Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Still I came away with a 50% achievement mark which was not so bad on the overall innovation intent I had set myself but one area was very frustrating to move forward upon- the subject of risk and how it is treated in innovation management. Blood pressure pills came in handy here also.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

Would that be so bad? And Agility For All. The first thing that you would notice about them is that people’s work revolves around a key concept, agility. Say, you are not an agile organization. If agility is, indeed, the oxygen to survive overtime, how can we inject more and more of it into your company?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The agility to adapt to AI advancements is now a vital component of surviving and thriving in the modern marketplace. This impact is evident across various facets of business, from operational efficiency and customer experience to product development and market analysis.

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CMOE

APRIL 26, 2021

When a team leader delegates responsibilities to individual contributors, it illustrates the leader’s belief in their potential—this can save nearly 79 percent of team members from quitting. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

To avoid the pitfalls of a static strategy and ensure your business is future-proof, it’s essential to foster a culture of agility and strategic foresight. Embracing Flexibility and Agility In a rapidly changing business environment, staying nimble is more than a virtue—it’s a necessity.

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The Human Factor

APRIL 26, 2016

It never ceases to amaze me how the so-called “soft” leadership skills always get the short end of the stick in organizations. I’m talking about essential interpersonal skills, sometimes referred to as “people skills”, like building relationships, solving problems, communicating effectively and resolving conflict.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

The digitization might be specific internal processes, tools, or operational components, or can refer to a complete revamp of a company’s products and services. They are not agile. Leadership Mindset A company’s leaders are paramount in driving the organization forward. The term is not new. Easier said than done.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Technology Leadership 74

Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2018

In psychology and economics, loss aversion refers to people’s tendency to prefer avoiding losses to acquiring equivalent gains. There is no way to ensure that customers are going to see the same value in what you are developing as you do, and most companies are terrible at actually being able to execute on an idea.

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Moves the Needle

JULY 31, 2018

If you answered yes, you know exactly the type of occurrence we are referring to. This is commonly referred to as Product-Market fit. The business understands the market and has developed a proven, scalable blueprint to winning the market. The entire business must transition to a growth driven organization. What’s the ROI?

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Meeting Underperforming Technical Team Innovation LEAN 66

Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

The platform environment is mostly characterized by a tension between collboration and competition of the participating companies, often referred to as coopetition. But even participating in other firms’ ecosystems can be highly attractive, as demonstrated by e.g. several app developers.

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Underperforming Technical Team Big Data Innovation Technical Review 40

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

The TRIZ acronym comes from it’s original Russian name, and in English it is often referred to as a “theory of inventive problem solving” or TIPS. What it is: One of the most challenging aspects of innovation for most companies is not the generating of ideas, or the development of new innovations.

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 10, 2008

However, there still remains much to discuss about what makes a UX team dreamy. Part two will address whether a person has the right ‘hard’ skills and ‘soft’ qualities like communication style, creativity and leadership ability to fit your particular organizational context.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. Design thinking is a step above “customer development” because it takes a real human approach to getting to the root of an intrinsic problem. While agile focuses on build velocity, lean focuses on customer traction velocity.”

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CMOE

JULY 23, 2021

Unfortunately, there aren’t enough executive leaders who invest time into strategy— 85 percent of executive leadership teams invest less than one hour each month on strategy, while 50 percent do not spend any time on strategy at all. Strategy Compels Leaders to Stay Focused on Short-Term & Long-Term Growth.

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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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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 19, 2018

That starts by working outward from a thorough assessment of your organization’s aspiration and abilities, including an investigation of your company culture, leadership styles, and potential capabilities. Even the most powerful innovations can flounder if they don’t have the full support of company leadership.

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Innovation 360

JUNE 20, 2018

That starts by working outward from a thorough assessment of your organization’s aspiration and abilities, including an investigation of your company culture, leadership styles, and potential capabilities. Even the most powerful innovations can flounder if they don’t have the full support of company leadership.

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Underperforming Technical Team Radical Innovation Technical Review Software Review 40

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 19, 2016

Entirely new ways of serving needs, massively changing value chains disrupted constantly will require highly agile responses as the growing access to global digital platforms will oust well-established incumbents with improving on quality, speed, price and availability to serve emerging needs that are highly valued by the end user.

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eZassi

MARCH 28, 2019

Innovation solutions can also be particular to the innovation industry, which is tasked with partnering with companies to create a culture of innovation and help develop meaningful innovations. In this case, the term can refer to a whole suite of tools that are used to drive innovation within companies. And much more!

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