Leanstack

APRIL 26, 2021

In this post, Alejandra shares her perspectives on when and how to incorporate lean, agile, and design thinking into your product lifecycle. Enjoy… -Ash) As a product design manager and portfolio owner, I have found myself endlessly defending why it takes 9 months to design and launch a product with no guarantee of success.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Within a short series about Innovation Ecosystems this post asks what really are the distinct differences within innovation ecosystem thinking and design, to provide a set of common distinguishing points to move from “just” open innovation. This speed can be a critical differentiator in competitive industries.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Benchmarking is not about imitationits about learning from others to accelerate progress, improve competitiveness, and inform strategic decision-making. This allows the innovation team to focus on the areas with the greatest competitive leverage. Regardless of scope, the process should be systematic and repeatable.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Pitching the reasons to change to Innovation Ecosystems in thinking and design So after working through the values of the Innovation Ecosystem over a series of three posts I asked Chat GPT to help me in making a pitch for the change from existing internal orientated innovation processes and structures.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 20, 2025

Ohmae’s 3Cs Model: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects The 3Cs Model , developed by Kenichi Ohmae , is a strategic framework that helps businesses achieve a sustainable competitive advantage by focusing on three key stakeholders: Customer, Company, and Competitor. Ensuring a competitive edge through unique differentiation.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Finding the new building blocks of innovation ecosystem design and thinking. Why change our thinking and designing around innovation ecosystems?“. For me, ecosystem thinking and design offer fresh ways for accelerating mutual learning, and through this innovation, outcome potential for sharing and knowledge building.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

This approach encourages organizations to challenge industry orthodoxy and design innovations that meet latent or emerging needs, often leading to breakthrough value creation. Build and Test Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) Design small-scale experiments to validate assumptions. MVPs should: Be fast and inexpensive to build.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

The Context Map Canvas is a strategic tool designed to help organizations understand and navigate the external factors that influence innovation and business performance. This tool is especially valuable in fast-paced industries or during periods of transformation, where understanding context can be the key to staying competitive.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Let me summarize where we are today in design thinking. In the past couple of weeks, I have been spending a fair amount of time on investigating design thinking. This is part one of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Dynamic Ecosystems build future ecosystem resilience and including participation as the core to thinking evolution and discovery, to exploit and expand to what is possible, through ecosystem-centric thinking and design. The post How critical Dynamic Ecosystems are to any Ecosystem Design first appeared on Business Innovation Ecosystems.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

Value Disciplines Model: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects The Value Disciplines Model , developed by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema , is a strategic framework that helps organizations identify and pursue a distinctive competitive strategy. Strengthening competitive differentiation in the market.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 3, 2024

Embracing Innovation Ecosystems for Enhanced Competitiveness In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, innovation is paramount for organizations to thrive and achieve sustainable success. The post Are You Embracing Innovation Ecosystems for Enhanced Competitiveness first appeared on Paul4innovating Innovation Views.

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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. By leveraging best practices, such as agile product development and new product development strategies , you can mitigate risks and set the stage for successful product launches and service rollouts.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It’s what kicks growth into gear, keeps you competitive, and helps your team sidestep those nasty surprises. Flexibility : Innovation gives your business the agility to dodge and weave with market changes. Agile’s all about being quick on your feet and staying nimble with projects.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 14, 2025

Facilitating agile adaptation Allows for adjustments based on performance trends and market changes. How does achieving this metric support the companys competitive positioning? Increase online sales conversion rate by 5% through improved website UX design. Does this goal add value to customers, employees, or stakeholders?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Core Competence Analysis: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects Core Competence Analysis is a strategic framework used to identify an organizations unique strengths that provide a competitive advantage. Improve operational efficiency Eliminating distractions that dont contribute to competitive advantage.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

By incorporating AI into your innovation management processes, you can enhance your ability to validate new ideas effectively, ensuring that your organization remains competitive and innovative in a rapidly changing market. This can include consumer preferences, market conditions, and competitive landscapes.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2024

The framework looks to 1) tap into collective intelligence, 2) accelerate innovation by cross-pollination, 3) enhance resilience and agility, 4) deliver superior customer experience, and 5) optimize resource utilization across the parties sharing in this interconnected ecosystem. Post two : Interdependence and Feedback Loops.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Accelerated Innovation and Speed to Market In an innovation ecosystem, shared resources, collaborative platforms, and agile development processes dramatically reduce the time it takes to move from idea to implementation. Your internal system may excel at refinement, but ecosystems excel at speed and agility.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 7, 2022

Design Thinking Applied to M&A Integration. However, if merging is done right, it might lead to competitive advantages. The failure rate increases due to insufficient integration design and planning or faulty integration planning. Most of the failures point to a lack of design and alignment with people’s needs.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 11, 2025

Improve agility by enabling regular goal adjustments. T ime-bound Designed for a specific timeframe (e.g., Agile Planning Frameworks – Ensures adaptability and continuous iteration. A well-implemented OKR framework helps organizations: Set ambitious yet realistic objectives. quarterly, annually).

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 27, 2025

Skill Assessments : AI-powered assessments can evaluate employees’ current skill levels and identify areas for improvement, enabling you to design targeted training programs. This allows you to proactively design training programs that align with these anticipated needs. Lead Successful Change Management Projects!

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

What condition of ‘readiness’ in design, capabilities and capacity4. These form the ‘way forward’ in discussions, resolution and design. This approach we take offers a comprehensive solution to the innovation business case and its methodology and it belongs to its owners Agility Innovation Specialists.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Impact of Culture on Business Agility and Resilience Organizational culture is a powerful lever for enhancing business agility and resilience. To leverage organizational culture for greater business agility and resilience, it’s essential to align the cultural dynamics with your company’s vision and operational tactics.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that combines empathy, creativity, and rationality to meet user needs and drive successful business outcomes. Defining Design Thinking Design thinking involves five key stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 14, 2025

Drive continuous improvement and competitive advantage. Supporting continuous learning and adaptation Helps businesses stay agile and responsive to market shifts. Facilitates Agility and Adaptation Allows businesses to pivot based on performance insights. Identify areas for improvement and optimization.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

A well-designed scenario planning process ensures that companies: Identify key uncertainties and their potential impacts. Strengthens competitive advantage Enables companies to anticipate industry shifts ahead of competitors. Scenario 3: Competition from emerging platforms erodes market share.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

By leveraging AI, you can gain a deeper understanding of consumer behavior, preferences, and trends, which are crucial for driving innovation and staying competitive in the market. This agility is particularly important in fast-paced markets where consumer preferences can change rapidly.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the fourth conversation between Jeffrey Phillips and myself around parts of the Executive Innovation Work Mat, we took on several different issues around the design, function, structure and process needs for innovation. The ability to manage innovation design, function, structure and process.

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Planview

JULY 29, 2024

This end-to-end connectivity made it easier to complete a broad portfolio of projects across different product lines.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

This is approaching innovation and its management in more of a holistic, technology-enabled way based on the use of a cloud-enabled Platform and Ecosystem thinking and design. This agility allows them to seize new opportunities, stay ahead of competitors, and effectively navigate uncertainties and disruptions in the business landscape.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Competitive Analysis : How’s your strategy stacking up against the Joneses? Competitive Analysis See if you’re winning or need a mid-game pep talk. Design Thinking for Business Creativity Design thinking’s the secret sauce for spicing up your strategy. Customer Feedback : Are your clients raving or ranting?

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

New Business Design- Empower Your Business Ecosystem. When looking at radically different thinking and design in business, where Ecosystems become central, you need to ask yourself what industries would benefit from such an alternative design and thinking due to the changing complexities and challenges they are facing.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 1, 2025

This trend is particularly impactful in ai in workflow design , where AI can optimize processes and reduce manual effort. Here are some potential impacts: Strategic Agility : AI enables organizations to quickly adapt to changing market conditions by providing real-time insights and predictive analytics.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Benchmarking Analysis is a structured framework designed to help organizations evaluate their processes, performance, and strategies against industry best practices and competitors. Driving continuous improvement Ensuring that businesses remain agile and adaptable in dynamic markets. What is Benchmarking Analysis?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design. So the thinking intent of searching for a new innovation design had some framing assumptions that can leverage where we are to move towards a new future. This is a useful way to think about the initial 3H outcome.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I am working through what I think this should become in design and application, involving providing the key innovation building blocks as components of the innovation stack, using the innovation stack to guide platform development and the platform to support this innovation stack.

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