Daniel Burrus

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In today’s world, disruption isn’t the exception—it’s the rule. With the rise of AI, automation, and digital technologies , change is accelerating faster than ever. Companies like OpenAI, Tesla, and Amazon exemplify how leveraging disruptive innovations can redefine industries. Continue reading on burrus.com »

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why a Strategy Uncertainty Map is Important Every business faces uncertainty in areas like market trends, competitive shifts, technological advancements, regulatory changes, and economic fluctuations. Which areas operations, competition, technology, or regulation are most vulnerable?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Develop proactive strategies to manage change. Improve resilience against disruptions and crises. Key benefits include: Enhances strategic flexibility Allows companies to pivot as conditions change. Reduces risk and uncertainty Prepares organizations for potential disruptions.

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Digital Tonto

JANUARY 26, 2025

As Robert Gordon explains in "The Rise and Fall of American Growth", the turn of the 20th century was a time of great change. New innovations like electricity, indoor plumbing and the automobile were changing the way people lived, worked and shopped. The post Experian Was Being Disrupted by Fintech Startups.

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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? In recent years, the pace of change has accelerated beyond anything we have seen previously. This level of disruption will be true in the years to come as well.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

They can quickly respond to changes in technology, market conditions, or societal needs, making them more resilient and better equipped to sustain long-term innovation. This speed can be a critical differentiator in competitive industries. This resilience is increasingly important in a rapidly changing world.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Contingency Planning: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects Contingency planning is the process of proactively preparing for potential risks, disruptions, or crises that could impact an organizations operations, strategy, or financial stability. Enable rapid adaptation to changing conditions.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The acronym SWOT stands for: Strengths Internal capabilities that provide a competitive advantage. Identifies competitive advantages Highlights what the company does best. SWOT Analysis in Strategy SWOT Analysis is used across industries for business strategy, project planning, and competitive analysis.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 28, 2019

In other words, business model innovation can be disruptive, toppling long-held beliefs about how customers get what they want. And what do they do when an outsider disrupts the business model, forcing them to play catch-up? Reinventors transform the core of their business while defending against industry decline or disruption.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 12, 2022

New perspectives needed In fact, the more your environment is changing, the more competitors you have, the more intense the competition within your industry is, the more you need new perspectives. The more change you want to create, the more you need the creative hat, the wonder and discovery inherent in child-like thinking.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 12, 2025

Identifying and managing these factors ensures that companies allocate resources efficiently, mitigate risks, and maintain a competitive advantage. Adapt to market changes while maintaining core competitive strengths. Adapt to market changes while maintaining core competitive strengths.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 3, 2025

AI-driven market analysis not only streamlines your research processes but also delivers unparalleled insights that can give you a competitive edge. Gaining Competitive Insights through AI AI helps you gather competitive insights that enable you to develop strategies that distinguish your clients from their competitors.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Pitching the reasons to change to Innovation Ecosystems in thinking and design So after working through the values of the Innovation Ecosystem over a series of three posts I asked Chat GPT to help me in making a pitch for the change from existing internal orientated innovation processes and structures. Does this resonate with you?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 19, 2022

Applying the three horizon framework to innovation and change. To explain the impacts of innovation and the change it creates, we’ll use an accepted framework ( the Three Horizons ) to consider the impact innovation has on change capabilities and business models. There’s little change required for external constituents.

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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. Having an effective solution that enables your organization to adapt to your unique, changing industry demands means you’re better equipped to deliver tangible business outcomes.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Firstly why are business ecosystems emerging as a real competitive force? It is not one single product that is chased in crowded, highly competitive fields. We are looking to increase the share of minds, engagement, and increasing preferences reflecting these changing habits, tastes, and lifestyles.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The corporate landscape is changing drastically, and for a corporate brand to stay relevant, they must innovate in order to change with the market. Accelerator programs benefit corporations by providing them access to innovative and disruptive startups. Difference in approach to disruption.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We need to transform, be disrupted or certainly re-imagine and this is where knowing your ecosystem comes in. Our existing organization needs to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical change. It calls for bold management to instigate such a transformation. The Status Quo is history.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It is the driving force behind the competitive edge that allows companies to stand out and meet the ever-changing demands of their customers. Incorporating innovative practices is essential for adapting to market changes and ensuring long-term success. Balancing creativity with practical implementation and scalability.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

Go-to-Market Strategy: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects A Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy is a structured plan that defines how a company will introduce a product or service to the market, attract customers, and achieve a competitive advantage. Improve competitive positioning Differentiates the product from rivals. Apple, Rolex).

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 3, 2025

This helps you anticipate market changes and adjust your strategies accordingly. This agility ensures that your clients can stay ahead of the competition. AI is the key to unlocking new growth opportunities and staying ahead in the competitive business landscape.

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Tools Artificial Inteligence Strategy Strategy 130

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We need to transform, be disrupted or certainly re-imagine and this is where knowing your ecosystem comes in. Our existing organization needs to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical change. It calls for bold management to instigate such a transformation. The Status Quo is history.

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Collaboration Innovation Disruption Technical Review 273

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. I recall one report mentioning only 7% of innovation is deemed radical or significantly changing the way business undertakes innovation.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 20, 2021

How sure are you that your products are better than the competition? How confident are you that your company will not be disrupted by a smaller competitor? If a company chooses to just rest on its status quo, then it usually won’t be able to react fast enough to disruptive changes in the market.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Disruption is all around us; it never seems to go away; it simply appears in a different and often entirely new form. The result is the same; it disrupts what we know and often in how we suddenly need to set about doing it differently. Much of the innovative disruptions seem so obvious; you wonder why we were not doing these before.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Evolution of Product Development Product development has transformed significantly over the years, adapting to changes in consumer behavior, market demands, and technological advancements. Traditional vs. This method, while structured and predictable, often leads to challenges in adapting to changes and longer time to market.

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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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Flying Fish Lab

AUGUST 1, 2023

At Flying Fish Lab, we offer a unique approach called Controlled Disruption to help businesses grow. Controlled Disruption is unique in its ability to overlay Intelligent Naivety onto your Category Expertise. It is a proactive and essential strategy in today’s ever-changing consumer and customer landscape.

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Disruption Change Agile Competition 98

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 7, 2021

We are entering some perilous times in climate change and what this will mean in destruction in what we know, what we value and what we are used to. High rates of innovation or product extension, often not truly needed, can be disruptive to the larger society as a whole. Pressures suddenly built.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Let me tell you about this as it recognises how things are changing in our world and certainly in my world, in particular. It is a very disrupting, disturbing world. We are doing nothing but constraining the change occurring all around us at a limited pace and speed by placing the wrong lens on this.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change. One such collaboration was around the interplay of innovation with business models and change. Innovators often act as if they can create innovations that affect the customer and the market, but the innovator is somehow immune from the impacts and potential changes.

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Michael Michalko

JANUARY 27, 2022

Disruptive Thinking is a concept that is based upon doing the opposite of what is expected/what convention tells you will be successful. One of the best examples I have heard of comes from a talk given by Luke Williams, which illustrates the potential of Disruptive Thinking. Disruptive technology is important to education.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It’s what kicks growth into gear, keeps you competitive, and helps your team sidestep those nasty surprises. Flexibility : Innovation gives your business the agility to dodge and weave with market changes. This keeps things in check and focused, setting your business up for some serious growth and cool changes.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In Part 1 of this blog series, I highlighted that disruption in health care is increasingly present at many points along the consumer value chain. Key takeaways to recall from that first post are as follows: Disruption doesn’t stop where it starts. The types of disruptors are changing and their numbers are multiplying.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The importance of Recognizing Dynamic Ecosystems We recognize the need for business to embrace change and thrive through adaptation in a rapidly evolving business landscape does require a very dynamic environment. They have the ability to adjust quickly and effectively to changing circumstances.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2025

Five Forces Model: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects The Five Forces Model , developed by Michael Porter , is a strategic framework that helps organizations analyze the competitive forces shaping an industry. It provides a structured approach to assessing market dynamics, competition, and profitability potential.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 17, 2019

Interesting and disruptive innovation More valuable and far more risky are different types of innovation, those that achieve true breakthroughs or disrupt existing markets or industries, or create something really new and different. That's why incremental innovation is so valued, and also why it is so dangerous. Which company are you?

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