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MARCH 26, 2025

The Context Map Canvas is a strategic tool designed to help organizations understand and navigate the external factors that influence innovation and business performance. This tool is especially valuable in fast-paced industries or during periods of transformation, where understanding context can be the key to staying competitive.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 24, 2025

Evolutionary thinking makes Innovation different When we are conceptualizing organization structures and relationships in Ecosystem thinking and design we often begin by attempting to relate this to Natural Ecosystems. Competitive necessity drives wider adoption. faster, when serious supply chain issues arise.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

Kays Distinctive Capabilities Framework: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects Kays Distinctive Capabilities Framework , developed by John Kay , is a strategic model that helps organizations identify and leverage their unique competitive advantages. Preventing companies from engaging in destructive price competition.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

A well-designed scenario planning process ensures that companies: Identify key uncertainties and their potential impacts. Improve resilience against disruptions and crises. Reduces risk and uncertainty Prepares organizations for potential disruptions. Scenario 3: Competition from emerging platforms erodes market share.

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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.

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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. Supply chain disruptions Supplier failures, transportation issues.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Companies that embrace White Space Innovation aim to break out of stagnation, stay ahead of disruption, and create long-term competitive advantage. Analyze Emerging Trends and Disruptions White space opportunities often stem from shifts in: Technology (e.g., Then cluster needs by urgency, prevalence, and strategic relevance.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

Mullin’s Seven Domains Model: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects The Seven Domains Model , developed by John Mullins , is a strategic framework designed to help entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors evaluate the viability of a new business venture or strategic initiative. What is Mullin’s Seven Domains Model?

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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. The more disruptive you seek to make your solution, the more the ecosystem must be shaped, changed, or created. There is a caveat to this need to change.

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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. Exploring disruptive innovation examples can provide insights into how companies have successfully navigated and transformed their industries through innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2022

Firstly the work mat offers an open design that gives a framework for a comprehensive dialogue of what is central to the make-up of innovation. It allows you to compare with others you want to form a deeper relationship with within any ecosystem design. I believe there is a real utility of purpose in this open design.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

This is part two of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks. Within these two posts, I want to provide my thoughts, bridging the present and pointing towards a better design thinking future, one that in my opinion, is urgently needed. Part one is here.

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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. In this environment, the key to success is adaptability. Organizations need solutions that can bend without breaking.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Agile Innovation helps businesses stay ahead of disruption, maximize operational efficiency, and drive sustainable growth. Whether businesses are launching new products, improving internal processes, or adopting emerging technologies, Agile Innovation provides the strategic foundation needed to remain competitive.

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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. A tantalizing prospect, full of innovation. A tantalizing prospect, full of innovation. The Status Quo is history.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

New Business Design- Empower Your Business Ecosystem. When looking at radically different thinking and design in business, where Ecosystems become central, you need to ask yourself what industries would benefit from such an alternative design and thinking due to the changing complexities and challenges they are facing.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2017

Want Disruptive Digital Innovation? At some point every industry and every organization will face disruption. Why is creating competitive differentiation increasingly difficult? Disrupt using data. Here are 5 Business Model Strategies and Tools for Strategic Business Growth. Do we need a new strategy and business model?

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In contrast, internal systems can become rigid over time, potentially missing out on disruptive innovations or shifts in the market. Holistic Value Creation and Sustainability Innovation ecosystems are designed to create value that goes beyond short-term financial gains. How do organization remain relevant in an ever-changing world?

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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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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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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ecosystem co-operations can allow you to align with others, totally outside your existing relationships, so you can enter new markets, explore new concepts and design, that would have been impossible as an individual organization. Ecosystems are unique in design, relationships and the environment that surrounds them.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Moreover, learning from disruptive innovation examples can provide a clearer understanding of how agile methodologies facilitate breakthroughs in today’s competitive landscape. Agile product development is a powerful approach that can help you navigate the complexities of today’s disruptive world.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 24, 2024

Implementing and Building Ecosystem Designs While ecosystem-based approaches offer numerous advantages, there are also challenges and potential barriers that organizations may face. Barrier: Building and maintaining trust may take time, and concerns about data security, intellectual property, or competition could impede collaboration.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation. Brought to prominence by Professor Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma , this important theory provides an explanation as to why large, established companies eventually get overtaken by smaller ones, and it introduced the concept of disruptive innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design. So the thinking intent of searching for a new innovation design had some framing assumptions that can leverage where we are to move towards a new future. This is a useful way to think about the initial 3H outcome.

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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. For a deeper dive into mixing creativity with planning, have a look at our article on using design thinking to shape your game plan. Toughness : Focusing on innovation makes your business hardy against economic ups and downs.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It is a very disrupting, disturbing world. We have to push this into more of the cross-sector cascading effects of disruptions. This becomes a critical point of any dynamics of future disruption. Technological disruption is altering all we do. This was the most disruptive space for innovation and technology to be applied.

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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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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. What happens when disruptors move up-market? Three strategies for the path forward.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 7, 2021

High rates of innovation or product extension, often not truly needed, can be disruptive to the larger society as a whole. What is the cost of disruption and destruction of whole communities in social costs, in our investments for the future when we can’t ‘feel’ or see the benefits of “creative destruction” emerging?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the fourth conversation between Jeffrey Phillips and myself around parts of the Executive Innovation Work Mat, we took on several different issues around the design, function, structure and process needs for innovation. The ability to manage innovation design, function, structure and process.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Additionally, AI can be integrated into ai in design thinking to streamline the design process and improve user experience. By incorporating AI into your innovation management practices, you can stay ahead of the competition and drive successful outcomes.

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Acuvate

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Goal-Oriented : Designed to achieve specific business objectives, such as enhancing customer experience (CX) , boosting engagement, and driving sales growth. By leveraging AI integration in customer service , businesses can improve their CX while gaining a competitive advantage through faster, more intuitive interactions.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 5, 2023

Orchestrating Design Thinking and AI for a People-Centric Business Future The tapestry of business evolution tells a remarkable story. Products were no longer simply created and sold; they were designed to meet customer needs and solve their problems. From the onset of marketing in the 1950s to today, we’ve seen clear transformations.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 2, 2020

A massive transformation faces the software industry, similar to the disruption we’ve seen hit other industries like health care and manufacturing. Startups that help build out the industry’s new low- and no-code application platforms will also rise, like the design app Canva, which was recently valued at $3.2

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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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