Idea to Value

MAY 18, 2020

There’s a lot of talk about “the end of sustainable competitive advantage” , and for good reason. In this kind of an environment, the only sustainable competitive advantage is the pace of innovation. This is what’s referred to as level five leadership.

Underperforming Technical Team 363

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Ideation Culture 363

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 16, 2023

” I plan to provide further posts on the four components I see as essential and integrally linked: value creation, knowledge transfer, co-creation and competitive positioning. We need always to recognize designing any framework would depend on specific goals and objectives, contexts and stakeholders involved.

Innovation 183

Innovation Design Competition Analysis 183

Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We refer to these as the key principles of innovative organizations. And, if you don’t have customers, the reason really isn’t your competition, it’s you not providing them with enough value. Netflix refers to this as the organization being loosely coupled. However, we’d like to add a fourth one to the list. It’s not easy.

Agile 312

Agile Innovation Technical Review Leadership 312

Christensen Institute

MARCH 7, 2023

While employer benefits often cover employees and their dependents, in this post, “employee(s)” refers to all those receiving benefits (i.e., To remain competitive in attracting talent, more employers would do well to look at the big picture. the employee, their spouse, both, etc.). Which, logically, is short-sighted.

Competition 88

Competition Innovation Examples Survey 88

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Organizations today are no different from the past; they seek fresh growth and establish new competitive positions. It moves from many “strands” of systems into one of building on one “single point of reference” that ecosystems achieve by being built and designed for a more cohesive set of innovation activities.

Design 209

Design Artificial Inteligence Innovation Collaboration 209

IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

So why I am referring to the 15 th century Renaissance to make a point about diversity? Competition is strong and access to information is easier than ever before. Involving diverse thinkers will encourage out-of-the-box thinking leading to new ideas, new offerings and the ultimate competitive advantage.

Innovation 70

Innovation Competition Collaboration Study 70

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. there are plenty of reference points to trigger your thinking.

Innovation 190

Innovation Competition Resources Analysis 190

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

Long-term competitiveness : In today’s dynamic business environment, organizations need to have the ability to continuously innovate , not constantly go back and reinvent the investigative wheel, to maintain long-term competitiveness. I highlight the key value points.

Agile 183

Agile Collaboration Innovation Competition 183

Christensen Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Disruption, a theory of competition Recently, one of my colleagues framed disruption in a way that truly helped me better understand the theory. She called it a theory of competition. Note, that this is only the case in a competition of disruptive circumstances not in sustaining ones. Back to leveraging disruption theory to win.

Competition 59

Competition Disruption Tips Marketing 59

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.

Disruption 199

Disruption Innovation Idea Generation Meeting 199

Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

From then, this was referred to as the Equal-Odds rule , which showed that the reason these Geniuses were more successful than others, and had more high quality creative work that people remember, is because they produced more work overall. Geniuses had as many hits as misses as anyone else.

Creativity 222

Creativity Ideation Study Exercises 222

Idea to Value

APRIL 23, 2021

Since steel is such a commodity, other manufacturers who keep using the older, more polluting processes would therefore stay cheaper, and the more expensive steel would not be competitive on price. This is what Bill Gates referred to as the green premium.

Video 148

Video Competition Technology Examples 148

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

We must gain insights and refer through multiple information sources- digital data and direct human responses – than ever before; these insights are becoming essential to our businesses. Innovation Challenges and Competitions: Host innovation challenges or competitions that encourage stakeholders to develop solutions using technology.

Technology 174

Technology Collaboration Engagement Data 174

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

There is a lot of depth to explore in all of these, a valuable real point of reference and so much more within their site for innovation knowledge and viewpoints. This growing collection is really building into a very useful “ go to site” to begin to relate too and refer for anyone involved or interested in innovation.

Crowdsourcing 200

Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 200

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Then the whole 4th Industrial Revolution shifting the industry from islands of expertise into networks of collaborations was my next point of focus, connecting industrial IoT by offering a reference and engagement platform. It is recombining them that offers greater value creation. There is a lot of complexity within disruption.

Disruption 261

Disruption Technology System Change 261

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

” A groundbreaking report, “ Net-Zero by 2050: a roadmap for the global energy system “(referred to as NZE here) by the Internation Energy Agency (IEA), has been emphasising that this decade is pivotal to reaching net-zero by mid-century. Knowledge transfer from first?mover The report uses examples of solar PV.

Report 345

Report Innovation Technology Policies 345

Idea to Value

JULY 15, 2020

The problem with timing is that every innovation only has a relatively small window of opportunity that happens when the technology and customers are ready, but there isn’t much entrenched competition. It requires companies to adapt, innovate, and find new ways to be competitive. Being too early.

Innovation 249

Innovation Industry Technology Marketing 249

Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Innovation must be rooted in improving competitive advantage, customer needs, employee expectations and now, sustainability. They mistakenly think the term innovation refers to only big, multi-year, heavy investment, ‘revolutionary’ changes. What mistake do companies often make when they talk about innovation?

Innovation 254

Innovation Technical Review Creativity Leadership 254

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 3, 2020

Here does lie a true competitive component and so many organizations seek to apply someone else’s practice so they can end up as “same” practice. The author offers a view on how digital forces are reshaping five key domains of strategy—customers, competition, data, innovation, and value. Moving from “Best Practice” to “Next Practice”.

Learning 163

Learning System Agile Competition 163

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 8, 2023

(Larry Schmitt- The Innovation Stack) A comprehensive innovation ecosystem design offers several benefits, including fostering a culture of innovation, accelerating the innovation process, enhancing collaboration, leveraging diverse perspectives, and driving competitive advantage.

Design 183

Design Innovation Collaboration Innovation Management 183

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Siemens is in some highly competitive industrial markets. It has transformed all of what we refer too, in recognizing connections and interactions and give us a potential for a whole new ‘connected’ value. These are the foundation rules in a winner-takes-all dynamic of competition.

Industry 187

Industry Technical Review Competition Technology 187

Kainexus

MAY 23, 2023

Continuous business improvement refers to the ongoing process of identifying, analyzing, and enhancing various aspects of a company's operations and processes. This process management approach constantly seeks ways to make the organization more efficient, effective, and competitive.

Competition 88

Competition Meeting Tools Management 88

Kainexus

JULY 21, 2022

No matter what industry your organization is in, competition these days is tough. The Lean manufacturing approach is proven to achieve operational excellence and beat the competition. Regardless of your customers, every organization needs to improve and evolve constantly.

LEAN 84

LEAN Competition Industry 84

Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2016

Gladwell could just as easily have mentioned the average amount of time the best violin students had practiced by the time they were eighteen (approximately seventy-four hundred hours) but he chose to refer to the total practice time they had accumulated by the time they were twenty, because it was a nice round number.

Underperforming Technical Team 190

Underperforming Technical Team Creativity Training Study 190

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2024

It provides the rules, mechanisms, and framing for all the partners to sign on to and use as (one of) the foundation documents to refer to constantly as issues arise and need different resolution levels. Any governance should be a living, breathing, evolving thing. first appeared on Paul4innovating Innovation Views.

Design 183

Design Collaboration Roadmap System 183

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

Innovation is a critical source of future competitive advantage. In my opinion, an innovation mandate should go deeper and provide different insights, experiences or reference points, Innovation evolves, expands and gains momentum. So often innovation struggles to be recognized for what it is.

Innovation Programs 190

Innovation Programs Technical Review Innovation Policies 190

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The economics of powering the energy system with renewables has got to the point where there is real competitiveness. The solutions to replace these fuels are renewables based on wind, solar, biofuels, and have a sustainability credential. The Characteristics of an Innovation Diffusion.

Technology 215

Technology System Innovation Design 215

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It can give you a real competitive advantage by translating what you learnt in applying analogies to solutions that solve your customer problems. Often this is the toughest work as you have to strive to overcome the mentality of “not invented here, so it won’t work for us”. Turning “yes but”….into into “yes and” is hard.

Industry 215

Industry Trends LEAN Change 215

Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In our last Thursday Theory Tips piece, we explored disruption as a theory of competition. What about competition? This isn’t to say that new market disruptors don’t have to worry about competition. Nonconsumption is a fierce competitor , and this competition can be seen in the form of barriers to consumption.

Tips 98

Tips Marketing Disruption Competition 98

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 28, 2016

It can be found at [link] and explores the necessary business architecture, provides a detailed innovation reference framework and examines the different innovation types through a unique lens. Each innovation lens builds upon different capabilities and competencies needed. The Business Focus Orientation.

Innovation 208

Innovation Design Collaboration Agile 208

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Corporate venturing has become a crucial strategy for businesses aiming to drive innovation and stay competitive. Corporate venturing refers to a company’s investment in external startups or the creation of internal ventures to explore new business opportunities. What is Corporate Venturing?

Innovation Programs 105

Innovation Programs Trends How To Software 105

IdeaScale

AUGUST 16, 2017

When people talk about machine learning they are a referring to a type of artificial intelligence that has the ability to learn without explicit programming. These programs can grow and change on their own once they know how to learn and some financial companies are beginning to use machine learning for a variety of different reasons.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Learning Case Study Study 113

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

One of the basic troubles increasingly today is we are not in the world of stable markets, we are seeing increasing competitive intensity and challenges to market definitions that are radically altering how we proceed. It becomes the “living” innovation document to refer too, engagement with (and improve).

Strategy 204

Strategy Strategy Innovation Engagement 204

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 6, 2023

By leveraging the tools, frameworks, and mechanisms provided by the innovation stack, organizations can create an ecosystem that fosters a culture of innovation, accelerates the innovation process, enhances collaboration, leverages diverse perspectives, and drives competitive advantage. Innovation Management needs to “come of age”.

Design 148

Design Collaboration Innovation Software 148

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Introduction to the Startup Ecosystem Defining the Startup Ecosystem The term ‘startup ecosystem’ refers to the dynamic network of interconnected entities—individuals, organizations, and resources—that collectively contribute to the creation and growth of startups.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Agile Engagement Collaboration 113

Viima

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Businesses cannot thrive and survive in a competitive environment with only one bottom line – profit. Planet, People, and Profit are often referred to as the three pillars of sustainability. It wasn’t so long ago that it was always sunny in the rich man’s world. And what do you get once you combine all three?

Resources 86

Resources Report Competition Examples 86

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 Product Development LEAN 100