Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We call rapidly growing startups that have found what is commonly referred to as “product/market fit” and a viable business model a ScaleUp, because they now find themselves facing an inflection point that signals an even more daunting stage of maturity. Of course, not all friction is bad. They are real. But they are manageable.

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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. Developing any new concept requires recognizing its specific elements of required knowledge, operational requirements, and our future world, plugging into the human-AI collaboration.

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CMOE

MAY 4, 2023

Project managers face a range of challenges in their day-to-day life including poor project planning, lack of communication, and lack of accountability. A project manager should be able to effectively communicate with teams, clients, and other stakeholders involved in the project.

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CMOE

MAY 7, 2021

When a team leader delegates responsibilities to individual contributors, it illustrates the leader’s belief in their potential—this can save nearly 79 percent of team members from quitting. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

A recent McKinsey Leading Off – Essentials for leaders and those they lead email newsletter, referred to an article “The organization of the future: Enabled by gen AI, driven by people” which stated that digitization, automation, and AI will reshape whole industries and every enterprise.

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CMOE

JULY 23, 2021

Unfortunately, there aren’t enough executive leaders who invest time into strategy— 85 percent of executive leadership teams invest less than one hour each month on strategy, while 50 percent do not spend any time on strategy at all. Strategy Compels Leaders to Stay Focused on Short-Term & Long-Term Growth.

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Daniel Burrus

JULY 17, 2019

This is what I refer to as “legacy thinking.” As you probably know, legacy technology refers to old forms of technology that are simply no longer optimal. Like legacy technology, legacy thinking refers to thinking, strategies and other actions that are outdated and no longer serve you to the extent that they once had.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. Design thinking is a step above “customer development” because it takes a real human approach to getting to the root of an intrinsic problem. While agile focuses on build velocity, lean focuses on customer traction velocity.”

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

It is often really hard to let go, the environment was something you had become used to, you accepted and become resigned to its weaknesses and constantly exploited its possibilities or even possibly the other way round. Ignoring the power of choice within change is dangerous. Constructing a climate for any transformation is hard.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Still I came away with a 50% achievement mark which was not so bad on the overall innovation intent I had set myself but one area was very frustrating to move forward upon- the subject of risk and how it is treated in innovation management. Blood pressure pills came in handy here also.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

Would that be so bad? And Agility For All. The first thing that you would notice about them is that people’s work revolves around a key concept, agility. Say, you are not an agile organization. If agility is, indeed, the oxygen to survive overtime, how can we inject more and more of it into your company?

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The article I reference is in Inc. A teacher figures out where a student is, their “zone of proximal development” The teacher then scaffolds the students thinking, using various tools, to make new connections and learn. Why Innovation Sessions Have a Bad Reputation. Magazine by Jessica Stillman. Get in touch!

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 22, 2019

False consensus bias contributes to making bad decisions when we design software. Have you ever heard anyone on your team say, “what if the customer wanted [some feature]?” Cooper used the term “the elastic user” to reference this shape-shifting, need-changing user who encompasses all edge cases. What are personas? Why use them?

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

The TRIZ acronym comes from it’s original Russian name, and in English it is often referred to as a “theory of inventive problem solving” or TIPS. What it is: One of the most challenging aspects of innovation for most companies is not the generating of ideas, or the development of new innovations.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality. We fail to invest in foresight and insight, continually not adapting and adjusting our organizational skill set around a more agile, adaptive, highly responsive innovating and creative organization.

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CMOE

APRIL 26, 2021

When a team leader delegates responsibilities to individual contributors, it illustrates the leader’s belief in their potential—this can save nearly 79 percent of team members from quitting. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities.

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The Human Factor

APRIL 26, 2016

I’m talking about essential interpersonal skills, sometimes referred to as “people skills”, like building relationships, solving problems, communicating effectively and resolving conflict. The bad news is that it’s only available in elementary schools. Develop an increased sense of connection and social responsibility.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

Can we find ways to be highly adaptable, agile and fluid in grabbing and taking the parts of the innovation system and constructing them into that design and process that works for that specific challenge? We need to design our systems to be highly agile. Where is innovation within this? These help us to figure out what is changing.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2018

In psychology and economics, loss aversion refers to people’s tendency to prefer avoiding losses to acquiring equivalent gains. There is no way to ensure that customers are going to see the same value in what you are developing as you do, and most companies are terrible at actually being able to execute on an idea.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

The digitization might be specific internal processes, tools, or operational components, or can refer to a complete revamp of a company’s products and services. They are not agile. But enterprise organizations have been known to exhibit “not built here” syndrome, meaning, they don’t trust solutions that weren’t developed in-house.

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Moves the Needle

JULY 31, 2018

If you answered yes, you know exactly the type of occurrence we are referring to. This is commonly referred to as Product-Market fit. The business understands the market and has developed a proven, scalable blueprint to winning the market. The entire business must transition to a growth driven organization. What’s the ROI?

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eZassi

MARCH 28, 2019

Innovation solutions can also be particular to the innovation industry, which is tasked with partnering with companies to create a culture of innovation and help develop meaningful innovations. In this case, the term can refer to a whole suite of tools that are used to drive innovation within companies. And much more!

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

A major change for the industry was the move to the software as a service (SaaS) model, often referred to as “the cloud.” Intuit had developed its mobile platform late in the game, creating an inconsistent experience. Hanson, in turn, put together a team of nine people to help her.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 19, 2018

In contrast, strategies based on Technology Drivers investigate problems, many of them unarticulated, and explore how the latest developments are reshaping various sectors. This is where the relationship between the organization’s innovation strategy and its profile of strengths and weaknesses comes into play.

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Innovation 360

JUNE 20, 2018

In contrast, strategies based on Technology Drivers investigate problems, many of them unarticulated, and explore how the latest developments are reshaping various sectors. This is where the relationship between the organization’s innovation strategy and its profile of strengths and weaknesses comes into play.

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Underperforming Technical Team Radical Innovation Technical Review Software Review 40

Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

The platform environment is mostly characterized by a tension between collboration and competition of the participating companies, often referred to as coopetition. But even participating in other firms’ ecosystems can be highly attractive, as demonstrated by e.g. several app developers.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 19, 2016

Entirely new ways of serving needs, massively changing value chains disrupted constantly will require highly agile responses as the growing access to global digital platforms will oust well-established incumbents with improving on quality, speed, price and availability to serve emerging needs that are highly valued by the end user.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 23, 2017

“This new mode of organization—a ‘network of teams’ with a high degree of empowerment, strong communication, and rapid information flow—is now sweeping businesses and governments around the world.” – Gen. Work is organized by programs and projects and done by purpose-built teams. Sense and sort signals – strong and weak.

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The Human Factor

MAY 24, 2016

It is all part of what I refer to as the science of thinking. The human brain evolved by developing the ability to quickly identify and avoid predators. ESTWTWID , or Everyone Sees the World the Way I Do , is a leading cause of miscommunication and bad decision-making. and similar destructive thinking language.

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The Human Factor

MAY 24, 2016

It is all part of what I refer to as the science of thinking. The human brain evolved by developing the ability to quickly identify and avoid predators. ESTWTWID , or Everyone Sees the World the Way I Do , is a leading cause of miscommunication and bad decision-making. and similar destructive thinking language.

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Underperforming Technical Team Data Industry Course 44

Boxes and Arrows

JULY 10, 2008

However, there still remains much to discuss about what makes a UX team dreamy. We’ll also touch on the quality of an individual’s personality that may or may not complement the others on your team. Remember, a toxic person is often manipulative and they may seem great on the surface, so check references.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

Too often the team gets all the way through building the product to find out they can’t explain the product. Teams can often go heads down on building the thing because explaining it is too hard, only to find that they can’t explain it after it is built. HR for AI teams. Expand the pitch into a presentation.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 31, 2008

first creating wireframes, which are handed off to creative, who hand off comps to tech, and so forth), and you want to explore more contemporary methodologies, such as agile and iterative development. The way that look and feel is developed and applied will vary widely from team to team.

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 29, 2014

By establishing a constant stream of non-biased opinions and open lines of communication which are immune to politics and ever-shifting strategies, research keeps design and development efforts grounded in what should already be the application’s first priority–the user. Different from analytics. Setting boundaries.

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