Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 17, 2021

I'm a fan of military history, and it is always striking to me to see how much new product development and innovation can learn from the military and vice versa. The military is rich in innovation, but most of that innovation flows from the middle and lower ranks.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

I've been thinking a lot about why innovation fails. Not about why supposedly innovative new products fail, because there are multiple reasons for the failure of a new product. It could be too early or too late in the market window, or it could simply have the wrong pricing or distribution.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. Corporate innovation nurtures unique thinking within corporate settings. How can corporations work with startups?

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 10, 2021

It's past time to innovate from the outside in. What I mean by that is to start taking your cues from your customers, the environment and future realities, and shape your capabilities and products to meet those emerging wants and needs. The vast majority of products we use meet some, but not all, of our needs.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Embracing the Evolution: AI Meets Design Thinking The intersection of artificial intelligence and design thinking is poised to redefine the landscape of innovation and strategy. This process is widely adopted by managers, executives, and consultants to drive new product development, service innovation, and business model refinement.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Innovation, as practiced today in most corporations, is far too "easy" and commercialization is far too difficult. What if innovation was challenging and difficult, and commercialization were easy? Innovation is easy, commercialization is difficult Now, let's get our language straight. What if that statement were reversed?

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

I was leading an innovation training session, talking about the reasons for conducting trend spotting and scenario planning prior to idea generation. I described why we advocate trend spotting and scenario planning as a component of innovation, especially as the expectations of an innovation activity are more disruptive.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 23, 2023

Additionally, fractional CxOs are often more flexible in terms of their availability and can be brought on for specific projects or initiatives as needed, giving portfolio companies the ability to scale their executive team as their business grows. This could include areas such as sales and marketing, product development, or human resources.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 13, 2018

When it comes to innovation, businesses can often find it seemingly impossible to generate completely new ideas. In these early stages of product development, it can sometimes seem like all of the good ideas have already been taken. Businesses can deploy these same principles within their own innovation strategies.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 22, 2016

Market research often falls short when it comes to innovation. Here’s why: Modern market research methods, like Lean Startup, do a great job of focusing on customer-centric discovery. In our post, How to Innovate: What Innovation Really Is , we discussed how focusing on learning before executing is vital to innovation.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

INSEAD Business School, along with Cornell University and the World Intellectual Property Organisation have just released their analysis of the world’s most innovative countries for 2016. Top 10 Most Innovative Countries 2016, GII 2016. Market Sophistication. Innovation Outputs. The problem with extrapolating data.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 23, 2015

Nine out of ten companies believe that they are too slow to market with new products. In the consumer goods category around 80% of new products fail. These are some of the reasons why senior corporate executives are increasingly turning to separate innovation labs to spearhead their new product development.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How can design thinking help with product development? Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves empathy for the user, creative ideation, and experimentation to create innovative solutions. It is often used in the design of products, services, and experiences. What are the principles of design thinking?

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 24, 2018

In past posts we've looked at the origin of explore and exploit , the emergence of true innovation explorers like Edison, Bell and a host of others. Product development cycle times are now longer than shelf lives. So we come to the ultimate post on explore and exploit, at least for now. Third, rework your financial models.

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Huub Rutten

MARCH 9, 2021

A while ago I was in the process of understanding the challenges of business people with the innovation process. Business people: I mean the Sales teams and their leaders. The person I will discuss here, Christine, has different challenges with innovation. It takes years to recover from a bad launch in my business.

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Huub Rutten

MARCH 9, 2021

A while ago I was in the process of understanding the challenges of business people with the innovation process. Business people: I mean the Sales teams and their leaders. The person I will discuss here, Christine, has different challenges with innovation. It takes years to recover from a bad launch in my business.

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Huub Rutten

MARCH 9, 2021

A while ago I was in the process of understanding the challenges of business people with the innovation process. Business people: I mean the Sales teams and their leaders. The person I will discuss here, Christine, has different challenges with innovation. It takes years to recover from a bad launch in my business.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Or maybe sales are down or they just lost the head of marketing to a competitor. For example, you could say, “I know you’re dealing with… [lagging sales, poor internal communications, customer complaints, etc.]. You want to show how your solution can help increase sales, increase innovation, increase product development, etc.

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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. Then why is innovation such a rarity?

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Innovation in Practice

MAY 23, 2016

For most companies, the top marketer, usually called the chief marketing officer, is part of the senior leadership team and sits on the executive committee or management board. In other words, marketing has a “seat at the table.”. Eventually, the manufacturing team will step in and take over forecasting.

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InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Here are 10 essential questions to discuss with your team when pricing your latest innovation. Your pricing is a set of signals so use it to drive the customer behaviours that will enable your innovation to thrive. How might we use pricing to communicate the product’s value?

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

The market is changing faster than ever, and an organization’s ability to move at the speed of the Internet is the only chance at surviving and thriving. Except in today’s age, the corporate chorus says, “Innovate, or Die!” Stop focusing on products and start focusing on problems Problems are goldmines.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

By now, “almost everybody building products” has at least heard the term and has been exposed to the big ideas. Yet, when we look around we don’t find the corresponding adoption across teams. often part of a mandated checklist imposed upon teams. Adopting a fundamentally new product development process is no different.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The tight integration of Strategy, R&D and Innovation – and other related growth functions – is critical for an effective Growth Transformation system. They often have their own teams, their own budgets, and their own objectives. It is one that innovation researcher Gina O’Connor refers to as “mainstream” and “newstream”.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

By now, “almost everybody building products” has at least heard the term and has been exposed to the big ideas. Yet, when we look around we don’t find the corresponding adoption across teams. often part of a mandated checklist imposed upon teams. Adopting a fundamentally new product development process is no different.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

The market is changing faster than ever, and an organization’s ability to move at the speed of the Internet is the only chance at surviving and thriving. Except in today’s age, the corporate chorus says, “Innovate, or Die!” Stop focusing on products and start focusing on problems. Focus on the future, not the past.

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IM Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

Understanding revenue and cost on a per unit basis for Startups/innovation projects is vital but even established businesses have a lot to gain from doing it right. 15:00) CAC over LTV is fundamental to understanding product performance and analysing specific customer segments. 43:00) A perspective on Product/Market-Fit (PMF).

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 6, 2022

What’s next for consumer products Innovating for new moments in consumer journeys. In this post, we’ll highlight some of the key moments in the rapidly evolving consumer journey, and what we see as the key questions and implications for the role and development of consumer products with packaging.

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

I’m going to talk about how, in the 21st Century, we need ‘Goodness’ more than ‘Greatness’ when it comes to innovation. Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. If I asked you to name some innovations of the 20th Century, which ones would you think of?

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company). If I asked you to name some innovations of the 20th Century, which ones would you think of?

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Betterific

AUGUST 2, 2016

Welcome to the second part of our new “Brainstorming with…” series, where we interview two sets of people – the innovation challenge winners and the product developers and innovation experts that sponsor the challenges. RA: Anyone can tell you why a product is bad.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 9, 2020

Dealing with uncertainty demands innovative ideas. Combatting uncertainty demands innovative ideas. Innovative ideas are purchased externally and often not well integrated. Difficulties with speed to market. Recent discussions with industry players have underscored the issue of speed to market.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 22, 2022

I think we can all agree that user adoption is the primary objective for all products. User adoption is not something that evolves at a particular point of a product development life cycle. Instead, user adoption requires proper planning and implementation strategy when the product is just an idea.

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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. This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development.

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IdeaSpies

JULY 21, 2019

This step between a breakthrough and a working prototype is often referred to as the ‘valley of death’ for innovation. Take Bell Labs, for example, an industrial research and development (R&D) company, now owned by Nokia but originally founded by Alexander Graham Bell in the late-1800s.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Building an Innovative Company Culture. Identifying and Eliminating Conformity, the Enemy of Innovation. Let our team of non-conformists help you build your innovative company culture. A conformist company culture stifles innovation and breeds weakness. Taivara Blog Post by Michael Shuchter. Contact Us.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

The Innovation Mosaic: Building Bridges Between the Many Perspectives on Innovation. I have been a student of innovation for more years now than I care to count. This new–school view accepts the idea that we can be a part of creating the future, and so endeavors to do so through various forms of market leadership.

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