Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Note that what my clients are asking for is to create an innovation capacity that outlasts a product need, or market gap, or executive team member. After all, most (probably 90%) of all innovation projects undertaken in large corporations are reactive projects trying to respond to a market threat or competitive move.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

.” This guide takes readers through the process of bringing new solutions from the drawing board to the market itself by acknowledging that innovation is a team sport that requires everyone to play with skill, inspiration, and team spirit. The Leadership Innovation Manifesto. The Lean Startup.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. An innovation sprint is a 3-5 day intensive, experiential engagement that focuses on teaching participants Lean Innovation methodologies while making impact on real business issues.

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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. The increasing competition for customers, market share, and talent in almost every industry demands an innovative approach to business. They promote innovation leadership.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

For innovators working within the confines of large enterprises, the possibilities for transformation, especially with mobile and digital products, are endless. Lean, digital disruptors threaten their larger, more rigid corporate counterparts. Leadership wants to digitize the collateral into a web-based desktop app.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

The paper outlines six key practices for accelerating new product development and innovations based on examples from companies representing various industries. However, our discussion with Dr. Cooper mainly focuses on three of those six practices: Effective Portfolio Management Lean Development Agile Stage-Gate. From: [link] rs/).

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Innovation 360

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Founder of Imtiaz ME specializing in the areas of entrepreneurship development and innovation, Dana’s work is focused extensively on the development of the startup ecosystem in MENA and other emerging markets. Leadership. Innovation Management. Areas of expertise. Workshop Moderation & Facilitation. Design Thinking.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. And I have done it all – idea jams, hackathons, startup weekends, training workshops and innovation sprints. When you are trying to create a repeatable innovation process, you can’t just start anywhere by doing random activities.

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Founder of Imtiaz ME specializing in the areas of entrepreneurship development and innovation, Dana’s work is focused extensively on the development of the startup ecosystem in MENA and other emerging markets. Leadership. Innovation Management. Areas of expertise. Workshop Moderation & Facilitation. Design Thinking.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

As can be seen from the figure below, co-creation platforms feature some special characteristics that have a major impact on shaping new market environments: Created solutions are integrated and often cross-industry. Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. How can you innovate if you don’t actually know how it’s done?

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, Zoom Video Communications (Zoom) had a market capitalization of $116B. Zoom was the result of the inability of Cisco Systems (market cap $189B), to recognize a huge, new opportunity. Does executive leadership see things differently than individual contributors?

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

From climate change to food shortages, from pandemics to lack of trust in our leadership and institutions, there's a lot keeping us up on our way to 2023. What needs to change (and what doesn’t) when it comes to bringing new products, services, and business models to market in 2023?

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

I’ll unpack the core principles of ‘Leading FOR Innovation’ and share approaches to help overcome the organisational antibodies that often stifle innovation, empowering teams to unleash bold ideas that can reshape your industry’s future. This ignites pioneering ideas and potentially billion-dollar ventures.

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Commodore Innovation

MAY 13, 2020

In a recent survey we conducted, nearly 80% of firms indicated they expected 2020 innovation spending to be lower than 2019—with 50% anticipating a decline of at least 5%, which is consistent with our analysis of historic trends in recent US recessions. Communicate changes to innovation strategy early AND often.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

We dive into getting the fundamentals right during this month’s Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management. Strategy is often made by elite teams and thus can be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces. Are we doing the right kinds of innovation?

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Our take from working with some of the best and brightest in corporate innovation: Start with the why and do everything you can to avoid some of the most common pitfalls as you navigate the how/who/what of your innovation program. Vision & Leadership 1. How big is the Total Addressable Market for this solution?

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Our take from working with some of the best and brightest in corporate innovation: Start with the why and do everything you can to avoid some of the most common pitfalls as you navigate the how/who/what of your innovation program. Vision & Leadership. No compelling vision or reason to innovate.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Our take from working with some of the best and brightest in corporate innovation: Start with the why and do everything you can to avoid some of the most common pitfalls as you navigate the how/who/what of your innovation program. Vision & Leadership. No compelling vision or reason to innovate.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

They were trying to keep up with providing the core services necessary to run the current business and at the same time deal with a flood of well-meaning but uncoordinated ideas about new features, technologies and innovations coming at them from all directions. There were no requirements for the innovator. Build the Wall.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Encouragement, reward and validation This is why it makes sense to create an alternative innovation competition inside your company: A 3-month-long or a 6-month-long competition on who can create the innovation challenges with the most impactful outcome is a perfect starting point.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats are not innovation. Lean is not innovation. Prototyping is not innovation. Crowd sourcing or Open innovation are not innovation. TQM and Six Sigma are not innovation. Defining an innovation process is not innovation. Training is not innovation.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

At the heart of this transformation mindset is Lean Innovation. And when you think of innovation transformation, there are many pieces that need to come together. One of the key elements in experiencing a successful innovation transformation is having a strong in-house capability. But, that’s not all there is to it.

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Integrative Innovation

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

access to market and customer base for rapid scaling. However, startup engagement is also increasingly used for tapping into entirely new markets or technologies as well as spotting disruptive innovation opportunities. Business model / technology readiness and connection to core processes.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Nevertheless, many market participants still face the enormous challenge of figuring out the blend of all necessary elements and the right mix for a successful innovation process. Even fewer have persistently developed and implemented habits and processes that foster sustainable innovation. Fail forward.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

His groups whole-heartedly adopted and adapted Lean. His innovators and stakeholders curated and prioritized their problems/idea/technology before handing them off. Karl’s innovation pipeline had hundreds of employees going through weekend hackathons. If you can’t get leadership support, internal innovation won’t happen.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

A team without IT involved won’t be able to do it either, because marketing-centric teams don’t know what’s technically possible. Don’t be held back by a restrictive innovation process model; be flexible on new ways to innovate.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Nine essential questions CEO’s should be asking about innovation. Are people empowered to innovate? Does your culture support innovation? Are your people trained in innovation process? Do you have the skills, the specific people, you need to innovate? Is your organization doing continuous projects?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

Digital disruption is the impact of digital technologies and business models on a company’s value proposition and market position. As you chase for engagement, you seek customer experiences and this leads you to expect and look for growing market share. These call for a different approach to the innovation process.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

Digital disruption is the impact of digital technologies and business models on a company’s value proposition and market position. As you chase for engagement, you seek customer experiences and this leads you to expect and look for growing market share. These call for a different approach to the innovation process.

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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. The market structure, its nature and the key success factors are undergoing a shift where hypercompetition is putting many of today’s businesses at risk of exclusion from the market. 3 No pain, no gain.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Steve Blank, father of the Lean Startup movement, stresses that you will never know enough about your customers if you are holed up inside a boardroom. Remedy: Educate leaders that judging ideas for new value propositions, business models, and growth engines requires evidence from the field rather than just “expert opinion” from leadership.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

As can be seen from the figure below, co-creation platforms feature some special characteristics that have a major impact on shaping new market environments: Created solutions are integrated and often cross-industry. Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

It also addresses the basics of why innovation is so important to an organization’s survival and growth. Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. Approaches to the new challenges of Digital Technology Innovation are discussed.

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Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).

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