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. Collaboration. Innovation teams are teams that don’t innovate!

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Innovation Collaboration Agile Disruption 59

InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovator’s DNA, Updated, with a New Preface: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. This book explores how companies like Amazon and Microsoft have been able to create immensely successful businesses that disrupt entire industries. Mapping Innovation: A Playbook for Navigating a Disruptive Age. Find it here.

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Innovation Tips Design Thinking LEAN 97

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

The four interwoven catalysts are recognizing we are moving from complicated to complex ; we have different collaboration tools to be more agile and adapt, we need to adopt a clearer mindset to working in innovation ecosystems , and we need to leverage the digital transformation we have been undertaking.

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Innovation Design Collaboration Engagement 189

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

At some point, digital disruption comes for every organization. While some companies might be flexible and lucky enough to ride a wave of disruption and survive , if you are able to predict and prepare for it accordingly you might be able to use it to thrive. Defining digital disruption. Clues for early identification.

Disruption 56

Disruption Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming LEAN 56

Qmarkets

JUNE 30, 2017

At some point, digital disruption comes for every organization. While some companies might be flexible and lucky enough to ride a wave of disruption and survive , if you are able to predict and prepare for it accordingly you might be able to use it to thrive. Defining digital disruption. Clues for early identification.

Disruption 53

Disruption Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming LEAN 53

100%Open

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In today’s competitive business environment, organisations aspire to cultivate high-performance cultures that champion team innovation, agility, and the realisation of strategic objectives. Overemphasising Conformity: Traditional business education often leans towards conformity, emphasising established norms and best practices.

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Culture Creativity LEAN Agile 69

Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

Leaders who champion innovation understand its role in driving competitive advantage, increasing market share, and, often, creating entirely new markets. The ultimate manifestation of this is to figure out how to disrupt yourself inside the safety of an innovation process before a competitor (existing or new) does it for you.

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Innovation Culture Creativity Disruption 59

ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Whilst these represent the core and foundational business management and leadership roles essential to successful organisational performance, the world has changed significantly, and traditional organisations are being severely disrupted. The new roles of leaders and teams in the 21st century. Openings for unparalleled opportunities.

Leadership 52

Leadership System Collaboration Disruption 52

hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

The increasing competition for customers, market share, and talent in almost every industry demands an innovative approach to business. Not only is innovation necessary for enhancing competitive advantage, it is a requirement for businesses to thrive as well as survive. They adhere to lean principles of product development.

Company 77

Company LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 77

Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

Here a few benefits that organizations are most likely to achieve from innovation: Competitive Edge There are many examples of new businesses taking over the market and killing their competitors, but perhaps one of the most well-known is Blockbuster vs. Netflix. “In How can Businesses Implement Innovation?

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Innovation Programs Innovation Technical Review Open Innovation 98

Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

There’s a pervasive myth that suggests that all big companies need to get better at disruptive or breakthrough innovation. What they need in order to be more competitive may or may not require technical innovation. Do we care whether the $90 million came from disruptive innovation? They don’t. And they can’t anyway. No one can.

LEAN 75

LEAN Company Underperforming Technical Team How To 75

Innovation Excellence

JULY 12, 2020

Ross , Innovation teacher at Carnegie Mellon University , about corporate open innovation in Africa, initially published in Disrupt Africa. Experiments with positive outcomes let you move further to exploitation and develop the solution in collaboration with the departments or business units, who then take full ownership.”.

Open Innovation 52

Open Innovation Innovation Collaboration LEAN 52

mjvinnovation

JANUARY 15, 2021

All markets have become increasingly competitive, with more demanding consumers who are aware of their choices. Innovation and technology – hand-in-hand – are essential to ensure their competitiveness. Here at MJV, we help our customers pave the way towards implementing strategic or disruptive innovations.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Innovation Entrepreneurship Analysis 52

Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Companies that cling to rigid innovation approaches are more likely to fail at creating space for disruptive innovation or nurturing new ideas. Engine 2 efforts are disruptive and potentially game changing. Source: Detecon.

Disruption 100

Disruption Innovation Survey Study 100

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Industry borders are blurring, there are increasingly smaller, agile and highly disruptive companies working to change the existing into the new preferred. It can give you a real competitive advantage by translating what you learnt in applying analogies to solutions that solve your customer problems. Turning “yes but”….into

Industry 215

Industry Trends LEAN Change 215

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 2, 2016

We will see a significant acceleration of more innovation ecosystems, we are increasingly recognizing all the different collaborative tools increasingly at our disposal, we are exploring both platforms and forming ecosystems to radically alter the competitive edge previously seen to reside inside the single company.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Innovation Collaboration Software Review 100

Tim Kastelle

MAY 5, 2016

” That’s what I said to my friend Steve Adelman about the projects we collaborate on as part of the Wharton-UQ Global Consulting Practicum program. With the lean startup movement, we now have a set of tools that startups can use to make sure that they do discovery first, then execution. ” he replied.

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LEAN Project Innovation Marketing 100

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The right speaker can resonate with the audience, driving home the importance of innovation in today’s competitive landscape. The significance of selecting the right corporate event speaker lies in their potential to spark new ideas, encourage collaboration, and drive the organization towards a culture of continuous innovation and growth.

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Engagement Technical Review Meeting Culture 130

Innov8rs

AUGUST 22, 2023

It’s easy to set an ambition to create a pipeline and portfolio of new ventures and investments that disrupt existing markets and create new ones. To succeed with corporate venture building, lean on one of the main resources you already have: your people. It’s easy to say “we need a growth engine”. The question really is – how?

Marketing 52

Marketing Roadmap Disruption Management 52

Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

There’s a pervasive myth that suggests that all big companies need to get better at disruptive or breakthrough innovation. What they need in order to be more competitive may or may not require technical innovation. Do we care whether the $90 million came from disruptive innovation? They don’t. And they can’t anyway. No one can.

Company 64

Company Underperforming Technical Team LEAN How To 64

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

The integrated framework was constructed in a collaboration with Jeffrey Phillips over at Ovo Innovation and then I added a post for building this integrated framework out from this by taking out specifically, the Business Case building as an important need. .

Crowdsourcing 199

Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 199

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Put simply, Operational Excellence can be defined as a management principle which encourages the discovery and implementation of incremental changes, with the objective of optimizing processes to achieve a competitive advantage. Make lean value streams flow from one process to the other.

LEAN 49

LEAN Crowdsourcing Software Review Knowledge Base 49

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 14, 2016

Established market firms continue to lean toward using more traditional tools such as Benchmarking, still the Balanced Scorecard and Employee Engagement Surveys, even though these might come in different guises of simple to complex scorecards, dashboards, KPI initiatives with lots of traffic lights, directional arrows ‘enhancing’ these.

Tools 100

Tools Management Innovation Management Underperforming Technical Team 100

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

I like this as a definition to tighten down digital but it opens us up to the darker side of digital transformation, the risk of digital disruption. Digital disruption is the impact of digital technologies and business models on a company’s value proposition and market position.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 133

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

But incumbents would be willing to make changes if a new technology proves to be truly disruptive and the long-term benefits are worth it. Most companies will continue to favor a “safer” approach in the time ahead, even while facing disruption.

Innovation Management 100

Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team Big Data 100

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

I like this as a definition to tighten down digital but it opens us up to the darker side of digital transformation, the risk of digital disruption. Digital disruption is the impact of digital technologies and business models on a company’s value proposition and market position.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 120

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We do know we need to re-equip ourselves for constant disruption; we are really beginning to see a shift from the classic bell curve into more of a shark fin for adopting change. Market are segmenting, the life cycle is shortening or having an even longer tail of dealing with slow decline and constant erosion of any competitive position.

Change 100

Change Design Agile Competition 100

Innov8rs

MARCH 6, 2023

Crossing The Chasm: Two Competing Value-Creation Systems According to Linda, corporations can drive meaningful growth by disrupting themselves from the inside out or the outside in. Hence, success relies heavily on cohesion and collaboration between the "Red" and "Blue" systems, the core and the beyond-the-core.

How To 52

How To Ideation Marketing Culture 52

ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It’s tempting to blame such resistance as “aversion to change” and “closed-mindedness” but the real problem is that the Innovation Team was working in a walled-off garden, and no one benefits when any group is throwing things over walls instead of working collaboratively across fluid boundaries. Katherine lives in Camas, Washington.

Company 52

Company Innovation Programs Innovation Product Development 52

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Put simply, Operational Excellence can be defined as a management principle which encourages the discovery and implementation of incremental changes, with the objective of optimizing processes to achieve a competitive advantage. Make lean value streams flow from one process to the other.

LEAN 40

LEAN Crowdsourcing Software Review Knowledge Base 40

Qmarkets

MARCH 16, 2018

With so much disruptive innovation happening so fast, it has become less and less rare for companies to be formed around a service or product that defines them for their lifetime. Rising competition from Apple and Google caught Nokia out of position and led to near-bankruptcy in 2012.

Innovation Management 69

Innovation Management Change Management Technical Review 69

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Industry borders are blurring, there are increasingly smaller, agile and highly disruptive companies working to change the existing into the new preferred. It can give you a real competitive advantage by translating what you learnt in applying analogies to solutions that solve your customer problems. Turning “yes but”….into

Industry 100

Industry Trends LEAN Change 100

Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the pervasion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Big Data Innovation Technical Review 40

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Consultants are not addressing many of the changes occurring and ignoring opportunities to adapt to different circumstances, they are simply not putting up a strong case of their engagement by redesigning their business models or opening themselves up to different forms of collaboration. Consultants are far too cautious for their own good.

Innovation 60

Innovation Collaboration Technical Review Leadership 60

KindlingApp

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Startup swami Eric Ries’ essential book The Lean Startup defines a startup as “a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty”, which implies an essential element of innovation. Competition between individual entities then slowly shifts towards competition between networks.

Entrepreneurship 40

Entrepreneurship Culture Competition Resources 40

ImagineNation

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Whilst most of us know that organizational innovation involves making serious and significant change, what many of us are challenged by is how change impacts, affects and disrupts People’s four-core human structures: cognition, emotion, body and will , which is an innovation problem that organizations will need to learn how to solve.

Innovation 40

Innovation Training Agile Culture 40

Qmarkets

JUNE 26, 2019

When starting out on an innovation initiative, it’s far better to make use of the resources you have at hand than to start totally from scratch – that is, try to adopt lean practices wherever possible. Using new technologies to power innovation is critical for securing a competitive edge. Don’t underestimate the power of habit.

Innovation Management 40

Innovation Management Management Ideation Resources 40