Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Growing faster by changing your innovation narrative. Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers.

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Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 318

InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Leadership Innovation Manifesto. This “manifesto” will break down 7 core beliefs leaders need in order to move forward, embrace change, and secure their place at the top of their industry. Innovator’s DNA, Updated, with a New Preface: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Find it here.

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Innovation Tips Design Thinking LEAN 97

Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Disruptive Innovation is not a linear process. This is why we need to change a few aspects of the traditional innovation management approach to encourage employees to become intrapreneurs and drive more breakthrough results. this will drive more disruptive innovation as a cultural change.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

In this guide, we’re unpacking eight critical types of innovation that businesses leverage to carve out their niches, disrupt markets, and write their success stories. Each category plays a critical role in a company’s growth and adaptation, offering unique paths to market leadership and resilience.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 15, 2020

The consulting industry was already being disrupted before the coronavirus. Now the disruption is accelerating. If you work with consultants or have your own consultancy, take note: Things are changing, fast. Remote work , lean budgets , and the need for contingency plans are three big trends impacting the industry.

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Change Software Review Disruption Technical Review 55

Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

However, innovation labs and teams were never (or at least rarely) going to create breakthroughs or disruptive innovations. The future of successful innovation labs is NOT to take on the responsibility of invention or figuring out new business models that will disrupt their industry. The “disruptive innovation” era is over.

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Disruption Innovation LEAN Competition 40

Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These words include adjectives such as "lean", "agile" and "rapid", to make the point that innovation should be stripped to its bare components, move as fast as possible and create minimum viable solutions. No amount of lean tools or agile methodology will change that. When can you move fast?

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ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In last month’s blog , we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration, and described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed sustainable innovative workplace culture change. Innovation teams are teams that don’t innovate!

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the perfusion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. In either case, companies are frequently forced to reinvent themselves by changing the way they have been doing business so far.

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100%Open

DECEMBER 18, 2023

” This underscores the necessity of cultivating a progressive mindset within leadership before honing the requisite skillset for high performance. Without a focus on fostering a culture of innovation, leaders are ill-prepared to challenge the status quo, encourage new ideas, and drive transformative change.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

However, for every Steve Jobs or Elon Musk who has famously steered their companies through the maelstrom of change, countless unsung leaders, often within the more traditional corporate structures, want to cultivate the culture that innovation requires within their organisation. It’s for those that I write this article!

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It's Saul Connected

MAY 26, 2015

There’s plenty of time for change management once we’ve demonstrated new models worth changing into. Exploring and testing new business models is strategy development before it’s change management. Leaders vested and working in the core must be prevented from leaning against and blocking ongoing R&D for new business models.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Thought Leadership Contributions to the discourse on innovation via publications, media appearances, etc. For instance, when addressing a gathering of senior executives, the content might lean more towards strategic insights rather than operational details. Credentials Academic and professional qualifications related to innovation.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

The information collected in these Q&As will act as valuable assets for anyone wanting to make clear the real need for more adaptive product development and to show that an accelerated process is still highly possible, even in the face of consistent disruptions. The majority of our questions feel into this download here.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Yet sporadic innovation is not enough to keep up with changing markets and evolving demanding customer needs. At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, Jeffrey Phillips (Senior Strategy and Innovation Consultant) discussed what it takes to build an innovation capability for continuous innovation.

How To 59

How To Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture 59

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Growing faster by changing your innovation narrative. Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers.

Innovation 130

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Growing faster by changing your innovation narrative. Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers.

Innovation 130

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Daniel Burrus

MARCH 11, 2020

Technology-driven change will continue to accelerate at an exponential rate. Now that quantum computing has recently entered an early phase of application, exponential change will accelerate. Therefore, it is time to turn accelerating change into an advantage by leaning to anticipate and think exponentially!

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Changing prices, new packaging, different marketing tactics, trying new sales scripts, improving support, partnering with or acquiring synergistic companies — there’s an endless list of things a company might do to protect or extend existing revenues. Business model changes. Most companies DO NOT NEED disruptive innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 10, 2017

Determine and provide clarity about your targets If you want incremental innovation - small changes to existing products and services - then say so. If you want radical disruptive change, build to it, don't attempt it at the start, until your teams have some innovation experience.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

Although the term “innovation” has found a place in everyday diction, true, game-changing innovation still remains elusive. They promote innovation leadership. Taking a holistic view of the complete customer journey along with new experiences that a product or service offers leads to disruption.

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Company LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 77

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

A company needs to make reasonable bets across the incremental, transformative and disruptive horizons in proportions that make sense based on competition and speed of change. The average time an executive is in a role in a corporation is about 3-4 years, and significant cultural change will take much longer.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 12, 2020

The predictability of disruption as an innovation accelerator is a central component of the Anticipatory Organization Model , focusing closely on how Anticipatory Organizations and Anticipatory Leaders can look at disruption and see enormous opportunities. The untimely situation we have been facing with COVID-19 is no exception.

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Trends Disruption Technology Examples 98

Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Even organizations large and small have learned how to be lean and agile while executing a strategy at a high level. To thrive in this new age of hyper-technological disruption and change, it is imperative to learn a new competency: Becoming Anticipatory. It’s something that will happen: a future fact that cannot be changed.

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Trends Agile Disruption LEAN 53

Planview

JUNE 3, 2022

But the real challenge isn’t in setting the strategy – it’s in keeping the ship on course, over time, especially as conditions change. What happens when the direction needs to change five degrees, when the ship is already in motion? Strategic drift needs to be on your radar: The cost of drift has truly never been greater.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. Senior team not aligned or embracing Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. But if you don’t start believing that you need to disrupt yourselves before somebody else does, you’re likely going to get disrupted by somebody else.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 98

Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 13, 2016

This slight rant of mine was started when I saw a new software application talk about its ability to help its clients in agile lean innovation. Lean is about stripping away unnecessary assets to focus on doing the most with the least. Lean is about stripping away unnecessary assets to focus on doing the most with the least.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Innovation has been rapidly changing and much of its basics have been swallowed up by some newly defining frameworks that have raced up to the top of the innovation agenda. The movement towards the different crowdsourcing techniques and all the variations (or derivation’s) of ‘ crowd’ and co-creation ’ have changed the game.

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Technical Review Innovation System Change 174

Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2016

A Question: If you could ask those that lead innovation, your senior organizational leadership, a series of question that might help unlock innovation blockages, now would that be valuable? What would happen if you could get the leadership in a room together to discuss innovation which would allow innovation dialogues to emerge?

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Innovation Leadership Management Culture 145

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Industry borders are blurring, there are increasingly smaller, agile and highly disruptive companies working to change the existing into the new preferred. Changing established perceptions is extremely hard but potentially very rewarding. The whole concept of cross-industry is to seek out new ideas. Turning “yes but”….into

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Industry Trends LEAN Change 215

Moves the Needle

JANUARY 21, 2019

They invest millions into these projects with the hopes of disrupting the norm, transforming their company culture, and catering to the markets of the future, but they have not actually figured out a fool-proof strategy for generating this innovation, let alone how they are going to align these innovation plans with their ultimate business goals.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Strategy Leadership 72

Innov8rs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

At our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management, Elisa Farri (Vice President and Co-lead at Capgemini Invent's Management Lab) and Gabriele Rosani (Director of Content and Research at Capgemini Invent's Management Lab) shared insights from their recent research on this topic.

Innovation 52

Innovation Tools Competition LEAN 52

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2016

A Question: If you could ask those that lead innovation, your senior organizational leadership, a series of questions that might help unlock innovation blockages, now would that be valuable? What would happen if you could get the leadership in a room together to discuss innovation which would allow innovation dialogues to emerge?

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Innovation Leadership Management Culture 145

Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

That industry tries to convince companies that they need to stave off disruption that is inevitably coming for them. So, you must do breakthrough innovation, or what Clayton Christensen called disruptive innovation. Senior leadership must establish the mindset of, “We need to be entrepreneurial. We need to move faster.

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Innovation Programs Innovation LEAN Culture 52

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

Innov8rs

AUGUST 22, 2023

It’s easy to set an ambition to create a pipeline and portfolio of new ventures and investments that disrupt existing markets and create new ones. To succeed with corporate venture building, lean on one of the main resources you already have: your people. Is leadership really on board, and do they put their money where their mouth is?

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Marketing Roadmap Disruption Management 52