Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

It was popularized by McKinsey & Company and has since been widely adopted across industries as a roadmap for growth, adaptability, and strategic foresight. Horizon 3 (Disruptive Innovation) targets high-risk, high-reward transformations that could define the companys future.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

How your enterprise responds to that change can determine whether your organization is an industry leader or another company stuck in the middle of the pack. Organizations that lack the business agility to pivot could risk falling behind and losing their competitive edge.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

For example, a renewable energy company may use a Strategy Uncertainty Map to assess fluctuations in government regulations, shifts in public perception of clean energy, and emerging battery technologies. Enhancing Agility and Adaptability Encourages businesses to develop flexible strategies rather than rigid plans.

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Strategy Strategy Technical Review Agile 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

New technologies emerge rapidly, disrupting industries and rendering existing systems obsolete. Whether a company is developing emerging technologies, managing existing platforms, or phasing out legacy systems, this model serves as a vital roadmap for navigating the complexities of technological evolution.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It is the driving force behind the competitive edge that allows companies to stand out and meet the ever-changing demands of their customers. Exploring disruptive innovation examples can provide insights into how companies have successfully navigated and transformed their industries through innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Contingency Planning: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects Contingency planning is the process of proactively preparing for potential risks, disruptions, or crises that could impact an organizations operations, strategy, or financial stability. Supply chain disruptions Supplier failures, transportation issues.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

A well-designed scenario planning process ensures that companies: Identify key uncertainties and their potential impacts. Improve resilience against disruptions and crises. Key benefits include: Enhances strategic flexibility Allows companies to pivot as conditions change. Develop proactive strategies to manage change.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. In fact, according to some estimates by Doblin , 96% of all new innovations which established companies attempt fail to make a return on investment.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 2, 2023

Agility, the ability to think fast and move quickly, is an imperative for every team this year. I’ve led teams in both big companies and startups. Yet we can’t lose sight of another critical success factor for navigating today’s highly uncertain world, especially in 2023: agility. I’ve built new teams.

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Agile Software Review Technical Review Software Developers 130

eZassi

MARCH 18, 2025

The Ezassi Advantage: Enhancing Supply Chain Agility for Procurement Executives Why CPOs and Supply Chain Executives Should Pay Attention For Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs), procurement leaders, and supply chain executives, staying ahead of disruptions while driving efficiency, cost savings, and sustainability is more challenging than ever.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Agility and Adaptability : Ecosystems are naturally adaptive due to their diversity and interconnectedness. Resilience to Disruption : Ecosystems are better equipped to handle disruptions—whether technological, economic, or environmental—because of their adaptability, diversity, and interconnected nature.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Innovation Collaboration Policies 140

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Disruption is everywhere. Twenty years ago, when I started advising startups and Fortune 500 companies on their innovation strategies, a “2020 vision” served as a key staple in most business planning efforts. Emerging technologies catalyze disruption. Emerging technologies catalyze disruption.

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Trends Disruption Artificial Inteligence Internet of things 130

Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It’s not just about rolling out fancy new gadgets or services; it’s about rethinking how everything ticks in your company. Flexibility : Innovation gives your business the agility to dodge and weave with market changes. They make sure your company stays in the game, no matter how much the market shifts.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A well-executed Competitive Analysis goes beyond simply monitoring competitors; it involves deep research, data-driven comparisons, and actionable insights that empower companies to maintain a competitive edge. By addressing this gap, the company can gain a significant competitive advantage. Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Assess external risks and opportunities Recognize threats such as regulation changes or disruptive technologies. For example, a renewable energy company might use Competitive Landscape Analysis to track government incentives, emerging battery storage technology, and new market entrants , ensuring its long-term competitiveness.

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Analysis Competition Strategy Strategy 130

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2020

When we reflect on the recent events of the last twelve months, this has been highly disruptive but those industrial companies that had already started their Industry 4.0 When we reflect on the remote work, rapid response and agility have all been tested in recent months. Let’s take four.

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Artificial Inteligence System Industry Agile 320

Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 27, 2021

For those interested in digital disruption and technological advancements , Bitcoin represented so much more than a way to allegedly make money fast like some type of digital wolf of Wall Street. You can see how this poses a concern for companies that function as a middleman, so to speak. Blockchain: A Whole New Financial Frontier.

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Disruption Artificial Inteligence Trends Agile 127

Viima

AUGUST 25, 2021

In recent years, more and more companies have realized the need for innovation as they’ve seen businesses all around them, and perhaps even their own business, being disrupted. What makes this so difficult for large organizations is that a single innovation just isn’t enough to turn the course of the company.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Power of Disruptive Innovation Understanding Disruptive Innovation Disruptive innovation, a term you might have encountered frequently in today’s business lexicon, refers to a process where a product or service starts at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves upmarket, eventually displacing established competitors.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Disruption is everywhere. Twenty years ago, when I started advising startups and Fortune 500 companies on their innovation strategies, a “2020 vision” served as a key staple in most business planning efforts. Emerging technologies catalyze disruption. Emerging technologies catalyze disruption.

Trends 113

Trends Disruption Artificial Inteligence Internet of things 113

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Disruption is all around us; it never seems to go away; it simply appears in a different and often entirely new form. The result is the same; it disrupts what we know and often in how we suddenly need to set about doing it differently. Much of the innovative disruptions seem so obvious; you wonder why we were not doing these before.

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Disruption Innovation Technology Creativity 130

Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Companies need to be faster, more nimble, more agile to compete in the existing marketplace, and everywhere you go, you hear the resounding phase "digital transformation". Innovating your organization What would you change about your organization to make it more nimble, more agile, and bring it closer to customers?

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Innovation Agile Product Innovation Software 201

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2022

The shifts will change how each country and company compete. The ability to pass on inflation or be agile in supply response to sudden shortages will need very different agility than ever before. Being agile and responsive becomes central to seeing opportunity gaps quicker and responding in socially aware ways.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

” 17% of large IT projects become black swans , exceeding budgets by 200400% and threatening company survival. Using the Wrong Management Framework: Some projects require a fully planned approach, others need a more agile method, and still others benefit from validating with fewer resources before investing more heavily.

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT 140

eZassi

MARCH 11, 2025

The Hidden Challenges of Corporate Venture Capital (And How to Overcome Them) Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) groups have grown in popularity as a vehicle to drive disruptive innovation and growth. Through CVC, corporations can diversify their innovation efforts, mitigate risks, and stay agile in an uncertain business environment.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Agile Disruption 52

Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Navigating a Disruptive Business Environment In today’s fast-paced and technology-driven landscape, businesses are frequently faced with disruptions that can significantly impact their operations and long-term viability. Recognizing the early signs of these disruptions is key to responding effectively.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 25, 2021

In a world where exponential change and digital disruptions abound, you simply cannot rest on your laurels and merely rely on what you’ve already built. Instinctually for many, we choose to play it safe and protect and defend the status quo with agility. From there, it’s just collecting money and living a good life.

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Viima

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Research reveals that 90% of executives recognize the critical importance of agility for their company's future success, with 96% emphasizing the need to increase agility in the future. What’s more, agile companies grow revenue 37% faster and generate 30% higher profits than their non-agile counterparts.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 31, 2025

Which lessons can be learned from companies that have faced these decisions before? In a recent Innov8rs Learning Lab, George Wu, Head of Ventures at Disruptive Edge , shared his insights on the complexities of venture building, offering practical advice and numerous case studies. How can you determine the right approach for your team?

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 11, 2019

That is, many companies believe that the capability to innovate is becoming a commodity inside businesses. Incremental innovation will become a consistent focus, while transformative and disruptive innovation will be sporadic at best. To "move the needle" companies need an occasional transformative or disruptive innovation.

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Artificial Inteligence Agile Disruption Internet of things 147

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

Many companies are still in denial or not wanting to address the significant legacy and change required. Innovation has gone from being islands of knowledge, developing new products and services exclusive to that one company, then quickly copied by the competitors, into something radically different.

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Innovation Radical Innovation Agile Design 185

Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2019

Start-ups – companies under 5 years old owned by one person or a small team of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists – will innovate quite differently from established companies, which have a history of successful growth and a market share to defend. Different appetites for disruption. The start-up thrives on it.

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Strategy Strategy Company Innovation 142

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

While all of these are still extremely desirable assets, they no longer guarantee a sustainable competitive advantage for most companies. In the last few decades we’ve obviously seen many examples of companies with competitive advantages that seemed impossible to overcome completely break down in a matter of few years.

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Competition Innovation Software Marketing 300

Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 5, 2018

The new game, as demonstrated by a number of emerging disrupters, is captured in the book Unscaled and discussed at length in this nice blog post - one I wish I could have written. Scale is giving way to agility, speed and customer experience. Speed, agility and insight matter more. What does this shift suggest about innovation?

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Agile Disruption Big Data Competition 134

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 9, 2018

Selling sugary drinks seems passe, as bottled water, energy drinks and other health conscious foods and beverages seem to be taking over the "share of mouth" or "share of stomach" that food and beverage companies like to talk about. If the article is to be believed, Coke could have it both ways - size and speed, depth and agility.

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Agile Innovation Disruption Competition 125

Phil McKinney

JULY 11, 2023

We live in unprecedented technological advances, and with these advances come disruptions that can significantly impact our lives and businesses. Understanding Technological Disruptions Technological disruptions refer to unexpected shifts in technology that can disrupt industries, businesses, and life as we know it.

Disruption 87

Disruption Technology Artificial Inteligence Trends 87

Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Recognizing Ecosystem Resilience : Dynamic ecosystems are resilient and capable of withstanding shocks and disruptions. ​ Ensuring Inclusive Participation : Dynamic ecosystems encourage the participation of a wide range of stakeholders, including startups, established companies, academia, and other relevant entities.

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Design Collaboration Trends Disruption 72