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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

For example, a technology company using Gap Analysis may discover that its software deployment speed is slower than competitors , leading to a plan for process improvements and automation. For example, an e-commerce company may analyze its customer service response times to determine how to improve resolution speed.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Disruptive Innovation is not just about technological breakthroughs. For example, companies like Netflix, Uber, and Airbnb began as disruptive innovationsentering markets dominated by established players and offering new value through digital platforms, streamlined experiences, and lower costs. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

This model helps organizations avoid stagnation by encouraging them to invest in new capabilities, markets, and technologies even while maintaining and optimizing existing operations. It was popularized by McKinsey & Company and has since been widely adopted across industries as a roadmap for growth, adaptability, and strategic foresight.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Innovation Roadmap Disruption 130

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The ability to access cutting-edge research, market insights, and technical know-how from a wide network is a key driver of innovation. Agility and Adaptability : Ecosystems are naturally adaptive due to their diversity and interconnectedness. This speed can be a critical differentiator in competitive industries.

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Technical Review Innovation Collaboration Policies 140

Leapfrogging

MARCH 11, 2025

Facilitates agility and adaptability Enables organizations to adjust strategies based on real-time data. Encourages Agile Strategy Adjustments Adapts plans based on real-time market insights. It should be: Clear and inspirational Aligns with the companys vision. Regularly review and adjust strategies based on performance.

Strategy 130

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eZassi

MARCH 11, 2025

Corporate Venture Capital (CVC), in the context of innovation, refers to the practice of established corporations investing directly in external startup companies to achieve strategic objectives. Through CVC, corporations can diversify their innovation efforts, mitigate risks, and stay agile in an uncertain business environment.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Agile Disruption 52

Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In a world where thousands of startups emerge each year, companies looking to stay competitive need to engage actively with this innovation ecosystem. Startups often bring fresh ideas, new technologies, and agile development approaches, but identifying the right ones to collaborate with or invest in can be complex.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Software Innovation 52

Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Benchmarking is a strategic process that involves measuring an organizations performance, practices, or processes against industry leaders or top-performing companies. It now applies across business functions, including customer service, technology, marketing, supply chain, and product development. Customer reviews or rankings.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 14, 2025

Encouraging data-driven decision-making Helps companies refine strategies based on real-time insights. Facilitating agile adaptation Allows for adjustments based on performance trends and market changes. Questions to consider: Is the goal feasible given the companys current capabilities? Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

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Strategy Strategy Technical Review Agile 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 7, 2025

These goals align with the companys vision, mission, and values and provide a roadmap for achieving sustainable growth and competitive advantage. Unlike operational goals, which focus on day-to-day tasks , strategic goals set the foundation for long-term success by addressing: Market positioning How the company competes in its industry.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 11, 2025

Align teams with the companys strategic priorities. Improve agility by enabling regular goal adjustments. Align OKRs Across Teams and Departments OKRs work best when they cascade from company-wide objectives down to teams and individuals. Company OKRs define broad organizational priorities.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

In an environment where companies constantly seek innovation, launching new products or services without proper evaluation can lead to wasted time, effort, and financial loss. This involves: Reviewing top concepts with key stakeholders and decision-makers. Review and refine criteria periodically to reflect evolving business goals.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 12, 2025

For example, IBM has successfully used the Balanced Scorecard to align its technology strategy with customer needs, internal efficiency, and long-term financial performance. These objectives should align with the companys mission, vision, and competitive positioning. Improve communication and coordination across departments.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 130

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.

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Analysis Competition Strategy Strategy 130

Leapfrogging

JANUARY 2, 2023

Agility, the ability to think fast and move quickly, is an imperative for every team this year. That’s because there’s never been more uncertainty – around technology, the economy, global-political turmoil, and just about everything else. I’ve led teams in both big companies and startups.

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Agile Software Review Technical Review Software Developers 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

It proposes that companies must focus on one of three primary value disciplines to achieve market leadership and sustainable success : Operational Excellence Delivering low-cost, reliable, and efficient products or services. Improves Resource Focus Ensures investments align with the companys primary value discipline.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Competition Leadership 130

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 23, 2018

After working through a number the one that held my attention and has become central to my thinking to take organizational practices forward was provided by a recent report from McKinsey “ How to create an agile organization ”. Agility for me is vital, it allows us to increasingly be adaptive in an uncertain world.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 14, 2025

Why is it that some people and companies so quickly enhance their productivity and speed with new A.I. There are in fact 7 levels of increasing maturity for how individuals and companies use A.I. There are in fact 7 levels of increasing maturity for how individuals and companies use A.I. in their work. in their work.

Software Review 131

Software Review ChatGPT Underperforming Technical Team Generative AI 131

Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Without a structured plan, companies risk significant financial losses, operational failures, and reputational damage. How Contingency Planning Supports Strategic Decision-Making Identifies and Assesses Business Risks Helps companies recognize potential threats before they occur. Regulatory changes impacting self-driving technology.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Disruption 130

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Benchmarking is widely used across industries, from manufacturing and finance to healthcare and technology. Driving continuous improvement Ensuring that businesses remain agile and adaptable in dynamic markets. Companies must make strategic decisions based on data and proven methodologies. At this stage, quantitative data (e.g.,

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Power of Organizational Culture Organizational culture is the bedrock upon which companies build their strategies and operational approaches. It encompasses the values, beliefs, and behaviors that determine how a company’s employees and management interact and handle outside business transactions.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. This broke my heart and immediately made me realise why this company would continue to fail in its innovation efforts.

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Innovation Technical Review Innovation Processes Creativity 249

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

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

AUGUST 2, 2024

In this edition, we speak with Matthew Lieberman who is the Chief Marketing Officer of PwC US/Mexico and an innovative executive at the crossroads of marketing, media, and technology. ML: I am so excited about utilizing emerging technologies—these are key to our transformation. How we then apply this to our marketing strategy is key.

Technical Review 59

Technical Review Generative AI Marketing Tools 59

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Exploring the interplay between Humans, Technology and AI for design thinking Why is design thinking regarded as so crucial to the future of innovation in a world of accelerating interplays between humans, technology and generative AI? Moving to the edge : Organizations are becoming more agile by adopting an “edge” approach.

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Design Thinking Technical Review Design Technology 147

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

We need to be highly adaptive and that comes from a greater technology understanding. Can we find ways to be highly adaptable, agile and fluid in grabbing and taking the parts of the innovation system and constructing them into that design and process that works for that specific challenge? It adjusts and you learn.

Design 232

Design Technical Review Innovation Agile 232

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. Over the years, so much has improved and understood by the explanations, case examples, suggestions, clarifications and ways they were “built into” the individual innovation processes that each company chose to construct their innovation process.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Innovation Agile 182

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

If diversity of thought is lacking, you’re left looking outside the company for varying perspectives — a likely reason why accelerators have grown in popularity. The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies.

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Collaboration Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Innovation 174

CMOE

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Companies often have three levels in the management hierarchy: frontline, mid-level, and senior-level leadership. The leaders at each of these levels perform different duties, but no matter where you sit in the organization, agile thinking matters. Provides companies with solutions in times of uncertainty. Individual motivation.

Agile 78

Agile Company How To Technical Review 78

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically. There is a strategic resistance, there is a lack of organizational agility and still not the level of commitment this is required, driven from the top. trillion in value to global manufacturing. The internal change is slow.

Industry 213

Industry Technical Review Innovation Design 213

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Within the value proposition, we actively shape these journeys, building adaptability, agility and innovation for long-term success in the changing business environment we all face today. A landscape and the navigation skills that provide the adaptability and agility needed for successful innovation in the current business landscape.

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Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Innovation 173

Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

What mistake do companies often make when they talk about innovation? What simple thing can a company do to change their conversation / perspective about innovation? The results were incredible, with insightful recommendations on what it takes to make innovation succeed at companies of any size. Let’s get started.

Innovation 270

Innovation Technical Review Creativity Leadership 270

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality. To try and catalyze growth, companies undergo perennial reorganizations, often to revitalize themselves. Pursuing old business paradigms of how a company should be run is not helping us. Source: [link].

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Innovation Innovation Programs Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 222

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

Sopheon is delivering the right “on-market” message that they “provide support for speed, agility, and adaptability – all critical enterprise capabilities in the digital era” They are claiming they are actively building business partner ecosystems. They might feel they have this, I don’t.

Innovation Management 200

Innovation Management Software Review Management Technical Review 200

Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Importance of Staying Scrappy in an AI-Driven Era In an age of rapid technological advancements, companies everywhere are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to modernize their operations. As AI assumes a bigger role, companies must be careful not to lose sight of the human element in their operations.

Software Review 118

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Agile 118

Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Imagine your company, a century-old travel industry leader, receiving a merger proposal from an upstart digital disruptor. This was the dilemma the company Kouni faced when Priceline, which went on to acquire Booking.com, proposed a merger. A slow decline and eventual dismantling of the company. What would you do?

Marketing 52

Marketing Technical Review How To Agile 52

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 26, 2015

I recall reading that up to now, each digital technology change was a separate era of change, to absorb and adapt towards, yet today we are facing something seemingly different, a collision, a whole mash-up of disparate technologies and systems, that seem to be heading for such an explosion of change, a post-digital transformation.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Technology Innovation Internet of things 100