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. Prioritize strategic focus areas Focus resources on uncertainties with the highest impact.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This may upset a lot of startups or innovation teams who feel like it is their duty to look to the future and pull their company into new disruptive technologies. And the biggest drop is in what proportion of projects will be for transformational innovations. However, it might be the right thing to do.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Report 324

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. Without this structured analysis, companies risk underestimating threats, overpricing products, or misallocating resources. high investment in manufacturing).

Strategy 130

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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. 1 The Devil in Design.

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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. Existing resources and capabilities.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 12, 2025

Identifying and managing these factors ensures that companies allocate resources efficiently, mitigate risks, and maintain a competitive advantage. For example, Teslas CSFs include advancements in battery technology, production scalability, and regulatory compliance for self-driving vehicles.

Strategy 130

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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. Our unique approach to technology scouting, partner identification, and expert engagement is designed to: Keep the innovation pipeline full.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Agile Disruption 52

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). Improves Resource Allocation Helps companies invest in the right areas for maximum impact.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

Align business resources with core competencies for maximum efficiency. Why Kays Distinctive Capabilities Framework is Important Many businesses struggle with competitive differentiation, resource misalignment, and strategic drift. Optimizes Resource Allocation Ensures businesses invest in areas that drive unique value.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

Align internal resources and capabilities with external market needs. 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).

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. These are: The constant exponential of technology and its power to change is forcing up to change.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

To work through these we are all being asked to transform but there has to be a clear end, a return for all this energy and resources it requires, that we are being asked to spend? We need to transform, be disrupted or certainly re-imagine and this is where knowing your ecosystem comes in. Either they adapt or die.

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Collaboration Innovation Technical Review Disruption 273

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? Allocating necessary resources, including budget and personnel. Regularly review risks throughout the change process.

Analysis 130

Analysis Change Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 130

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. Ezassis technology discovery services are designed to uncover these opportunities through tailored research programs.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Technology Report Analysis 52

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

To work through these we are all being asked to transform but there has to be a clear end, a return for all this energy and resources it requires, that we are being asked to spend? We need to transform, be disrupted or certainly re-imagine and this is where knowing your ecosystem comes in. Either they adapt or die.

Collaboration 273

Collaboration Innovation Disruption Technical Review 273

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 9, 2020

A growing reality might be that many people will be forced to stay at home until a vaccine is found, due to their risk of infection. The previous reliance on showcasing their latest products or technology will be less at physical events but in digital environments through a range of social mediums. Possible, very possible.

Technical Review 321

Technical Review Engagement Creativity Change 321

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 21, 2020

We are entering a position of significant disruption. ” Brian Solis has been one of the industry’s most influential voices when it comes to humanizing disruptive technology trends and is the Global Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. “We are entering what I refer to as a #NovelEconomy.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Other consequences include: Wasted resources: Time, labor, and materials invested in an incomplete or ineffective outcome. Unrealistic Timelines and Budgets: Setting overly aggressive deadlines without considering resource availability leads to rushed work and missed milestones.

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT 140

Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Evolution of Product Development Product development has transformed significantly over the years, adapting to changes in consumer behavior, market demands, and technological advancements. Agile product development is a powerful approach that can help you navigate the complexities of today’s disruptive world.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 19, 2022

Horizon Two is the mid-point between “incremental’ change in Horizon One and “disruptive” change in Horizon Three. Companies innovating with this horizon anticipate “breakthrough” innovation, usually extending a known technology into a new market, or introducing new technologies or capabilities into the existing marketplace.

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Change Technical Review Innovation Disruption 173

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 27, 2017

T he potential value of abundant data and information is greatly constrained by the technical challenges of storing, processing, sharing and analyzing it. Technological risks to information, from hacking to cybercrime and privacy concerns to identity theft are on the rise. Inaccessible information. “T Information risks.

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Technical Review Innovation Disruption Report 178

Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

Such innovations can come in the form of adopting new technologies, but also by adapting the business practices typically associated with startup culture. Corporations and startups operate differently by nature due to the differences in their culture and business environment. Difference in approach to disruption. Sponsorship.

Change 196

Change Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 196

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Resources constantly “churn” and get depleted, waiting for others to be brought up to speed. Then disruption suddenly hits. Technology trends lay in the seventh position in this “biggest strategic challenges.” Much of the innovation discovery journey is a disappointing one. A hunch or insight becomes a dead end.

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Report Innovation Survey Disruption 212

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies. In exchange for financing and mentorship, an established business can be at the forefront of new products, models, and technologies.

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Collaboration Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Innovation 174

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. There are great many companies and leaders that obsess about their market share, competitors, or technological prowess. Customer obsession. It just makes sense.

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Agile Innovation Technical Review Software Review 326

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

The ability to tackle those larger societal problems within an ecosystem, or combine unique resources to overcome a complex challenge you are incapable of solving alone, do have greater potential in a collaborative adaptive system. They survive and thrive due to that uniqueness and attraction. Watch out for those “burning platforms”.

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The BMI Lab Blog

MAY 26, 2021

Sometimes, companies approach us with requests like “I have developed a new technology but how do I build a business around it?” or “Our technology is superior to our competitors’ – why don’t our customers see that?”. Hence, it is not surprising that many of the world’s leading companies reportedly work on integrating this technology.

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Technical Review Technology Disruption How To 85

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

An innovation mandate is a critical tool for defining the scope and direction of innovation and the underlying values, commitment and resources placed behind it. The innovation mandate is often overlooked or undervalued. What should be in a “typical” innovation mandate?

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Innovation Technical Review Innovation Programs Collaboration 189

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

No one organization can keep pace, has enough resources or can cover off solutions that solve “universal” problems or even ones in a diverse, huge Corporation collaborating across a global business where functional groups involved are far more diverse than ever before. They want to navigate the new world order of digital disruption.

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Innovation Management Software Review Management Technical Review 200

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 15, 2018

Is this validation because it does not work, it is too much hard work than the promise within the concept, or the approach has too much complexity around it and needs massive resources to undertake. This needs a real resource momentum. Struggling to get out of the technical jargon, so be ready and have patience.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Data Software Review 256

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. The idea is to use limited resources creatively and come up with innovative solutions that are affordable and accessible to a large number of people. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Innovation Agile 182

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Circular Model of the Interconnected Business Ecosystem Framework The Dynamic core is constantly processing and distributing, challenging, providing information, resource and innovative ideas and insights to give a bidirectional flow. Driven by technology, data analytics, and real-time responsiveness.

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Technical Review Resources System Design 147

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Technology innovation, suggested new business models, outline proposals for changing policies, processes, and market design all are being “sketched out.” It is evident innovation must be way broader than just technological RD&D. During this past week, I have been working through specific aspects of the energy transition model.

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Technical Review Software Review Report System 145

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 130

Software Review Change Technical Review Disruption 130

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 26, 2015

I recall reading that up to now, each digital technology change was a separate era of change, to absorb and adapt towards, yet today we are facing something seemingly different, a collision, a whole mash-up of disparate technologies and systems, that seem to be heading for such an explosion of change, a post-digital transformation.

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Technical Review Technology Innovation Internet of things 100

Acuvate

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

This transformative approach helps maximize turbine uptime, optimize resource utilization , and enhance overall safety in oil and gas operations. Lower Operational Costs Predictive maintenance reduces emergency repair expenses and minimizes resource allocation during unplanned failures, leading to significant cost savings.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Data 59

Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

As one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth, Rita’s work is regularly published in the Harvard Business Review. Companies must hire for creativity and incentivize creativity by dedicating budget, time and people resources. Twitter: rgmcgrath. Tiffani Bova. What is your definition of “innovation”?

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