Business and Tech

JUNE 28, 2023

Djang is not alone — in a recent survey conducted by Lightspeed, 68% of retailers said that adopting new technologies, including inventory management tools, had resulted in a positive impact on their businesses. The extensibility of POS offerings is a key predictor of how well they will adapt to the always-evolving retail market.

Technical Review 246

Technical Review Software Review Tools Entrepreneurship 246

Idea to Value

APRIL 12, 2022

What makes more sense: To be the first player in a brand new market, able to be the first (or only) company which customers buy from? To wait until other companies have proven there is a market for a new offering, and then quickly develop and scale your own? This can require significant marketing and sales effort to change.

Strategy 266

Strategy Strategy Technical Review Innovation 266

Business and Tech

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In an expansive interview, real estate expert Steve Weikal explains how technology is changing the housing market for the better. The real estate market is being driven by unprecedented amounts of venture capital. Sometimes we joke that the real estate industry still runs off of a 41-year-old technology called the spreadsheet.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Technology Management Software Review 130

Idea to Value

OCTOBER 17, 2022

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. If you are involved in innovation, or just want to understand how customers choose products, do yourself a favour and listen to this podcast today.

Disruption 221

Disruption Technical Review Innovation Marketing 221

Idea to Value

JANUARY 14, 2022

For example, how did dinosaurs evolve into birds that could fly? However, what if a company is trying to develop a fundamentally different innovation to the market? The company might not consider this risk to be viable, and therefore the innovation is stalled due to the sunk costs of the previous business.

Software Review 236

Software Review Technical Review Marketing Examples 236

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

I am taking the opportunity to review the Web Summit, held in Lisbon last week of 5th (evening) to 8th November 2018. The Web Summit, originally Dublin Web Summit, is a technology conference held annually since 2009. The company was founded by Paddy Cosgrave, David Kelly, and Daire Hickey. Overhype is an understatement.

Technical Review 222

Technical Review Conference Technology Data 222

Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 20, 2019

Whether your innovation process is need driven (finding a need and then finding a solution) or emergent technology or idea driven (having a technology or idea and seeking a market) ideas represent a recurring theme. As an example, I used to have a sticky note on my PC to remind me of the rather fatal statistics.

Technical Review 235

Technical Review Idea Generation Strategy Strategy 235

Business and Tech

APRIL 8, 2022

Employees overwhelmingly prefer hybrid models of work and enjoy more power in the job market than ever before. For example, Lattice is a great place to build in conversation starters between manager and employees in the weekly check-in report.”. The way we work is changing. You need the baseline: psychological safety,” he notes.

Competition 246

Competition Technical Review Software Review CTO 246

Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

For example, there are often processes that are specifically designed to eliminate risks and control change. There are great many companies and leaders that obsess about their market share, competitors, or technological prowess. If your technology doesn’t create value for customers, they won’t buy it.

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Agile Innovation Technical Review Leadership 312

eZassi

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This often results when a company pursues technologies specific to one product, and that technology is not a fit, causing it to be shelved with no further plans for its use. A Technology-Market Fit analysis starts with assessment of the claims and potential capabilities of the existing technology.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Technology Marketing Analysis 52

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Exploring the interplay between Humans, Technology and AI for design thinking Why is design thinking regarded as so crucial to the future of innovation in a world of accelerating interplays between humans, technology and generative AI? Moving to the edge : Organizations are becoming more agile by adopting an “edge” approach.

Design Thinking 148

Design Thinking Technical Review Design Technology 148

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Nondisruptive creation is when you create a new market without needing to tear down or displace others or your own business. There are no failed companies, lost jobs, or destroyed markets in its wake, opening a path to innovation where business and society can better thrive together.

Marketing 141

Marketing Innovation Disruption Industry 141

TechEmpower Innovation

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? Free trials?

Technical Review 312

Technical Review Fractional CTO CTO Innovation 312

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Take a corporate-led accelerator, for example. The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies. Find creative ways to acquire resources, and diligently pursue common goals.

Collaboration 174

Collaboration Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Innovation 174

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

We’re often left feeling powerless to influence the type of change that we want to see, to release our creative juices and not simply to make those quarterly reporting numbers or get caught up in constant cutbacks when they don’t meet market expectations. Example: Various retailers and consumer packaged goods companies enable this.

Innovation Programs 222

Innovation Programs Innovation Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 222

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

One of industry standard answers comes from research by Deloitte Partners Bansi Nagji and Geoff Tuff, in their groundbreaking 2012 article in Harvard Business Review: Managing your innovation portfolio. 10% of their innovation resources on transformational innovations, to explore completely new offerings and markets.

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Project Innovation Report Software Review 292

Business and Tech

AUGUST 27, 2021

The technology industry is working diligently 24 hours a day to erode the business of on-premise restaurants and retailers,” explains the popular reality TV host. Third-party delivery services such as DoorDash, for example, want people to use delivery and not come into our restaurants. They’re destroying our profitability.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Industry Video Technology 130

Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Innovators often create technologies or products, which have interesting capabilities or features, but rarely do they think through the actual use of the products and understand how they fit in with other products, services, infrastructure, channels and data that exist in a customer's life.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Innovation Technology Management 144

Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Take, for example, "jobs to be done" methodologies. In a market where seamless experiences become more important, a too narrow application of "jobs to be done" risks solving only a fraction of the total customer need. Whole product refers to the idea that the majority of customers don't want to buy untested, unproven technologies.

Tools 162

Tools Technical Review Design Thinking Innovation 162

IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Switzerland is a global leader due to their level of scientific knowledge and their ability to launch technologies into consumables for the market. In the future, humankind is going to need other power technologies of high quality … Clean technologies and power production should become a part of this solution.”

Technical Review 138

Technical Review Innovation Technology Resources 138

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2024

Technology and consulting companies have discovered the talents of high-functioning workers with autism spectrum disorder. They are the missing middle, the pool of talent between autistic individuals with few support needs and highly specialized technical skills and those unable to work.

Data 113

Data Examples Technology Marketing 113

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

.” The book the “Innovation Dilemma” published in 2016 was written by innovation expert Clayton Christensen suggesting even though even the most outstanding companies can do everything right–yet still lose market leadership. Is that due to it being “too risky” or the appetite for change, is less but due to what?

Software Review 212

Software Review Software Technical Review Innovation 212

Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Methods are needed that focus on the customer experience, allow us to adapt to new information, and help us make decisions based on market-based evidence. When designing something, (ie: a technology, a product, a marketing material…) it is paramount to keep the needs of the end user in mind. Competition is now global.

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LEAN Examples Agile Design Thinking 105

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In October, for example, I wrote, “ Why do we need to change our thinking about innovation “ I continue here with some more arguments of “why” we need to move towards an innovation ecosystem in design and thinking. Take a practical example; Hydrogen is the solution carrier for clean energy. Source: tmforum.org.

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Innovation Technical Review Design Collaboration 205

Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The corporate landscape is changing drastically, and for a corporate brand to stay relevant, they must innovate in order to change with the market. Such innovations can come in the form of adopting new technologies, but also by adapting the business practices typically associated with startup culture.

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Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Innovation 187

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically. There also continues today that industry disruption is increasing, by those spotting both opportunity and weakness in present market players. trillion in value to global manufacturing. There are increasing use cases being built and shown.

Industry 213

Industry Technical Review Design Innovation 213

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. Over the years, so much has improved and understood by the explanations, case examples, suggestions, clarifications and ways they were “built into” the individual innovation processes that each company chose to construct their innovation process.

Artificial Inteligence 183

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Agile Innovation 183

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. Firstly , I have been looking a little more at the emerging focal point of Grid Edge.

Technical Review 145

Technical Review Software Review Report System 145

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

We need to understand successful innovation actually touches all aspects of a business, by contributing to improving business processes, identifying new, often imaginative, ways to reduce costs, building out existing business models into new directions and value and discovering new ways and positioning into markets.

Innovation Programs 190

Innovation Programs Technical Review Innovation Policies 190

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 15, 2018

Struggling to get out of the technical jargon, so be ready and have patience. AI is getting to a point where it will drive the next wave of technology disruption. For example, multiple documents have within them that critical semantic relationship between the keywords, phrases, and concepts. Knowledge Graphs provide the context.

Artificial Inteligence 256

Artificial Inteligence Data Technical Review Software Review 256

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Most commonly, traditional project management will continuously track how well a project is progressing and report this to management on a regular basis, while also having set milestones with dates where the status of the entire project can be reviewed. Unfortunately, innovation projects usually have none of the above criteria.

Project 250

Project LEAN Management Innovation 250

Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

It does not need to be due to a lack of drive, creativity or passion for your project; sometimes the problem can be quite the opposite. Regularly review your ideas. As new technology becomes available, trends change, or new ideas come to light, you may need to alter your approach. Review your analytics.

Technical Review 157

Technical Review Creativity How To Project 157

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ecosystem co-operations can allow you to align with others, totally outside your existing relationships, so you can enter new markets, explore new concepts and design, that would have been impossible as an individual organization. They survive and thrive due to that uniqueness and attraction.

Collaboration 241

Collaboration Design Innovation Technical Review 241

Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Steps to Spot Your Innovation Chances Check the Trends : Get a good look at what’s hot in the market, what folks need, and where there’s room for something new. Resource Swag : Make sure you’ve got the budget, crew, and tech ready to power your creative projects.

Course 113

Course Strategy Strategy Technical Review 113

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Gains Gains for Building a Business Case for Change : Mergers and Acquisitions : Apply your business case skills to identify potential targets, conduct due diligence, and present compelling reasons for mergers or acquisitions to complement internal innovation developments.

Change 174

Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Agile 174

Imaginatik

JULY 29, 2016

As an example, the CFO of an industry leading global company with a $2b+ innovation portfolio was challenged to find a way to even estimate when parts of their portfolio would become cash positive once the innovations proceeded into production. More things can go wrong. There is no track record.

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Crowdsourcing Technical Review Technology Innovation Management 100