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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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Invest in ideas which are too similar to the existing business, and not enough in exploring more disruptive and transformational ideas. I have developed a management framework designed to achieve all these goals, called the Lean Innovation Validation and Execution (L.I.V.E.) If you would like to find out how L.I.V.E.

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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

APRIL 6, 2021

The care within designing the narrative is you do not want contradictory narratives; they need to be in pursuit of complementary narratives. 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.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Pinpointing these gaps lets you tweak and twiddle your strategy into a lean, mean innovation machine. 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. Customer Feedback Snag insights from the frontlines about surprises or sour notes.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I am working through what I think this should become in design and application, involving providing the key innovation building blocks as components of the innovation stack, using the innovation stack to guide platform development and the platform to support this innovation stack.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2020

The Innovator’s Dilemma , by Clayton Christensen Christensen is the professor who turned “disruption” into a buzzword but, unfortunately, why he did so is lost in the noise. Running Lean , by Ash Maurya Innovation strategy starts with a plan. Berkun clears the ground for more effective innovation by blowing up a few myths.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 8, 2020

Sometimes the problem is compatibility with legacy systems, but there are also skills gaps to overcome, decisions about how much tech you need and where to apply it, and coping with business disruption or temporary lags in productivity. 1 The Devil in Design. 2 The Expense of Acquisition and Training. 3 Reimagining Corporate Culture.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

For a deeper dive into mixing creativity with planning, have a look at our article on using design thinking to shape your game plan. Learn more about this link in our article on strategic planning needs innovation in today’s disruptive world.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution) framework. Proactively Managing Risks: Identify potential risks early and develop contingency plans to navigate challenges with minimal disruption. There are numerous tools designed specifically for critical, timeconsuming parts of managing teams and projects. Leverage A.I.

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Matthew May

JUNE 26, 2015

After reading his 1999 book High Velocity Leadership , we invited Brian to guest speak about the Mars Pathfinder project, and he soon he became a regular fixture in the University of Toyota’s “lean” leadership curriculum. Through the sessions I became quite familiar with Brian and his saga. The whole school gathered for the event.

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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. That was until Henry Chesbrough published Open Innovation in 2003 and that got hot.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Discontinuous Innovation is also used interchangeably with “radical” or “disruptive” innovation. Thus the “Netflix Effect” was born, revolutionizing the way we watch movies and TV and disrupting the entire entertainment industry. Hyper-personalization disrupts many sectors creating unique products and designs for customers.

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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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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

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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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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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. Innovation is advancing but most of it has been designed for a different time, the old era of stable markets, predictable solutions and having a clear sense of your competition.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 3, 2020

The consulting industry was already being disrupted before the coronavirus. Now the disruption is accelerating. I’ve already written about how the management-consulting industry is being disrupted by various trends like emerging technologies, the commodification of knowledge, and outdated business models.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

Recognizing complex acknowledges the volatility and disruptions that are constantly occurring. The need is for a very fluid, dynamic, constantly evolving approach to design and solutions. To achieve a fluid, dynamic design in any new innovation solution recognizes our growing reliance on different collaboration tools.

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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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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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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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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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Qmarkets

MARCH 21, 2025

This article explores the core concept of breakthrough innovation, how it stands apart from radical and disruptive innovation , real-world examples of industry-changing advancements, and proven strategies companies can use to achieve it. Understanding these distinctions is key to developing strategies that lead to transformative success.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Lean Manufacturing : Lean manufacturing focuses on eliminating activities that dont add value to the end customer, such as overproduction, excessive inventory, and unnecessary movement. Provide employees with the skills and knowledge to use process improvement tools and methodologies, such as Lean principles or Six Sigma techniques.

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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. It reminded me how important it is to highlight the ultimate organizational design principle: Structure follows strategy. It’s the foundation of organizational design.

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mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

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. Since you have a well-defined idea (through Design Thinking), Agile will clear a path towards your idea by removing obstacles that stand in your way.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 4, 2021

We must embrace disruption in order to make it work for all of us. 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?”. The devastating COVID-19 pandemic is part of a larger disruption — moving from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Rick points out: “Corporate innovation efforts by and large continue to fall far short of moving the needle in any significant, sustained way or of delivering on the promise of future-proofing companies against ever-increasing disruptive forces. Structuring the design of the innovation architecture is changing, fairly radically, in my view.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

At some point, digital disruption comes for every organization. While some companies might be flexible and lucky enough to ride a wave of disruption and survive , if you are able to predict and prepare for it accordingly you might be able to use it to thrive. Defining digital disruption. Clues for early identification.

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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.

LEAN 40

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 3, 2020

The consulting industry was already being disrupted before the coronavirus. Now the disruption is accelerating. I’ve already written about how the management-consulting industry is being disrupted by various trends like emerging technologies, the commodification of knowledge, and outdated business models.

Software Review 100

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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. New Releases in 2021.

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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?” The concept of human-centered design sets out a counterbalance which puts the human and social imperatives first and foremost.

Technical Review 100

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Qmarkets

JUNE 30, 2017

At some point, digital disruption comes for every organization. While some companies might be flexible and lucky enough to ride a wave of disruption and survive , if you are able to predict and prepare for it accordingly you might be able to use it to thrive. Defining digital disruption. Clues for early identification.

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