Christensen Institute

JANUARY 2, 2024

The decline in enrollment in higher education, disruptive alternatives to higher education, demographic declines, and the continued rise in spending by higher education. But the basis of competition is shifting. When disruptive innovation is afoot, competition follows predictable patterns. What’s driving this ?

Trends 52

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In Part 1 of this blog series, I highlighted that disruption in health care is increasingly present at many points along the consumer value chain. Key takeaways to recall from that first post are as follows: Disruption doesn’t stop where it starts. What happens when disruptors move up-market? Three strategies for the path forward.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It is a very disrupting, disturbing world. We have to push this into more of the cross-sector cascading effects of disruptions. This becomes a critical point of any dynamics of future disruption. Technological disruption is altering all we do. This was the most disruptive space for innovation and technology to be applied.

Disruption 130

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Planview

APRIL 6, 2023

When you transform one value stream, that value stream shows the improved benefits of speed to customer value, greater security, reduced errors, and risk mitigation of digital disruption. Speed of software delivery is either a competitive advantage or a startling disadvantage in the digital age. They design for speed of business.

Competition 52

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the fourth conversation between Jeffrey Phillips and myself around parts of the Executive Innovation Work Mat, we took on several different issues around the design, function, structure and process needs for innovation. The ability to manage innovation design, function, structure and process.

Design 130

Design Creativity Agile Resources 130

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The building blocks of open innovation building towards Business Ecosystem design. Crowdsourced Innovation Challenges: Description: Design and launch innovation challenges that involve a broader network, inviting external contributors to solve specific business problems or contribute novel ideas.

Open Innovation 147

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This requires all businesses to face rapidly changing business environments to design their response rates and abilities to react differently. It is the connecting up of opportunities with the ability to design the solution in highly exploratory and exploring ways of learning that begin to break down complexity and see new ways to evolve.

Examples 147

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Firstly why are business ecosystems emerging as a real competitive force? It is not one single product that is chased in crowded, highly competitive fields. The more disruptive you seek to make your solution, the more the ecosystem must be shaped, changed, or created. There is a caveat to this need to change.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 13, 2024

Putting Ecosystems into Organizations context in thinking and design : -*- The Evolutionary Nature of Ecosystem Designs : To harness the full potential of ecosystems, increased interactions and tightly controlled activities are required.

ChatGPT 147

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Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In our last Thursday Theory Tips piece, we explored disruption as a theory of competition. In this piece, we’ll explore one of the two types of disruption: new market disruptions and, consequently, market-creating innovations (MCIs)— the specific spark that births a new market structure. What about competition?

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Leapfrogging

AUGUST 9, 2017

Want Disruptive Digital Innovation? At some point every industry and every organization will face disruption. Why is creating competitive differentiation increasingly difficult? Disrupt using data. Here are 5 Business Model Strategies and Tools for Strategic Business Growth. Do we need a new strategy and business model?

Disruption 133

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 10, 2023

How can you differenitate your business from the competition? Dyson disrupted the vacuum cleaner market by creating bagless vacuum cleaners, a concept that challenged the traditional vacuum design and improved performance. Let’s look at some examples of lateral thinking in business strategy and innovation.

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Strategy Strategy Software Policies 169

Ecosystems4Innovating

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Our existing business organizations need to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical constant change. We need to transform or be (totally) disrupted; this is where knowing your ecosystem and network comes in as the new thinking and design of how this needs to be constructed and understood.

Disruption 52

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

This is approaching innovation and its management in more of a holistic, technology-enabled way based on the use of a cloud-enabled Platform and Ecosystem thinking and design. This agility allows them to seize new opportunities, stay ahead of competitors, and effectively navigate uncertainties and disruptions in the business landscape.

Agile 182

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

I wonder if that is the current incumbents, be these current innovation management software providers or individuals inside the organizations resisting change, as it brings significant uncertainty of change and disruption to the (inadequate) process, one that I feel is not fit for today’s and tomorrow’s innovation purpose.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2022

Firstly the work mat offers an open design that gives a framework for a comprehensive dialogue of what is central to the make-up of innovation. It allows you to compare with others you want to form a deeper relationship with within any ecosystem design. I believe there is a real utility of purpose in this open design.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 2, 2020

A massive transformation faces the software industry, similar to the disruption we’ve seen hit other industries like health care and manufacturing. Startups that help build out the industry’s new low- and no-code application platforms will also rise, like the design app Canva, which was recently valued at $3.2

Software 130

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

This is part two of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks. Within these two posts, I want to provide my thoughts, bridging the present and pointing towards a better design thinking future, one that in my opinion, is urgently needed. Part one is here.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

MARCH 3, 2024

The importance of a radical mindset shift in Business Ecosystem Design What makes Business Ecosystems different in how we approach them, the answer lies in our mindset? Are our existing ways of approaching business design different and within this, how important is a radical mindshift in any Business Ecosystem thinking?

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Econic

MARCH 7, 2022

As a designer, I’m totally mystified by the “framework explosion” of magical boxes and lines littering the internet and business books. How can Spiral Dynamics help us design better frameworks? Let’s rethink how we design and teach frameworks through an example. Take a look again at McKinsey's Three Horizons Model.

Design 52

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I am working through what I think this should become in design and application, involving providing the key innovation building blocks as components of the innovation stack, using the innovation stack to guide platform development and the platform to support this innovation stack.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Agile Innovation 182

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design. So the thinking intent of searching for a new innovation design had some framing assumptions that can leverage where we are to move towards a new future. This is a useful way to think about the initial 3H outcome.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 5, 2024

Still, you have to contain the change and disruption by recognizing these unknowns are offset by the many immeasurable benefits that arise as you explore and exploit the collaborative benefits and scope and scale potentials. ” What would make this attractive is overcoming many of the unknowns. Let’s offer some of these here.

Collaboration 130

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 1, 2016

When you read a report that has within its executive summary this: “ In combination the boards stand unarmed to enter the battlefield of future business creation in a disrupted world ” it makes you want to read on. It wanted to address the skill-set at board level to handle digital disruption and the urgency to act proactively.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2019

Disruptive technologies are transforming the packaging that comes with just about everything we buy. This article is one in a series I’m calling Everything Transformed that highlights the various technologies disrupting just about every industry on the planet – and today’s focus is packaging. Drivers of Packaging Disruption.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Their talks are designed to provide you with strategies and practical tips that can be applied to foster a more innovative environment within your organization. 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.

Artificial Inteligence 100

Artificial Inteligence Case Study Leadership Design Thinking 100

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 3, 2024

Designing the Business Ecosystem Approach I have been looking at different ways to pitch Business Ecosystems recently for some evolving and hopefully sustaining work. So much disruption and interruptions are occurring in the global supply chains, and they need a very adaptive system and trusted network of partners working to resolve issues.

Change 100

Change Agile Collaboration Design 100

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Embracing Change and Thriving Through Adaptation In today’s and the future’s constant dance to adjust, evolve, and seek unique competitive positions, today’s business environment is where change is not a possibility but a certainty, and the ability to adapt becomes paramount. They make it highly dynamic in design and nature.

Collaboration 130

Collaboration Design Leadership Industry 130

Digital Tonto

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

We can expect the basis of competition to shift away from design sprints, iterating, and pivoting to building meaningful, collaborative relationships in order to solve grand challenges. Related posts: How GE Got Disrupted The Future Of Robots Is All Too Human America Can Win Manufacturing In The 21st Century.

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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 2, 2020

A massive transformation faces the software industry, similar to the disruption we’ve seen hit other industries like health care and manufacturing. Startups that help build out the industry’s new low- and no-code application platforms will also rise, like the design app Canva, which was recently valued at $3.2

Software 100

Software Disruption Industry Marketing 100

Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 12, 2024

Otherwise, you are creating strategy that ignores exceptionally powerful forces that are creating change and shifting the competitive markets in real time. New alternatives or new solutions threaten to disrupt the existing market. Yet that's what's needed most in the new competitive environment.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 19, 2022

It relies on existing capabilities and emphasizes excellent operational execution, with less focus on new needs or expanding the competitive market space. Horizon Two is the mid-point between “incremental’ change in Horizon One and “disruptive” change in Horizon Three. There’s little change required for external constituents.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 24, 2024

In the modern business world, where disruption is the norm and change is relentless, the ability to continuously drive innovation-led growth has become the ultimate competitive advantage. This sluggishness in execution can have far-reaching consequences.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It plays a pivotal role in shaping the overall ecosystem; I would argue it is the unique essence of this design. Providing the Ecosystem environment to build out dynamism enables the capabilities to challenge and have the abilities to disrupt. Achieving any dynamics within the system generates the potential for change.

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

Every company needs to simultaneously optimize their existing business model (sustain) and search for the next evolution of the business model (disrupt). And companies that continuously outlearn their competition win. Stay tuned for more… [link] “Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?”

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 4, 2024

You need to obtain sound advice, relate to what they can provide, and recognize that they can or might disrupt much of what you have in place. This can lead to cost savings and improved competitiveness. Highlight competitive advantages : Emphasize how a robust partner ecosystem can provide a competitive edge in the market.

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