Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

By adopting a composable approach, organizations can achieve greater agility, adaptability, and scalability in their innovation efforts. Solution Development Layer: Building Blocks : Design thinking, Agile methodology, MVP development, feature prioritization, testing, experimentation, and iteration.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence 148

Innov8rs

APRIL 7, 2024

Innov8rs | Breakthrough innovations are characterized by their ability to disrupt or redefine the competitive landscape, often rendering existing solutions obsolete. A key enabler is to build a culture of ambidexterity within the organization, where there is a balance between exploiting existing assets and exploring new opportunities.

Radical Innovation 72

Radical Innovation Innovation Culture Project 72

Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 10, 2024

Agile Decision-Making: Foster an agile decision-making process that allows for rapid adjustments based on feedback from various ecosystem stakeholders. Ecosystem Roadmap: Develop a roadmap for the strategic architecture of the innovation ecosystem, considering both short-term objectives and long-term sustainability.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Agile 52

Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Effective collaboration harnesses the collective intelligence of the team, leading to innovative solutions and a competitive edge in the market. Clear objectives act as a roadmap, guiding the team’s efforts and helping to measure success. Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART).

Collaboration 100

Collaboration Software Review Tools Technical Review 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration. Creating an innovation roadmap that outlines short-term and long-term initiatives. Establishing clear innovation metrics and KPIs to measure progress and success.

Artificial Inteligence 100

Artificial Inteligence Case Study Leadership Design Thinking 100

Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Introduction to the Hierarchy: The Hierarchy of Business Ecosystem Needs is a construct of collaborative ecosystems, navigating complexity with agility, openness, and shared vision. Interconnected solutions and systems contribute to overall growth and competitiveness. We are navigating complexity in a rapidly changing environment.

Collaboration 64

Collaboration Design Leadership Competition 64

Wazoku

JUNE 15, 2016

Innovation agility enables reduced times to market. Role of culture in innovation. Adopting more agile working practices and allowing for more decentralised innovation, engenders innovation more holistically across the organisation – and this can have significant benefits. New skills, behaviours and values are required.

Agile 49

Agile Innovation Culture Leadership 49

PlanBox Innovation

JUNE 27, 2023

As a leader, you understand the importance of innovation management in maintaining a competitive edge, much like a motorcyclist constantly adjusts their balance and direction when navigating a challenging road. This includes focusing on general culture and collaboration to foster a supportive environment for innovation.

Innovation 75

Innovation Innovation Management Leadership Culture of Innovation 75

Planview

OCTOBER 16, 2023

With dedicated platforms, the emphasis on measuring value outcomes becomes more pronounced, fostering a culture of accountability and results-oriented strategies. By interconnecting value streams, organizations can drastically reduce lead times, making delivery more predictable and agile.

Report 64

Report Technical Review Management Software Review 64

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 11, 2019

We need to manage reskilling and upskilling to mitigate against both job losses and talent shortages but prepared the future workforce to be more nimble, agile and fluid. When we feel our culture to innovate is wrong, what should we do about it? A proactive and strategic effort is needed but based on what? Not a bad thing in my mind.

Artificial Inteligence 263

Artificial Inteligence Innovation Agile Engagement 263

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Seeking out a working Sustainable Competitive Advantage (SCA). Plotting out the roadmap for innovations evolution. Structural evaluations into routines, procedures, systems, culture etc. Building agility and responsiveness to constantly changing market conditions. By asking a bunch of questions.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Innovation Collaboration Roadmap 148

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

We need to create a digital transformation strategy, a clear roadmap and build the business case as it is going to be, well, umm…… transformational. Forming a strategy, roadmap and business case needs real considerations. So I need to pick it apart. Not easy but a challenge.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Roadmap Agile Engagement 100

Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To get the outcomes the executives are expecting from innovation, they’d need to build an agile organization where innovation happens at scale. As so many organizations are embarking on this journey towards becoming more innovative and agile, there’s unfortunately a lot of fake agile and innovation theater out there.

Agile 302

Agile Innovation Technical Review Leadership 302

etventure

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When you join a roadmap meeting and you hear people talking about the “MVP”, you better make sure they are actually talking basketball before you throw in your favorite Michael Jordan story. The term has its origins in Silicon Valley, where technology companies battle to find ways to innovate faster – and gain competitive advantage.

Roadmap 72

Roadmap Product Development Agile Leadership 72

hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

To become really innovative, your company needs a special culture, a new mindset across all levels, disciplines, and functions. This special team needs to be strategic, tactical, agile and fast. The strategy and the roadmap towards the desired innovation-driven mode are critical. Team Responsibilities.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review How To Software Review Ideation 68

hackerearth

APRIL 30, 2018

Today, companies are trying to deal with huge amounts of data, lots of tech advances, and disruptive business models in a highly competitive environment, and the thought cloud has just about burst! Only then does it ensure the blooming of the right culture, which encourages tech advancement faster than ever. So, do we need a CDO?

CTO 56

CTO Roadmap Strategy Strategy 56

Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

Underperforming Technical Team 83

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Disruption Marketing 83

David Marks

MAY 19, 2017

They differ in their culture, openness to change and new ideas. The Natural monopoly axis measures the degree of which a company is shielded from competition. New technologies, competitors, regulations and social trends have a nasty habit of diminishing competitive advantages so laboriously accumulated.

Company 40

Company Analysis Competition Comparison 40

Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

Underperforming Technical Team 72

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture Disruption 72

Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 8, 2016

Leaders must change before they have to, and they must enable their organization to surf the incoming global shockwaves with intelligence, agility, strength, and command.”. “When they do, leaders and organizations can actually accelerate performance,” adds Sweetman. “It’s no longer enough to change when you have to.

Disruption 40

Disruption Technical Review Software Review Agile 40

Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Global manufacturing executives rank “skilled talent” as their #1 competitive differentiator. But how do you hire for creativity, innovation and strategic thinking, and create the right culture to support and develop it? Most importantly, they will need the right cultural matrix to support agile operations and flexible work.

Leadership 40

Leadership Artificial Inteligence Technology Culture 40

David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Companies get away with it because most of the time the competition does indeed comes from existing players. Had these companies a culture of learning, openness, and cooperation something of the following would have occurred. And then of course there is the matter of corporate culture. A ‘better the devil we know’ attitude.

Industry 40

Industry Innovation Management Management Technical Review 40

Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

As the additional data points evaluated to produce a winning new product development roadmap increase and get more diverse, managing, tracking, and pivoting this information instantly will become vital for informed decision-making and product performance.

Product Development 69

Product Development Innovation Management Management Trends 69

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 5, 2024

Business ecosystems give strategic advantages that offer levels of uniqueness and competitive advantage and can fulfil customer needs far more than “stand-alone” solutions. By uniting with like-minded partners, you gain the agility to challenge industry incumbents, introducing innovation that reshapes market dynamics.

Collaboration 130

Collaboration Disruption Design Industry 130

The Inovo Group

APRIL 17, 2017

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., By reducing economic friction, digitalization enables competition that pressures revenue and profit growth.

Disruption 40

Disruption Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Tips 40

ITONICS

APRIL 4, 2018

The way how new business models evolve depends to a large extent on how companies adapt their established value-added processes and structures to environmental changes and on how they face competition. This will challenge your company’s culture and its willingness to embrace change.

Technical Review 47

Technical Review Agile Roadmap Competition 47

Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 23, 2024

It enables agile responses to internal and external changes, ensuring the organization can navigate uncertainties effectively. Innovation and Agility: Single Organization: Within an organization, the hierarchy fosters a culture of innovation. It builds those dynamic capabilities required in today’s uncertain environment.

ChatGPT 52

ChatGPT Collaboration Design Leadership 52

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

I could outline countless ways to work through different examples, set about a strategic and operational digital transformation roadmap, to combine effective knowledge from people and excellence gained from what you need to do in IT and your technologies to get this going, but I will not here, as this is an opening primer, not a solution.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 133

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

I could outline countless ways to work through different examples, set about a strategic and operational digital transformation roadmap, to combine effective knowledge from people and excellence gained from what you need to do in IT and your technologies to get this going, but I will not here, as this is an opening primer, not a solution.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 120

David Marks

JUNE 22, 2017

No, they are culturally open. An open culture encourages employees to share and develop new ideas. Technology leadership forges a competitive advantage. It’s strategy, processes and culture are aligned and optimized for innovation. Why are some companies more innovative than others? They are better led.

Innovation 40

Innovation Culture Leadership Roadmap 40

Business and Tech

MARCH 18, 2022

Over 200 recent studies concluded that inclusive cultures bring in greater profits. I categorize the challenges facing women in business into four areas: personal, interpersonal, socio-cultural, and socio-economic. Nicola Greenway SVP – Human Resources, Takeda. What are the top challenges facing women in business today?

Resources 130

Resources Industry Management Collaboration 130

David Marks

MAY 19, 2017

In this blog post I’ll explain how it can be applied to explaining the competitive position of companies. Some companies, such as Apple, rely on a strong brand culture that effectively blinds their fans to the very existence of viable alternatives. But it provides companies with sufficient time to take measures against new competition.

Software Review 40

Software Review Technical Review Competition Comparison 40

David Marks

APRIL 11, 2017

Over the past decade, industries far and wide, from publishing, advertisement, music, retail, hospitality and transportation seen revenues diminish and/or potential customers flock to new competition from teenage and toddler companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Uber, AirBNB, Netflix and Spotify.

Disruption 40

Disruption Company Technical Review Comparison 40

Acuvate

JUNE 1, 2022

Industries worldwide are implementing digital technologies to use data as a competitive advantage. However, legacy systems do not provide a flexible and agile analytics ecosystem and lack the capability to handle modern-day data complexities. Being scalable is imperative for surviving in the present-day competitive landscape.

Data 52

Data Roadmap Tools Competition 52

Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Was their size and rapid growth diluting their design-driven culture? After enjoying almost total market domination, Intuit finally was beginning to face some competition. A focus on profits and products had watered down their culture of user-focused design. Solving for the innovator’s dilemma.

Design 104

Design Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software 104