Planview

JANUARY 28, 2025

In Agile environments, leadership often comes without formal authority. Agile coaches are tasked with guiding teams through complex transformations, but they must do so without the traditional power to enforce changes. The following are key roles and responsibilities that define an effective Agile coach.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 3, 2021

The growing concerns of several intertwined issues need addressing as they will initiate a significant change to the Business and how it operates and presents itself to the world. There will be constant disruption along the way. Agility Innovation. Sustainability is rising to be top or close to the top of a boards agenda.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2022

We are presently facing a profound set of changes in the conditions that businesses operate within in the immediate years ahead, that of the fear of business contagion; these will need a different set of innovation shifts and responses to counter this and seize new opportunities. Business contagion requires different innovative responses.

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 27, 2021

For those interested in digital disruption and technological advancements , Bitcoin represented so much more than a way to allegedly make money fast like some type of digital wolf of Wall Street. When your focus is on agility and reactionary responses, you will always be behind the curve. Blockchain: A Whole New Financial Frontier.

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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

Organizations that use this process can execute change more effectively, ensuring smoother transitions and minimizing disruptions. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success. Below are common obstacles and strategies to overcome them.

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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.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

Organizations that use this process can execute change more effectively, ensuring smoother transitions and minimizing disruptions. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success. Below are common obstacles and strategies to overcome them.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Disruption is all around us; it never seems to go away; it simply appears in a different and often entirely new form. The result is the same; it disrupts what we know and often in how we suddenly need to set about doing it differently. Much of the innovative disruptions seem so obvious; you wonder why we were not doing these before.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

Organizations that use this process can execute change more effectively, ensuring smoother transitions and minimizing disruptions. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success. Below are common obstacles and strategies to overcome them.

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Strategy Strategy Roadmap Tools 130

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The past two years were as disruptive as they get for both society and business. Some people think being agile is a mindset. If you have the right tools, anyone can both build agility into how you think and make it the foundation of your business processes. That’s how you remain resilient in today’s disruptive world.

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Disruption Strategy Strategy Agile 130

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 2, 2016

This past weekend I had an extended period of re-reading about the effects of disruption that seems to be occurring across all points of business, our politics, our governments, it seems across our lives. All good plans sometime get disrupted. Everything invented seems to have been disrupted or seems about too.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 27, 2018

They gave fragmented insights for the future, much seemed to be retrospective and caught in the present or simply trying to catch up. So much of our known world will become disrupted, it will challenge society, it will bring about new behavior. Being fully connected-up will teach us to be adaptive, agile and alert.

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Industry Disruption Artificial Inteligence Technology 238

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 31, 2020

If we remain in our present states, then what I suggest as a ‘frozen state’ remains, we default back to what we know, based more on repeating patterns, believing everything is orderly based on efficiency, effectiveness, and doing what is necessary to manage daily. We need to return to some level of certainty. But keep reiterating like mad.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

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. Making the innovation case in a well-structured process gives greater opportunity for identification and realization. To find out more contact me.

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Innovation Guidelines Analysis Agile 321

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes. Drive Change Speaker with a strong message on embracing disruption. The post The Best Innovation Keynote Speakers Talking Points & Presentations first appeared on.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2017

22 Ice Breaker Questions on Disruptive Innovation and Uncertainty. We helped plan a full day event focused on disruptive innovation. That triggered creating an entirely new set of ice breaker questions linked to disruption or uncertainty in some way. Speaking of disruptive brands, what is your best Uber experience?

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 15, 2018

The most impressive presentation I reviewed in 2017 was the one from Munich Re, held on 21st November 2017 under their investor day event. All I can achieve here is, partly a real praise for the presentation but just a few ‘teasers’ for a presentation deck that is 140 slides long.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 1, 2020

I wanted to go back to one of my favorite frameworks, the Cynefin framework for partly thinking through the “ known-unknown-unknowable ” in our present world. In any chaotic situation, as we presently are, the overriding need is to stabilize and determine the constraints to quickly establish some level of order.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

In this post I want to explore the potential returns I feel are gained from adopting this “ Final Perspective, the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework” following my recommendation that innovation needs to change, to embrace and adopt a new view of the Innovation Management process to change our present thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Equally nearly all our larger business organizations are still locked in the past, or attempting to catch up to the present but in random ways. It is often an environment that we must encourage to become a ‘feeding frenzy’ of experimentation, learning and being adaptive, fluid and agile. Impact and Intensity becomes the new mantra.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2020

Confronted by the need for gathering facts, innovation often struggles as much of this takes significant time and is often outside the organization’s present understanding. Presently we see in large organizations this lack of “pushing for risk” or wanting to change the underlying business offerings.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Our all-day executive event explored advanced strategies for digital product delivery, and leaders from companies leading the shift presented breakout sessions. Speaker: Rachel Dubois, former Senior Product & Agile Coach at Spotify What you’ll learn: Get an inside look at how Spotify does product.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

The tool and techniques that stand out for me, in their contribution, value and my use have been, in no specific order, cover the jobs-to-be-done , ten types of innovation, crossing the chasm , blue ocean, business model canvas and value proposition canvas, building core competencies , lean start-up, agile and design sprints.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Innovation Agile 182

ITONICS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

A look at disruptive forces impacting the insurance industry in 2021 and beyond. Despite new challenges that have emerged out of an increasingly complex and volatile competitive landscape, the insurance industry is presented with immense innovation potential.

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Disruption Industry Agile Trends 69

Daniel Burrus

JULY 15, 2020

Complacency is even more detrimental in the environment we live in today, dominated by exponential digital disruption. Your hard work and resulting success can create a level of comfort that blinds you to the Hard Trends predicting incoming disruptions. Agility Without Anticipation. Why Is Complacency Dangerous?

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eZassi

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Rapid Insights for Agile Decision-Making One of the most significant advantages of a Trend Scan is its quick turnaround time. This agility is crucial in today’s business environment, where being first to market can make all the difference. Click here to see a sample report.

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Report Trends Analysis Agile 52

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Less than 30% of manufacturing companies are actively rolling out Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies at scale” No wonder we presently have trouble attracting many businesses onto platforms when they are still very much behind in deciding or deploying a strategically thought-through IIoT digital design, that is connecting everything up.

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Industry Technical Review Innovation Design 213

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

Sopheon is delivering the right “on-market” message that they “provide support for speed, agility, and adaptability – all critical enterprise capabilities in the digital era” They are claiming they are actively building business partner ecosystems. They want to navigate the new world order of digital disruption.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

Thinking in different horizons prompts you to go beyond the usual focus of fixing innovation just in the present it provides the connections of the present with the desired future. Often it is present in the existing, as commonly referred too as “weak signals”, these are often hidden amid the noise of delivering on today.

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Design Innovation Agile Collaboration 138

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

The four interwoven catalysts are recognizing we are moving from complicated to complex ; we have different collaboration tools to be more agile and adapt, we need to adopt a clearer mindset to working in innovation ecosystems , and we need to leverage the digital transformation we have been undertaking. ” In summary.

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eZassi

MARCH 25, 2025

Turning Tariff Challenges into Opportunity Across industries, companies are facing mounting uncertainty driven by tariffs, shifting trade policies, and global supply chain disruptions. Companies that successfully navigated past disruptions had contingency plans and multi-sourcing strategies in place.

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Planview

JULY 29, 2024

Solutions that can adapt to address challenges like economic uncertainty, supply chain disruptions, and new and disruptive technologies. In this environment, the key to success is adaptability. Organizations need solutions that can bend without breaking.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 4, 2025

The intent was to ensure customers were offered creatively coordinated and consistently presented merchandise and marketing presentations across women’s wear, men’s wear, children’s wear, accessories and homewares that inspired and met their fashion and lifestyle needs and wants. According to McKinsey & Co.’s

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ImagineNation

JUNE 9, 2020

Similarly, today, where we are riding the wave of disruptive change; COVID-19, and range of chaotic global events, we have the chance to be mindfully present to sense and see the best learning opportunities and creative possibilities that the disruptive waves offer us, as they arise. Emerge possibilities for positive change?

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