Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

It seemed that for years all anyone could talk about was disruptive innovation. Then Stanford launched its d.school and design thinking was where it was at. In 1997 Clayton Christensen published The Innovator’s Dilemma and it sparked a revolution.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

The tool and techniques that stand out for me, in their contribution, value and my use have been, in no specific order, cover the jobs-to-be-done , ten types of innovation, crossing the chasm , blue ocean, business model canvas and value proposition canvas, building core competencies , lean start-up, agile and design sprints.

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mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It is the union between doing and thinking. Design Thinking: Think of solutions, solve situations and problems, close the gaps that need filling in. It is Design Thinking that will pave the way to traveling assertively. Design Thinking: What is the human need behind the business need?

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 3, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You know ALL the innovation tools and frameworks: Design Thinking Lean Startup Disruptive Innovation But knowing and doing are two different things. When I first learned Jobs to be Done, it felt painfully obvious, exactly like the customer research I did for five years at P&G.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By integrating innovation into your business strategy, you can achieve: Increased market share Enhanced customer satisfaction Greater operational efficiencies Improved profitability To illustrate the tangible benefits of innovation, let’s look at some disruptive innovation examples that have redefined industries and reshaped consumer behavior.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Disruptive innovation, design thinking, open innovation, lean launchpads and on and on. I spent the majority of my adult life managing organizations and I always felt enormous pressure to innovate, but whenever I went looking for guidance, what I found was a confused jumble.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Design thinking: Design thinking is another methodology that is gaining traction in innovation. Lean startup: Lean startup is a methodology that helps organizations validate their ideas early and often. Lean startup: Lean startup is a methodology that helps organizations validate their ideas early and often.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle. How Lean Innovation Re-Invents Product Commercialization Production As discussed above, in most companies, product development is considered “pre-commercialization.”

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the perfusion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using Lean methods. Two methods, Design Thinking and Customer Development (the core of the Lean Startup) provide the tactical day-to-day process of how to turn ideas into products. .

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Check out our list of design thinking books to read. Innovator’s DNA, Updated, with a New Preface: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. This book explores how companies like Amazon and Microsoft have been able to create immensely successful businesses that disrupt entire industries. Find it here.

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

Every company needs to simultaneously optimize their existing business model (sustain) and search for the next evolution of the business model (disrupt). A brief history of the Continuous Innovation Framework The early scaffolding for the Continuous Innovation Framework was described in my first book: Running Lean.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

how it is influencing much that is surrounding innovation, as it continues to disrupt in faster, demanding ways, where it deconstructs and then, it is forcing us to reconstruct our innovation thinking, so as to gain from all this transformation occurring all around us.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

They invest in disruptive technologies but ask existing business units to cannibalize their current products and services using them. Sometimes these networks include facilitators or “catalysts” who help manage and lead design thinking processes using innovation toolkits. Different models approach innovation differently.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 4, 2021

We must embrace disruption in order to make it work for all of us. Think for a moment about the structure of the current operating model for most organizations. At every level of the organization, people need to look at themselves and ask, “How do I disrupt myself in order to deal with the new reality?”. New Behavior.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

It does not tell leaders how to manage their organizations” An introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation Managers. “The key today is to think like a designer in the way you lead, explore, create and innovate” Some were provided before this over the last year or so, but I feel are worth exploring. .

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 10, 2017

If you want radical disruptive change, build to it, don't attempt it at the start, until your teams have some innovation experience. If you want disruptive or radical ideas and innovation, detail where they should have impact. Disrupt someone else, increment within your existing markets and segments.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2016

The two I have decided to summarize are 1) Beyond Design Thinking and 2) Minimum Viable Transformation. Beyond Design Thinking. Beyond Design Thinking – reflecting on its place. What is at the heart of design thinking? This is not what design thinking should be for.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

There’s a pervasive myth that suggests that all big companies need to get better at disruptive or breakthrough innovation. At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues. They don’t. And they can’t anyway. No one can.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 29, 2015

These have been advances in technology, methodology or design- thinking and we do need to stop and think about how we could do ‘things’ differently by asking “what is possible?” One where we are capable of designing and engineering far more so as to deliver and have a more desirable end.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

But if you don’t start believing that you need to disrupt yourselves before somebody else does, you’re likely going to get disrupted by somebody else. Lots of times, it’s just too difficult to ask the same people working on what your business is already doing to spend time breaking or disrupting it. Governance & Metrics.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

Recognizing complex acknowledges the volatility and disruptions that are constantly occurring. There are so many connected parts that one individual person or entity simply cannot find the right answers; they need to seek out others to complete the map and connect the parts. There are many interconnected (constantly moving) parts.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers. Within this view by Day and Shea, they point out that managers are never short of advice.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers. Within this view by Day and Shea, they point out that managers are never short of advice.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The two I have decided to summarize are 1) Beyond Design Thinking and 2) Minimum Viable Transformation. Beyond Design Thinking. The key to design thinking is it begins by imagining a solution that does not exist yet, and then set about outlining a pathway to realizing it. All exciting, motivating stuff.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

But if you don’t start believing that you need to disrupt yourselves before somebody else does, you’re likely going to get disrupted by somebody else. Lots of times, it’s just too difficult to ask the same people working on what your business is already doing to spend time breaking or disrupting it. Governance & Metrics 1.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Disruptive Innovation is not a linear process. this will drive more disruptive innovation as a cultural change. Breakthrough ideas will continuously change as you go through the Design Thinking Process?—?that We created a short video for you on this topic. And How much value would it potentially create for your customers?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Even with the proliferation of lean startup, design thinking, innovation labs, accelerator programs, hackathons and innovation marathons, crowdsourcing and a host of designer canvases that keeps pushing our advancement along, success is still piecemeal and random.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 10, 2020

This is, obviously, causing a massive disruption to global economics and gives rise to massive amounts of uncertainty. We at Moves The Needle are committed to supporting you and your employees' safety and peace of mind. We firmly believe that now is a good time to ignite “entrepreneurial spirit” to stay in tune with your customers.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

There’s a pervasive myth that suggests that all big companies need to get better at disruptive or breakthrough innovation. At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues. They don’t. And they can’t anyway. No one can.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 20, 2019

This is where Lean Agile principles come into play. Keeping the Ball in Your Court: Understanding Lean Agile Principles. This process can lay solid foundations for sustaining In the context of sport, something analogous to the Lean process would be to create new team compositions that compensate for the absence of injured players.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

But if you don’t start believing that you need to disrupt yourselves before somebody else does, you’re likely going to get disrupted by somebody else. Lots of times, it’s just too difficult to ask the same people working on what your business is already doing to spend time breaking or disrupting it. Governance & Metrics.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

how it is influencing much that is surrounding innovation, as it continues to disrupt in faster, demanding ways, where it deconstructs and then we need to reconstruct our innovation thinking so as to gain from this transformation occurring all around us. Other real changing forces influencing innovation.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

But incumbents would be willing to make changes if a new technology proves to be truly disruptive and the long-term benefits are worth it. Most companies will continue to favor a “safer” approach in the time ahead, even while facing disruption. Innovation is not accomplished solely by one company any more.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We do know we need to re-equip ourselves for constant disruption; we are really beginning to see a shift from the classic bell curve into more of a shark fin for adopting change. These statements are just covering up the serious cracks appearing in the design process for new products. ‘Much’ seems to be closing in on us.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

The race is on for companies to find big, explorative or even “disruptive” innovation ideas. Disrupt yourself or someone else will’, it has been said. Depending on the companies’ objectives, these innovation centers are mostly autonomous, designed as corporate accelerators, incubators, Digital Labs or in a blended form.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

These corporate Innovation Outposts monitor Silicon Valley for new innovative technologies and/or companies (as emerging threats or potential tools for disruption) and then take advantage of these innovations by creating new products or investing in startups. In other words the disruption is expected to happen within 5+ years.

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