Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

With technology advancing at an unprecedented pace, consumer behaviors shifting, and new market entrants disrupting traditional industries, your ability to innovate determines your potential for growth and sustainability. Incorporating innovative practices is essential for adapting to market changes and ensuring long-term success.

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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. Recognizing Ecosystem Resilience : Dynamic ecosystems are resilient and capable of withstanding shocks and disruptions. ​

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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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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. What distinguishes an Innovation Ecosystem from Open Innovation?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

It is particularly useful in situations where assumptions outweigh factssuch as launching a new venture, developing disruptive products, or entering unfamiliar markets. Design Learning Milestones Set checkpoints where you will test assumptions and evaluate progress. Design experiments to validate them quickly and cheaply.

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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 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. Spot emerging trends and opportunities to inform product or service design. Tracking trend shifts and market disruptions. What is Context Map Canvas?

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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. Reduces risk and uncertainty Prepares organizations for potential disruptions. Account for disruptive technologies that may emerge over time.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 26, 2025

We need to reframe disruption to increase the possibilities for game-changing inventions and innovations to succeed in an uncertain and unstable future. The crucial first step in managing this is to accept responsibility for recognising and disrupting your internal structures, mental models, mindsets, and habitual behaviours.

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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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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. Factories are undergoing massive change.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 29, 2019

What is the Agile Innovation Process, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? Today, everyone wants to be agile. It’s seen as sexy and cool to be agile, but most people don’t know what the term really means. There’s little surprise that the agile framework has taken off.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Flexibility : Innovation gives your business the agility to dodge and weave with market changes. For a deeper dive into mixing creativity with planning, have a look at our article on using design thinking to shape your game plan. Agile’s all about being quick on your feet and staying nimble with projects.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We need to transform, be disrupted or certainly re-imagine and this is where knowing your ecosystem comes in. Our existing organization needs to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical change. It calls for bold management to instigate such a transformation. A tantalizing prospect, full of innovation.

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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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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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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation. Brought to prominence by Professor Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma , this important theory provides an explanation as to why large, established companies eventually get overtaken by smaller ones, and it introduced the concept of disruptive innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Is Agility compatible for many working in established businesses? “To To be agile” is often a badge of honor. Agility is today going far beyond just being responsive,it goes into constantly adjusting and being versatile, modifying to meet rapidly changing conditions. We all need to seek out that badge of “agility”.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ecosystem co-operations can allow you to align with others, totally outside your existing relationships, so you can enter new markets, explore new concepts and design, that would have been impossible as an individual organization. Ecosystems are unique in design, relationships and the environment that surrounds them. No easy task.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design.

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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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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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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Pulling in innovation is a must-have in today’s fast-moving scene, as detailed in our note on strategy’s need for innovation in disruptive times. Design Thinking for Business Creativity Design thinking’s the secret sauce for spicing up your strategy. Toss some innovation into the mix. Fancy more on this?

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 3, 2021

There will be constant disruption along the way. Agility Innovation. To embrace sustainability requires a no-holds-barred assessment of the present business and what is required in resources, shifts in strategic design and stakeholder dialogue. We need to map the sustainability pathway across the three horizons.

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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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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

The Objectives & Key Results (OKR) is a structured framework designed to facilitate successful organizational change. Organizations that use this process can execute change more effectively, ensuring smoother transitions and minimizing disruptions. What are Objectives & Key Results (OKR)?

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2020

Often we forget to reinforce the very design within our organizational structures, we leave role structures incomplete and uncertain, or we always seem to be changing them, before they have had any real chance to ‘form and storm.’ It can’t solve complicated product design solutions in thirteen weeks.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2022

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. Waiting for decisions will lead to lost opportunities. Personal Shifts.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

The Key Outcome Indicators is a structured framework designed to facilitate successful organizational change. Organizations that use this process can execute change more effectively, ensuring smoother transitions and minimizing disruptions. What are Key Outcome Indicators?

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 27, 2018

He was commenting more specifically about the breakthrough of the “digital twin” that can allow us to design, simulate and test sophisticated products in the virtual domain before even taking them into a first physical prototype or even setting them up in the physical world. I want to come back to this in another post.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

The OGSM Strategy Framework is a structured framework designed to facilitate successful organizational change. Organizations that use this process can execute change more effectively, ensuring smoother transitions and minimizing disruptions. What is OGSM Strategy Framework?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 17, 2022

We are all struggling to transform ourselves in our business to reflect the current economic difficulties we all presently seem to be facing including shortages, disruptions, and dealing with inflation and economic downturns and massive climate change challenges. the art of building Agility into your innovative thinking and approaches.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

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. process automation, and agile methodologies can drastically improve success rates. Lets explore some of the amazing A.I.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We are facing greater disruption and an increasing innovation pace. where technology, digital solutions, greater customer insights, where a new breed of designers, engineers, scientists, and software talent are combining built through a platform and new innovation ecosystems thinking, are all emerging. as a major game-changer “.

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