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. Innovation Leadership Talking Points Innovation leadership is a critical component for driving growth and staying competitive in today’s fast-paced business environment.

Innovation 113

Innovation Leadership Ideation Innovation Processes 113

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. This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive.

Innovation Management 100

Innovation Management Management LEAN Technical Review 100

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

We are at the cusp or already into significant changes to how the world, society and we as individuals will manage or engage going into the future. Recognizing complex acknowledges the volatility and disruptions that are constantly occurring. We need to put to use a different innovation model or approach.

Innovation 189

Innovation Design Collaboration Engagement 189

Wazoku

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It’s perhaps safe to say, therefore, that they’ve mastered the art of innovating to derive a competitive advantage. Indeed, it may be why the research still suggests that over 40% of senior executives still don’t recognise innovation as a form of competitive advantage or as a value builder for organisations.

Culture of Innovation 40

Culture of Innovation Competition Culture Radical Innovation 40

Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Anyone who has ever attended Lean Startup Conference (previously known as Lean Startup Week) in the past knows that this annual event regularly features invigorating speakers that divulge the newest insights and innovations in modern management for a wide array of industries and company types.

Conference 45

Conference LEAN Culture Learning 45

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation. Brought to prominence by Professor Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma , this important theory provides an explanation as to why large, established companies eventually get overtaken by smaller ones, and it introduced the concept of disruptive innovation.

Company 248

Company Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Design Thinking 248

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 59

Innovation Collaboration Agile Disruption 59

Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

If we increase employee engagement, increase retention, are able to recruit the best next generation of talent, etc. Leaders who champion innovation understand its role in driving competitive advantage, increasing market share, and, often, creating entirely new markets. Horizon 1 activity has lower risk but also lower return.

Innovation 59

Innovation Culture Creativity Disruption 59

Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

Here a few benefits that organizations are most likely to achieve from innovation: Competitive Edge There are many examples of new businesses taking over the market and killing their competitors, but perhaps one of the most well-known is Blockbuster vs. Netflix. “In What are the Various Approaches to Innovation in Business?

Innovation Programs 98

Innovation Programs Innovation Technical Review Open Innovation 98

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

After all, most (probably 90%) of all innovation projects undertaken in large corporations are reactive projects trying to respond to a market threat or competitive move. Executives need to talk about innovation, but also engage in innovation, check in with direct reports, better yet, go do some innovation work.

Innovation 157

Innovation Culture Training Project 157

ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Whilst these represent the core and foundational business management and leadership roles essential to successful organisational performance, the world has changed significantly, and traditional organisations are being severely disrupted. Openings for unparalleled opportunities. Stepping up and into new spaces of possibility and learning.

Leadership 52

Leadership System Collaboration Disruption 52

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. It’s easy to say “we need a growth engine”. The question really is – how?

Marketing 52

Marketing Roadmap Disruption Management 52

Matthew May

APRIL 24, 2015

I regularly engage in hansei (reflection) after each of my facilitation engagements. The first two are constants, and hold true nearly 100% of the time in my innovation coaching and lean training engagements. The third is the real surprise, showing up with alarming frequency in my strategy facilitation engagements.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy LEAN Engagement 100

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Partly it seems executives don’t engage with their brand or business in the way that their customers do” The difference between DMAIC, DMADV, and Innovation Management (tackling a critical part of Six Sigma). Why mapping the customer journey is the top driver for digital transformation.

Crowdsourcing 199

Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 199

Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

In order to remain competitive, companies must continually develop new products, services, and processes that meet the needs of their customers. Efficiency Optimization Organizations have eliminated risk and variance in their operations through rightsizing, outsourcing, lean, and agile.

How To 59

How To Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture 59

Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Companies that cling to rigid innovation approaches are more likely to fail at creating space for disruptive innovation or nurturing new ideas. Engine 2 efforts are disruptive and potentially game changing. Source: Detecon.

Disruption 100

Disruption Innovation Survey Study 100

Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 6, 2015

There are competitive issues, regulatory issues, market issues, and of course the financial markets are a roller coaster right now. Over the last 30 years modern management thinking has been influenced by outsourcing and rightsizing, on lean and Six Sigma thinking and on the GE way (1st, 2nd or out of the market).

Innovation 100

Innovation Resources Engagement Competition 100

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 14, 2016

Tool experts may have an engaging perspective, but managers must manage. If management can only engage in a limited effort, it may be best to avoid using some tools. Disruptive Innovation Labs. On the 2015 list of Bain’s is Disruptive Innovation Labs. Don’t naively accept hyperbole and simplistic solutions.

Tools 100

Tools Management Innovation Management Underperforming Technical Team 100

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

I like this as a definition to tighten down digital but it opens us up to the darker side of digital transformation, the risk of digital disruption. Digital disruption is the impact of digital technologies and business models on a company’s value proposition and market position. Is it possible?

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 133

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

I like this as a definition to tighten down digital but it opens us up to the darker side of digital transformation, the risk of digital disruption. Digital disruption is the impact of digital technologies and business models on a company’s value proposition and market position. Is it possible?

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 120

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Innovation is advancing but most of it has been designed for a different time, the old era of stable markets, predictable solutions and having a clear sense of your competition. We need to apply what we need to get the “job” done and this becomes specific to the challenge and its complexity and engagement needs.

Innovation 178

Innovation Design Agile System 178

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

Co-Innovation and startup engagement. Another way is to “outsource” exploration through external engagement with startups. But incumbents would be willing to make changes if a new technology proves to be truly disruptive and the long-term benefits are worth it.

Innovation Management 100

Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team Big Data 100

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We do know we need to re-equip ourselves for constant disruption; we are really beginning to see a shift from the classic bell curve into more of a shark fin for adopting change. Market are segmenting, the life cycle is shortening or having an even longer tail of dealing with slow decline and constant erosion of any competitive position.

Change 100

Change Design Agile Competition 100

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Put simply, Operational Excellence can be defined as a management principle which encourages the discovery and implementation of incremental changes, with the objective of optimizing processes to achieve a competitive advantage. Make lean value streams flow from one process to the other. Ignoring Your Most Precious Resource.

LEAN 49

LEAN Software Review Crowdsourcing Knowledge Base 49

Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 20, 2018

For those of us who have seen countless traditional businesses disrupted, such a lack of diligence is concerning. Christensen, Innosight’s co-founder, even lays claim to the concept of “disruptive innovation,” as put forward in The Innovator’s Dilemma (Harvard Business Review Press, 1997). Bionic leans heavy on tech nomenclature.

Software Review 60

Software Review Technical Review Innovation LEAN 60

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Then it becomes a mad scramble to transform ourselves, often with damaging consequences of deteriorating performance, battling more competition that are sensing our weakness, never capable of returning to those previous highs. Both require thinking that is broad and expansive, with a strong sense of curiosity and discovery.

Change 100

Change Technical Review Marketing Management 100

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 2, 2016

We will see a significant acceleration of more innovation ecosystems, 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.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Innovation Collaboration Software Review 100

Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the pervasion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Big Data Innovation Technical Review 40

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Put simply, Operational Excellence can be defined as a management principle which encourages the discovery and implementation of incremental changes, with the objective of optimizing processes to achieve a competitive advantage. Make lean value streams flow from one process to the other. Ignoring Your Most Precious Resource.

LEAN 40

LEAN Software Review Crowdsourcing Knowledge Base 40

Qmarkets

JUNE 26, 2019

When starting out on an innovation initiative, it’s far better to make use of the resources you have at hand than to start totally from scratch – that is, try to adopt lean practices wherever possible. Using new technologies to power innovation is critical for securing a competitive edge. Don’t underestimate the power of habit.

Innovation Management 40

Innovation Management Management Ideation Resources 40

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 29, 2015

If we do we fail to ever achieve innovation that is truly a ‘breakthrough’ or ‘disruptive’ We should have aspirations, as humans we need these. Each business has a need, to grow, to add value, to beat or at least equal competition, or should do. I would argue strongly we don’t accept that. What is viable?

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Innovation Design Software Review 100

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 72

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Strategy Leadership 72

Integrative Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

What is really important, however, is that the newly acquired skills also become an integral part of the corporation and penetrate into existing organizational structures through Lean Change experiments and viral infection. However, giving a program access to a multitude of potential customers and partners can be a key competitive advantage.

Trends 58

Trends Technical Review Innovation Disruption 58

Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 20, 2018

For those of us who have seen countless traditional businesses disrupted, such a lack of diligence is concerning. Christensen, Innosight’s co-founder, even lays claim to the concept of “disruptive innovation,” as put forward in The Innovator’s Dilemma (Harvard Business Review Press, 1997). Bionic leans heavy on tech nomenclature.

Software Review 40

Software Review Technical Review Innovation LEAN 40

Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 13, 2016

How do you stay competitive and relevant in a world with constant change and continual disruption? How do you stay relevant in a world with constant change & continual disruption? Instead I created a leaning system that both the C-Suite and the employees regardless of age use and love.

Meeting 40

Meeting Change System Competition 40

Qmarkets

MARCH 16, 2018

With so much disruptive innovation happening so fast, it has become less and less rare for companies to be formed around a service or product that defines them for their lifetime. Rising competition from Apple and Google caught Nokia out of position and led to near-bankruptcy in 2012.

Innovation Management 69

Innovation Management Change Management Technical Review 69

Integrative Innovation

APRIL 7, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Companies that cling to rigid innovation approaches are more likely to fail at creating space for disruptive innovation or nurturing new ideas. Engine 2 efforts are disruptive and potentially game changing. Source: Detecon.

Disruption 40

Disruption Innovation Survey Study 40