BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts. Along with the recap, Inside the Executive Suite offered sixteen strategic thinking questions inspired by the Fanatics case study that you can use to explore agile strategy options within your own organization. Developing an Agile Strategy.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 14, 2017

I was at a committee meeting recently and one of the guiding principles adopted by the team was “agile decision making – the 80:20 rule”. When I inquired as to what “agile decision making” actually meant, I was informed that it meant accelerating planning by making fast decisions that did not need to be “perfect”.

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ImagineNation

JUNE 9, 2020

Similarly, today, where we are riding the wave of disruptive change; COVID-19, and range of chaotic global events, we have the chance to be mindfully present to sense and see the best learning opportunities and creative possibilities that the disruptive waves offer us, as they arise.

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ImagineNation

MAY 9, 2019

With a national election for a new Australian government about to take place in less than a weeks’ time, it raises key questions around the impact of collaborative, autocratic or competitive leadership styles. Whether the goal is to get people to work together across internal boundaries, or silos, or to create high performing, seamless and collaborative operating organisational cultures. Permission to freely share ideas, wisdom, knowledge, information, resources, and perspectives.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2017

22 Ice Breaker Questions on Disruptive Innovation and Uncertainty. We helped plan a full day event focused on disruptive innovation. That triggered creating an entirely new set of ice breaker questions linked to disruption or uncertainty in some way. Speaking of disruptive brands, what is your best Uber experience? Speaking of disruptive brands, what is your worst Uber experience? Brainzooming - All Posts Collaboration Creativity Tools disruptive innovation

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Idea to Value

JUNE 15, 2016

A light bulb went on for me as I was reading a series of reports from Deloitte University Press on disruption. I felt this nine patterns of disruption has the same huge potential to frame and dialogue around the potential within disruption. A new framing of connecting disruptive innovation. They have defined the nine patterns of disruption as shown in the graphic below. The nine patterns of disruption (according to Deloitte).

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

According to Andy Rowsell-Jones, VP at Gartner, “The CIO’s role must grow and develop as digital business spreads, and disruptive technologies, including intelligent machines and advanced analytics, reach the masses. When the Internet arrived 20 years ago, it necessitated roles such as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO). To do this, an approach that includes everyone and everything in the firm—people, collaboration, and technology—is required.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 30, 2020

In our blog “Leading and Managing Transitional Change” we described how leaders could help their people to transition through the fears and challenges they are experiencing as a result of the disruptive COVID-19 pandemic , by cultivating their mental toughness.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 5, 2021

In last month’s blog at ImagineNation we opened the door to a threshold for a new kind of co-creative, collaborative and cohesive team spirit to catalyse change through “innovation evangelism”.

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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. Unless well planned and executed, digital disruption – the inevitable deluge of new tools and processes that is part and parcel of refining digital business processes – can be akin to managing a natural disaster.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Managing Disruption. No business is immune from disruption. Whether this is changes in a commercial marketplace, a focus on new and emerging technology, or large-scale societal upheaval caused by completely unforeseen circumstances, disruption is inevitable.

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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. Unless well planned and executed, digital disruption – the inevitable deluge of new tools and processes that is part and parcel of refining digital business processes – can be akin to managing a natural disaster.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

If they measure something about the photon in the lab such as how fast it moves then immediately one knows the same information about the other photon. Guest blog by Trishna Patnaik – What is quantum physics, and how dos it relates to creativity, innovation, and consciousness?

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ImagineNation

MARCH 3, 2020

They also predict a big shift in the demand toward higher cognitive skills, including creativity, critical thinking, decision making, and complex information processing. Collectively and collaboratively engage in delivering purposeful and meaningful work.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Companies across multiple sectors have launched collaborative efforts to gather disruptive new ideas, harness new technologies, and achieve greater sustainability. Amplifying Agility via Corporate-Startup Collaboration. Large-scale companies are increasingly recognizing the enormous predictive potential offered by startups when it comes to anticipating disruption and ‘previewing’ the results of particular business ventures.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 31, 2022

It’s been almost two and a half years since the Covid-19 pandemic shifted most of us to working virtually and remotely which seriously disrupted most of our business-as-usual behaviours and learning habits.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The outcomes included increased cohesion, collaboration, and agility, making them resilient and sustainable as high performing and fast-moving effective teams – who responded quickly to change, often in the face of disruption and adversity. I since evolved Compass Learning, more than six years ago, into ImagineNation where our focus is on enabling people and organisation to be, think and act differently to adapt and grow through disruption.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 1, 2022

How might we support and enable others to stay mentally healthy and innovate despite all this chaos, disruption, and uncertainty? Make the time to reconnect and reset with others by safely sharing personal stories, information, ideas, and experiences.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

This also helps us develop our learning agility – “learning what to do when you don’t know what to do” especially important in a world of constant and disruptive change.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 9, 2019

Yet, according to Gallup , CEO’s, executive teams and leaders are the key catalysts towards creating a collaborative workplace culture. Especially as many organizations are moving towards initiating agile transformations, where the most fundamental and critical success factor is the ability to develop and support implementation efforts by creating a collaborative workplace culture. Compete or collaborate? Collaboration workplace culture examples.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 17, 2017

An AI could be “sitting” on your board of directors, at the right-hand of your CEO, informing and guiding major decisions. There is an apparent split between companies that find it easy to build a collaborative, customer-centric culture (smaller, more agile startup-type companies) and those that don’t (i.e., Many companies are not prepared for the disruptions that the coming digital transformation will cause and some haven’t even started thinking about it seriously.

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ImagineNation

MAY 3, 2022

Reminding us that coupled with the range of crises, uncertainty, and amount of emotional disruption we are experiencing now, going back to basic leadership 101 principles, like taking personal responsibility, might enable us to create a new inclusive and conscious leadership playbook.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

It is equally holding a new form of innovation back, one that is highly collaborative where partners come together to work on more complex problems. Collaborators can achieve solutions only by being “fully” connected up, comfortable with their data, understanding and contribution, both within their knowledge and insights. There also continues today that industry disruption is increasing, by those spotting both opportunity and weakness in present market players.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I am working with Jeffrey Phillips , a long-term collaborator on “all things concerning innovation.” The central place that alerts and informs a focal point and required passing through point for everything around innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

The 3H informs the decisions to be taken, by recognizing their importance to the future and ‘frame’ resource allocation, identify current capability gaps to resolve. There is a real need for a broader ecosystem approach that taps into a constellation of diverse and specialized players that all come together around a particular challenge, collaborating to deliver growing complex solutions that offer real growth value for the client.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2021

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. We need both informal mechanisms and formal ones.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 18, 2023

Companies not hitting their targets or attempting to achieve some type of transformation, such as cultural, digital, or agile, are all potential reasons for reorganizing portions of the company. And one that results in speed, agility, and custom focus. Blog post Disruption Proof

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

In the 21 st century it’s harder for large corporations to create disruptive breakthroughs. Disruptive innovations are coming from startups – Telsa for automobiles, Uber for taxis, Airbnb for hotel rentals, Netflix for video rentals and Facebook for media. Over the last decade, Intel missed two important disruptive trends. Which brings us to the fourth reason it’s harder for large corporations to offer disruptive breakthroughs: startups.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 22, 2020

Where we initially landed in a fog of disruptive change that settled into every fibre of our being. Help will build their receptivity, readiness to engage in and collaborate with others, and learn from, making their desired changes.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 22, 2020

Where we initially landed in a fog of disruptive change that settled into every fibre of our being. Help will build their receptivity, readiness to engage in and collaborate with others, and learn from, making their desired changes.

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Learning Disruption System Data 52

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

We are moving into innovation activities that are built more on collaborative and co-creation approaches, where cooperation and exchanges are more built around platforms and formed in ecosystems.These ecosystems gather around a concept or transformation that requires this collective approach and require a more radical design and become very unique in the end result. There are needs to explore the ways of working, collaborating and engaging and that alone is a massive undertaking.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing does have both the potential to point towards disrupting possibilities, extends the concept of open innovation into a wider source of participation from a diverse community not possible to reach by other means as effectively. The internet and social media have brought organisations closer to stakeholders, laying the groundwork for new ways of collaborating and creating value together like never before.

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Imaginatik

JULY 7, 2016

On July 20th, Imaginatik and MassChallenge will release our joint research study on the State of Corporate-Startup Collaboration for 2016. Rather quietly, many companies have built innovation teams that focus on: Developing proactive collaborations with the startup community – with a focus on flexible, informal, and agile partnerships. accelerators collabroration disruption startups

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 19, 2016

This year the barometer decided to explore the perceptions of the (informed) public for their thoughts on innovation’s growing impact and in particular, the future of work and they interviewed 1,346 to gain some useful insights and pointers that separate business and the citizen in their understandings. The ROI on Collaboration is constantly improving. The energy sector is ripe for disruption (again GE specific). Disruptive Innovation: the solution and the challenge.

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The Human Factor

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Whether you were busier than you ever dreamed because market conditions changed in your favor, or you were shut down, had supply chains completely disrupted, or found your customers were negatively impacted, 2020 tested us at work. Collaboration. Inform.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing does have both the potential to point towards disrupting possibilities, extends the concept of open innovation into a wider source of participation from a diverse community not possible to reach by other means as effectively. The internet and social media have brought organizations closer to stakeholders, laying the groundwork for new ways of collaborating and creating value together like never before.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Disrupting business as usual. This disrupts people from their “business as usual malaise” as it most likely represents a very different picture to what the present state, or current reality may look & feel like. They will make some, or all of these cognitive strategies to avoid the anxiety, discomfort, tension or confusion by; Avoiding; people will ignore, delete or deny the information, to move away for the pain or discomfort.

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Acuvate

DECEMBER 26, 2018

New digital technologies have improved the way we analyze data, collaborate with employees, communicate and make decisions. Most of these technologies undergo enhancements as better technologies arise leading to constant disruption. For example, enabling your employees to leverage the latest trend of AI-powered chatbot to dig in information from your existing intranets/applications by taking advantage of conversational interfaces.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 7, 2017

I still get overwhelmed by the sheer information overload or advice that seems to be offered. Agility Innovation Specialists. Bringing agility, flexibility, adaptability and learning into the innovation equation. This is a collaborative site I share with Jeffrey Phillips from Ovo Innovation. This is actually our fourth substantive collaboration here but this time we decided to turn our thinking into a regular viewpoint as the subject is presently evolving before us.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Then, we have the investments in structures, systems, and governance , making sure these are flexible and robust enough to make what we work upon, as r esponsive, agile, adaptive, exploitative and exploratory. how it is influencing much that is surrounding innovation, as it continues to disrupt in faster, demanding ways, where it deconstructs and then, it is forcing us to reconstruct our innovation thinking, so as to gain from all this transformation occurring all around us.

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Integrative Innovation

MARCH 16, 2014

This focus, however, often hinders them to explore new businesses, to drive radical innvation and to respond to disruptive shifts in their environment. Steve Blank puts it straight: After growing past their scrappy startup roots, large companies trying to master disruptive innovation face the ultimate irony; “the Innovator’s DNA” that’s needed has more than likely been purged from the organization. As outlined in earlier posts , organizations need to balance exploitation (i.e.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 17, 2015

We are moving towards a new management of innovation where ‘greater’ collaboration is fueling new business models built on platforms, formed around ecosystems of communities with vested interest, contributing and extracting value. We are evaluating and changing our existing focus from being closed up and having an exclusive internal orientation to innovation solutions, into ones that are having a far more open stance, more collaborative, open to external ideas and thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

Then that constant investment in people, networks and relationships, that need to come together and, finally the structures, systems and governance that are flexible enough to make what we work upon as responsive, agile, adaptive, exploitive and exploratory, to end up with great new ideas, things and finally, winning successful concepts. [link] – riding-the-wave.

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