Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 14, 2024

I had quite a day yesterday, meeting with a potential partner at Starbucks, getting my iPhone repaired at the Apple store and a number of other activities. Apple tries to make its products and services well-designed, even the boxes are highly engineered. Second, consider the journey. Finally, the concept of addiction.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 14, 2021

for GrowGeneration, a leading supplier of products, services, and solutions for commercial and personal cannabis growers of all sizes, with more than 60 retail and distribution centers in the United States. Let’s say your air conditioner breaks and you don’t notice it for three hours, and your grow room gets to 105 °F. Expert advice.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Common pitfalls inventors face when trying to make a great idea real are the reasons why so many great inventions do not reach the world stage, get outpaced or just fail before having a chance to get utilised. Not starting. Missing research before starting. Tip: Do your research before you start investing time and money.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 1, 2024

I think a culture of innovation is kind of like a unicorn: it would be cool if it existed, and some people claim to have seen one, but when you get up close it's just a normal animal that happens to be missing a horn. Let's start with base principles and agree on that. In other words, we see what we want or hope to see. Isolate it.

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TechEmpower Innovation

JULY 31, 2023

Start by building just enough of your product to get early CAC and CLV signals (they won’t be perfect). Quite often the goal is to get them into a spreadsheet in a form that allows people to easily play with them. Just get your numbers into a Google sheet so you can work with them easily.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 2, 2022

Now one thing I want to make clear is this: If you are looking for advice on how to get rich quick, this is NOT the advice that you are looking for. To succeed, it is all down to providing a product or service that the customer sees value in. Email automation is the key for small businesses to be able to scale effectively.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 5, 2021

Most new products and services are developments or combinations of existing offerings. But just adding features can lead to a product overloaded with ‘feature bloat’ Instead try giving with one hand and taking away with the other. Start by focussing on the market leading product (or products).

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Planview

APRIL 15, 2024

To accelerate your decision-making process, start with a full basket of ideas. The best way to get them? She’s noticed that when leaders excel with any AI product, they “go out and ask for all the ideas, and then they weigh those ideas against each other.” Start small and get feedback. Crowdsource ideas.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

He thought he could find a better option and he started making pads out of cotton, but his early efforts were roundly rejected by his wife. He had to wait a month before pressing Shanti to try his new product. So he began testing the products on himself using a rubber bladder and animal blood. This led to disaster.

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TechEmpower Innovation

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Instead of an empty box, the user gets one filled with content to use as a jumping-off point. Either way, it’s a huge improvement over starting from scratch. Get it wrong, and you’re just wasting fifty bucks a month. Start by introducing yourself, your profession, and your location. For example, let’s consider Mark.

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 4, 2023

The simple truth is that change rarely, if ever, starts at the top because it is people with power that create the status quo. Lewis, just a young kid in his twenties at the time, was himself the product of webs of influence. They, in turn, influenced others to get out, protest and shape the minds of people like Robert Kennedy.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2023

Over the last year, I needed to take a step back, to focus on some other things, and to get a new perspective. I'm ready to dive back in, to write about innovation, to lead innovation projects and to build up an innovation competency in the firms where people want to get good work done. Most managers will ask: why take the risk?

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Business and Tech

JUNE 21, 2023

Businesses can partner with community-based organizations by engaging employees or management in volunteer activities and providing other resources (cash or product donations) to local charities. They can also reduce environmental impact by implementing recycling programs or sourcing products and services from sustainable suppliers.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 20, 2020

Starting exploration projects. Launching new products or services. Generating good proposals for innovative products and services is fairly easy. Starting evaluation projects is harder but you need to start many because no-one knows which will succeed. Furthermore you get valuable feedback for improvements.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 18, 2021

One of the best and most important concepts to help understand the impact on your innovation strategy is the Law of Diffusions of innovation, also sometimes known as the Product Adoption Lifecycle. Diffusion is the process by which a new innovation or product is communicated over time amongst the participants in a social system or market.

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

You need to know where you’re starting, what that target is, and you need to involve the core parts of the business for alignment,” notes Greiner, co-founder and managing director of PureStrategies, Inc., Now the business is on a mission to reduce the GHG intensity of its products by 40% by 2025 and achieve an 80% reduction by 2050.

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TechEmpower Innovation

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? Other common scenarios that we’ve seen: Scaling and new markets: Your company and product are established, and now you’re scaling or going after new markets.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 20, 2021

For example, high-end luxury fashion companies want to create an aura of unattainability by pricing their products so high that only “rich” people can afford them. Therefore, people perceive that by purchasing those products, it represents not only that they are rich, but have the social status of other rich people.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 24, 2022

Looking back at the quality you produced when you started can show you how far you have come. Sometimes, this may result in you publishing or drafting some half-finished ideas you just couldn’t get to work at the time. It will also show you. Finding inspiration and building on existing ideas: Ideas build on one another.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 11, 2020

We speak about what it takes to run successful workshops, his experiences with companies who are failing at innovation, and how to successfully develop digital products. 00:01:30 – How User Experience (UX) led Jonathan on his journey to starting his company. 00:05:30 – The power of Design Sprints to speed up project starts.

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TechEmpower Innovation

AUGUST 7, 2023

Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. Getting something to market and getting funding override any other concerns. It’s understandable - a hands-on developer can produce a product.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As with many other distinctions between large companies and startups, established products and new ideas, there are distinctions between types of failure. For most corporations, failure is abhorrent, because failure signals a breakdown in an existing product, risk, an inability or unwillingness to follow an established process.

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Business and Tech

JUNE 21, 2023

Having a few essential KPIs, like the number of conversations it takes to get a “yes” from a client, or the time it takes for a supplier to confirm your PO, gives you an early warning about any changes coming your way with enough time to adjust course. Your business financing: Do you have any variable rate financing agreements?

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Idea to Value

APRIL 6, 2022

If I just spend another week in the editing room, I can get the colour levels just right. If I just do another month worth of focus group testing, maybe I will get that killer insight. If I just have another branding workshop, I will finally be happy with our company logo and then we can start working on the product.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 19, 2021

This excerpt from a 2021 survey of Goldman Sachs analysts could be its own “How it started/how it’s going” meme. But what is especially saddening is that it is not just getting less than 5 hours of sleep that is affecting these young professionals’ lives. After starting the job, they rated their mental health at 2.8

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 12, 2021

First, let's just get the record straight. Both, if they are doing their job well, are creating new products and services that have value for customers or stakeholders. Innovating as a startup No one starts a business without a great idea. In corporations, if you can create a new product, you are celebrated.

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Business and Tech

JUNE 21, 2023

How did you get your start as a life and business strategist, and what allowed you to become one of the most recognizable personalities in this space? I read 700 books in one year on history, biographies, decision-making, anything I could get my hands on to feed my mind. They didn’t start with millions of dollars.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In fact, as Start-ups grow, they will eventually need to develop layers of management to stay productive and efficient. So the employee would need to get 4, 5 or 6 “Yeses” in a row in the ladder in order to get approval. Contrary to popular belief, hierarchy is not always a negative.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When a job occurs in our lives, we “hire” a product or service to help us complete it. Many businesses are not focusing on their customers’ or consumers’ job(s), but instead they look at the market through the lens of customer demographics and their own products’ attributes. If they are switching to something else, do you know why?

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 27, 2020

If the cash dries up and you cannot pay the rent then a pipeline of great innovative products and services is of little help. So it is natural that companies hunker down, cut costs and focus on getting through the recession with the business still intact. Many successful start-ups began during recessions. Habits change.

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