Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2025

Get instant strategy processes Get expert tools & guidance Lead projects with confidence Learn More Getting Started with the First Mover Advantage To successfully capture first mover advantage, organizations must plan meticulously and execute with agility. The following steps outline a structured approach to harnessing this advantage: 1.

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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. Strategic roadmapping and resource planning. What is Context Map Canvas?

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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. Action Planning : Create a roadmap to carry out the ideas. Set Expectations : Spill the tea on the goals and what you expect from each personclarity here is key for a role-well-done.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

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. Develop Action Plans Use benchmarking results to inform your innovation roadmap. Assign ownership, timelines, and budgets.

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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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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. This required the design team to work a “Sprint&# (month long iteration) ahead of the development team. Where did Agile come from?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

The Objectives & Key Results (OKR) is a structured framework designed to facilitate successful organizational change. The Objectives & Key Results (OKR) serves as a roadmap, ensuring that all aspects of the change initiative are well-coordinated and aligned with business objectives. What are Objectives & Key Results (OKR)?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Product managers, designers, developers, and marketers rally around user feedback as the primary source of direction. This fosters agile practices and customer-centric innovation. By isolating and testing key features, they avoid overengineering and reduce waste.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

The Key Outcome Indicators is a structured framework designed to facilitate successful organizational change. The Key Outcome Indicators serves as a roadmap, ensuring that all aspects of the change initiative are well-coordinated and aligned with business objectives. What are Key Outcome Indicators?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

The OGSM Strategy Framework is a structured framework designed to facilitate successful organizational change. The OGSM Strategy Framework serves as a roadmap, ensuring that all aspects of the change initiative are well-coordinated and aligned with business objectives. What is OGSM Strategy Framework?

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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

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.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

We need to approach innovation differently through connected agility, have speed and automation more central, and provide roles for a great diverse set of participants. The principles of this Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework are the recognition and value of having a building block and innovation stack design.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Our present poor performance in growth lies often within our existing innovation systems and their design. The search is on for a real lasting change that does transform and connect all the parts into a new innovative design, one that connects and orchestrates the ‘whole’. Structuring for Asset Orchestration.

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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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Idea to Value

MARCH 14, 2025

This post outlines a roadmap that takes you from a baseline state of no A.I. It is a practical roadmap that guides organizations from the early stages of AI exposure to a future where an autonomous A.I. adoption to a fully autonomous A.I. Here are the 7 key levels of AI usage maturity: Level 0: No A.I.: workforce drives operations.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. Innovation is advancing but most of it has been designed for a different time, the old era of stable markets, predictable solutions and having a clear sense of your competition.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

If you haven’t implemented design thinking or creative thinking exercises into your workspace, it’s time to start. Brainwriting, or agile solution building , is a collaboration exercise that engages the entire team with each other’s ideas and allows everyone to insert their unique perspective into the mix. Brainwriting. Conclusion.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

I am suggesting a vertical and horizontal design applying innovation stack and building block approaches, all “housed” on a technology platform. We need an Innovation Mandate calling for a Radical Re-design of how we undertake innovation management, it is needed to bring innovation management into the 21st century in design and approaches.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

This blog post explores how utilizing the right mix of Agile work management solutions can boost productivity and empower product teams to achieve their goals effectively, with each tool playing a crucial role in this intricate symphony of success.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 11, 2019

We need to manage reskilling and upskilling to mitigate against both job losses and talent shortages but prepared the future workforce to be more nimble, agile and fluid. In shorter production runs to cater increasingly to individual customer demand, we need to tailor our responses far quicker, and we need to be highly adaptive and agile.

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eZassi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Planning and Organizing for Execution A clear roadmap transforms ideas into actionable plans. Ezassi’s Challenge-as-a-Service is designed to address these barriers. Teams are encouraged to think creatively, communicate openly, and remain agile in the face of unforeseen challenges. Ready to bring your next big idea to life?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 15, 2024

This is one of openly collaborating and co-creating in different Ecosystem structures and designs to provide a greater diversity of opinions, knowledge, and resources. Also, I provided an earlier view on my paul4innovating.com posting site of “ pitching business ecosystems opens up the possibility of real change.”

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 3, 2024

A Roadmap for Embracing Innovation Ecosystems To effectively integrate into innovation ecosystems, organizations should consider the following steps: Identify Relevant Ecosystems: Assess the organization’s strategic priorities and identify innovation ecosystems aligned with those goals.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I have written extensively, certainly over the past eighteen months, about our need to take innovation into a new era, designed for today and tomorrow’s “fit for purpose” Below you will see my view of how I see this sketched out, as my suggested concept outline. Does it make sense? Does it make sense to you?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2025

Companies rush to modernize without a roadmap , ending up with fragmented tools, overwhelmed teams, and little to show for it. Before you can design or implement a transformation strategy, everyone involved needs to be aligned on what transformation actually means. A defined strategy also improves agility.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 15, 2018

The mix of digital ingredients and having the approach to building a more agile, flexible and modular design approach gives a strong impression they are driving much innovation within the Insurance Industry. In a further update in January 2018, I have lifted out this slide from the Equity Story on why you should invest in Munich Re.

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ITONICS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Roadmapping has been used in industry for a while and recently has been extensively scientifically analyzed and further developed. All companies from corporations to SMEs need a quick and effective opportunity to deal with the topic of roadmapping, identify new technologies and embed them in their own corporate strategy.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

3D-printed personalized organs, skin grafts targeted nanoparticles, and medicine designed to individuals’ specific biological needs will revolutionize personal healthcare. Hyper-personalization disrupts many sectors creating unique products and designs for customers.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This approach will help organizations better understand and leverage the complex, interconnected, Flow and Design considerations and practice Central Dynamic Core: Constantly processing and distributing information, resources, and innovations. The platform design provides much of the facilitation.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 14, 2025

Innov8rs | To create revenue beyond the existing business, corporate innovators need to design a supportive NOW/NEW interface. On the one hand, there is the existing business, or NOW, which employs 99 percent of the staff; on the other, there is the system designed to innovate outside the box, or NEW.

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eZassi

JANUARY 28, 2025

Over the next five years, we anticipate major breakthroughs in computer-aided design (CAD), real-time rendering, simulation modeling, and extended reality (XR), impacting sectors such as Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Aerospace, Energy, Materials Science, and Life Sciences.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Applying Design Thinking to Personal Growth and Innovation In today’s rapidly changing world, the ability to adapt and innovate is more crucial than ever, not just in the realm of product development but also in our personal and professional lives. It involves five key stages: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

From start-ups to banks, design has never been more central to business. Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. Why is that fabled “seat at the table” so hard to find, and how can designers get a chair? Is design just a service, or can designers* lead?

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 5, 2024

This building Business Ecosystems in thinking and design, does overtime, takes on a shape that provides a radical journey of co-creating, innovating and positioning value to seize different, more significant opportunities than being capable of achieving in any offer as a single organization. Let’s offer some of these here.

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