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

JUNE 15, 2016

A light bulb went on for me as I was reading a series of reports from Deloitte University Press on disruption. I felt this nine patterns of disruption has the same huge potential to frame and dialogue around the potential within disruption. A new framing of connecting disruptive innovation. Converge products.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 3, 2025

This agility ensures that your clients can stay ahead of the competition. Efficiency and Accuracy : By automating data analysis and reporting tasks, AI reduces the time and effort required for strategic planning. Real-Time Analysis : AI tools provide real-time analysis, allowing you to monitor and adjust growth strategies on the fly.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

Another of the visuals from the BCG report is indicating the huge differences between leading and lagging companies in how they are leveraging digital to help the following aspects of innovation. This agility needs the tools of testing, feedback, and adaptation to accelerate the innovation process.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Navigating a Disruptive Business Environment In today’s fast-paced and technology-driven landscape, businesses are frequently faced with disruptions that can significantly impact their operations and long-term viability. Recognizing the early signs of these disruptions is key to responding effectively.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 27, 2018

There was a number of sessions held at Davos, relating to this 4IR but more importantly, a release of a number of reports or white papers on the growing impact of this revolution. So much of our known world will become disrupted, it will challenge society, it will bring about new behavior.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2020

Organization layers grind against each other, like tectonic plates that force further disruption and upheaval. Innovation gets caught up in the needs of the reporting requirement so it can fit an arbitrary and stupid timeline that is required to adapt to a financial calendar year. Slow constrains quick, slow controls quick.”.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Mik, best-selling author of “ Project To Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework® ,” explained the value he’s seen organizations gain in productivity, value creation, agility, and customer centricity.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality. According to a Deloitte report , 50 percent of companies are undergoing an organizational transformation, yet only 11 percent think they will succeed. We are increasingly facing very different competitive pressures.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ecosystems that ultimately produce new business models rest on a large capacity for agility within the participating organizations. Today you can argue differently, why what you see as needed is not the best and maybe different than first envisaged, and it is better and evolutionary but demands more change and disruption internally.

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Idea Drop

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Agile project management involves dividing tasks into short phases of work, or ‘sprints’, with continuous reassessment and adaptation of plans. Stemming from the word agile, meaning to move quickly and easily, it is no surprise that such a methodology goes hand in hand with innovation.

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eZassi

JANUARY 8, 2025

Why It Matters: Adapts to disruptive technologies Enhances market differentiation Unlocks new revenue opportunities Key Elements of Business Model Innovation To succeed in business model innovation, organizations must address these core components: Value Proposition How can you deliver unique value to your customers?

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ITONICS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

A look at disruptive forces impacting the insurance industry in 2021 and beyond. Agile innovators able to integrate transformative technology, behavioral economics, and collaborative ecosystems will set the pace for change. FOR REPORT DOWNLOAD - CLICK. Gain more insights from ITONICS’s industry perspective.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

As long as you keep improving at that consistent pace, your competitors can only catch you if they move even faster – or if they change the game entirely by disrupting the market. Iterative, agile approach. In reality, it’s arguably even more important in these cases, and here’s why. Reducing uncertainty and mitigating complexity.

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eZassi

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Seek Trend Scan Reports for Innovation Program Research Organizations looking to maintain a competitive edge use consultative research services to navigate the complex world of emerging technologies and market trends. Innovative companies gain additional foresight with Trend Scan Reports. What is a Trend Scan Report?

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 19, 2017

I provided a recent digital transformation report that might help you in planning this digital journey. I wrote a meta report on the recent developments in the digital transformation in late 2016 that was published by Hype. I provided an opening backdrop to the report here as triggering points to reflect upon and recognize.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

In a recent report, jointly from the World Economic Forum and McKinsey called the “ The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the factories of the future ” t hey made a number of observations. According to a recent Deloitte report: Most manufacturing lines still look a lot the same way they did 10, 20 or even 30 years ago.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 15, 2020

A high-level summary of IBM’s latest report on transformations in HR. More than two thirds of executives surveyed in IBM’s latest research report said that HR is ripe for disruption – and the time is now to make a move to fundamentally change the way organizations think about their human resources department.

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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.

Competition 59

Competition Project Collaboration Data 59

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 15, 2016

Following on the heels of reading and then reviewing reports from Accenture on how US big business was treating their innovation as left to chance in cloudy execution, it felt not so good for my beliefs that we were actually not making progress. Both reports, as I was reviewing them, left me a little depressed to say the least.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By integrating innovation into your business strategy, you can achieve: Increased market share Enhanced customer satisfaction Greater operational efficiencies Improved profitability To illustrate the tangible benefits of innovation, let’s look at some disruptive innovation examples that have redefined industries and reshaped consumer behavior.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Those of dealing with greater ambiguity, of building in the needs of agility, higher levels of flexibility, curiosity and the willingness to explore and experiment and take increasing risk. The risk of being highly scaled is fast becoming a point of disruption for others. It needs to be more agile and flexible.

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Daniel Burrus

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Overnight, teachers, office executives, and many other white-collar jobs turned remote while doctors, nurses, and other service industry professionals reported to new on-site tasks, labeled as essential workers and sent to the front lines to wage this terrible battle against an invisible enemy. The Real Problem with a Global Shutdown.

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Daniel Burrus

MARCH 27, 2019

They have learned from a large list of high-profile Fortune 100 companies that were great at both agility and execution but experienced dramatic downturns. Reacting to problems and digital disruptions, no matter how agile you and your organization are, is no longer good enough. They know there is no longer a middle ground.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

A recent Altimeter report “ the 2016 State of Digital Transformation ” discusses these problems, along with many others. So that you are aware, the data and insights in this report are based on the input of more than 500 digital transformation strategists and executives who are leading change within their organizations.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 20, 2016

Like many of you I look forward to the annual reports about innovation that a number of larger corporations and consulting firms publish. Each year BCG and other consulting firms release an innovation report. GE also covers a wide array of innovation topics, and the overall report and analysis they provide is reasonably good.

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Disruption Innovation Analysis Report 100

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Often innovation governance gets caught up in the (life-threatening) aspects of governance’s need to have reporting, metrics, reporting and accountability dominating. It encourages agility, adapting, being fluid and dynamic in the way to undergo innovation.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 11, 2025

Innovation Portfolios: Balancing incremental and disruptive innovations to drive sustainable growth and market differentiation. Evaluating these key metrics helps organizations allocate resources effectively and maintain a healthy mix of initiatives that drive both short-term gains and long-term disruption.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 19, 2016

I always look particularly forward to this report as it provides a range of insights that are shaping our world and how innovation is adapting and altering this. The report covers a significant amount of areas across innovation. The energy sector is ripe for disruption (again GE specific). I might add to this in further posts.

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Acuvate

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Predictive Maintenance & Quality Control Unplanned equipment failures and defects can disrupt production. AI-Powered Supply Chain Optimization Supply chain disruptions impact production and profitability. Heres how AI is making a difference across key areas of manufacturing: 1. Ready to transform your manufacturing operations?

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 19, 2016

So after a fairly ‘dark’ period for me, of absorbing and reflecting on a series of reports, each indicating that innovation and its management understanding is not as deeply understood in the boardroom as it should be, you need to respond. My posts are here , here , and here. The story so far if you have not read my previous three posts.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 20, 2024

These rapidly evolving technologies are not just incremental improvements —they represent seismic shifts that are disrupting the very foundations of how we work, live, and interact with the world. The use of synthetic data is disrupting fields like healthcare, finance, and retail, where data privacy is paramount.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 27, 2025

According to Boston Consulting Groups 2024 report, 83% of companies rank innovation among their top three priorities, yet only 3% feel fully prepared to achieve their innovation goals (source: Boston Consulting Group ). Horizon 3 : Concentrates on transformative, long-term innovations that disrupt industries or create entirely new markets.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I have read recent reports from the WEF, McKinsey, and Deliottes all coming to the defense of Europe. There is plenty of counter-arguments with this Deloitte report, they claim many assessments of Europe’s present position are excessively bleak. It is not a pretty picture of the future when you look at Europe.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

As Accenture in one of the few reports discussing risk and innovation “ The art of managing innovation risk ” state: “Few decision makers want to take responsibility for a failed experiment, so extreme caution usually prevails when new ideas are assessed. So we tend to go to default. Risk mitigation kicks in.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

As Accenture in one of the few reports discussing risk and innovation “ The art of managing innovation risk ” state: “Few decision makers want to take responsibility for a failed experiment, so extreme caution usually prevails when new ideas are assessed. So we tend to go to default. Risk mitigation kicks in.

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Innovation Guidelines Learning Agile 133

Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The agility to adapt to AI advancements is now a vital component of surviving and thriving in the modern marketplace. For insights on building robust business strategies in this disruptive environment, explore our guide on building business strategies for a disruptive world.

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