Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 6, 2017

Last week I attended an interesting program co-sponsored by the University of North Carolina's health care innovation program and AARP. As we know, these conditions are important for innovation in any setting. In other words, the people who have the problem are educating an innovation team of passionate volunteers.

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Betterific

OCTOBER 20, 2016

He’s won a number of innovation competitions and won the grand prize of the Singularity Civic Engagement Innovation Challenge. MW: What books do you recommend on ideation, creativity or innovation? MW: When you get an invitation to join a Betterific innovation challenge, how do you approach the challenge?

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Betterific

MAY 31, 2017

The idea, to keep clothes smelling good while being stored, was generated by Keonte Smith in a Betterific innovation challenge. The Innovation Challenge – how and why it was constructed. In hindsight, it would’ve been good to bake the criteria in the innovation challenge. It ended up being a great move on Rich’s part.

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Hutch Carpenter

AUGUST 5, 2015

In a recent PwC survey, 61% of CEOs said innovation was a key priority for their company ( pdf ). Innovation efforts come in a variety of forms: innovation and design labs, jobs-to-be-done analysis, corporate venturing, distributed employee experiments, open innovation, TRIZ, etc. Growing the culture of innovation.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 26, 2010

Kyle Soucy and Holly Phillips talk about how, with a little planning and a few innovative techniques, you can conduct regular, fast-turnaround usability interviews with a shoestring staff and budget. Download Crowdsourcing Innovation: the role of UX – Johanna Kollmann Is your organisation trying to engage in open innovation?

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Often times, the most successful and innovative companies stem from the humblest of origins. The project with Qmarkets was designed to retain the people-centric elements that made Colruyt’s previous employee innovation efforts so effective, while scaling them up to spread this ethos throughout the whole group. Eef: Sure, no problem!

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 30, 2010

Using Beekeeping History to Predict the Future of UX – Aaron Rosenberg Measurement and prediction can help foster great insight and innovation. From Here to Experience – Jared Spool It’s impossible for an organization to flip a switch, turning off their product mindset to start innovating great experiences.

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