a sad fact of organizational life that only a small percentage of teams achieve high function. Most teams muddle along, and get the essential things done — or not. And, all teams can improve, with training. Teams Improve With Momentum Training.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 1, 2016

As the only designer on my team, I tend to design on an island. I’m outnumbered by sales reps, account managers, and overseas developers. Besides my manager, there aren’t team members I can easily turn to for feedback and guidance. As a solo designer, my role is to teach my team about design.

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CMOE

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

It’s impossible for a team to innovate, stand out, or add superior value without superior teamwork skills. If you’re leading a team and want your team members to practice excellent teamwork, how would you define it for them or explain how to demonstrate it? What Are the Skills of Great Team Players?

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Michael Roberto

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Maddox discusses how leaders should react when the execution of a very important project falters badly. Moreover, he argues that such "heroic" action can demoralize team members, because they feel as though their skills and voice are not respected. Why don't leaders trust their team members in these spots? It's hero complex 101.

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Peer Insight

JANUARY 9, 2020

Corporate innovation teams are taught in their organizations, and in the media and classes, to act like entrepreneurs navigating risk in a new venture or idea. The missing piece of the innovation puzzle : helping leadership teams learn to act like VCs. 3 Ways Successful Leadership Teams Channel this Inner VC.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

They'll become products and services when the product or service development process in their organization provides resources for the new ideas, and spend time developing, validating, testing the new products and finally launching them. And then I ask them to tell me their firm's average product development process timeframe.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 27, 2017

What do we do if a bad idea is gaining support?”. Some ideas may be ready for immediate implementation within your existing programmatic goals, projects, and capabilities. Some ideas might spark a new direction or approach, and be taken up for consideration for a longer conversation about where your team is going in the future.

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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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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 10, 2022

Building an innovation management system, on the other hand, helps drive the thinking for the right process to develop as well as the many other critical considerations that normally come into play, such as focusing on the right problems to solve, identifying the grand challenges the company should focus on, and building an innovation ecosystem.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today we talk about what it takes to make creativity a daily exercise and how to make it more actionable and productive. 00:10:00 – The book is designed to help people develop the process and cadence of creativity instead of just getting by on skill. So, for example, hey, do this exercise to spark an idea.

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Acuvate

JULY 26, 2019

The tenets of data governance are to establish methods, layout clear responsibilities and develop robust processes to standardize, protect and store data. Reduce costs that might incur due to bad data. Analysis of poor quality data results in ineffective decisions. Institute regulations on how data is to be used. Protect data.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 14, 2017

My career began with a small company in the entertainment industry that developed the first large screen stadium video displays for U2 and other leading music acts. Often you are the initiator and the evangelist as well as the project manager and team leader. Tell us a bit about your background. What drew you to Strategos?

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Having documented useful psychological design principles, I was still struggling to put them to practice with my development teams. Reading up on scores of articles of somewhat complicated psychological concepts was an incomprehensible task for most team members. Announcing the project.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. I complimented the team on how calm the assembly line seemed to run – and how clean the workshop looked. The Proud Leader. Break the Rules.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

For instance, an engineer who can develop brilliant new product designs but who can’t effectively communicate the value of those designs to others (or collaborate with design teams to bring those ideas to life) is doing himself and his organization a major disservice. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

For instance, an engineer who can develop brilliant new product designs but who can’t effectively communicate the value of those designs to others (or collaborate with design teams to bring those ideas to life) is doing himself and his organization a major disservice. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, before a strategic planning workshop started the other day, an internal client leader held court with the project team. Speculation about strengths and weaknesses the organization faces. Need help guiding your team’s creative thinking for innovative product ideas? Facts about the current situation.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

It takes the creative joy out of side projects she does. If no one ever says your ideas are too bold, that is also bad. Does your CPR vary by client or team? But you recognize when you are deliberately offering safer creative ideas without losing your chops for developing extreme creativity to stretch when that makes sense.

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Planview

APRIL 6, 2023

Last month, Planview released the inaugural 2023 Project to Product State of the Industry Report , and it is well worth the read. I’m also referencing upstream activities, software development technical impediments, and post-build activities.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 23, 2020

The teams are all already distributed – some were already, but most were still sharing the same table in some office out there. Why transform distributed teams into a motivated community? Managing distributed teams is not about a geographic issue – this is just a small component. Optimism saves teams.

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Planview

JULY 6, 2017

Employee retention in the skilled trades is a challenge, especially with those employees who have experience working on big, complex projects. How might we capture and re-apply the knowledge that our veteran staff has developed over the years? Resourcing and coordinating projects within the primes is a complex endeavor.

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Planview

JULY 6, 2017

Employee retention in the skilled trades is a challenge, especially with those employees who have experience working on big, complex projects. How might we capture and re-apply the knowledge that our veteran staff has developed over the years? Resourcing and coordinating projects within the primes is a complex endeavor.

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Cris Beswick

JUNE 22, 2023

At OUTCOME , we believe innovation is a system game, meaning it’s a team sport. The challenge is that many organisations have lost sight of the true definition of a team. 1] Let’s also differentiate between a department or group inside an organisation, as a group does not necessarily constitute a team.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 26, 2010

Download Experience strategy: Dealing with a UX mid-life crisis – Richard Dalton, Rob Weening We make changes to our user experiences based on heuristics, usability testing, and data, but do we really know if we’re improving the overall experience over time and across projects?

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs of this blog post and will now cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or not understood by the members of your team. How might you frame the questions you want your team thinking about this week?

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

For many, “future” is in fact a continuation of the immediate past and projections of near-term forces and trends that are easy to see and understand. Would it have a new product development or innovation process? This present-forward approach relies on projections from the immediate past and present state.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

Too often the team gets all the way through building the product to find out they can’t explain the product. “Design the box first” is a classic design exercise to use constraints to discover the unique value proposition. This is not a distraction; it forces a team to explain the value proposition and iterate on it.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 2, 2013

Now, think back to your last project. Aside from a handful of sharpies and post-its, you’re left with the daily conversations and experiences you had with your team. Most of us never stop to wonder why certain projects flow effortlessly while others feel like we’ve entered into a cage match. What are you left with?

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

And companies regularly boast about how they are spending millions (and sometimes billions) of dollars into research & development to come up with innovative new offerings. Delivery: A team of people who have the ability to take rough ideas and develop them into a customer-facing innovation.

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MSSBTI

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Even though I enjoy it quite a bit, I couldn’t imagine having my job hanging in the balance based on the accuracy of a hypothetical exercise. However, that is exactly what happens to an overwhelming number of leaders on a regular basis with their technology projects. But why does this happen?

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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. In most cases, a product manager is someone who works cross-functionally with development, marketing, and customer support in order to map out use cases for new products.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Every team has its own, individual way of operating.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 9, 2009

Additionally, Nate identifies the key considerations when designing a mobile ethnographic study, indicating how technological developments in the future might be used to improve upon current methods. He distinguishes good rules from bad and offers a framework for designing and documenting them. Download.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

You won't get results from your innovation programs, processes and projects if the fundamentals are lacking. Strategy is often made by elite teams and thus can be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces. Post Covid-19, leaders need to develop innovation as a key organizational muscle.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Every team has its own, individual way of operating.

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Yet2

JANUARY 9, 2023

For example, we’ve curated datasets around promising CMOs in China, which became a critical scouting source for several recent projects for consumer healthcare clients. These scripts are custom-built by yet2 ’s team for each project, dataset, and topic area. Yet, we are already seeing value permeate across our scouting projects.

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