Author Archives: Jeffrey Phillips
I was thinking about innovation over the weekend when I asked myself “what’s the one thing that no senior executive is likely to say about innovation?” Continue reading
In today’s post, I decided to tackle what is, to me, perhaps the most confusing characteristic of most organizations today – the failure to believe in innovation. Continue reading
If you’ve ever been a distance runner, you know about the dreaded “wall”. For every runner there’s a point in a race or a distance at which everything conspires to make you quit. Continue reading
Most understand that innovation isn’t an activity or a project, but few understand the amount of investment, work and change management required to sustain innovation beyond an initial attempt. In this way I think we can look to the past for figures who represent the challenges and opportunities that are presented to innovators. Perhaps no figure represents the highs and lows of innovation like Christopher Columbus. Continue reading
If you’ve lived a while as a consultant to corporations, you’ve had the chance to see significant, even tectonic change to the way things work in larger enterprises over the last 20-30 years. Stuff that would have seemed illogical or inconsequential we now consider imperative, and right now, things that seem incremental or short-lived may rapidly become mission-critical. Continue reading
One of the issues I’ve often struggled with when leading innovation projects with clients is the sense that I’m a foreigner, speaking a foreign language and imposing foreign rules. Often, when working with clients, I have the sense that they are visiting or touring a foreign country called innovation… Continue reading
In my continuing series of posts about innovation and velocity, I am writing today about the poor understanding and alignment between time and innovation. Continue reading
