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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

Still, its need is to be far more fluid, adaptive and agile in what it processes and manages, especially in today’s challenging world, adapting to today’s challenges and working towards the future. It should have a specific “bedrock” or foundation of needed stages or steps. The balance and creative tension.

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Establishing a new mentality for innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Due to this has become a much longer post than I would like and I apologize for that but I wanted to get the mentality issue well ‘aired’ and I needed to cover off a number of bases to frame this. Many existing organizations cannot cope with this agility, flexibility and responsiveness. Firstly, Two Routes to Resilience.

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When Disruption Becomes Destructive: How Can Financial Services Companies Close the Innovation Gap?

Qmarkets

Small, fast-moving start-ups are revolutionizing the global landscape with creative market-responsive solutions that are becoming increasingly accepted and utilized. trillion (2016) according to a white paper by Oliver Wyman , a leading global management consulting firm. trillion to $1.0 trillion to $1.0 billion in 2015.

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

I was having a second coffee with an ex student, now the head of a marketing inside a rapidly growing startup. His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem, validated solutions and was now scaling sales and marketing. All good news. Why Do You Work Here? Titles Are Not Your Job.

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Our inabilities to adapt needs changing.

Paul Hobcraft

Simply put companies ‘die’ due to their inability to adapt to change and transformation projects fail because the message somehow fails to register and never gets completed to the original objectives. This requires technology to be central to this different thinking, alongside a radical shift in how we see innovation.

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Building the In-house Design Agency

Boxes and Arrows

Two hour heuristic review meetings or small design projects are cheap and demonstrate value. Many firms understand that Agile development is difficult with a team in multiple physical locations, not to mention time zone and language or cultural challenges. Unfortunately, design operates in an agile mode at all times.

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