Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This remote learning stuff has been hard, challenging but stimulating. It is a very disrupting, disturbing world. I wrote about the “ cascading effect” for innovation as “ a sequence of events in which each produces the circumstances necessary for the initiation of the next”. Technological disruption is altering all we do.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The building blocks of open innovation building towards Business Ecosystem design. By incorporating Open Innovation Strategies as the next building block, businesses can create a dynamic and expansive innovation ecosystem beyond internal and partnership and certain collaborative boundaries.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Why does this happen, and how can you as a leader resist the urge to benchmark against the competition? I have five tips that can put a stop to counterproductive professional benchmarking, but first, understand this: The competition isn’t really competition, as we are all on the same team in one way or another.

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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. Online learning will continue to have its moment, but a shakeout is beginning. But the basis of competition is shifting. What’s driving this ?

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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

JULY 19, 2022

Applying the three horizon framework to innovation and change. To explain the impacts of innovation and the change it creates, we’ll use an accepted framework ( the Three Horizons ) to consider the impact innovation has on change capabilities and business models. The Value of the Three Horizons of Seeing Beyond.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Understanding the sensory and cognitive abilities of innovators Following on from my first post on building an Innovator’s Sensory profile, the combination of various cognitive, emotional and environmental factors heightens our awareness, so I needed to explore this further in this post. Nothing is set in stone.

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eZassi

MAY 13, 2024

Amplify Your Innovation Program with AI-Driven Technology Discovery Today’s highly competitive business climate is fueled by the ability to innovate and ride the cutting edge of technology. AI-driven technology discovery revolutionizes the way organizations approach innovation management, creating competitive advantage.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Introduction to Strategic Thinking in Business The Importance of Strategy in a Disruptive World In today’s business environment, disruption is the new norm. A well-crafted strategy can serve as a compass, guiding your organization through the complexities of a disruptive world and towards sustained success.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

MAY 22, 2024

Each component or entity within the ecosystem is intrinsically linked to others, and changes or disruptions in one part can have rippling effects throughout the entire ecosystem. A supply chain disruption or a critical resource shortage can impact multiple entities downstream, highlighting the interdependence among ecosystem participants.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Introduction to Innovation Keynote Speakers Importance of Keynote Speakers in Corporate Events Keynote speakers play a pivotal role in the success of corporate events. They are the linchpins that can inspire, motivate, and ignite a passion for innovation within your organization.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

How difficult would it be to embrace this Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework, as it is often argued that most people want to keep innovation management and its process simple? We cannot afford to avoid changing our innovation processes as we deal with a far more complex and challenging world. Why change?

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Daniel Burrus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

While it’s true that, with sufficient determination, individuals can learn almost anything, teaching your team to think creatively in any industry is contingent upon the approach. Continue reading on burrus.com »

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The ability to learn new skills, knowledge, understanding, and values is essential in every area of our lives. While we often think of school as the place of learning, people actually learn throughout their lifetimes both in and outside of the classroom, through trial and error, life experience, and from others.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I finished my last post, “ Are we EVER going to embrace innovation? ” With the argument, we need to change the innovation narrative and significantly update the innovation approach and processes to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business challenges. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Intersection of Corporate Growth and Startup Innovation Defining Corporate Venture Capital Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) is the investment of corporate funds directly in external startup companies. Corporations can leverage this innovation to drive growth, remain competitive, and enter new markets.

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Collaboration Innovation Agile Technical Review 147

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

I proposed a new Framework for managing innovation this week, called the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework. 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. I highlight the key value points.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Disruptions to effective product development are constant but don’t need to be detrimental to an organization’s ability to deliver innovation with speed and maintain a healthy ROI. As a byproduct of that growth, they will find it easier to: Unearth strategic innovation Differentiate at speed Gain a competitive advantage.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Achieving Meaningful Change through Business Ecosystems Achieving Meaningful Change through Business Ecosystems Achieving Meaningful Change through Business Ecosystems Several business organizations have committed to navigating complexity, fostering dynamism and originality in approaching innovation and business ecosystems.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2019

Airbnb disrupted hotels. Now big travel and hospitality companies are going after the next disruptive innovation themselves before getting blindsided yet again. As part of a new series of articles I’m writing called Everything Transformed , I’m focusing on the widespread disruption of just about every industry on the planet.

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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.

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Competition Technical Review Software Review Agile 52

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change. One such collaboration was around the interplay of innovation with business models and change. It describes some important observations we often forget when innovating. We believe that the best innovators are the most adept at making and sustaining change.

Change 130

Change Technical Review Disruption Innovation 130

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

On this site, I have been exploring issues associated with building Ecosystems, each valuable to read, such as collective learning, resistance, values of interconnected layers, barriers, a blueprint and a base post of “ Why Ecosystems ” and illustrating where and how ecosystems think and design are emerging.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Unleashing Innovation with the Best Keynote Speakers Importance of Keynote Speakers in Corporate Events Keynote speakers play a pivotal role in corporate events, as they have the power to set the tone and energize the audience. They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 17, 2019

I'm writing a series of blog posts to document some of the things I've learned in innovation along the way, over 15 years of leading corporate innovation work. So far I've written several blogs, the first about the importance of d efining a why and a how for innovation , the second about the importance of an idea sponsor.

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Disruption Innovation Industry Analysis 184

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 28, 2022

Innovation requires a more dynamic, systematic approach. All companies talk about innovation and its growing importance, but why is it that still so few succeed in actually doing it on a repeatable scale? What inhibits innovation? What would drive innovation success? There are so many challenges in managing innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Nurturing Innovative Team Collaboration In the rapidly evolving business landscape, innovative team collaboration has become a cornerstone for companies seeking to remain competitive and adaptive. Knowledge Sharing: Collaboration encourages the exchange of knowledge and skills, leading to continuous learning and improvement.

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Underperforming Technical Team Collaboration Creativity Software Review 113

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 2, 2016

This past weekend I had an extended period of re-reading about the effects of disruption that seems to be occurring across all points of business, our politics, our governments, it seems across our lives. All good plans sometime get disrupted. Everything invented seems to have been disrupted or seems about too.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Confronting Your Darwin Effect through innovation. I have been working away, call it my labour of love, with plenty of frustrating moments but have “pushed on” through sheer determination, on my thinking through the ‘harnessing’ of the dynamics within innovation. It is so hard to let go!

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Innovation Competition Resources Analysis 189

Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

I spoke to 11 of the world’s leading female innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition in order to answer the question of “What is innovation?”

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Innovation Technical Review Creativity Leadership 246

Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Introduction to Experiential Intelligence in Executive Teams Understanding Experiential Intelligence In today’s competitive business landscape, it’s important to recognize that the traditional metrics of intelligence such as IQ or even EQ (Emotional Intelligence) are no longer sufficient on their own.

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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.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Intersection of AI and Innovation Management My journey into the realm of innovation management began as I witnessed many clients wrestling with the increasing complexity of developing new products and services. The Rise of AI in Innovation Management What is Artificial Intelligence?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Every successful company has one thing in common: a deep-seated commitment to innovation. Innovation isn’t just about the next big idea; it’s a multifaceted strategy that businesses employ to navigate through the twists and turns of today’s dynamic markets.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Is incremental or disruptive innovation better? In your approach to innovation, you should weigh them both. What Is Disruptive Innovation? Disruptive” boils down to a drastic shift in how your business or your entire industry changes. That said, disruptive innovation is a gamble.

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Radical Innovation Disruption Innovation Competition 140

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. In this climate, innovation is no longer an optional pursuit but a strategic imperative for survival and sustained growth.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 17, 2024

Discontinuous innovation represents a seismic shift in how industries function and evolve. This form of innovation doesn’t just improve on existing products; it completely redefines them, creating entirely new markets and consumer behaviors. Examples include Electric Vehicles (EVs), and streaming media like Spotify or Netflix.

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