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China the story of innovation and disruption.

Paul Hobcraft

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.

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What is Disruptive Thinking?

Destination Innovation

Disruptive thinking challenges conventional approaches, fosters radical ideas and can lead to transformative innovations. Disruptive thinking can apply across various fields, including technology, art, business, healthcare, education, and social innovation. It is intended to start a revolution.

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Teachers don’t realise they don’t like creative students

Idea to Value

Every school will tell its students and teachers that they aim to promote creativity in their classrooms. What their teachers might however not be aware of is that, in practice, they don’t actually want their students to be creative. Least Typical of a Creative Child. Is Impulsive. Is Individualistic. Takes Chances.

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Our innovation era: creative destruction or destructive creation- which?

Paul Hobcraft

I keep coming back to the dilemma often faced in innovation- do we practice “creative destruction” or “destructive creation? Schumpeter saw “creative destruction” as the renewing, through innovation, society’s dynamics that would lead to higher economic development and welfare levels. Pressures suddenly built.

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Navigating the VUCA World With Innovation Coaching

Speaker: Janet Sernack, Founder and CEO of ImagineNation

The current rate of unprecedented change and disruption to "business as usual" is causing a wide range of reactive responses within our organizations as well as by some leaders, many of whom are struggling to operate sensibly and proactively in a VUCA world.

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Why creativity is the future of your teams

Idea to Value

Established companies are being overtaken by more innovative upstarts, entire industries which previously dominated the economy are being disrupted. It is creativity. Unfortunately, there is a problem: in a survey of more than 5000 working professionals, less than 41% of believed they are creative. Complex problem-solving.

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My own transformative dynamics of disruption

Paul Hobcraft

It is a very disrupting, disturbing world. More of a creative need of unique combinations, that’s the future key to unlock. 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. The age of “technology attack.”