Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2020

When we reflect on the recent events of the last twelve months, this has been highly disruptive but those industrial companies that had already started their Industry 4.0 When we reflect on the remote work, rapid response and agility have all been tested in recent months. Let’s take four. Factories are undergoing massive change.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Every industry today faces a critical question: will you stick to old legacy systems and ways of doing things, likely leading to you being disrupted by progress? Disruption no longer follows predictable timelinesits faster, deeper, and more transformative than ever. Continue reading on burrus.com

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So little is said or discussed on changing the innovation system, it seems organizations are (really) comfortable with incremental or experimental innovation as the extent of their ambition. Here’s why you should consider transitioning from a closed internal system to a vibrant, interconnected innovation ecosystem: 1.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 26, 2025

We need to reframe disruption to increase the possibilities for game-changing inventions and innovations to succeed in an uncertain and unstable future. The crucial first step in managing this is to accept responsibility for recognising and disrupting your internal structures, mental models, mindsets, and habitual behaviours.

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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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eZassi

MARCH 18, 2025

The Ezassi Advantage: Enhancing Supply Chain Agility for Procurement Executives Why CPOs and Supply Chain Executives Should Pay Attention For Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs), procurement leaders, and supply chain executives, staying ahead of disruptions while driving efficiency, cost savings, and sustainability is more challenging than ever.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 3, 2025

This agility ensures that your clients can stay ahead of the competition. AI systems can process and analyze live data to provide instant insights, making it easier for you to respond quickly to changing market conditions and client needs. Collaboration with AI systems is crucial to maximize the potential of artificial intelligence.

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 27, 2021

This sent the banking industry into a tailspin, desperately trying to understand this new concept of a digital currency system, and areas of the government even began to prepare a way to legislate this unfamiliar system. The fact of the matter is that many people did not fully understand the mechanics behind Bitcoin.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2025

That flexibility, evolution support and practical implementation builds on each set of points of current capability and recognizing the constraints that are always individual and present.

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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. It is such a shock to the system.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

We design the innovation system we need after we know what we are trying to achieve in the challenge or idea. We need to adapt our system thinking to the challenge identified, not the other way around, that of trying to fit them into a generically designed process. We “pull down” what is needed. It adjusts and you learn.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 25, 2021

In a world where exponential change and digital disruptions abound, you simply cannot rest on your laurels and merely rely on what you’ve already built. Instinctually for many, we choose to play it safe and protect and defend the status quo with agility. From there, it’s just collecting money and living a good life.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation. Brought to prominence by Professor Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma , this important theory provides an explanation as to why large, established companies eventually get overtaken by smaller ones, and it introduced the concept of disruptive innovation.

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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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Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Thriving Network Effects and Synergies : Dynamic ecosystems thrive on network effects, where the value of the system increases as more participants join, collaborate, and share resources. ​ Recognizing Ecosystem Resilience : Dynamic ecosystems are resilient and capable of withstanding shocks and disruptions. ​

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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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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2020

How many times do you see organization set the deliverables in often ‘woolly’ undefined or impossible ways to truly measure, unable to meet the very system they impose of capturing and measuring what this means, so it is dumb-sized. Organization layers grind against each other, like tectonic plates that force further disruption and upheaval.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 27, 2018

Cyber-physical systems can leap even further, across so much that needs mapping in society. We only know the DNA of 14% of all the estimated species of plants and animals on land and this can lead to a real potential value to build the biological system potential and for human-related uses. I want to come back to this in another post.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 31, 2020

We all are caught in this world crisis; we are in as much disruption and uncertainty as is possible, and “we” cant’ allow this uncertainty to manifest itself too long. Restructuring deliberately to force change into ‘our’ system in our thinking, in our habits, in our expectations.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

When you think we are on a roll, we are making that transformation in technology, systems, new organizational designs, you are suddenly stopped in your tracks. We still struggle with resolving legacy in our systems, processes, factories so we lose the ability to really advance and gain true connectivity.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 1, 2020

The need is always to respond in a crisis to reduce disruption and fast gathering pressures. These Clear or Complicated domains are distinguished by the number of interactions going on – the more parts in the system, the more Complicated it is – and the level of expertise required to know what the answer to a problem should be.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 10, 2020

Innovation stands in service to strategic goals such as growing market share, differentiation, and disrupting adjacent markets, serving the consistent changing and demanding customer needs, or by honing the delivery process by spotting these and then exploiting them rapidly and effectively.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 31, 2025

Products like portable medical devices, low-cost solar energy systems, and sachet-sized goods were designed to solve urgent needs in emerging markets, where affordability and practicality take precedence. Now, these solutions are disrupting industries in wealthier economies, proving that innovation thrives under constraints.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 31, 2025

In a recent Innov8rs Learning Lab, George Wu, Head of Ventures at Disruptive Edge , shared his insights on the complexities of venture building, offering practical advice and numerous case studies. If speed, agility, and an independent culture are critical, external partnerships or spinouts may offer a more effective route.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

The ability to tackle those larger societal problems within an ecosystem, or combine unique resources to overcome a complex challenge you are incapable of solving alone, do have greater potential in a collaborative adaptive system. Burning platforms will be all around us, as we continue into the age of disruption. No easy task.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

From linear to agile: Idea generation is now a continuous process, not a one-time event. Organizations are using agile methodologies to rapidly test and iterate on ideas, keeping up with the pace of change and market demands. This openness is driving innovation by bringing in fresh perspectives and new ways of thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We are facing greater disruption and an increasing innovation pace. We can build and connect different supply chains that read and react, we can create new ecosystems where we share a common goal and value, we can enable more agile systems that can adapt and respond to changes in real-time to reconfigure the ‘connected factory’.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 5, 2018

But just wait till healthcare is disrupted as dramatically as retail or music has been over the past decade. Much of this impending disruption has the potential to deliver wonderful benefits to individuals, organizations and society at large. Be more agile. It’s hard enough to keep up in a complex industry like healthcare.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Something has to suffer and I believe this is our innovation outcomes are not shifting the growth needle as we keep our innovation systems and thinking trapped in the 20th-century mindset. We hang on to all the legacies built up around the existing innovation system , we manage innovation in efficient and predictable ways.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

What has been changing in how we approach innovation, and have we taken the opportunity to radically revise the innovation system and process accordingly? Recognizing complex acknowledges the volatility and disruptions that are constantly occurring. Choosing new innovative approaches to counter the fear of Business Contagion.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Acts as an incubator for new ideas and business models, often in dynamic and disruptive markets. Acts as a system that thrives on change and can quickly reconfigure itself Increasingly central to all the Ecosystems. Positioning : Positioned at the intersection of innovation, risk-taking, and new venture creation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 18, 2021

These benefits add up to more speed, more agility, clearer flexibility resulting in new, relevant products and services that can increase organic growth and provide solutions that differentiate you. We believe C.E.O’s ’s and senior executives play a vital role in the success or failure of innovation.

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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. We fail to invest in foresight and insight, continually not adapting and adjusting our organizational skill set around a more agile, adaptive, highly responsive innovating and creative organization.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 11, 2024

The need to understand Dynamic Ecosystems I believe dynamic ecosystems require a richer understanding of the characteristics, environmental factors, and critical differences that can shape the dynamism of the business system. Continuous Learning and Innovation: Characteristics: Learning is not a one-time event but an ongoing process.

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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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