Digital Tonto

JUNE 9, 2024

That in turn, raises some very important questions: What is the context we are creating for this competition and how will the rules affect our own fate? We have the power to design every aspect of the game, from which biases get encoded into our systems to what determines success and what the rewards are.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 10, 2023

How can you differenitate your business from the competition? Dyson disrupted the vacuum cleaner market by creating bagless vacuum cleaners, a concept that challenged the traditional vacuum design and improved performance. If a design receives enough votes, LEGO may produce and sell it, engaging the community and fostering creativity.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. This required the design team to work a “Sprint&# (month long iteration) ahead of the development team. Where did Agile come from?

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

If you have a project or team needing leadership and management, book an appointment with me now and we can speak about how I could help you. Competitive disadvantage: A delayed or failed project can allow competitors to move ahead, capturing market share and innovation opportunities. Book an appointment with Nick

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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. They make up vital business processes that were designed years ago but not for the technology onslaught of technology we are witnessing. Can we continue to battle with legacy?

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Six years ago, when Amazon sold primarily print books, company research showed that customers liked e-books—a new product that threatened Amazon’s core business. They did just that, and by 2011, e-books sales surpassed sales of print books. In fact, by April 2011, Amazon became the world’s largest e-book retailer.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 13, 2018

Editors’ note: This “Book in Brief” feature here on Boxes and Arrows is from Kevin Hoffman’s Meeting Design for Managers, Makers, and Everyone. We’ll publish an excerpt, up to 500 words, of your book. The catch is that we’ll only publicize one book a month; first come, first serve. How to Design a Meeting.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 3, 2020

Here does lie a true competitive component and so many organizations seek to apply someone else’s practice so they can end up as “same” practice. We are facing such an unprecedented change and technology is re-writing the rule book in everything we are going to do. As-Is and To-Be grand designs. Enterprise Architecture.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

These books can help you become a better learner. In this blog, we’ll share some of the most highly rated books about learning how to learn. Designed for kids and teens, the advice is useful for all ages and provides tools to learning that which may not come naturally at first. Find it on Amazon. Learning How to Learn.

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

And companies that continuously outlearn their competition win. A brief history of the Continuous Innovation Framework The early scaffolding for the Continuous Innovation Framework was described in my first book: Running Lean. Stay tuned for more… [link] “Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?”

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Beyond the Obvious

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

No matter what business we are in, we are all fighting essentially the same fight—designing a product that a customer will prefer over that of our competitor. To do this, we need to constantly be aware of how our business environment is evolving, how our customers are changing, and what we need to modify in […].

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We used AI to identify the most frequently asked questions about design thinking. Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers. You can also see our “human” responses to the big question: what is design thinking ? Design Thinking Frequently Asked Questions 1. Design Thinking Frequently Asked Questions 1.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

For example, there are often processes that are specifically designed to eliminate risks and control change. And, if you don’t have customers, the reason really isn’t your competition, it’s you not providing them with enough value. If it was, everyone would be doing it, and it wouldn’t lead to much of a competitive advantage.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Why your company needs to think about crowdsourcing with the competition…. Understandably, the increase in competition and market saturation is seen by those who experience it as a direct threat to their organizational legitimacy. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” Sleeping With the Enemy. Legitimate Risk Factors.

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Innovation Walk

JUNE 7, 2019

When we want to book a hotel we automatically go to our favourite online travel agency (OTA), also known as a booking portal. Sometimes there are deals on a certain hotel and you immediately book to save money. Here I share my thoughts on 2 rising travel innovators and the advantages of direct bookings.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Innovation must be rooted in improving competitive advantage, customer needs, employee expectations and now, sustainability. Tiffani Bova is the global growth evangelist at Salesforce and the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book GROWTH IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business. Tiffani Bova.

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Leapfrogging

AUGUST 9, 2017

From retailers like Blockbuster and Borders Books to tech giants like Nokia and Blackberry, seemingly untouchable brands have been caught off guard by rapidly changing business landscapes. Why is creating competitive differentiation increasingly difficult? Do we need a new strategy and business model? Change the economics.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Traditional project management and financial management processes and principles are designed to produce robust plans for exactly how a project should run, and select only projects which are likely to succeed. Clear in design ( “we know roughly what the perfect solution looks like and how it needs to be configured “).

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.” If we start looking through these archetypes as lenses we might begin to ‘flesh out’ the needs to think through when we look at a whole system design for innovation.

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Planview

APRIL 6, 2023

Fresh off the pain of my poor Boilermakers loss in the NCAA tournament, I reflect on what a startling competitive disadvantage you’re at if your competitor can score buckets at three times your team’s speed. Speed of software delivery is either a competitive advantage or a startling disadvantage in the digital age.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Today, the business world recognizes that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term sustainability and success. Design Thinking is NOT a New Concept. With all the hype around design thinking, one would think that it is a new concept. What is Design Thinking?

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Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2019

The mindset of competition and customer satisfaction in known areas is different from that of creating new business models. Tart-up strategies encourage people to design and embrace new products, services and processes. Start-ups have mindsets that focus on launching a new business and scaling it up. Different mobilization potencies.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 30, 2020

They were a clear pioneer in their industry with a very strong collaborative and mission-driven culture, which Founder Ed Catmull describes in detail in his excellent book Creativity, Inc. It’s really a must read book for anyone interested in creating an innovative company culture.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Blending Metrics and Empathy with Design Thinking: The New Paradigm in Leadership The contemporary leadership environment requires a meticulous balance between quantitative evaluations and genuine human connection. With Design Thinking as the tool, a new paradigm is set to emerge, merging metrics-driven and empathy-driven leadership.

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Tim Kastelle

AUGUST 29, 2015

There’s no easy answer to this question – but if we’re trying to design changes in the way our organisations work, we need to have a deep understanding of what’s going on in them. And won the competition. Eames found this success designing with his wife Ray. What’s the best way to change something?

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 22, 2025

From Coaching Rowers to CoachingTeams Blairs background in competitive rowingand later as a high-performance coachhas profoundly shaped his leadership style. Plan virtual book clubs or workshops to foster connection. He didnt just teach athletes to row; he taught them to row together.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. His latest book, What a Unicorn Knows , is available on Amazon and reveals the secrets to building high growth startups. Here’s a Q&A with Matt that highlights the key points in the book.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

In my career, I’ve encountered user researchers with drastically varying roles and skillsets: many who focus solely on usability, a few who act as hybrid designers and researchers, some that are specialists in ethnography, and yet others who are experts in quantitative research. Also check out Tomer Sharon’s book It’s Our Research.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 9, 2022

I wrote about this extensively in my book Leapfrogging. Robyn Waters, the former vice president of trend, design and product development, once told me the same thing. When we try to hold large amounts of information in our heads–like all the trends, customer needs, competitive activity, etc. The answer may surprise you.

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Michael Roberto

MARCH 13, 2025

Bags fly free' was a policy so sacrosanct that Southwest trademarked the phrase and devoted a section of a book celebrating its 50th anniversary to it." Competitive advantage typically does not derive from me-too strategies. In the past, we could articulate a whole host of distinctive features of the Southwest model.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 8, 2022

I have always been a fan of the book “ The Medici Effect; breakthrough insights at the intersections of ideas, concepts and culture ” by Frans Johansson. I always find it interesting when different though-strands seem to collide. You can put that down to serendipity, fate, luck or just being in the right spot at that time.

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Econic

MARCH 7, 2022

As a designer, I’m totally mystified by the “framework explosion” of magical boxes and lines littering the internet and business books. How can Spiral Dynamics help us design better frameworks? Let’s rethink how we design and teach frameworks through an example. Take a look again at McKinsey's Three Horizons Model.

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Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2016

According to Malcolm Gladwell who popularised the notion in his book Outliers: The Story of Success , people who were performing at an expert level, such as musicians or sportspeople, had practiced for approximately 10,000 hours up to that point. So you’re actually further away from mastery than most people would think.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 18, 2022

Leveraging design-forward thinking and self-reflection, I ideated. Listen to the book “Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life” by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans of Stanford University. I credit this book for helping to illuminate a path forward for me. with a leadership concentration.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 10, 2020

In my latest book, The Invisible Advantage: How to Create a Culture of Innovation , I define culture as “ the norms and values that shape behavior.” Get a tool specifically designed for online brainstorming, like Mural, Lucidchart, or Ideaboardz. And it’s likely your competition. Bring on Virtual Brainstorming.

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Strategyzer Innovation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

We’re writing a new book called The Invincible Company. The book builds upon Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , and it takes a deep dive into how world-class companies continuously reinvent their business models. We thought we’d highlight three of our upcoming cases as a sneak peek into our new book.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

That’s my takeaway from a new book, The Pan-Industrial Revolution: How New Manufacturing Titans Will Transform the World. The book explains why 3D printing, or more generally additive manufacturing, will do more than just alter the factory floor. It also promises to reshape competition. Try out some additive equipment.

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