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MARCH 26, 2025

Instead of building a rigid business plan based on speculative projections, DDP encourages teams to identify key uncertainties, design experiments, and refine the strategy as new information emerges. Below is a practical guide to applying DDP in innovation projects. This could include: A validated product-market fit.

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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. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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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. Lead Successful Strategy Projects! What is the First Mover Advantage?

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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. Real-world innovation projects rarely happen in isolation. Spot emerging trends and opportunities to inform product or service design.

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MARCH 26, 2025

Benchmarking in Innovation Benchmarking plays a critical role in real-world innovation projects by providing data-driven insights that inform both strategy and execution. Incorporate benchmarking findings into strategic planning cycles, design thinking workshops, or agile backlogs. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This new management method makes it nearly impossible for innovation teams to fail at delivering multiple challenging innovation projects faster, with less risk and lower required budgets. Most innovation experts often say that traditional management processes are not the way to run innovation projects. And this is true.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 14, 2025

SMART Metrics: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects SMART Metrics are a structured approach to goal setting and performance measurement that ensures objectives are clearly defined, actionable, and measurable. Facilitating agile adaptation Allows for adjustments based on performance trends and market changes. What are SMART Metrics?

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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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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 23, 2018

There has been an awful lot to absorb when it comes to skills and how organizations need to be designed for the future. This report has been part of a broader ‘agile’ series from them but this one specifically gave me my necessary anchor point, to move forward with my own design thinking for agility and innovation.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Objectives & Key Results (OKR): A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects Objectives & Key Results (OKR) is a goal-setting framework used by organizations to define clear objectives and track measurable results. Improve agility by enabling regular goal adjustments. Lead Successful Strategy Projects! quarterly, annually).

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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. Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

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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 14, 2025

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are quantifiable metrics that measure an organizations progress toward achieving strategic objectives. Supporting continuous learning and adaptation Helps businesses stay agile and responsive to market shifts.

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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. Innovation-driven projects. Make data-driven decisions , rather than relying solely on projections.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In October 2024, Planview sponsored the first Project to Product Summit (and it won’t be the last). In these sessions, speakers from FedEx, Nationwide, Spotify, Vanguard, Verizon, and Planview described their journeys, shared the roadblocks they encountered, and laid out the strategies they developed for the project-to-product shift.

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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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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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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. Lead Successful Strategy Projects! Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Knowing the issues, reducing often the ‘noise and distractions’ and making the professional case is what we need to do to attract commitment to the projects we are working upon. What condition of ‘readiness’ in design, capabilities and capacity4. How can you reduce down uncertainty? So what is the approach taken?

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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. Lead Successful Change Management Projects! This allows you to proactively design training programs that align with these anticipated needs.

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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. Lead Successful Strategy Projects! Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

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MARCH 10, 2025

Scenario Planning: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects Scenario Planning is a strategic methodology that helps organizations anticipate and prepare for potential future uncertainties. A well-designed scenario planning process ensures that companies: Identify key uncertainties and their potential impacts. What is Scenario Planning?

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

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. Here’s how you can combine these approaches: Design Thinking : Begin with empathy.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

The Objectives & Key Results (OKR) is a structured framework designed to facilitate successful organizational change. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success. Lead Successful Change Management Projects!

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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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MARCH 21, 2025

Whether you are involved in ai for idea generation , ai in design thinking , or ai for rapid prototyping , AI can provide valuable inputs at every stage of the innovation process. This agility is particularly important in fast-paced markets where consumer preferences can change rapidly. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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MARCH 5, 2025

The Key Outcome Indicators is a structured framework designed to facilitate successful organizational change. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success. Lead Successful Change Management Projects! What are Key Outcome Indicators?

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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. For example, Apples core competencies include innovative product design, seamless software integration, and a strong brand ecosystem.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

The OGSM Strategy Framework is a structured framework designed to facilitate successful organizational change. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success. Lead Successful Change Management Projects! What is OGSM Strategy Framework?

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MARCH 21, 2025

Lead Successful Innovation Projects! Get instant innovation processes Get expert tools & guidance Lead projects with confidence Learn More Implementing AI in Idea Validation Data Analysis and Insights Incorporating AI into idea validation involves leveraging its capabilities for data analysis and generating insights.

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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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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like. And one of the most important ways to have facilitate this in your projects is to ensure you have clarity and alignment from the very beginning on what the definition of success is for all teams.

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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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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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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 22, 2021

These top agile and scrum sprint retrospective templates can be used during remote meetings with your team. Facilitating Agile Retrospectives Workshop. This board is directly from a Miro team member and is designed to help facilitators of retrospective sessions to guide their agile team effectively through the process.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Explore examples of how design thinking and human-centered design has led to innovation in healthcare. Healthcare is one industry among many that can benefit from innovative thinking and human-centered design principles. Using Agile Thinking to Keep Hospitals Aligned. Applying Design Thinking to Schizophrenia Care.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Benchmarking Analysis: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects What is Benchmarking Analysis? Benchmarking Analysis is a structured framework designed to help organizations evaluate their processes, performance, and strategies against industry best practices and competitors. Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

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