Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

SWOT Analysis: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning framework used to evaluate an organizations internal strengths and weaknesses as well as external opportunities and threats. Weaknesses Internal factors that limit success. What are our most profitable products or services?

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Analysis Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 130

Idea to Value

JANUARY 4, 2022

Have you ever worked for a manager or boss who did not want to hear bad news? This can be especially dangerous when the problem they are avoiding is that they are being disrupted , other companies are out-innovating them, an important project is off-target or performance KPIs are falling behind. Volkswagen.

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Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture Leadership 242

Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

In the early Incubate stage, growth is slow as teams experiment and refine the concept. It helps companies plan for the future instead of reacting to disruption when it’s too late. Helping teams avoid over-investing in aging technologies or saturated markets. Scale: Rapid growth, market traction, and performance gains.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Trends Analysis 130

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

AIM ensures that change initiatives are strategic, measurable, and sustainable, guiding teams through planning, execution, and evaluation. By using AIM, organizations can streamline their change efforts, reduce disruptions, and drive long-term success.

Underperforming Technical Team 130

Underperforming Technical Team Roadmap Project Tools 130

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. Develop response strategies to mitigate or recover from those risks.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Disruption 130

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. Developing new products and services involves navigating a landscape filled with risks and uncertainties.

LEAN 100

LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence Agile 100

Leapfrogging

MARCH 12, 2025

Key benefits include: Increases operational efficiency Helps teams focus on the most impactful activities. Enhance Cross-Functional Collaboration Align teams around common strategic priorities. Increase Organizational Resilience Prepare the business for market changes and industry disruptions.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 130

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 24, 2022

You don't need a pill, you need a team. Red Team / Blue Team The idea of a red team (attacker or hacker) versus the blue team (defender or good guy) has become a staple of cybersecurity, but it has an older history than that. What should happen next, and rarely does, is the creation of a disinterested red team.

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Underperforming Technical Team Disruption Idea Generation Culture 217

Leapfrogging

MARCH 12, 2025

Without a structured approach, organizations risk disruptions, resistance, and unforeseen challenges that can derail change initiatives. Measurable Outcomes: Establishes success criteria, enabling teams to track progress and refine strategies as needed. This should include: Assigning responsibilities to specific teams and individuals.

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Analysis Change Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Develop proactive strategies to manage change. Improve resilience against disruptions and crises. Reduces risk and uncertainty Prepares organizations for potential disruptions. Without a structured approach, businesses risk being caught off guard by market shifts, economic downturns, or disruptive innovations.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Disruption 130

Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

As Steve Blank puts it in his foreword to O’Reilly and Tushman’s latest book on the subject: Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma: Exploitation pays your salary while exploration pays your pension. Option 2: Innovation teams within each company brand / product unit. Companies that survive do both.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Resources Project 309

Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

Without a structured approach, companies risk low adoption, ineffective marketing spend, and weak competitive differentiation. Aligns Marketing, Sales, and Operations Ensures cross-functional teams work together toward a common goal. Consider: Direct Sales Selling through an in-house sales team (e.g., enterprise software).

Marketing 130

Marketing Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

Kays Distinctive Capabilities Framework: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects Kays Distinctive Capabilities Framework , developed by John Kay , is a strategic model that helps organizations identify and leverage their unique competitive advantages. Develop strategies based on strengths that competitors cannot easily replicate.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 130

Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Whether you think that is a compelling line of reasoning for a jury trial or not, it might not be a bad way to think about innovation. You see, many companies cannot adequately define innovation for their employees and teams. The second has the innovation team dreaming up its own activities and defining its own outcomes.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Disruption Marketing 183

Idea to Value

MAY 18, 2020

A fully centralized ownership of innovation and idea management naturally makes it easier to achieve “maturity”, since that one team can manage everything in a controlled manner, often with the same exact process for every idea and innovation. That, however, is where the problem lies.

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Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Ideation Culture 363

Leapfrogging

MARCH 3, 2025

Enhancing Client Growth Strategies with AI Integrating artificial intelligence into your strategic planning can transform the way you develop growth strategies for your clients. Embrace AI systems by focusing on creating a harmonious workflow between your team and the technology.

Tools 130

Tools Artificial Inteligence Strategy Strategy 130

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation. Brought to prominence by Professor Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma , this important theory provides an explanation as to why large, established companies eventually get overtaken by smaller ones, and it introduced the concept of disruptive innovation.

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Company Innovation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team 254

BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2019

and Sam Stewart about how Av oiding Disruption Requires Rapid Decision Making. They advance a model explaining superior fighter pilot performance as a recommended way for how to avoid disruption in your markets. How to Avoid Disruption with SODA. A friend shared an online Harvard Business Review article by George Stalk, Jr.

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Disruption Underperforming Technical Team How To Big Data 89

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The conversation series we are planning intends to discuss weak linkages across innovation and provide an organizing mechanism to bring these into a clear framework based on the work we have completed on the Executive Work Mat approach. Jeffrey and my opening discussion was outlining the series to come. It lays in a common foundation.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Agile Collaboration 246

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

With technology disruption, business model disruption and growing competition, social and customer engagement challenges the ability to manage innovation is growing as a concern and in risk management. More radical innovations, disrupting positions or new business models would form part of this risk assessment.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Radical Innovation Technical Review 124

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

With technology disruption, business model disruption and growing competition, social and customer engagement challenges the ability to manage innovation is growing as a concern and in risk management. More radical innovations, disrupting positions or new business models would form part of this risk assessment.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Radical Innovation Technical Review 124

Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Navigating a Disruptive Business Environment In today’s fast-paced and technology-driven landscape, businesses are frequently faced with disruptions that can significantly impact their operations and long-term viability. Recognizing the early signs of these disruptions is key to responding effectively.

Disruption 100

Disruption Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 100

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Whitepaper called “ Product Complexity, Digital Transformation, and the Innovation Imperative- The race to reinvent how complex products are developed is here “ This made me a little jealous and a little wishing that ‘we’, across the whole of innovation management , could not have one of these platforms available today.

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Product Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Innovation 221

Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Nurturing Innovative Team Collaboration In the rapidly evolving business landscape, innovative team collaboration has become a cornerstone for companies seeking to remain competitive and adaptive. In this context, team collaboration isn’t just recommended; it’s imperative for survival and success.

Collaboration 113

Collaboration Underperforming Technical Team Creativity Software Review 113

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. The collaborative process can also teach a seasoned team a lot about resiliency, agility, and dynamic thinking. Set goals around your innovation pipeline.

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Collaboration Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Innovation 174

Leapfrogging

APRIL 12, 2024

Components of Emotional Intelligence Emotional intelligence is generally broken down into four or five core components, each playing a distinct role in leadership development: Self-Awareness: The ability to recognize and understand one’s own emotions and how they affect thoughts and behavior.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Training Exercises 100

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. This will allow the corporate to more rapidly apply the benefits of the collaboration and develop the business.

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Change Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 196

Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements. Then, a problem or opportunity is defined, a team designated, and the proposition is defined as an innovation activity.

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Project Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Training 160

Business and Tech

DECEMBER 16, 2021

At the time we were looking to raise capital (between 2011 and 2013), businesses with women on the executive team received only 7 percent of the venture funding. Residents in a community are welcomed members, and interactions with the management team and fellow residents are encouraged.

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Technical Review Technology Management Underperforming Technical Team 246

IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Innovation team members have to deal with the needs of users, finances, and marketing all at once. Additional Tips to Help Your Team Prioritize Innovation Roadmap Features. In addition, it is also important to note here that solutions should be developed as a response to users’ needs. Innovation management is a tough job.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Strategy Roadmap 130

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Mentors see themselves as people developers. A manager would work with them to develop the business case. When is it time for individual vision and when is it essential to collaborate and build a strong team with a shared vision? They ask about lessons learned at each milestone as a way of furthering the innovator’s development.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Handbook Project 189

Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Introduction to Strategic Thinking in Business The Importance of Strategy in a Disruptive World In today’s business environment, disruption is the new norm. A well-crafted strategy can serve as a compass, guiding your organization through the complexities of a disruptive world and towards sustained success.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Strategy Technical Review 100

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.” source Wikipeda) Today the reversal is happening.

Software Review 211

Software Review Software Innovation Technical Review 211

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2019

Disruptive technologies are transforming the packaging that comes with just about everything we buy. As part of my work helping companies identify, develop and launch breakthrough new products, services, and business models, I get a glimpse of a lot of “ weak signals ” that will one day become future disruptors.

Disruption 100

Disruption Industry Underperforming Technical Team Internet of things 100

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. The Challenges of CVC Fast forward to 2024, and the challenges CVC teams face have evolved but not disappeared.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Agile Disruption 52

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It encompasses the leader’s capacity to navigate social complexities, remain calm under pressure, and inspire and motivate teams through understanding and empathy. Empathetic leaders can foster loyalty and trust within their teams, leading to improved morale and reduced turnover.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Training Exercises 100

CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Understanding the 3 As of Strategic Thinking Every leader and team member desires the ability to think strategically; however, the process of building your own strategic thinking skills can be difficult, as can encouraging strategic thinking in your team members. Do I (we) understand our companys current strengths and weaknesses?

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Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Resources Project 52