Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Discovery Driven Planning (DDP) is a structured framework for planning innovative initiatives in uncertain or ambiguous environments. At its core, this tool supports a disciplined approach to innovation, one that balances creativity with accountability. Corporations launching internal innovation programs.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 27, 2025

Enter the innovation roadmapa crucial tool for businesses seeking structured, long-term success. Modern, competitive industries develop these roadmaps to ensure that innovation efforts translate into meaningful outcomes. This combination ensures effective resource allocation and drives sustained innovation.

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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. By capturing these dynamics visually, the canvas enables teams to anticipate challenges, uncover opportunities, and align innovation efforts with real-world conditions.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Understanding this cycle helps businesses time investments, plan for obsolescence, and develop new innovations to stay ahead. By strategically managing technological transitions, businesses can optimize product longevity, enhance operational efficiency, and create opportunities for sustained innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

The Design Thinking Toolkit provides practical tools and frameworks that help organizations innovate, solve complex problems, and drive growth. Without a structured approach to problem-solving and innovation, businesses risk inefficiency, misalignment, and stagnation. What is the Design Thinking Toolkit?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Drives innovation and competitive advantage Identifies opportunities for differentiation and growth. Develop an Action Plan to Close the Gaps Once gaps are identified, create a clear roadmap to address them. For example, a software development team closing a bug resolution gap might implement agile sprint cycles to speed up fixes.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

The goal is to identify performance gaps, set realistic improvement targets, and adopt best practices that drive innovation and efficiency. Traditionally used in manufacturing and operations to track metrics like production time, cost efficiency, and quality, benchmarking has evolved into a broader innovation and strategy tool.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 7, 2025

These goals align with the companys vision, mission, and values and provide a roadmap for achieving sustainable growth and competitive advantage. Innovation and expansion New product development, market penetration, and technological advancements. Enhance Innovation and Competitive Edge Encourage forward-thinking investments.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

In innovation projects, the MVP approach helps businesses explore ideas, experiment with solutions, and learn through real-world interactions. Minimum Viable Product in Innovation In real-world innovation initiatives, the MVP model plays a critical role by turning abstract concepts into actionable experiments.

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Software Review LEAN Development Team Review Roadmap 130

Leapfrogging

APRIL 7, 2025

Embedding AI into your culture can drive significant transformation, enhancing efficiency, innovation, and competitiveness. By leveraging AI, you can create a more agile and adaptive organization, capable of responding to market changes and emerging opportunities. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

In an environment where companies constantly seek innovation, launching new products or services without proper evaluation can lead to wasted time, effort, and financial loss. Concept Screening in Innovation Strategy Bringing an idea to market requires a careful evaluation process to determine its viability.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2025

This approach to business ecosystems fosters continuous innovation and works towards lasting competitive advantage through its interconnected parts. There is a boundless potential of applying the interconnected ecosystem design so it can radically reshape and define continuous innovation, customer-centricity and enduring market leadership.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 12, 2025

Supports innovation and learning Encourages continuous employee development. For example, Google applies the Balanced Scorecard to track innovation efforts, user experience improvements, and workforce productivity, alongside financial metrics. Drives Long-Term Business Growth Creates a sustainable roadmap for continuous improvement.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

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. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

The Key Outcome Indicators serves as a roadmap, ensuring that all aspects of the change initiative are well-coordinated and aligned with business objectives. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success.

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Roadmap Tools Change Project 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of innovation management by providing powerful tools to enhance consumer insights. By leveraging AI, you can gain a deeper understanding of consumer behavior, preferences, and trends, which are crucial for driving innovation and staying competitive in the market.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

The OGSM Strategy Framework serves as a roadmap, ensuring that all aspects of the change initiative are well-coordinated and aligned with business objectives. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Roadmap Tools 130

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. Here is where innovators are going to be well-positioned. The Big Takeaway for me is the positioning of working in the Innovation Space. Let me explain why.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

I have called this the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework – here is why and what went into this proposal that I feel should be adopted for managing innovation in the future. We need to shift our innovative thinking from static to dynamic.

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Software Review Innovation Software Design 246

Idea to Value

MARCH 14, 2025

For team leaders, company directors, project managers , innovators and senior leadership, understanding the stages of AI maturity is essential for harnessing its power to drive innovation and efficiency. This post outlines a roadmap that takes you from a baseline state of no A.I. in their work. Level 6: A.I.-driven Level 6: A.I.-driven

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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

JULY 3, 2024

Embracing Innovation Ecosystems for Enhanced Competitiveness In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, innovation is paramount for organizations to thrive and achieve sustainable success. Organizations must embrace innovation ecosystems to harness the power of innovation and drive transformative change effectively.

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Competition Innovation Roadmap Collaboration 173

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There is a lot of change occurring in our innovation abilities. We are seeing profound shifts that technology and digital transformation are bringing us to deliver innovate differently. What is radically changing how we innovate? We are seeing a significant acceleration of innovative collaborations through ecosystems.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Supports innovation and growth Encourages creative solutions to capitalize on market opportunities. Provides a clear roadmap for success Defines measurable outcomes to track progress. These can include: Expertise and talent Skilled workforce, leadership, innovation culture.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

You may know that in addition to my work on innovation and creativity , I work as a professional Project Manager. Innovation projects are some of the worst offenders, with around 96% failing to deliver value. Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution) framework. However, failure is not inevitable.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Innovation is a process that relies heavily on creativity and individual thinking, and these are things that don’t come easily. In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways you can improve your innovation process. Increased Range of Thought. Brainwriting.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

I firmly believe we are on the cusp of a new innovation era. When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. We are still in need of finding innovations that provide new products, services or business models.

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eZassi

JANUARY 8, 2025

A Guide to Business Model Innovation Business model innovation is a competitive strategy offering organizations a way to redefine their value proposition, operational structure, and revenue streams. What is Business Model Innovation? Companies that fail to innovate risk being displaced by more agile competitors.

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eZassi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Whether you’re a startup founder, R&D leader, or innovation manager, the transition from concept to market-ready solution involves navigating a series of interconnected stages. At Ezassi, we specialize in helping organizations streamline the idea-to-implementation process with our suite of Innovation Management Products and Services.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I had worked with SCRUM before, done training with Ken Schwaber (author 1 and co-founder of the Agile Alliance) and knew a few things from experience about how to achieve some success integrating a design team within SCRUM. Where did Agile come from? Agile can be thought of as a risk-management strategy.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

In my view any new approach to innovation needs to aim to achieve interdependent and interlocking innovation, solving problems that have not been addressed before and offering sustainable value, impact, and returns to all involved or significantly improving on the existing solutions. Nothing can work in isolation.

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Technical Review Software Review Artificial Inteligence Innovation 147

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 15, 2018

This, for me, was so well structured and offered such a high level of clarity on the pathway they are pursuing, for innovation and digital, with the outcomes emerging of building a new suite of Business Models. I follow the two big Re-Insurers, Swiss Re and Munich Re specifically and the innovative differences are quite significant.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

What is Discontinuous Innovation? An innovative product, service, or process that dramatically transforms an existing market by introducing a groundbreaking concept or technology. Innovation Strategy is the foundation for company growth and adaptability in the ever-changing environment that is business today.

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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?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 15, 2024

I have published this pitch on both of my primary sites, discussing innovation, business, and ecosystems, as they both provide a combination effect for understanding this framework. The foundational layer focused on fostering open collaboration, co-creation and shared challenges to drive continuous innovation and creativity.

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Qmarkets

JULY 12, 2024

Agile innovation is transforming how companies develop new products and services, fostering a culture of flexibility, speed, and customer-centricity. As the business world becomes increasingly competitive, understanding and implementing agile innovation can be the key to staying ahead. What is Agile Innovation?

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