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 26, 2025

Discovery Driven Planning (DDP) is a structured framework for planning innovative initiatives in uncertain or ambiguous environments. It is particularly useful in situations where assumptions outweigh factssuch as launching a new venture, developing disruptive products, or entering unfamiliar markets.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 8, 2020

In our minds, technology and innovation are interconnected. However, for every technological advancement, there seems to be a learning curve or adjustment period as we try to figure out how to implement automation into our daily lives. Technology: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? source: pixabay.com.

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Technical Review Software Review Innovation Data 207

Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the landscape of innovation management. By leveraging AI, you can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of your innovation projects. This technology can be applied across various stages of innovation, from idea generation to product development.

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Resources Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Innovation 130

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 25, 2021

“Why do we always seem to have internal difficulties to self-disrupt?”. In most cases, organizations cannot self-disrupt, which is largely covered by this veritable list of constraints. Do you think these are the “prime” inhibitors to why your organization seems incapable of self-disrupting?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2025

For example, Apple analyzes the Five Forces to manage supplier relationships, differentiate its products, and maintain pricing power in a highly competitive tech industry. Encourages Innovation and Differentiation Helps businesses stand out from competitors. Technological advancements that create substitutes.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Technical Review Competition 130

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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. Key questions to consider: What business goals or strategic initiatives are at risk due to uncertainty?

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Technical Review Agile 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

HYPE Innovation

JULY 26, 2021

While product-oriented innovation is well-established as a business practice, innovation in service-oriented sectors, such as legal, accounting, and consulting, has had a slower progression – until now.

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Technical Review Case Study Innovation Collaboration 246

Leapfrogging

MARCH 12, 2025

For example, Apples CSFs include continuous innovation, superior customer experience, and a strong supply chain that ensures product availability worldwide. For example, Teslas CSFs include advancements in battery technology, production scalability, and regulatory compliance for self-driving vehicles.

Strategy 130

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

We are witnessing a very radical change, driven by technology, increasingly disrupting and breaking down past traditional boundaries, partly built to defend positions so as to achieve economic scale. The innovative design has become paramount to these new offerings. The need for radical innovation changes the present position.

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Radical Innovation Innovation Technical Review Engagement 321

eZassi

MARCH 11, 2025

The Hidden Challenges of Corporate Venture Capital (And How to Overcome Them) Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) groups have grown in popularity as a vehicle to drive disruptive innovation and growth. Through CVC, corporations can diversify their innovation efforts, mitigate risks, and stay agile in an uncertain business environment.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Agile Disruption 52

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

How and where does innovation fit will clearly depend on this transforming effect. We are fairly clear that incremental innovation is just not cutting through to give the types of growth expected. We need to transform, be disrupted or certainly re-imagine and this is where knowing your ecosystem comes in.

Collaboration 273

Collaboration Innovation Technical Review Disruption 273

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.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Disruption 130

Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In recent years, more and more companies have realized the need for innovation as they’ve seen businesses all around them, and perhaps even their own business, being disrupted. According to McKinsey research , 96% of executives have made innovation a strategic priority, yet only 6% are satisfied with their innovation performance.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

For example, a software startup conducting a SWOT Analysis may identify its strong technical team (Strength), limited marketing budget (Weakness), increasing demand for automation tools (Opportunity), and growing competition (Threat). Technology and innovation Patents, R&D capabilities, proprietary software.

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Analysis Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 130

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

How and where does innovation fit will clearly depend on this transforming effect. We are fairly clear that incremental innovation is just not cutting through to give the types of growth expected. We need to transform, be disrupted or certainly re-imagine and this is where knowing your ecosystem comes in.

Collaboration 273

Collaboration Innovation Disruption Technical Review 273

eZassi

MARCH 6, 2025

Technology discovery and scouting are essential activities for enterprise innovation programs and R&D departments to identify emerging technologies, startups, and market trends that can drive competitive advantage. Technology Scouting Reports identify specific solutions or partners.

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Technical Review Technology Report Analysis 52

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. How does this link to being innovative?

Disruption 52

Disruption Creative Thinking Creativity Technical Review 52

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The Winds of Change- Innovation Software facing the Innovators’ Dilemma In my research, I am getting a real sense that the current Innovation Management Software model is about to be upended and disrupted as per Clayton Christensens’ “Innovators Dilemma.”

Software Review 211

Software Review Software Innovation Technical Review 211

IdeaScale

AUGUST 9, 2018

In a recent round of research, I was reviewing adoption rates for new technologies. In this way, innovation in the technology sector is more volatile, powerful, and drives almost every other sector as it moves to keep pace with our own demands. Robotics, natural user interfaces, the list of emerging tech goes on and on.

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Technical Review Technology Artificial Inteligence Comparison 140

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

I mprove strategic decision-making Use data to guide business development and innovation. Supporting Product and Service Development Guides innovation by revealing gaps in competitors offerings. For example, a fitness tech startup might analyze subscription pricing models across competitors to refine its pricing structure.

Analysis 130

Analysis Competition Strategy Strategy 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

For example, Teslas success in the electric vehicle industry can be attributed to a strong market demand (Market Attractiveness), innovative technology (Sustainable Competitive Advantage), and strong supply chain relationships (Connectedness Across the Value Chain). These could include: Unique technology or intellectual property.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Technical Review Software Review 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

Innovation The ability to continuously develop and apply new ideas, products, or processes. For example, Apples success is built on a combination of strong architecture (seamless hardware-software integration), reputation (premium brand image), and innovation (continuous product evolution). Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 130

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2022

The Executive Innovation Work Mat as a compelling business case. After a series of conversations around the Executive Innovation work mat, Jeffrey Phillips and I decided there was a need to add one more to the series, one that makes the business case for the work mat, one that is more from the leaders perspective.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

I spoke to 11 of the world’s leading female innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition in order to answer the question of “What is innovation?”

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Innovation Technical Review Creativity Leadership 270

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. I’d like to offer some views, partly looking out to the future, partly considering what is potentially within our grasp, if we step back and rethink innovation design.

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Design Technical Review Innovation Agile 232

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 27, 2017

Well, I also believe these apply equally as innovation frictions. So I decided to builds out of their friction analysis, building on the thoughts offered in the report, adding the innovation perspective. So here I am suggesting constraints that need tackling in reducing the innovation friction points, theirs was for blockchain.

Technical Review 178

Technical Review Innovation Disruption Report 178

Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2019

Airbnb disrupted hotels. Now big travel and hospitality companies are going after the next disruptive innovation themselves before getting blindsided yet again. As part of a new series of articles I’m writing called Everything Transformed , I’m focusing on the widespread disruption of just about every industry on the planet.

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Disruption Industry Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 127

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 19, 2022

Applying the three horizon framework to innovation and change. To explain the impacts of innovation and the change it creates, we’ll use an accepted framework ( the Three Horizons ) to consider the impact innovation has on change capabilities and business models. The Value of the Three Horizons of Seeing Beyond.

Change 173

Change Technical Review Innovation Disruption 173

Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. Corporate innovation nurtures unique thinking within corporate settings. Difference in approach to disruption.

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Change Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 196

Leapfrogging

MARCH 12, 2025

Without a structured approach, organizations risk disruptions, resistance, and unforeseen challenges that can derail change initiatives. Technology: Are system updates or new software implementations needed? Failure to Identify All Impact Areas Neglecting certain areas can lead to unforeseen disruptions.

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Analysis Change Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 130

Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 23, 2018

Similarly, Blockbuster experienced almost the exact same disruption. What these two examples have in common is a rapid, sudden change brought about by innovation. In one case the innovation was in media, and in the other case the innovation was in business models and channels. What does this mean for innovators?

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Disruption Technical Review Innovation Trends 113

IdeaScale

APRIL 17, 2019

For innovation to thrive in a company, it must be prioritized at every level. It’s not uncommon for corporate boards to lack strong expertise in the areas of innovation and technology. Taking an innovation project from idea through execution is challenging, and there can be obstacles at several places along the journey.

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Project Technical Review Innovation Disruption 185

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Good innovation is notoriously hard to achieve. Others looking at the innovation progress keep demanding tangible evidence and quantifiable guarantees that the outcome provides clear returns. Others looking at the innovation progress keep demanding tangible evidence and quantifiable guarantees that the outcome provides clear returns.

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Report Innovation Survey Disruption 212

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically. It is equally holding a new form of innovation back, one that is highly collaborative where partners come together to work on more complex problems. trillion in value to global manufacturing.

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Industry Technical Review Innovation Design 213

Leapfrogging

MARCH 20, 2019

“Decoupling” the value chain is the next big strategy for digital innovation and business models. Digital disruption isn’t just about the internet or mobile technology. Teixeira says the seeds of digital disruption originally started with unbundling as the internet became widely accessible.

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Disruption Technical Review Industry Policies 138