Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This blog is about agility. The word “agility” is used a lot in the world of management, especially the world of innovation management. There is a real Quest for Agility: Agility seems the new Holy Grail and you can hardly find an article or blog post without a reference to “the fast changing circumstances” of the business.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

A culture that embraces change and is open to new ideas will naturally drive innovation, leading to greater business growth and the development of competitive advantages. Moreover, in today’s fast-paced business environment, agility and resilience are essential for long-term success.

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ITONICS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Roadmapping has been used in industry for a while and recently has been extensively scientifically analyzed and further developed. All companies from corporations to SMEs need a quick and effective opportunity to deal with the topic of roadmapping, identify new technologies and embed them in their own corporate strategy.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

By adopting a composable approach, organizations can achieve greater agility, adaptability, and scalability in their innovation efforts. Platform Components : Rapid prototyping tools, user testing software, customer feedback management tools, and project and portfolio building.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 7, 2024

Innov8rs | Breakthrough innovations are characterized by their ability to disrupt or redefine the competitive landscape, often rendering existing solutions obsolete. This involves creating a supportive infrastructure that can handle the ambiguity and uncertainty inherent in radically innovative projects.

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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).

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ITONICS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Roadmapping has been used in industry for a while and recently has been extensively scientifically analyzed and further developed. All companies from corporations to SMEs need a quick and effective opportunity to deal with the topic of roadmapping, identify new technologies and embed them in their own corporate strategy.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes. Speakers may discuss project management tools and techniques that can help streamline the implementation process and ensure that the innovative solutions achieve their intended impact.

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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. How can we project ourselves beyond those that know us? We need to build our personal roadmap. A proactive and strategic effort is needed but based on what?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Creating an innovation roadmap that outlines short-term and long-term initiatives. An innovation keynote speaker might emphasize the significance of this culture and how it can be the driving force behind sustainable growth and competitive advantage. Establishing clear innovation metrics and KPIs to measure progress and success.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I had worked with SCRUM before, done training with Ken Schwaber (author 1 and co-founder of the Agile Alliance) and knew a few things from experience about how to achieve some success integrating a design team within SCRUM. Where did Agile come from? Agile can be thought of as a risk-management strategy.

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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.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

We all sketch before we design, but too often the sketches go in a drawer when the project starts, often never to be seen again. One team I’ve worked with helps bridge this gap on strategic projects by maintaining an “experience roadmap.” The roadmap is a collection of prototypes showing what each release will look like.

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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! Why do we need another C level position for that? So, do we need a CDO? Neither the CEO nor the COO is equipped to deal with all these elements.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This special team needs to be strategic, tactical, agile and fast. The strategy and the roadmap towards the desired innovation-driven mode are critical. The team must be capable of capturing and interpreting market and competition insights, trends and predictions. Handle the noise, Avoid disruption. Product experts. IP experts.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 15, 2018

The mix of digital ingredients and having the approach to building a more agile, flexible and modular design approach gives a strong impression they are driving much innovation within the Insurance Industry. In a further update in January 2018, I have lifted out this slide from the Equity Story on why you should invest in Munich Re.

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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. His projects have received prizes in the areas of leadership and change.

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David Marks

MAY 19, 2017

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. While option 2 is clearly riskier, it offers a potential of remaining competitive.

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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.

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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.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture Disruption 72

Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Global manufacturing executives rank “skilled talent” as their #1 competitive differentiator. Most importantly, they will need the right cultural matrix to support agile operations and flexible work. We use these as benchmarks to identify gaps and develop a roadmap for each organization. They are survival skills.

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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.

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David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Companies get away with it because most of the time the competition does indeed comes from existing players. Further the company should have a balanced portfolio of projects across different innovation horizons, and various areas of its value chain. The first is that industry focused tends to mean competitor focused.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2017

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. My opening roadmap for our individual future design is built on connecting and collaborating.

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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. C = Creativity: Your ability to harness creativity will create your competitive advantage in today’s extremely dynamic environment.

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Be-novative

APRIL 21, 2021

Connecting people virtually to co-create in a purpose-driven way accelerates positive business outcomes and unites people in finding meaning in transformative change, that is why Purpose & Co-creation projects are trending in 2021. The next 5-year outlook on the way we work and manage projects ??

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

There is a rub here, most transformation projects seem to fail. We need to ask can this lead to disruption, ours and others for competitive advantage? The key to innovation is clear; it is experimentation and this needs flexibility, to adapt, be agile, to test ideas. Now that really does become transforming.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

There is a rub here, most transformation projects seem to fail. We need to ask can this lead to disruption, ours and others for competitive advantage? The key to innovation is clear; it is experimentation and this needs flexibility, to adapt, be agile, to test ideas. Now that really does become transforming.

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Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 120

Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

After enjoying almost total market domination, Intuit finally was beginning to face some competition. A different company wouldn’t have tried to pull off a project as risky as Harmony. Any manager at Intuit could request an Innovation Catalyst to help them drive design and experimentation on their projects.

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