Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It is a very disrupting, disturbing world. 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.” Technological disruption is altering all we do.

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Daniel Burrus

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In today’s world, disruption isn’t the exception—it’s the rule. With the rise of AI, automation, and digital technologies , change is accelerating faster than ever. Companies like OpenAI, Tesla, and Amazon exemplify how leveraging disruptive innovations can redefine industries. Continue reading on burrus.com »

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Every industry today faces a critical question: will you stick to old legacy systems and ways of doing things, likely leading to you being disrupted by progress? Or will you be the one leading the charge, becoming the positive disruptor in your industry? This level of disruption will be true in the years to come as well.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 27, 2018

Yet what this forum was a bringing me back to was the Fourth Industrial Revolution , it helps deliver a far sharper focus on its impact, potential, and scope beyond just manufacturing.Now, this was the major ‘bright spot’ of future potential. The whole success of this fourth industrial revolution is about running on knowledge.

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Industry Disruption Artificial Inteligence Technology 238

Idea to Value

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Do you know what disruptive innovation is? No, I am not talking about every start-up trying to disrupt their industry. I am talking about the original theory of disruptive innovation, as outlined by Professor Clayton Christensen in his groundbreaking Harvard Business Review article in 1995.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

It involves creating multiple plausible scenarios to explore how different factorssuch as market trends, technological advancements, economic shifts, or geopolitical changescould impact a business. Improve resilience against disruptions and crises. Reduces risk and uncertainty Prepares organizations for potential disruptions.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

S-Curve Mapping is a strategic innovation tool used to understand the evolution and performance trajectory of technologies, products, services, or entire industries. By mapping where a product or technology lies on the S-curve, organizations can better allocate resources, decide when to innovate, and anticipate market transitions.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Trends Analysis 130

Business and Tech

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Elizabeth Francisco, president of ResMan, offers expansive insights from being a woman in business to the rapid advancement of property management technology. Bias showed itself as I came up through the multifamily industry and then in technology with investors, peers, competitors, and prospective customers.

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Technical Review Technology Management Underperforming Technical Team 246

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

We are a long way away from fully capturing the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4I)R in an inclusive and holistic way. To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically. Arguably Industry is trapped by complexity. trillion in value to global manufacturing.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

It provides a structured way to analyze macro-environmental elements such as market trends, regulatory shifts, technological advancements, and customer behavior. This tool is especially valuable in fast-paced industries or during periods of transformation, where understanding context can be the key to staying competitive.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Roadmap Trends Tools 130

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 Innovation is benefitting from the 4 th Industrial Revolution. We can shift our often-linear thinking as Industry 4.0 coming from industry 4.0

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2025

Five Forces Model: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects The Five Forces Model , developed by Michael Porter , is a strategic framework that helps organizations analyze the competitive forces shaping an industry. Threat of Substitutes The likelihood that alternative products or services can replace industry offerings.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

The 70-20-10 Innovation Rule is a strategic framework that guides organizations in allocating time, budget, and resources across three categories of innovation: core, adjacent, and disruptive. The models versatility makes it applicable in industries ranging from healthcare and manufacturing to tech startups and service sectors.

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Technical Review Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Disruption 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Companies that embrace White Space Innovation aim to break out of stagnation, stay ahead of disruption, and create long-term competitive advantage. It allows teams to imagine, prototype, and test new business possibilities that aren’t limited by current processes, technologies, or assumptions. AI, automation, renewable energy).

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

This model helps organizations avoid stagnation by encouraging them to invest in new capabilities, markets, and technologies even while maintaining and optimizing existing operations. It was popularized by McKinsey & Company and has since been widely adopted across industries as a roadmap for growth, adaptability, and strategic foresight.

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Technical Review Innovation Roadmap Disruption 130

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Competitive Landscape Analysis is a structured framework used to evaluate the external business environment by analyzing market trends, industry dynamics, and key competitors. This process helps organizations understand where they stand within their industry, identify emerging opportunities, and anticipate potential threats.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This collective intelligence fuels creativity and problem-solving by enabling the cross-pollination of ideas across disciplines and industries. They can quickly respond to changes in technology, market conditions, or societal needs, making them more resilient and better equipped to sustain long-term innovation.

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Technical Review Innovation Collaboration Policies 140

Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Contingency Planning: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects Contingency planning is the process of proactively preparing for potential risks, disruptions, or crises that could impact an organizations operations, strategy, or financial stability. Supply chain disruptions Supplier failures, transportation issues.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

These domains are categorized into three market-focused and four industry-focused elements , ensuring a holistic analysis of opportunities and risks. Industry Attractiveness The competitive dynamics and structure of the industry. Industry-Focused Domains (Internal Capabilities and Execution) 4.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 12, 2025

These factors determine whether a business succeeds or fails in its industry and serve as a foundation for effective strategy execution. For example, Teslas CSFs include advancements in battery technology, production scalability, and regulatory compliance for self-driving vehicles.

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 130

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why a Strategy Uncertainty Map is Important Every business faces uncertainty in areas like market trends, competitive shifts, technological advancements, regulatory changes, and economic fluctuations. Are we focusing on short-term market fluctuations or long-term industry shifts ? Allocate resources efficiently.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

So let me get back to what this post is about, providing critical reference points on technologies we need to improve and innovate. This site is primarily a place I go back and constantly check when it comes to the progress on the technologies that need to be researched, developed and deployed.

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Technology Collaboration Report Innovation 246

IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

New technologies emerge, customer expectations shift, and unforeseen events like market crashes or global pandemics can reshape entire industries overnight. But how do you effectively navigate disruption when the very The business environment is always changing.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

Moving into New Industries Expanding beyond core industries. Reshaping the Industry Structure Disrupting or redefining market dynamics. Encourages Business Model Innovation Helps companies explore new industries and market dynamics. Leveraging emerging technologies for innovation.

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Artificial Inteligence Strategy Strategy Industry 130

ImagineNation

MARCH 26, 2025

We need to reframe disruption to increase the possibilities for game-changing inventions and innovations to succeed in an uncertain and unstable future. The crucial first step in managing this is to accept responsibility for recognising and disrupting your internal structures, mental models, mindsets, and habitual behaviours.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

With technology advancing at an unprecedented pace, consumer behaviors shifting, and new market entrants disrupting traditional industries, your ability to innovate determines your potential for growth and sustainability. Coping with the rapid pace of technological change and its impact on product relevance.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

For example, Tesla differentiates itself through a strong innovation capability (battery technology and self-driving AI), a loyal brand reputation, and an integrated architecture that includes manufacturing, software, and charging networks. Creates sustainable advantage by introducing unique offerings that disrupt industries.

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Strategyzer Innovation

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

2020 has been an incredibly disruptive year for the restaurant industry with losses of over $240B in the US market alone. These constraints also represent an opportunity for businesses to rethink how customers engage, how to mobilize people and resources to achieve faster results and how to leverage new technologies to their advantage.

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Disruption Resources Engagement Industry 144

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2020

By registering you can view “on-demand” selectively or watch the whole event, explore the showrooms and simply learn, evaluate and assess what these concepts would mean for you in your own Industry 4.0 To deliver Industry 4.0 journey, to a more highly automated and connected environment. . Let’s take four.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 24, 2025

Resilience against disruption Organizations with diversified relationships and adaptive capabilities do seem to demonstrate superior resilience during disruptions by operating in a network and seem to recover 1.5x We need to stop trying to predict the unpredictable and instead build systems that can adapt to whatever comes.

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Collaboration Competition Disruption System 130

Idea to Value

JANUARY 3, 2021

This is similar to how companies often don’t see challenges from other competitors, upstarts and new disruptive innovations in the market. And so Leadership often doesn’t spend enough time looking outward, at what is changing in the industry, at competitors, and new technological breakthroughs which are on the horizon.

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Imaginatik

DECEMBER 11, 2018

We’ve partnered with our valued customer, The Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) to develop and submit an open innovation paper describing our work together and the resulting economic impact. trillion dollar economic opportunity within their industry. Our paper was selected to present during the Poster Session on December 13th.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It is a very disrupting, disturbing world. 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.” Technological disruption is altering all we do.

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Disruption Technology System Industry 130

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We have many innovation outcomes to choose from, including incremental, distinctive, radical or disruptive. Today we have technology as an enabler and applying innovation ecosystem thinking in designing open platforms so this network of experience can be exchanged, shared and developed. They confront, conflict and compel change.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

SWOT Analysis in Strategy SWOT Analysis is used across industries for business strategy, project planning, and competitive analysis. Technology and innovation Patents, R&D capabilities, proprietary software. For example, an electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer may identify its battery technology as a core strength.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 19, 2021

Today we are facing many current disruptions where we need to react fast and intelligently. As we continue to respond to Covid-19, technology has the power to reduce the complexity often faced, speed up and contribute to solutions that help resolve pressing issues. There are many situations we are facing that are a race against time.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

For example, Apple uses premium pricing to position itself as a luxury technology brand, while Walmart employs economy pricing to attract price-sensitive customers. Works best in industries with stable costs and minimal competition. Works best in highly competitive industries with similar product offerings.

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