Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Collaboration, Idealization and the enabling of innovation I have have been looking back at innovation and how it has changed over the last twenty-five years. This is the second post looking more at collaboration and idealization and how and what has helped it evolve in this period. Leaders are not the only ones who have ideas.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Benchmarking is a strategic process that involves measuring an organizations performance, practices, or processes against industry leaders or top-performing companies. By evaluating how other high-performing organizations operate, benchmarking helps companies uncover new ideas, validate internal assumptions, and prioritize investments.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2025

A Plan of Record (PoR) is a formally approved strategic document that serves as the single source of truth for a companys planned initiatives, projects, and priorities over a specific time frame. It is an essential tool for organizations striving to turn strategy into results through structured, collaborative planning.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 22, 2022

This is the practice of innovating and co-creation in collaboration with people outside of your company. Collaborating with a startup on a specific new challenge. Partnering with other companies, like retailers or marketing agencies, to gain insight into what customers might want. A typical company vertical supply chain.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Collaboration and Co-creation across diverse organizations sharing a common purpose are needed far more today to break through and provide new innovating solutions. We see that the most valuable companies emerging today are largely based on sophisticated platform business models where ecosystems are vital to their health.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This report is a follow up to the amazing InnoLead reports I have previously written and spoken about, including the one which outlined how over time companies planned to invest more and more in adjacent and transformational innovations. So let us go into some of the most important data points highlighted by the report: 1.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 7, 2025

It involves sharing information freely, ensuring that employees are well-informed about company decisions, policies, and changes. When employees are aware of company goals and decisions, they are more likely to trust leadership. Enhanced Collaboration : Transparency encourages collaboration and teamwork.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Getting Started with the Business Model Canvas Template Using the Business Model Canvas effectively requires a collaborative and iterative approach. Define Customer Relationships Explain how your company interacts with each customer segment. It facilitates collaboration, accelerates learning, and supports disciplined experimentation.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 21, 2024

A collaborative business culture is all about an environment where people and groups willingly share knowledge, bounce around ideas, and swap resources to hit shared targets. Check out our piece on collaborative organizational culture. These are your building blocks for a company that’s all about collaboration and teamwork.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 8, 2022

’ The companies were more likely to promote people who were good at sales into managerial positions. ’ Furthermore they found that ‘workers who never collaborate with others—the so-called lone wolves—fare particularly poorly when they are promoted into managerial roles. This validated the Peter Principle.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 9, 2025

For example, a SaaS company might use journey mapping to create separate content tracks for trial users vs. enterprise prospects, ensuring each gets a tailored experience. Getting Started with the Customer Journey Mapping Template Creating a customer journey map involves a combination of research, collaboration, and visualization.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

McKinsey 7S Model: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects The McKinsey 7S Model is a strategic framework developed by McKinsey & Company to help organizations assess and align their internal structure and processes for maximum effectiveness. Enhance collaboration between departments and business units. What is McKinsey 7S Model?

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innosabi Innovation Insights

MARCH 24, 2025

The numbers speak for themselves: Companies with strong partner ecosystems grow 5x faster than those without, with 76% of executives saying that partnerships are essential to meeting their revenue goals.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 24, 2025

Consider how platform businesses using ecosystem principles have transformed industries from retail to transportation to financial services through greater collaboration. Financial performance.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 28, 2025

However, DeepSeek, a new AI company from China, has dramatically altered this narrative. However, this may be because Deepseek is a smaller company, running on less powerful hardware, so the results are still impressive. Is it ready to replace the AI system you currently use for day-to-day tasks? In my case, not yet.

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MARCH 21, 2025

Companies that fail to adapt risk becoming obsolete in an environment where customer preferences, market trends, and technological advancements shift rapidly. Foster Cross-Functional Collaboration: Encourage teamwork across departments and external partners to drive creative solutions. Lead Successful Change Management Projects!

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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. Influencer & Partner Marketing Collaborating with industry leaders.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

The Design Thinking Toolkit offers a human-centered approach that fosters collaboration, creativity, and continuous improvement, ensuring that solutions are not only innovative but also practical and customer-driven. It allows businesses to pivot quickly, respond to customer demands, and experiment without excessive risk.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 24, 2024

“In a world motivated by self-interest, we choose collaboration. This is how we contribute to the future of our communities, companies, and planet.” This is the rallying cry of CBTW , a consultancy that delivers innovation technology solutions to companies around the world. The third challenge was resource allocation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 9, 2025

The Customer Experience Maturity Model (CX Maturity Model) is a strategic framework used to evaluate and improve how effectively a company delivers consistent, personalized, and meaningful experiences across the customer journey. Success requires collaboration across marketing, sales, product, support, and operations.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2025

Originally coined in the startup world, the term refers to strategies that prioritize agile experimentation, data-driven decisions, and cross-functional collaboration especially between marketing, product, and engineering teams. Collaborate Across Teams Growth hacking works best when marketing, product, design, and engineering work together.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This difference is why it is so hard for many companies to embrace hybrid and remote working. The companies that help their managers and leaders out on place systems to build trust and collaboration remotely will be the ones that innovate the fastest in the coming years.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

It might seem like a straightforward question, but it is fundamental to whether a company will end up succeeding at innovation or failing. While many experts have argued for this in the past, in reality the research suggests it will depend more on the needs of each company. Companies that survive do both.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Without a clear understanding of customer frustrations, companies risk developing products or services that fail to meet market demands. A strong problem statement not only serves as a guide for internal teams but also fosters collaboration across departments. Hold collaborative workshops to refine and validate the problem statement.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Alex Pang, founder of Strategy and Rest, a consultancy devoted to helping companies and individuals harness the power of rest to shorten our workdays, while staying focused and productive. 00:29:30 – What a change to a 4 Day Workweek might be like for a company.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

It helps companies plan for the future instead of reacting to disruption when it’s too late. For example, a company developing wearable health tech might use S-Curve Mapping to evaluate current device capabilities and compare them to market maturity. Use objective performance data, not opinions.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 8, 2022

Ben Laker and his team recently conducted some research across 76 companies into the impact of reducing the number of meetings which teams have, and they just published their findings in HBR. And some of the benefits are mindblowing. 70% of all meetings prevent people being productive. Even though in reality it may be preventing all of these.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2020

We certainly understand that today innovation is not confined to the walls of one particular company. We work in different modes, we have ad-hoc communications, the more process-work-driven collaboration needs and we need to seek out more content-centric collaborations to help us in our work and sense of engagement and worth.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 7, 2025

Organizational culture change is crucial for the growth and adaptability of any company. As a professional in organizational culture change, you understand that fostering a culture that aligns with the company’s values and goals is essential for long-term success.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 7, 2025

Furthermore, AI can enhance communication and collaboration within your organization. AI-powered communication tools can facilitate more effective and efficient interactions, breaking down silos and fostering a more collaborative culture. Cross-Cultural Teams AI can facilitate communication and collaboration in diverse teams.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

This approach fosters collaboration between design, engineering, and business functions, ensuring that product decisions are grounded in user experience and market realities. It allows teams to validate concepts, uncover usability issues, and refine designs through real-world feedback rather than assumption.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 11, 2025

Align teams with the companys strategic priorities. Align OKRs Across Teams and Departments OKRs work best when they cascade from company-wide objectives down to teams and individuals. Company OKRs define broad organizational priorities. Solutions: Cascade OKRs to ensure company, team, and individual alignment.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Strategies for Effective Leadership Development For a company to thrive, pumping up leadership is a must. Rolling out these plans means zeroing in on what your company needs, as we highlight in ideas for team building workshops. These initiatives need to sync with the companys goals, vibe, and day-to-day operations.

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