Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Make no mistake, the pandemic disrupted business. The world has endured 3 massive economic disruptions in the first 2 decades of the 21st century, including the dotcom bust and 9/11, the Great Recession of 2008, and the current pandemic-caused economic devastation. Is disruption itself the new normal?

Disruption 52

Disruption Meeting Video Leadership 52

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Governance – we examine how to govern an innovation project and why this work requires different governance models from other projects. Function/Structure/Design – we examine how innovation should “work” – design and processes – and why it is vital to focus on an innovation capacity.

Video 246

Video Innovation Design Engagement 246

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

We will focus on both incremental and distinctive innovation outcomes and ones that have the potential for disruptive or breakthrough innovation, that are exploring new technologies, markets, and new business models to drive growth and create value.

Innovation Programs 189

Innovation Programs Technical Review Innovation Policies 189

Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The ability to challenge, seek change, foresee disruption, and respond is paramount. Integrative leadership leveraging strengths from all layers Leadership drives the complete interconnected Ecosystem. Leadership Commitment: Committed leadership is pivotal for sustained transformation.

Collaboration 64

Collaboration Design Leadership Competition 64

Innovation Excellence

JUNE 15, 2020

Technology has allowed numerous industries to grow at a rapid pace and has streamlined countless business processes…but it still can’t learn, design, and discover the way people can. For these reasons, it’s crucial for leaders to design organizations with their people in mind. Designing Human-Centered Teams. Bech, 2017).

Design 56

Design Collaboration Guidelines Leadership 56

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 22, 2016

Some three years back I worked in collaboration with Jeffrey Philips of Ovo Innovation to build an integrated innovation framework that is designed as a strategic part of the corporate boards’ need to deliver and cascade down the organization. We called this integrated framework the Executive Innovation Work Mat. All rights reserved.

Leadership 100

Leadership Innovation Engagement Strategy 100

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Any construct of a Strategically designed innovation plan needs to work through different concepts and tools. Taking action in designing your innovation alignment. Knowing where to place your innovation thinking becomes critical; it is knowing where the leadership places its importance, its turning bets into likely wins’.

Strategy 312

Strategy Strategy Innovation Resources 312

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

They invest in disruptive technologies but ask existing business units to cannibalize their current products and services using them. It reminded me how important it is to highlight the ultimate organizational design principle: Structure follows strategy. It’s the foundation of organizational design.

Culture 130

Culture Strategy Strategy Technical Review 130

Digital Tonto

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

American industry followed suit, cutting investment in R&D, lobbying hard for cuts in government spending and corporate taxes, hollowing out the US industrial base. Related posts: How GE Got Disrupted The Future Of Robots Is All Too Human America Can Win Manufacturing In The 21st Century. first appeared on Digital Tonto.

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LEAN Industry Disruption Competition 143

Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This is the final layer of the interconnected Ecosystem thinking and design. Providing top executive support within this Ecosystem environment helped promote and build out dynamism, enabling the capabilities to learn, challenge and have the ability to disrupt and deliver on the strategic intent.

Collaboration 59

Collaboration Design Leadership Culture 59

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

Design Disruption Competition Learning 52

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.

Disruption 100

Disruption Radical Innovation Survey Report 100

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 5, 2021

leadership as a birthright, as a matter of course. In my view, they lost the leadership mantle for innovation years back. The chase for unicorns, fast scale, disrupting existing and constantly reiterating what is successful into the next version. It assumes a position, and that is dangerous.

Innovation 264

Innovation Policies Technology Course 264

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2020

Often we forget to reinforce the very design within our organizational structures, we leave role structures incomplete and uncertain, or we always seem to be changing them, before they have had any real chance to ‘form and storm.’ It can’t solve complicated product design solutions in thirteen weeks.

Innovation 253

Innovation Design System Creativity 253

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 15, 2020

“Slow constrains quick, slow controls quick” The only way to ensure speeding up is to be more coherent on the purpose, clarify the bounds and governing principles that need to be enacted and expect delivery on a clear, set timing. Context & Coordination needs designing in purposefully. It goes into a perpetual loop.

System 191

System Disruption Design Management 191

IdeaScale

APRIL 17, 2019

But technology and innovation rank low: numbers 17 and 18 on the ranked list of governance activities at which boards claim to be good. In general, a board that is more diverse in terms of professional background and age is likelier to pay attention to trends like the rise of innovation and disruption. Demonstrating ROI of Innovation.

Project 185

Project Technical Review Innovation Disruption 185

Daniel Burrus

JULY 31, 2019

Simply design a watch for people who are 70 and older — and keep in mind the fact that it will likely be their children who buy it in an effort to keep their parents healthy and safe. You could design the watch with sensors to detect blood oxygen levels, blood pressure, pulse, temperature and much more.

Trends 59

Trends Disruption Strategy Strategy 59

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

It’s also predicted that “quantum innovation” will play an increasingly central role in the way enterprises disrupt the marketplace. Governments will therefore need to find increasingly innovative ways to harness 5G to support infrastructural projects and enhance citizen engagement.

Trends 60

Trends Disruption Technical Review Innovation 60

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Strategic leadership is prevalent and nurturing, and valued- what are ours? Impact of innovation expected through strategic leadership. Investment x activity x focus x disruption = return on innovation expectations. Support to enhance the needs and guidance through good governance. The scale of innovation impact desired.

Technical Review 147

Technical Review Innovation Collaboration Roadmap 147

Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 23, 2024

It is recognised today that Ecosystem design and thinking provide demonstrable value and gain. This interconnected resilience becomes a shared asset, safeguarding or reducing the impacts of disruptions and uncertainties. It shapes a future-ready, adaptive entity with the leadership capacity to thrive amid ongoing change.

ChatGPT 52

ChatGPT Collaboration Design Leadership 52

IM Insights

AUGUST 8, 2023

For organisations, this means being prepared for future changes and disruptions. Disruptors vs. Disruptive : There is a distinction between genuine catalysts and those who are merely disruptive. Genuine catalysts are collaborative and open-minded, while disruptive individuals may be egocentric and focused on their own ideas.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Innovation Artificial Inteligence Leadership 52

Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

In fact, if they become seen as leadership lip service, they can actually lower morale and stifle the very innovation you want most. It’s no secret the business world has become enamored by “disruptive” innovation. The approach includes making explicit distinctions between different types of innovation, from incremental to disruptive.

Tools 124

Tools Culture of Innovation Innovation Culture 124

Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

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. However, they may lack training in innovative thinking, creativity, and design thinking.

How To 59

How To Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture 59

Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

A shared vision for 21st-century student success enabled these schools to effectively utilize “leadership tools” to rally and empower school stakeholders to solve emergent challenges. This description of the forward-leaning orientation of prepared schools aligns with what the Tools of Cooperation theory describe as “leadership tools.”

Technical Review 98

Technical Review LEAN Culture Agile 98

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 5, 2021

leadership as a birthright, as a matter of course. In my view, they lost the leadership mantle for innovation years back. The chase for unicorns, fast scale, disrupting existing and constantly reiterating what is successful into the next version. It assumes a position, and that is dangerous.

Innovation 130

Innovation Policies Technology Course 130

Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

We dive into getting the fundamentals right during this month’s Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management. This approach is particularly valuable when companies face disruptive threats and contemplate transformational change. Open Strategy. Read more here.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Project 52

Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

In fact, if they become seen as leadership lip service, they can actually lower morale and stifle the very innovation you want most. It’s no secret the business world has become enamored by “disruptive” innovation. The approach includes making explicit distinctions between different types of innovation, from incremental to disruptive.

Tools 100

Tools Culture of Innovation Innovation Culture 100

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 27, 2018

Overhaul though, I was a little disappointed, as it lacked the real leadership insights you come to expect, strong personalities did not seem to shine through this year from the speakers and panelists give. Data can give us the raw material to design our virtual world, to model them. I want to come back to this in another post.

Industry 238

Industry Technology Disruption Data 238

Tullio Siragusa

MAY 1, 2023

Embracing the Circular Economy through Enterprise Architecture The concept of a circular economy has been rapidly gaining traction as businesses and governments alike recognize the need to transition from a linear, resource-intensive model to a sustainable, regenerative one.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review System Collaboration Design 62

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 5, 2021

leadership as a birthright, as a matter of course. In my view, they lost the leadership mantle for innovation years back. The chase for unicorns, fast scale, disrupting existing and constantly reiterating what is successful into the next version. It assumes a position, and that is dangerous.

Innovation 130

Innovation Technology Policies Course 130

Idea to Value

JULY 8, 2019

Most Start-ups, design agencies or advertising companies would say that large corporations are just not as creative as they are, leading to them producing iterative new products which the consumers don’t want. They are not designed to achieve the same things. Is it because it’s so hard to get a good idea? Innovation-Led Transformation.

Project 128

Project Innovation Design Creativity 128

ImagineNation

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In my early days at Compass Learning, I designed and delivered a range of top team strategic alignment and development programs. Also, by agreeing to, the most effective communication, decision making, and problem-solving processes, all of which were designed to cultivate trusted relationships. Simplifying strategic alignment.

Underperforming Technical Team 45

Underperforming Technical Team Disruption Culture Leadership 45

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

I provide different perspectives and thinking, firstly on my innovating4energy.website for my offerings of service and a dedicated posting site for energy, innovating4energy.com that provides a decent mix of thought leadership, news and awareness, for the Energy Transition. The stark facts – where we are.

Technology 246

Technology Report Collaboration Data 246

eZassi

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The demand for these products will continue to increase with projected population growth, so the challenge for energy companies is to satisfy manufacturers’ power needs, abiding by changing government regulations, while continuing to provide reliable and cost-effective power to individual customers on an expanding grid. Innovation Solutions.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Innovation Collaboration 52

Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Then, have a process for aligning strategy (which pulls you forward) with budgeting (which anchors you backward) with project governance (which is usually a total mess) with people’s incentives. One of the top ten business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50, Whitney is an expert at smart growth leadership. Robyn Bolton.

Innovation 246

Innovation Technical Review Creativity Leadership 246

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.

Disruption 40

Disruption Innovation LEAN Competition 40

eZassi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

By fostering intrapreneurship within your organization, you stimulate the development of disruptive ideas and invest in a collaborative work environment. The leadership of an organization should have a system in place to accept, rank, and channel ideas.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Innovation Management Software 52