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? Another, sniffing a French Bâtard-Montrachet, declared: “This is definitely California. It is about the French wine industry, and then the global wine industry.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The ‘ fit for purpose ‘ in strategic and innovation intent, definitions of success, the core values, sense of mission. In our view any initial innovation examination requires to explore four key ‘health’ indicators. What are the expectations and the environment you chose to compete in3.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Perhaps one of the simplest, and yet most important unknown to address is a definition of innovation. We at OVO often demand that our clients develop a consistent definition of innovation that can be communicated to teams within the organization. You can see those different definitions by clicking here.

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Imaginatik

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The CEO was sponsoring a workshop on the future of payments – its dizzying array of emerging new standards and technologies as well as the dark horse disruptive potential of blockchain technologies. We’ve already observed that tomorrow’s competitive landscape will be framed less by industry giants than among ecosystem-centric business models.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2022

If you are not seeking out a different, more disruptive or new business design, then you are eventually serving your shareholders poorly. ” It is harder to revive or effectively compete in today’s highly competitive global world.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 19, 2022

It relies on existing capabilities and emphasizes excellent operational execution, with less focus on new needs or expanding the competitive market space. Horizon Two is the mid-point between “incremental’ change in Horizon One and “disruptive” change in Horizon Three. There’s little change required for external constituents.

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Christensen Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Disruptive innovation is commonly misunderstood. Just watch “ Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery ” to hear one of the main characters, Miles Bron, get the definition of “true disruption” really, really wrong. She called it a theory of competition. That is the power of disruption.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 2, 2016

This past weekend I had an extended period of re-reading about the effects of disruption that seems to be occurring across all points of business, our politics, our governments, it seems across our lives. All good plans sometime get disrupted. Everything invented seems to have been disrupted or seems about too.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Competitive Analysis : How’s your strategy stacking up against the Joneses? Competitive Analysis See if you’re winning or need a mid-game pep talk. Pulling in innovation is a must-have in today’s fast-moving scene, as detailed in our note on strategy’s need for innovation in disruptive times.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In recent years, more and more companies have realized the need for innovation as they’ve seen businesses all around them, and perhaps even their own business, being disrupted. Well, by definition , innovation is the introduction of anything new. So, what is it exactly that makes an organization innovative and agile? Let me explain.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

Accelerator programs benefit corporations by providing them access to innovative and disruptive startups. This allows corporates to manage these disruptive forces rather than compete directly with them. Difference in approach to disruption. Corporate venture capital. Both have what the other needs.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 16, 2016

I think the main problem with innovation - real innovation, that is, the kind that creates disruptive new products or introduces new channels or business models - is that it requires change. Most organizations change in a reactive fashion, because they are forced to change because of external factors or competitive threats.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Disruptive : Innovating to create a new market or industry, or innovating in an existing adjacent industry. An innovator may identify or discover needs that allow it to create a completely new market, segment or industry, or enter an existing market, segment or industry and change it or disrupt the adjacent market.

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eZassi

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Seek Trend Scan Reports for Innovation Program Research Organizations looking to maintain a competitive edge use consultative research services to navigate the complex world of emerging technologies and market trends. Innovative companies gain additional foresight with Trend Scan Reports. Click here to see a sample report.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

I've been writing, speaking and consulting about innovation for over 15 years, and I'm constantly amazed by the different perspectives and definitions about innovation. This is because there is little management engagement or support, a lack of preparation and skills, and a narrow definition of discovery and risk.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 30, 2015

Incremental or disruptive? On the other hand, very little innovation in corporate levels is focused on transformation or disruption. First, transformative or disruptive innovation is unpredictable. Third, disruptive innovation can be expensive, and time-consuming. Take innovation for example. Products or services?

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Innov8rs

MARCH 31, 2025

In a recent Innov8rs Learning Lab, George Wu, Head of Ventures at Disruptive Edge , shared his insights on the complexities of venture building, offering practical advice and numerous case studies. Key lessons learned: External ventures can disrupt industries more effectively when they are not constrained by corporate bureaucracy.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 21, 2021

Definition of the 70-20-10 Rule . The basic premise of the 70-20-10 Rule is that if the organizational stakeholders consistently makes small improvements to their existing line or enters into new markets, they will sustain the organization without ever evolving it to remain competitive with changing times.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 4, 2019

In no other business process would we approach a problem with such poor definition and preparation. The idea behind innovation is not that it is an occasional "shot", but a constant, sustained effort, composed of small, incremental changes and larger, transformative or disruptive activities. But NASA never envisioned only going once.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Human beings are competitive in all circumstances, and it has only intensified in today’s predominantly technologically advanced world. But what if you could move beyond the idea of competition and no longer needed to see the competition as “competition,” necessarily? Competition Is Dangerously Synonymous with Disaster.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 12, 2020

Downturns are prime territory for disruption. But, more importantly for us, economic downturns are always a great time for disruptive innovation. Disruptive innovation usually starts from the low-end of the of market , which means that these innovators are uniquely positioned for tough times. But who are these companies?

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It is about creating a competitive advantage in an increasingly commoditizing world. How the market landscape of competition is changing and understand where your competitive advantage has come from in the past and where it is likely to come from in the future. Then you have the External viewpoint.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Even if we can speed up innovation activities (we've run innovation programs from problem definition to fully developed prototypes in under a week) you've still got to go through the product development and launch cycle. Innovation, where practiced at all, becomes incremental because of this pressure to generate rapid results.

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Daniel Burrus

JUNE 5, 2019

Now, not everyone has it in their homes because YouTube TV, Sling TV, and other new, emerging technologies have disrupted the broadcast industry. Why did they become the disrupted and not the disruptor? A key to success for a company that’s facing disruption–adopt a strategy of embrace and extend. It was definitely a Hard Trend.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 16, 2016

After a decade of reading about it, getting pounded over the head with the Jobs/Apple story and watching new innovations disrupt entire industries, businesses are starting to react. The definitions I've just provided also align to what many of us know as the "three horizons" model - the idea that innovations can have different impacts.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Dynamic ecosystems require businesses to be highly adaptable, continually revising their strategies to remain competitive. Clear definitions help in segmenting research efforts and ensuring that insights are actionable and relevant to specific business contexts. This is becoming my core in building out Business Ecosystems.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The gap is real, and it means that many companies aren't as profitable or as competitive as they'd like to be. There is definitely a place for big data, analytics and machine learning, but I think more as a component of a viable front end process than a replacement. However, I'm not so sure about disruptive needs and opportunities.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For example, he talked about the fact that most industries don't understand the power of transformation, or where new disrupters will come from. For example, disruption in the automotive industry is much more likely to come from Tesla or Google than from GM or Ford. He also talked about the increasing pace of change.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

There's a real sense that we in the corporate world are standing on the brink of an amazing transition, moving from relatively older, static models of competition based on corporate size and mass, to new competitive realities dictated by speed, agility and innovation. Which disrupt or destroy the market (like iTunes)?

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

Evaluating breakthrough innovation cultures and organization s, BCG concludes in their annual 2014 study: By definition, breakthrough innovation is the introduction of new ideas that drive a different way of doing things. Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Source: Detecon.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

After all, how can an activity that can disrupt an industry, create compelling new products or services and reap significant riches be simple? To do that I'm going to argue in this relatively short post that innovation has three important deliverables: problem definition, ideas and solutions.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 29, 2019

The Agile Innovation Process is a methodology for continually improving and adapting to competitive and consumer conditions in the marketplace. The main purpose of the methodology is to create a product or service that disrupts the market and forces competitors to adapt or exit the space because of the level of disruption created.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

New ideas that are at first radical become profitable, then draw competition, and then become mainstream ideas. So the cycle must repeat if a company is going to stay ahead or even abreast of the competition. Here's where the issues start.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 2, 2023

The definition of agility isn’t just about being adaptable. As we’ve seen over and over, every product, service, and business model eventually gets disrupted. Agility may ultimately be your only source of sustainable competitive advantage. Instill Agile Mindsets, Abilities, and Know-How Into Your Team.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 13, 2016

That's a good, basic definition of innovation, and believe it or not most companies don't have a common, shared definition. As your definitions improve and your team grows competency, then you can add complexity to the innovation definition and process, leading to. Further, innovation can result in a number of outcomes.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

“Six Sigma aims to take any uncertainties (variability) out of a process while innovation by definition induces uncertainties. It connects the present with the desired future and identifies the ‘seen’ disruptions which might occur in moving towards a vision” Shifting our present Measurements and Metrics to Ultimate Outcomes.

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