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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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2024

Disruptive thinking challenges conventional approaches, fosters radical ideas and can lead to transformative innovations. Disruptive thinking can apply across various fields, including technology, art, business, healthcare, education, and social innovation. It is intended to start a revolution.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It is a very disrupting, disturbing world. I wrote about the “ cascading effect” for innovation as “ a sequence of events in which each produces the circumstances necessary for the initiation of the next”. We have to push this into more of the cross-sector cascading effects of disruptions. The age of “technology attack.”

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

What distinguishes an Innovation Ecosystem from Open Innovation? Within a short series about Innovation Ecosystems this post asks what really are the distinct differences within innovation ecosystem thinking and design, to provide a set of common distinguishing points to move from “just” open innovation.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The Role of Empathy in Leadership: A New Standard for Industry Disruption Many leaders are focused on technological innovation as the primary driver of success. Antar’s approach is one that all leaders can learn from: disruption without empathy is unsustainable, but disruption with empathy can lead to profound, lasting change.

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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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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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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. Each phase reflects different levels of growth potential, innovation activity, and competitive pressure. What is S-Curve Mapping?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The need for transformational innovation. Transformational innovation is increasingly needed to cope with the change needed in many organizations to find a new or repositioned value proposition. Transformational innovation is one of the hardest, if not the hardest, to achieve. They confront, conflict and compel change.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

What is Agile Innovation Template? Agile Innovation is a dynamic approach to project execution that breaks initiatives into small, manageable tasks, enabling organizations to rapidly adapt to market changes. Innovation is no longer optional in todays fast-paced business landscape.

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Digital Tonto

JANUARY 26, 2025

New innovations like electricity, indoor plumbing and the automobile were changing the way people lived, worked and shopped. Somewhere along the line we got it into our heads that large firms cant innovate and should strive to act like startups. You cant innovate by copying your competitors.

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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

The Context Map Canvas is a strategic tool designed to help organizations understand and navigate the external factors that influence innovation and business performance. It provides a structured way to analyze macro-environmental elements such as market trends, regulatory shifts, technological advancements, and customer behavior.

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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

Understanding Innovation Innovation is the lifeblood of businesses seeking to thrive in a rapidly evolving market. Importance of Innovation in Today’s Business Landscape In the current business landscape, innovation is not just a buzzword; it’s a necessity.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 15, 2021

as a conversation between us, where we emphasise the important linkage between innovation and strategy. Our first conversation called the Fundamental building blocks for innovation success (13 minutes), links here , introduces the series and the areas of our focus. Achieving innovation alignment always needs clear framing.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Feeling trapped, break out of the box with Innovation Ecosystems We continue to fail to unlock the full potential of innovation. I continue to receive reports on the latest surveys on the management of open innovation and its progress. We are trapped in a ever decreasing cycle.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 15, 2022

Innovation is the key enabler to turning our world from a fossil-led one into one based on renewables. For this to happen, our focus today should be fully on low-carbon technologies and their technical realization. Innovation applied has three value points here 1. Sustaining innovation, 2.

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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?

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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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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. Applying human-centred innovation. The rapid need for Vaccines.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 24, 2025

Evolutionary thinking makes Innovation different When we are conceptualizing organization structures and relationships in Ecosystem thinking and design we often begin by attempting to relate this to Natural Ecosystems. We need to stop trying to predict the unpredictable and instead build systems that can adapt to whatever comes.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 3, 2024

What Is The War On Innovation The "War on Innovation" is the ongoing battle against a range of obstacles that slow or block technological and business advancements.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

No energy transition will be achieved without invention and innovation, yet we are failing badly at present to fund research, development and in deployment. My focus continues to get deeper and deeper into the Energy Transition from my innovation perspective, it is highly critical to our future.

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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.”

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

Where should innovation resources actually exist in an organisation? It might seem like a straightforward question, but it is fundamental to whether a company will end up succeeding at innovation or failing. After all, if innovation is so important, should it not get its own department? Companies that survive do both.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 7, 2021

I keep coming back to the dilemma often faced in innovation- do we practice “creative destruction” or “destructive creation? Schumpeter saw “creative destruction” as the renewing, through innovation, society’s dynamics that would lead to higher economic development and welfare levels.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The search is seemingly on to find greater value, which will increasingly coalesce around different innovation ecosystems. In many different ways, we need to form significantly more relationships that increasingly matter to each organization, add value and insight, and bring external expertise inside to work on ‘greater’ innovation solutions.

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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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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

You need the ability to adapt to change, and innovate, faster. Thus, for most businesses, the only truly lasting source of competitive advantage these days is the pace of innovation. You might then ask what that means in practice and how to accelerate your pace of innovation. Why does pace of innovation matter?

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IdeaScale

JULY 12, 2023

What is Disruptive Innovation? Disruptive innovation is defined as a process in which a new product, service, or technology disrupts an existing market by creating a new market or significantly altering an existing one. Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School, in his book "The Innovator's [.]

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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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