Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

From my perspective I’ve been looking at a real challenge today, that many consultants offering innovation services are not providing real sustaining consulting value to clients, only ad-hoc services. In many ways, the consulting industry specializing in innovation is its own worst enemy.

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eZassi

MAY 13, 2024

Amplify Your Innovation Program with AI-Driven Technology Discovery Today’s highly competitive business climate is fueled by the ability to innovate and ride the cutting edge of technology. AI-driven technology discovery revolutionizes the way organizations approach innovation management, creating competitive advantage.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 21, 2021

The basic premise of the 70-20-10 Rule is that if the organizational stakeholders consistently makes small improvements to their existing line or enters into new markets, they will sustain the organization without ever evolving it to remain competitive with changing times. 10%-Disruptive Innovation . 70%-Core Innovation .

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ImagineNation

JULY 5, 2020

Connecting with a diverse range of my coaching and consulting clients over the past few weeks, has seriously deepened my understanding of the impact of disruption and adversity, on our stress levels and neurology, and the importance of leading and managing these factors, from both the business and the human perspective.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 24, 2024

In the modern business world, where disruption is the norm and change is relentless, the ability to continuously drive innovation-led growth has become the ultimate competitive advantage. In this climate, innovation is no longer an optional pursuit but a strategic imperative for survival and sustained growth.

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Strategos

MARCH 24, 2017

We are drawn to stories of entrepreneurs who came up with brilliant ideas that disrupted the existing “rules of the game” by which industry players compete with one another. Disruption. A recent report by the Economist showed that 60% of company executives view disruption as a threat rather than an opportunity.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

In the intervening time, I have gotten to know dozens of smart, strong female leaders and innovation experts, as part of my consulting and speaking work, as well as by interviewing them for the Idea to Value Podcast. What simple thing can a company do to change their conversation / perspective about innovation? Twitter: rgmcgrath.

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Daniel Burrus

APRIL 12, 2017

One article that sought to cull business leaders’ views on this topic cited research from the consulting firm Deloitte. Agility serves an important role helping companies react quickly to unforeseen change. Sooner or later, you fall behind—or get disrupted by someone else who saw the future first.

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New Markets Advisors

MAY 29, 2019

For years, Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath has been telling us that the traditional strategy of finding and exploiting a sustainable competitive advantage is becoming outdated. The world is evolving too quickly for competitive advantages to last for a meaningful amount of time. Or so the argument goes.

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 8, 2016

In Cragun and Sweetman's upcoming book, Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption [Greenleaf Book Group Press, July 2016] , the authors propose a simple formula, common principles, and set of tools for individuals and organizations facing disruptive and radical change.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

While taxi companies have come a long way over the years in improving service to their customers, nothing could compare to the radical change engendered by the introduction of Uber, a company which drastically changed the taxi industry almost overnight and captured a large market share. All or Nothing – Disruptive Innovation.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Navigating Innovation Management: Implement a Scalable Process and Engaging Platform for Enterprise Ideation and Collaboration Creating Open Innovation Solutions Regardless of your organization’s innovation portfolio size or scope, every business needs a strategy and competitive advantage for growth and technological advancement.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

While taxi companies have come a long way over the years in improving service to their customers, nothing could compare to the radical change engendered by the introduction of Uber, a company which drastically changed the taxi industry almost overnight and captured a large market share. All or Nothing – Disruptive Innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

They become fixed, rigid and locked into their established ways, not adapting to the changes occurring around them. Then it becomes a mad scramble to transform ourselves, often with damaging consequences of deteriorating performance, battling more competition that are sensing our weakness, never capable of returning to those previous highs.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 10, 2020

We’re seeing a sea change toward remote work and how to make it more fun and effective. ” If you want to change culture to get more innovation, for example, you need to change norms and values toward things that inspire people to generate ideas, prioritize the best ones, test them out, and implement them using customer input. .”

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

That’s why so many businesses recently have succumbed to disruptive outsiders. Due to factors such as increasing connectivity, a population explosion, and the exponential rate of technology development, market dynamics are changing more rapidly than ever before. How is it changing? How is our competitiveness changing?

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

( Ideascale ) How might we develop AI as a creative thinking partner to effect profound change, and create innovative solutions that help us build a more equitable and sustainable planet for all humanity? (

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

However, for every Steve Jobs or Elon Musk who has famously steered their companies through the maelstrom of change, countless unsung leaders, often within the more traditional corporate structures, want to cultivate the culture that innovation requires within their organisation. It’s for those that I write this article!

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

I've been writing, speaking and consulting about innovation for over 15 years, and I'm constantly amazed by the different perspectives and definitions about innovation. Some will be short and focused on incremental change, while others are longer and focus on more disruptive ideas.

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eZassi

APRIL 25, 2022

Accelerate Innovation from the Front end to the Back end to Drive Industry Disruption. The success of your organization’s future growth will be determined by the products and services created from the front end to the back end of innovation, disrupting industries and creating significant market share. Innovation Solutions.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

However, innovation labs and teams were never (or at least rarely) going to create breakthroughs or disruptive innovations. It was a myth perpetuated by popular books, canvases, academia, and consultants. The “disruptive innovation” era is over. How to deal with disruption, complexity, and uncertainty is baked into the culture.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 10, 2020

We’re seeing a sea change toward remote work and how to make it more fun and effective. ” If you want to change culture to get more innovation, for example, you need to change norms and values toward things that inspire people to generate ideas, prioritize the best ones, test them out, and implement them using customer input. .”

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 8, 2020

Sometimes the problem is compatibility with legacy systems, but there are also skills gaps to overcome, decisions about how much tech you need and where to apply it, and coping with business disruption or temporary lags in productivity. Lisa Michaels is a freelance writer, editor and striving content marketing consultant from Portland.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

When the competition launches a new product, how you react says a lot about you as a professional and your company as an organization. But it is likely that you act quickly and decisively to address the changing factors and conditions after they’ve occurred. But what if you could skip that pivot altogether?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2015

This is part two of an extended series on my thoughts on “ moving towards a new way of managing innovation ” that explores the potential for changing the management of innovation. The radical changes we see occurring all around us requires radical responses. There is this new set of challenges confronting us.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 18, 2020

During these days of global unrest – with news about the coronavirus and its severity changing daily – businesses across all sectors should keep the message of this proverb in mind. Whatever disruptive challenges your company is facing, it is important to remember that your crowdsourcing platform can help you find a solution.

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hackerearth

AUGUST 17, 2018

“When it comes to change management, “implementation” isn’t the end—it’s just the beginning.” What is change management? Change management may be defined as a structured process that ensures that required changes are thoroughly and smoothly carried out, and that the long-term benefits of the change are realized.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

So, while we can speed up the existing processes and use innovation to identify gaps or inefficiencies, or use innovation to make some changes to the periphery of the product or service, there's not a lot of innovation that can be delivered and impact the bottom line in 90 days or less.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

There's a real sense that we in the corporate world are standing on the brink of an amazing transition, moving from relatively older, static models of competition based on corporate size and mass, to new competitive realities dictated by speed, agility and innovation. They can't pull out of mall stores overnight.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

On first look at this acquisition you see a 180,000 consulting firm, operating in 40 countries with nearly EUR12 billion in revenue adding a 60 to 70 people innovation and design consultancy operating in the US and less so in the UK and you wonder what simply happens with such a move. Innovation isn’t merely driving change.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 10, 2017

So, after over a decade of innovation consulting, I can say without doubt that companies that are just starting to innovate have it much better than those that were attempting it years ago. Why start with product innovation when so many others are already ahead of you, and when that's where competition is the most fierce?

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ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In last month’s blog , we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration, and described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed sustainable innovative workplace culture change. Innovation teams are teams that don’t innovate!

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Many business consultants agree that benchmarking is imperative to strategic planning. Keeping up—with technology, with the competition, with anything in business or life—is what some would call a fool’s game. Asking these questions enables you to go beyond your competition and get off the treadmill of keeping up.

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Econic

MARCH 7, 2022

And because consultants usually teach people how to use the framework—instead of the mindset behind the framework, people continue to struggle to solve real problems. Considerations for investment included market attractiveness and the competitive position across three time periods, H1, H2 and H3. Frameworks don’t solve problems.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 23, 2020

Connecting with a diverse range of my coaching and consulting clients over the past few weeks, has seriously deepened my understanding of the impact of disruption and adversity, on our stress levels and neurology, and the importance of leading and managing these factors, from both the business and the human perspective.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

In fact, it is often the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that disrupt industries. Maybe that means getting services to customers faster than the competition does, or maybe it means having a business model that is unlike that of competitors. Innovation isn’t limited to big enterprises with deep pockets, either. Rinse and repeat.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The concept of having any “applied innovation exchange” coming from Capgemini should be promising, as somewhere to go as they are a leading technology consulting practice. I had to go in search of a better understanding. It seems so tenuous, a toe in the water. I assume curated will be by Cap Gemini as it is their Exchange.

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