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Uncharted Waters Disrupting the Corporate Boardrooms

Paul Hobcraft

When you read a report that has within its executive summary this: “ In combination the boards stand unarmed to enter the battlefield of future business creation in a disrupted world ” it makes you want to read on. It wanted to address the skill-set at board level to handle digital disruption and the urgency to act proactively.

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Sorting through our Innovation Management Tools

Paul Hobcraft

We all are caught up in handling and understanding different management tools. There are management tools that have become ‘enshrined’ in organizations and many of the executives become settled on the ones they have bothered to learn or seemingly do the job. Tracking the trends on Management Tools.

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Market Disruption vs. Business Disruption: The Inertial Disruption Factor

Legacy Innovation Group

Market Disruption vs. Business Disruption: The Inertial Disruption Factor. Jan 30, 2015 | Anthony Mills. Rock the market with a major disruption, and there will be a rocking effect back on the business and its supporting ecosystem. In this case the inertial disruption factor is very small.

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Disruptive Energy.

100%Open

By any measure, that was a disruptive statement. Yet if climate change is going to be managed, we’ve got to make it easier for consumers to make good choices. The Kyoto Protocol followed in 1997, with the Paris Agreement in 2015 setting meaningful targets that might just be enough to achieve the required changes.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

However, very few managers are able to explain their company’s business model ad-hoc, and even fewer can define what a business model actually is in general. Alex Osterwalder defines a business model as “a set of assumptions or hypotheses” and Michael Lewis claims that “all it really meant was how you planned to make money” (Ovans, 2015).

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Future Squared Episode #13: Whitney Johnson on Disrupting Yourself | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Whitney Johnson was recognized as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers in 2015, and was a finalist for the Top thinkers on Talent at the biennial Thinkers50 ceremony in London. She is best known for her work on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption.

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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

Have you ever worked for a manager or boss who did not want to hear bad news? I once had a manager who I was working with on a money-raising program. However, my manager instructed me to continue showing predictions that it was perfectly possible that we would meet the targets, something I argued with him about often.