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? This story shows how an entire industry was so convinced of their superiority that they weren’t even aware that they were being overtaken.

Disruption 167

Disruption Industry Report Meeting 167

Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Improve resilience against disruptions and crises. For example, Shell Oil has used scenario planning for decades to navigate uncertainties in the energy industry, helping the company adapt to fluctuations in oil prices, environmental policies, and geopolitical conflicts. Develop proactive strategies to manage change.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Disruption 130

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. Are we focusing on short-term market fluctuations or long-term industry shifts ? Allocate resources efficiently.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Technical Review Agile 130

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This collective intelligence fuels creativity and problem-solving by enabling the cross-pollination of ideas across disciplines and industries. This speed can be a critical differentiator in competitive industries. Collaborative Competition (Coopetition) : Ecosystems encourage a balance between competition and collaboration.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Innovation Collaboration Policies 140

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? Reframe it into a radical new hypothesis that no one is currently working on in the industry.

Competition 174

Competition Video Innovation Disruption 174

Leapfrogging

MARCH 12, 2025

These factors determine whether a business succeeds or fails in its industry and serve as a foundation for effective strategy execution. Identifying and managing these factors ensures that companies allocate resources efficiently, mitigate risks, and maintain a competitive advantage.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 130

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.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Disruption 130

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.

Analysis 130

Analysis Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2019

Airbnb disrupted hotels. Now big travel and hospitality companies are going after the next disruptive innovation themselves before getting blindsided yet again. As part of a new series of articles I’m writing called Everything Transformed , I’m focusing on the widespread disruption of just about every industry on the planet.

Disruption 127

Disruption Industry Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 127

Leapfrogging

MARCH 3, 2025

Why AI is a Game-Changer in Business Consulting Artificial Intelligence is transforming various industries, and business consulting is no exception. AI-driven market analysis not only streamlines your research processes but also delivers unparalleled insights that can give you a competitive edge.

Artificial Inteligence 130

Artificial Inteligence Analysis Trends Competition 130

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. This structured approach ensures Apple remains a market leader in the smartphone industry.

Marketing 130

Marketing Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 130

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

We are a long way away from fully capturing the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4I)R in an inclusive and holistic way. In a recent report, jointly from the World Economic Forum and McKinsey called the “ The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the factories of the future ” t hey made a number of observations.

Industry 213

Industry Technical Review Innovation Design 213

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. By the way, I have had the opportunity to work with some large firms on some relatively disruptive ideas. Outside the box?

Disruption 199

Disruption Innovation Idea Generation Creativity 199

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The trouble is we tend to go to the familiar places; those tried and tested norms, the expected answers that have been well developed as our industry solutions and established as the features our customers expect. Going cross-industry. The whole concept of cross-industry is to seek out new ideas. Enjoy the ride!

Industry 215

Industry Trends LEAN Innovation 215

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Disruption is good for business. It’s global and can happen in any industry, at any time. “Disruption” is a popular buzzword, but if you stop and think about it, experiencing disruption is not something we, as people, enjoy. Disruption can happen with shocking speed. Killing The Sacred Cow.

Disruption 168

Disruption Innovation Industry Technology 168

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.

Competition 59

Competition Project Collaboration Data 59

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.

LEAN 100

LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence Agile 100

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. Now, we’re about to see another software industry jolt. Now is the time to embrace software disruption. Cloud-based software is now the norm.

Software 130

Software Disruption Industry Tools 130

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Access to a Wealth of Diverse Expertise Innovation ecosystems bring together a rich tapestry of talents and expertise from diverse sectors, industries, and disciplines. In contrast, internal systems can become rigid over time, potentially missing out on disruptive innovations or shifts in the market.

ChatGPT 113

ChatGPT Open Innovation Innovation Agile 113

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.

Innovation 334

Innovation Collaboration Competition Engagement 334

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. We are faced more with de-industrialization issues than seeing re-industrialization coming from the present ‘destruction’ forces unleashed upon us all today. Pressures suddenly built.

Creativity 306

Creativity Innovation Disruption Industry 306

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.

Disruption 100

Disruption Examples Innovation Product Development 100

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Access to a Wealth of Diverse Expertise Innovation ecosystems bring together a rich tapestry of talents and expertise from diverse sectors, industries, and disciplines. In contrast, internal systems can become rigid over time, potentially missing out on disruptive innovations or shifts in the market.

Innovation 100

Innovation Agile Open Innovation Generative AI 100

Leapfrogging

MARCH 3, 2025

This agility ensures that your clients can stay ahead of the competition. Scalability : AI solutions are highly scalable, enabling you to apply them to businesses of different sizes and industries. AI is the key to unlocking new growth opportunities and staying ahead in the competitive business landscape.

Tools 130

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. The Status Quo is history. Welcome to the transforming world of Innovation Ecosystems.

Collaboration 273

Collaboration Innovation Technical Review Disruption 273

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.

Disruption 130

Disruption Technology System Industry 130

eZassi

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The Transformative Impact of Robotics on Industry Automation- Revolutionizing Efficiency, Precision, and Innovation Across Sectors Robotics and industrial automation are at the heart of Industry 4.0, Robotics are driving productivity and boosting profitability across a wide range of industries.

Industry 52

Industry Case Study Innovation Technology 52

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.

Disruption 130

Disruption Innovation Technology Creativity 130

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.

Innovation 184

Innovation Disruption Industry Analysis 184

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. The Status Quo is history. Welcome to the transforming world of Innovation Ecosystems.

Collaboration 273

Collaboration Innovation Disruption Technical Review 273

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.

Disruption 98

Disruption Technology Industry Examples 98

Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Its central role is to build constant adaptation and resilience, pushing to create increasing value through discovery and extraction throughout the entire ecosystem, and providing the evolving positioning of business as leaders in tomorrows industries and solutions provided.

Design 72

Design Collaboration Trends Disruption 72

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.

Disruption 123

Disruption Marketing Meeting Strategy 123

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The past two years were as disruptive as they get for both society and business. The success criteria for the external environment might include customer acceptance, competitive differentiation, market trends, or anything else external to your organization that you don’t control. Let’s kick-off 2022 with a useful tool.

Disruption 130

Disruption Strategy Strategy Agile 130

Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 5, 2023

At the Christensen Institute, we wondered if they might disrupt universities’ master’s degree programs. McGrath’s analysis of why companies like Casper lacked enduring disruptive value also reveals the central flaws in coding bootcamps’ initial direct-to-consumer models. The bootcamp industry exhibited the same pattern.

Disruption 113

Disruption Competition Analysis Strategy 113

Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

Value innovation takes a different pathit creates entirely new demand by delivering higher value at a lower cost, making competition irrelevant. Instead of fighting over market share, companies that embrace value innovation redefine industry norms and unlock new growth opportunities. What is Value Innovation?

Examples 52

Examples Software Review Innovation Technical Review 52

Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Disruption in health care started to accelerate about 15 years ago when models like One Medical and iora health launched their lower-cost, more affordable, and more accessible approaches to primary and on-demand care. This move is just what the theory of Disruptive Innovation would predict. So what can incumbents do?

Disruption 96

Disruption Competition Marketing Industry 96