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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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As AI advances, we find ourselves heading towards a new era — one where innovation is not just constant but autonomous, as Board of Innovation's founder Philip de Ridder explains below. Both paradigms transformed innovation approaches worldwide. Both paradigms transformed innovation approaches worldwide.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

It’s the secret sauce that has transformed startups into tech giants and turned traditional businesses into market leaders. Innovation isn’t just about the next big idea; it’s a multifaceted strategy that businesses employ to navigate through the twists and turns of today’s dynamic markets.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. Interestingly, it looks like others support the idea of balancing and combining elements of both innovation approaches, too. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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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.

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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. It’s the execution and refinement of the initial idea that dooms the project.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

What needs to change (and what doesn’t) when it comes to bringing new products, services, and business models to market in 2023? During The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed these topics with Tom Waller (Senior Vice President of Innovation at adidas) and Tiffany Vasilchik (Chief Growth Officer at Board of Innovation).

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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 Lean Startup. Find it here. Find it here.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

I replied “you need to be thinking about project cycles and measures.” I added my punchline, “because if you’re not doing projects you’re not doing innovation.” My “projects” reply is a cocktail party answer. Nine essential questions CEO’s should be asking about innovation.

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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. Projects change culture.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. How can you innovate if you don’t actually know how it’s done? Maybe that’s one reason why 94% of managers are unsatisfied with innovation performance? It’s not enough to know a market white space.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 11, 2019

We could summarize open innovation as the use of inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation and expand markets. Keep reading to understand in depth what open innovation is and how it can be used in your business! The open innovation concept. In this article, we go further.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Action: In order to determine a plan of action, we met with their Bom Negocio leadership team in Brazil to discuss a number of items: How frequently they were interacting with customers, How long it has been taking to bring products to market, How important business decisions were being made: were they typically made based on evidence?

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

New Service Offering for Digital Technology Innovation. Discover Ideas for Long Term and Tactical Innovation Projects. Chicago, IL, August 1, 2018 — The MoshPit Innovation Service is an innovation project discovery service marketed by GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation).

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? These courses typically cover the key concepts and steps of the design thinking process, and may include hands-on exercises and projects to apply what you have learned. How can I apply design thinking to my business? What are the principles of design thinking?

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Unrealistic expectations of first projects Out of the gate, most organizations put too few resources on too few ideas and expect too much out of them. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

We need to short-circuit our innovation development process, we must have as much visibility (and controls) into our value chain, we need to develop a riskier mindset to explore, validate and experiment to bring our products and services to market. The road you take will decide where innovation is heading for you.

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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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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

Leaders who champion innovation understand its role in driving competitive advantage, increasing market share, and, often, creating entirely new markets. Embracing the reality of continuous volatility Remaining relevant means staying vigilant to the constant changes initiated by customers, markets, regulators, employees, etc.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Unrealistic expectations of first projects. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail. Instead, organizations need to look for quick wins in their first projects. How big is the Total Addressable Market for this solution?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Simply put companies ‘die’ due to their inability to adapt to change and transformation projects fail because the message somehow fails to register and never gets completed to the original objectives. Unless we create a strategy to transform, how can we re-imagine our innovation processes? This is where breakthroughs live.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 7, 2015

Yesterday, I was quite delighted to see my post Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking ranked #11 of the Top 100 Innovation Posts 2014 at Innovation Excellence. In fact, the real power lies in combining different innovation approaches to fit a unique context. No one size fits all.

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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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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Unrealistic expectations of first projects. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail. Instead, organizations need to look for quick wins in their first projects. How big is the Total Addressable Market for this solution?

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

How do you innovate across your entire value chain? How do you integrate all this new fancy stuff into strategy and ideation to create actual projects? Why is this challenge so different from previous innovation challenges? Don’t be held back by a restrictive innovation process model; be flexible on new ways to innovate.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At A failed project is considered a negative to a corporate career. As a result, few people want to start a project that might not succeed.

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KindlingApp

AUGUST 19, 2015

A shared experience for professionals across industries and around the globe is the increase of pressure to be more innovative, or to produce innovations and get them to market faster. Stage-gate methods usually make assumptions based on established processes for a particular business.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

But innovation is more than survival, it’s the heart beat of an organization. Staying in business means reinventing as markets shift. In this inspirational speech Gregg Fraley answers the Why Innovation question, and informs as to what innovation means to you and your group. Making innovation a continuous effort.

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Innovation 360 Group

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In the article Innosight describes a concept called the Minimum Viable Innovation System (MVIS). As the name implies it is inspired by the concept of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) popularized by Eric Ries in the book The Lean Startup. This reveal the starting point, the purpose and the direction of the innovation initiative.

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Innovation 360

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In the article Innosight describes a concept called the Minimum Viable Innovation System (MVIS). As the name implies it is inspired by the concept of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) popularized by Eric Ries in the book The Lean Startup. This reveal the starting point, the purpose and the direction of the innovation initiative.

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System Innovation Management Management Innovation 40

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

When should it be used: Any organisation that wants to enable their staff who have an idea to “try it out” or do an initial market experiment. Put simply, it theorises that small companies can disrupt the market of large companies by releasing a new version of an offering which appeals more to a subset of the customers.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

One thing to keep in mind if you want to unlock the full potential of design thinking is that it should not be seen as something that only occurs during a project. To have real innovation and long-term success in the market, these approaches need to be intuitively anchored in the thinking and performance of all the people involved.

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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

JULY 30, 2014

I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using Lean methods. One of the conundrums is why does innovation take so long to happen in corporations? Previously Hank Chesbrough and I have written about some of the strategic issues that impede innovation inside large corporations here and here.

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Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

The funnel describes the main stages and gates every idea has to pass through on its way to a product, service or business model innovation. Typically, the first stage of an innovation funnel is “ideation”, the last one “market launch”. However, we suggest a model that goes beyond the market launch and adds two more phases.

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Technical Review Radical Innovation Innovation Marketing 67

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Innovation Training. “Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. Send new project leaders, managers, facilitators, and essential innovation team members.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has been one of the largest supporters of innovation in the U.S. Now they are starting to use the Lean Innovation process (see here and here ) to turn ideas into solutions. The result will be defense innovation with speed and urgency. Lean Innovation is a Process.

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