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. Traditional business planning often breaks down in environments where customer needs, market dynamics, or technical feasibility are not yet fully understood.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. I’d like to offer some views, partly looking out to the future, partly considering what is potentially within our grasp, if we step back and rethink innovation design.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2025

First Mover Advantage: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects First Mover Advantage (FMA) is a strategic concept where a company gains a competitive edge by being the first to enter a new market or introduce a groundbreaking product or service. Create barriers to entry for competitors. Secure strategic resources and partnerships.

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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 makes the path to market smoother and more predictable.

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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

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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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. It provides a structured way to analyze macro-environmental elements such as market trends, regulatory shifts, technological advancements, and customer behavior.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

It now applies across business functions, including customer service, technology, marketing, supply chain, and product development. In the innovation context, it is a vital diagnostic and planning tool that guides decisions related to product design, process improvements, market positioning, and organizational transformation.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Understanding Innovation Innovation is the lifeblood of businesses seeking to thrive in a rapidly evolving market. 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.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Agenda Design for Maximum Impact Structuring a killer agenda isnt rocket science but needs some finesse to keep heads in the game and not in the clouds. The post Crafting Powerful Strategic Offsite Meeting Designs first appeared on Innovation Keynote Speaking & Workshops. Logistics : Nail down the where and how.

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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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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 20, 2025

It provides a structured way to develop business strategies that are aligned with market needs while outperforming competitors. Unlike other models that emphasize internal operations or industry forces, Ohmaes 3Cs Model prioritizes external market dynamics and how a company can position itself effectively to create long-term value.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

By validating ideas early, you can identify potential flaws, understand market needs, and refine your concepts before significant investments are made. This capability is particularly valuable in concept testing, where AI can predict the potential success of new ideas based on historical data and market trends.

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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 allows you to anticipate market trends and adjust your strategies accordingly.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Strategic planning maps out how you’ll crush your long-term goals, and stirring some innovation into the mix helps your business roll with whatever curveballs the market throws. Here’s why innovation should be at the heart of your plan: Growth Chances : Innovation helps spot and snag new markets, gizmos, and services.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 14, 2025

Facilitating agile adaptation Allows for adjustments based on performance trends and market changes. For example, Meta (formerly Facebook) sets realistic targets for metaverse user adoption based on current VR technology and market trends. Increase online sales conversion rate by 5% through improved website UX design.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The business model, built on the premise the knowledge needs to flow into “us” and not shared in sharing the final outcomes, going into the market. where technology and diversity of experiences and broader market potential are demonstrating significant growth opportunities in more collaborative and co-creative ways.

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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. Improve customer retention and market differentiation. Align internal capabilities with market needs.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 14, 2025

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. Steps to ensure accountability: Designate KPI owners within relevant teams. Adapt quickly to industry and market changes.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 17, 2025

Markets evolve, customer behavior shifts, and competitors adapt. Design a test to validate or invalidate this assumption quickly and cheaply. By embracing the impossibility of proof, you open the door to a more agile, efficient, and ultimately successful innovation process. What works in one context may fail in another.

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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Discovery Driven Planning: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects Discovery-Driven Planning (DDP) is a strategic approach designed for uncertain, high-risk initiatives , where traditional planning methods may not be effective. Market entry strategies. Adapt flexibly to market feedback and new insights. Limited market pilots.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 7, 2022

Design Thinking Applied to M&A Integration. 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. This is where Design Thinking can be of tremendous value. There is a better way.

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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., Adjust OKRs based on feedback and market changes. For example, Microsoft aligns OKRs across product teams, marketing, and sales to ensure seamless execution of new software launches. quarterly, annually).

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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. A culture that is adaptable, innovative, and collaborative can better withstand market fluctuations and respond to challenges swiftly and effectively.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

By leveraging their core competencies, organizations can create sustainable differentiation, deliver superior value, and expand into new markets effectively. Align internal strengths with market needs Ensuring company expertise meets customer demands. Scalable Can be applied across different products, services, or markets.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

It involves creating multiple plausible scenarios to explore how different factorssuch as market trends, technological advancements, economic shifts, or geopolitical changescould impact a business. A well-designed scenario planning process ensures that companies: Identify key uncertainties and their potential impacts.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Innovation thinking in Ecosystem and Gen AI design I believe there is a real need to construct a different innovation process. For me, ecosystem innovation and generative AI have arrived at that pivotal point to significantly influence future innovation design. Innovation needs reinventing.

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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

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

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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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We need to broaden out the whole process of rapid innovation application beyond the two current favorites of lean and design thinking. Designing the complete rapid innovation application process. We need to change our thinking and design in the digital insight part more specifically within and along the innovation process.

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Planview

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Effectively selling Agile to executives is more than just getting the go-ahead for an Agile transformation. Because Agile includes a culture shift and a mindset change, as well as funding, you need executives to truly buy in to the approach. Senior leaders are a significant driver in the success rate of an Agile transformation.

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