Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

It supports both incremental improvements and disruptive ideas, making it a versatile tool for innovation professionals, product designers, marketing teams, and operations leaders alike. A customer service process causing delays. A marketing campaign that needs to drive more engagement.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Pitching the reasons to change to Innovation Ecosystems in thinking and design So after working through the values of the Innovation Ecosystem over a series of three posts I asked Chat GPT to help me in making a pitch for the change from existing internal orientated innovation processes and structures.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Importance of Innovation in Today’s Business Landscape In the current business landscape, innovation is not just a buzzword; it’s a necessity. Incorporating innovative practices is essential for adapting to market changes and ensuring long-term success.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

So defining stories and narratives, you see the growing potential of having a good narrative for your innovation activities. They are a call to action and engage those listening to the narrative to make a difference. ” So narratives attract, engage, motivate and call people to push and achieve their potential.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

When they are constantly scanning reports on the “state of innovation” it can often lull them, to give some that warm glow, others quickly being dismissive, disregarding many of the key messages as “not applicable to me”. Then disruption suddenly hits. Now that is very disappointing but what do we expect from innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

We design the innovation system we need after we know what we are trying to achieve in the challenge or idea. Can we design a totally ‘adaptive’ innovation process to fit the specific need? A radically different orchestration of innovation – highly networked, fully connected-up. We “pull down” what is needed.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

By blending innovation into your strategy, you’re cooking up a plan that’s as flexible as a yoga guru and keeps you ahead of the pack. For a deeper dive, check out our piece on connecting business strategy and the innovation process. They make sure your company stays in the game, no matter how much the market shifts.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We are facing greater disruption and an increasing innovation pace. The prospect of new innovation potential will eventually work through into the world of Industry 4.0 There are so many opportunities for innovation well beyond products and services. We are caught up in a very revolutionary period. coming from industry 4.0

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

We are seeing blurred boundaries, digital is raising the stakes and fear of missing out, it is upping the speed at which others are competing with new concepts, ideas, and engagement with customers. Traditional methods and approaches to innovation are completely breaking down, hence my total belief we are in the new era of innovation.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

The term ‘Digital Disruption’ describes the situation where an existing industry is being altered by emerging digital technologies. These new technologies lead to innovations, often creating new markets and value markets that can impact the established leaders in the industry. caption] Fighting Fire with Fire.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

With digital disruption accelerating across industries, traditional, closed approaches to innovation no longer suffice for most companies. In fact, research shows that companies practicing open innovation achieve faster time-to-market and often realize higher revenue from new products.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 3, 2019

We all see around us increasing disruption caused by digitalization. We are seeing a very distinctive advantage in embracing digitalization into innovation. We need to digitize our innovation activities fully. Digitalization is allowing for new business models. The business of trading data is the new oil in the economy.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 27, 2017

Business transactions that take days and are costly to manage via intermediaries are prime for disruption by nimbler competitors. The Innovation Perspective view here is this : Innovation suffers from a lack of automating the innovation process, something I find not just arcane but nonsensical in today’s technologically connected world.

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Technical Review Innovation Disruption Report 178

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Something has to suffer and I believe this is our innovation outcomes are not shifting the growth needle as we keep our innovation systems and thinking trapped in the 20th-century mindset. We need to apply what we need to get the “job” done and this becomes specific to the challenge and its complexity and engagement needs.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation. What it is: One of the most important theories of innovation, but one which is usually completely misunderstood. This might seem like a strange thing to say, but the most important thing to realise about Disruptive Innovation is that most people completely misinterpret it.

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Company Innovation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team 254

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

The thrust of the framework is “ Organizations can create a more comprehensive and effective innovation ecosystem by utilizing building blocks as components of the innovation stack, guiding platform development using the innovation stack, and supporting the innovation stack with a platform.

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Idea to Value

MAY 18, 2020

They simply won’t have the capacity to make sure that the process actually performs well, let alone maintain and develop multiple processes for different kinds of innovations for different parts of the organization. Different kinds of innovations simply need different kinds of processes, resources and expertise.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Other cognitive abilities, such as critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving skills, and the ability to connect disparate ideas, play significant roles in the innovative process. The ability to make novel connections and drive innovation also demands domain expertise. Grabbing the earlier value needs focusing.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

There also continues today that industry disruption is increasing, by those spotting both opportunity and weakness in present market players. this reluctance to embrace a new digitally connected world is feeding the “seeds of destruction” Customers expect rapid response, reduced delays, tailored designs and greater engagement.

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InnovationManagement

AUGUST 19, 2019

To stay on top, established organisations need to stimulate innovation. The post Drive Innovation by Disrupting the Existing Management Norms appeared first on Innovation Management. With the ever-increasing potential of modern technology, the next billion-dollar business could start from the comfort of someone’s home.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 1, 2025

This article explores the role of an idea evaluation matrix in the broader idea management process, detailing what it should includesuch as weighted scoring for fair assessment. Youll also learn how to integrate an idea classification matrix into your innovation process, ensuring that the best ideas receive the attention they deserve.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The risk of being highly scaled is fast becoming a point of disruption for others. The shedding of legacy can equally liberate innovation. Hierarchy and delegation are flattening out and seeking engagement. Scaling up needs a different lens than in the past perhaps.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

So how do you really get everyone innovating in a way that drives real business growth? Set Small, Medium and Large Innovation Goals. It’s no secret the business world has become enamored by “disruptive” innovation. creating new digital customer experiences) and “disruptive innovation” (e.g.,

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

In most discrete innovation projects, the ideas generated are not distinguished from existing products or services, and thus many times the activity is deemed unsatisfactory or even a failure. This is because there is little management engagement or support, a lack of preparation and skills, and a narrow definition of discovery and risk.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 12, 2019

As I noted yesterday, I'm writing a series of posts about what I've learned over the last 15 years of corporate innovation work. Yesterday I wrote about needing a "why and a how" rather than a "what" for innovation. Today, I'd like to write about sponsorship, and why it is critical to have engaged sponsors for ideas and for innovation.

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Resources Course Innovation Processes Project 175

Qmarkets

JULY 11, 2024

Breakthrough Innovation: Breakthrough innovation involves significant advancements that bring about substantial change within an organization. These innovations often stem from extensive research and development and can lead to new market creation or a dramatic shift in industry standards.

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Software Review Technical Review Strategy Strategy 104

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Other cognitive abilities, such as critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving skills, and the ability to connect disparate ideas, also play significant roles in the innovative process. Furthermore, innovation is influenced by various external factors, including social, cultural, economic, and technological contexts.

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The Human Factor

APRIL 20, 2017

“Disruptive innovation” seems to be one of the more popular buzzwords in today’s business lexicon. Most end up settling for incremental innovation. Fast-forward to today, and several years have passed since Apple has come up with a truly disruptive product. By the way, there’s nothing wrong with incremental innovation.

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Disruption Innovation Industry Data 51

Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 23, 2016

From the data presented it's clear that "innovation" is still defined very narrowly, as improvements to existing products and services. Rather than count results and outcomes, the survey is forced to count inputs, so we get the usual stories: 74% say they have established formal innovation processes.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 22, 2025

Radical innovation disrupts markets and creates entirely new categories. This article will dive into the concept of radical innovation, its potential for market disruption, and the role of strategies like technology scouting in staying ahead of the curve. How Does Radical Innovation Differ from Disruptive Innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 28, 2022

How can we identify these and make the innovation process more dynamic, yet these are constantly embedded as routines? What would happen if we ignore certain innovation aspects, what would have a greater impact on our business? The makeup of innovation. Innovation is made up of both tangible and intangible assets.

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eZassi

MARCH 6, 2025

Understanding Technology Discovery Technology discovery or tech scouting focuses on identifying emerging technologies, scientific breakthroughs, or market trends that could disrupt industries or open up new opportunities. Horizon Scans look 10 years ahead to forecast disruptive innovations.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 31, 2020

In a recent post, I mentioned a labor strike as a productive analogy for developing strategies during this time of global disruption. Facing a complete business shutdown, our team used a combination of strategic thinking and real-time course correction to stay engaged with and attempt to re-win the customers we couldn’t currently serve.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

It often challenges the status quo and can on certain occasions, potentially challenge the stated strategic goals as those ‘disruptive forces’ have not been addressed radically enough. We keep asking a lot of innovators but consistently restrain them or starve them of essential resources, at the critical times they need them.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

I would argue this fits within a constellation of partners all working towards delivering innovation that is highly valuable, radical, disruptive and distinctive. Innovation today conflicts with much of our existing organizational designs. We need not only a new innovation management system, we need a modern engagement platform.

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