Disruptive Innovation in the Era of Big Tech
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 17, 2024
How does the landmark theory apply to tech start-ups, three decades after its introduction?
5 Tech Issues That Can Slow Down Innovation
IdeaScale
JANUARY 8, 2020
In our minds, technology and innovation are interconnected. However, for every technological advancement, there seems to be a learning curve or adjustment period as we try to figure out how to implement automation into our daily lives. Technology: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? source: pixabay.com. 1 The Devil in Design.
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Introduction to Strategic Thinking in Business The Importance of Strategy in a Disruptive World In today’s business environment, disruption is the new norm. With technology advancing at breakneck speeds and market dynamics shifting unpredictably, it’s crucial for you as a business leader to embrace strategic thinking.
Five Technology Trends Driving Manufacturing (Are you on Board?)
Daniel Burrus
APRIL 20, 2022
New manufacturing plants will utilize the latest technologies in an effort to increase productivity and competitive advantage. Due to the fact that technology-driven exponential change affects everything, manufacturing businesses must always keep up. . Five Tech Trends Impacting the Manufacturing Industry.
Mastering the Game: Corporate Executives and the Art of Startup Investment
Leapfrogging
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
CVC units often focus on securing a competitive advantage by investing in startups with innovative technologies or business models that align with the corporation’s strategic goals. By engaging with and investing in startups, companies can gain insights into emerging technologies, trends, and business practices.
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Intentionality and the Differentiating Competitive Advantage
Planview
APRIL 6, 2023
My Thoughts Based on 25 Years Working With Transformations Having worked on enterprise transformations for the past 25 years, it’s not surprising to me that the majority of enterprises have not yet transformed to a product model within the last five years and achieved value delivery at a speed we’d associate with digital natives and tech giants.
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Maximizing Efficiency & Productivity: 3 Ways GenAI Optimizes Value Stream Management for Tech Leaders
Planview
MARCH 15, 2024
GenAI has become a broad label, described as a type of artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can produce numerous types of content, such as text, video, image, and even music. With text-based generation comes more multi-dimensional advanced technology that, as one can imagine, produces a multitude of content formats.
Driving Success: Harnessing the Power of the Startup Ecosystem
Leapfrogging
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
These young companies thrive on adaptability, a drive for growth, and often, a technology-based solution that disrupts existing markets or creates new ones. Startups: The Drivers of Innovation Startups are at the heart of the ecosystem, often characterized by their innovative solutions and disruptive potential.
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ChatGPT-4, PaLM 2 (Bard), Llama 2, or Falcon 180B? Nothing like healthy technology competition to raise the bar!
Linda Bernardi
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Formerly an open-source company, but once Microsoft pumped $10B into OpenAI, it became a commercial company like all the other tech players. Always great to see competition among the known tech giants that we know. Clearly, in being open source it does beat the competition, but is it all we think it can be?
The Travel & Hospitality Industry is Being Disrupted, Again.
Leapfrogging
MARCH 18, 2019
Airbnb disrupted hotels. Now big travel and hospitality companies are going after the next disruptive innovation themselves before getting blindsided yet again. As part of a new series of articles I’m writing called Everything Transformed , I’m focusing on the widespread disruption of just about every industry on the planet.
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Most corporations don’t understand how much change is created by innovation.
Paul Hobcraft
JULY 19, 2022
It relies on existing capabilities and emphasizes excellent operational execution, with less focus on new needs or expanding the competitive market space. Horizon Two is the mid-point between “incremental’ change in Horizon One and “disruptive” change in Horizon Three. There’s little change required for external constituents.
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How to create business models for 5G - and other disruptive technologies
The BMI Lab Blog
MAY 26, 2021
Sometimes, companies approach us with requests like “I have developed a new technology but how do I build a business around it?” or “Our technology is superior to our competitors’ – why don’t our customers see that?”. Hence, it is not surprising that many of the world’s leading companies reportedly work on integrating this technology.
Innovation Budget Planning
eZassi
AUGUST 22, 2022
From the Harvard Business Review article “ An Agile Approach to Budgeting for Uncertain Times ,” here are the curated questions your team should ask while planning for projects in the year ahead: What are the outcomes that will be most important for strategic success? Technology Scouting Services. Innovation Strategy Consulting.
Ignite Inspiration: Selecting an Innovation Keynote Speaker for Your Corporate Event
Leapfrogging
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
A focus on innovation helps companies to adapt to rapidly changing markets, embrace new technologies, and stay ahead of the competition. An innovation keynote speaker can provide valuable insights into fostering a culture of innovation, navigating disruptive trends, and implementing effective change within an organization.
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Building Bridges for Innovation: ISO 56003 and the Power of Structured Partnerships
PlanBox Innovation
AUGUST 31, 2023
The increased interdependence has birthed countless collaboration opportunities, leading innovators to strategically weave a network of partnerships throughout their supply chain to continuously drive better, more sustainable results, especially when it comes to evaluating emerging technologies and engaging with startups.
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New Business Designs can be delivered through a Business Ecosystem Approach.
Paul Hobcraft
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
When looking at radically different thinking and design in business, where Ecosystems become central, you need to ask yourself what industries would benefit from such an alternative design and thinking due to the changing complexities and challenges they are facing. Manufacturing: Challenges: Industry 4.0
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Harnessing the Power: Navigating AI-Driven Rapid Change in Business Strategy
Leapfrogging
MARCH 15, 2024
The Age of AI and Business Strategy Understanding AI-Driven Rapid Change In the current landscape, AI-driven technologies are reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. Embracing AI means more than just implementing new technologies; it involves rethinking entire business operations from the ground up.
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Tech Scouting: When to Initiate an Anonymous Search
Yet2
OCTOBER 2, 2018
There are a few general reasons why a company might be searching for new technologies, products, or ideas and not want to reveal who they are (and we’ll go into them below). Hence the need to engage a partner like yet2 to conduct an anonymous technology search or due diligence inquiry. Competitive Surprises.
Turn the Tables on Product Development Disruptions
Planview
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Disruptions to effective product development are constant but don’t need to be detrimental to an organization’s ability to deliver innovation with speed and maintain a healthy ROI. That shift creates constant momentum, making it easier to adjust perspectives and see with more clarity all the opportunities to turn the tables on disruption.
Disruption is the new constant; forget the Status Quo
Ecosystems4Innovating
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Our existing business organizations need to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical constant change. Connected technology needs to be central to responding rapidly and enabling this more volatile world we are facing. It is highly disruptive to the existing organization’s design.
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From Strategy to Success: Harnessing Corporate Venture Capital for Growth
Leapfrogging
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
By investing in startups, corporations can access new technologies, products, and services that can significantly enhance their competitive edge. Competitive Advantage Gaining a leading edge in the market by leveraging startup agility and creativity. Market Expansion Entering new markets or segments through partnerships.
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The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change
Paul Hobcraft
FEBRUARY 20, 2022
Due to the change created by new innovations, many innovations are also business model innovations. . A breakthrough innovation extends or changes an existing technology, capability or market in such a way that customers and competitors must change to some degree. The dynamics of innovation and change.
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Innovative Team Collaboration: Igniting Creativity for Extraordinary Results
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. Increased Agility: Teams that collaborate well can adapt more quickly to changes in the business environment, maintaining a competitive edge.
Unlocking Success: Leveraging Startup Innovation with Corporate Venture Capital
Leapfrogging
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
The Importance of Startup Innovation in Corporate Growth In today’s rapidly changing business environment, startup innovation is often at the forefront of technological advancement and market disruption. Corporations can leverage this innovation to drive growth, remain competitive, and enter new markets.
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Caught in the Headlights of Disruptive Innovation.
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 2, 2016
This past weekend I had an extended period of re-reading about the effects of disruption that seems to be occurring across all points of business, our politics, our governments, it seems across our lives. All good plans sometime get disrupted. Everything invented seems to have been disrupted or seems about too.
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Innovation Accelerator
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. Review Calculators and Analytics.
The Hidden Advantage: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Leapfrogging
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Self-Regulation – Managing or redirecting one’s disruptive emotions. Self-Regulation Self-regulation involves the ability to control or redirect one’s disruptive emotions and impulses. The development of EI in leadership can be a strategic advantage in the competitive business landscape.
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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation
Paul Hobcraft
MAY 9, 2023
So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. Then we moved into an era of technology-associated innovation These are building on a higher reliance on AI, Technology, and Digital approaches, connecting more to the customer and more collaborative across organizations.
Emerging Technologies of the Future You Should Know About | ITONICS
ITONICS
OCTOBER 7, 2022
The Gartner ® Hype Cycle ™ for Emerging Technologies, 2022 provides an extensive list of technologies that we feel have the potential to disrupt business and society over the next two to ten years.
Unleashing the Power of AI in Innovation Management
Leapfrogging
MARCH 19, 2024
As I delved deeper into the processes that underpin effective innovation management that AI could transform, I realized the potential for even greater disruption than I had thought. AI technologies include machine learning, natural language processing, robotics, and computer vision.
Discontinuous Innovation: Transforming Industries & Creating New Markets
Qmarkets
APRIL 17, 2024
In this article, we delve into the essence of discontinuous innovation, its impact on the competitive landscape, and how businesses can harness its transformative potential. This concept, often used interchangeably with radical and disruptive innovation, has nuances worth understanding.
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9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2024 and Beyond
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 23, 2024
In 2023, organizations continued to face significant challenges, from inflation to geopolitical turmoil to controversy over DEI and return-to-work policies — and 2024 promises more disruption. Employers who successfully navigate these will retain top talent and secure a competitive advantage for themselves.
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134 Getting to Yes Quickly: How Amazon Out-Innovates the Competition
Planview
JUNE 22, 2017
How does tech titan Amazon out-innovate its competition time-after-time? That’s a lot of innovation and disruption of an industry for one company. Most companies would feel lucky to have one innovative or disruptive idea. They have talented employees, resources, access to technology, and connections.
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Innovate or Die: Bold Action, Connected Minds, and a Leadership Team with Vision
eZassi
MARCH 15, 2022
Kodak – A late adaptor to digital photography, but a recent resurgence in technologies they’ve always mastered- new age imaging, printing and sought-after chemical production. Check out the full list of Fast Company’s Innovation by Design competition of last year’s winners. They ask questions like: Do we need an AI Officer?
Agility is the 2023 Success Factor
Leapfrogging
JANUARY 2, 2023
That’s because there’s never been more uncertainty – around technology, the economy, global-political turmoil, and just about everything else. As we’ve seen over and over, every product, service, and business model eventually gets disrupted. I’ve led teams in both big companies and startups.
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Blockchain: Distributed Shared Ledger Technology in Banking
hackerearth
OCTOBER 4, 2018
Over 90% of the world’s leading banks are either exploring, experimenting (PoCs), or formulating a strategy for leveraging blockchain technology, says an Accenture survey. But when it comes to intra-organizational processes, challenges arise due to process design and lack of mutual trust. Areas of impact. Sample use cases.
Boosting Innovation: Harnessing AI for New Product & Service Development
Leapfrogging
MARCH 19, 2024
AI technologies are enabling a more data-driven approach to innovation management, enhancing the ability to predict trends, understand consumer behavior, and generate creative ideas at scale. This proactive approach enables us to stay ahead of the competition by developing products and services that cater to emerging market demands.
Getting to Yes Quickly: How Amazon Out-Innovates the Competition
Planview
JUNE 22, 2017
How does tech titan Amazon out-innovate its competition time-after-time? That’s a lot of innovation and disruption of an industry for one company. Most companies would feel lucky to have one innovative or disruptive idea. They have talented employees, resources, access to technology, and connections.
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Powerful Innovation for Energy
eZassi
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Adjacent technologies impacting the energy industry can be harnessed by collaborative project teams of engineers and leading organizations who seek to modernize power systems and continue to utilize renewable resources. Utility companies need governmental and regional support to seek out new processes and improve their current technologies.
Getting Board Buy-In for Your Innovation Project
IdeaScale
APRIL 17, 2019
It’s not uncommon for corporate boards to lack strong expertise in the areas of innovation and technology. It turns out, getting buy-in from the board of directors can be particularly vexing due to the typical board makeup, their strengths, and their skills gaps. Boards Don’t Prioritize Innovation. Innovation ranks fifth.
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Embracing the Circular Economy through Enterprise Architecture
Tullio Siragusa
MAY 1, 2023
In a recent episode of the Tech Leaders Unplugged podcast, guests Rameshwar Balanagu, Chief Digital Officer at Intangles.ai, an expert in enterprise architecture, discussed the role of enterprise architecture in enabling the circular economy.
New HBS Study Highlights Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in the Boardroom
IdeaScale
DECEMBER 5, 2018
Disruption” is so commonplace a word that you practically expect your local preschool to promise to disrupt traditional childcare paradigms. Yet, a Harvard Business Review survey of 5,000 companies found it wasn’t a top strategic challenge, let alone a priority, for most boards.
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Knowing the different mindsets for Business Ecosystem Thinking?
Ecosystems4Innovating
MARCH 3, 2024
Layering over time additional processes and requirements placed upon them so often due to the constraints imposed by limited resources, funds and access to broader knowledge alters the reactive nature of a buisiness. Interconnectedness: Difference: Traditional Approach: Focus on standalone operations and competition.
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