Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

Combining these “building blocks” modularly in innovation stacks creates a unique design that adapts to your specific needs and goals. Today, innovation processes are partly designed this way but are more rigid and hold knowledge often as “islands” within a possible solution.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

“We need to seek the opportunity to learn and grow, the possibilities of things to be discovered, not the certainties to be recovered.” So let’s explore these four primary levels of growth-lead innovators to develop and maintain such an innovation narrative. The constant asking of “what do they need?”

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

AI technologies are enabling a more data-driven approach to innovation management, enhancing the ability to predict trends, understand consumer behavior, and generate creative ideas at scale. Optimize resources by predicting potential challenges and bottlenecks. It helps organizations to: Anticipate future trends and consumer demands.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 17, 2024

Discontinuous innovation, on the other hand, marks a profound departure from the established norms of technology and business models, fundamentally reshaping markets and consumer behaviors. This concept, often used interchangeably with radical and disruptive innovation, has nuances worth understanding.

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eZassi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

They are not afraid to challenge the status quo and are driven to find innovative solutions to problems. By fostering intrapreneurship within your organization, you stimulate the development of disruptive ideas and invest in a collaborative work environment. Offer mentorship and guidance to help them navigate the process.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

This guest article on innovative teaching shares ideas and strategies from the The Startup Teacher Playbook: Turn Your Ideas Into Actions, Personalize Professional Development, and Create Innovative Learning Experiences for You and Your Students. We live in a system where ‘innovation’ is usually only permitted from the top.

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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. Radical innovation is about making significant leaps forward, often creating new industries or reshaping existing ones.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 28, 2022

The key is knowing what are the critical factors for your innovation activities and their dependencies for sustaining innovation success? The question is, which are critical, which naturally occur when others begin to be put into place, and which seem to have limited or no real effect on changing the dynamics of innovation?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

This innovation disrupted traditional media consumption, shifting from physical rentals and purchases to unlimited on-demand digital content, and significantly impacting the cable TV industry. This theory underscores the importance of focusing on simplicity, convenience, accessibility, or affordability to disrupt an existing market.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

Plus, everyone wondered how AI could be leveraged as a source of process innovation in the innovation management process itself. As I delved deeper into the processes that underpin effective innovation management that AI could transform, I realized the potential for even greater disruption than I had thought.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

These structures, while effective for the incremental growth of billion-dollar core businesses, often kill potentially disruptive innovations at their inception, as Pilot 44’s Andrew Backs suggested during a recent Innov8rs Learning Labs session. Let’s explore how that works in practice.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

The ultimate manifestation of this is to figure out how to disrupt yourself inside the safety of an innovation process before a competitor (existing or new) does it for you. By dedicating resources to these horizons, organisations can future-proof their businesses and stay ahead of industry disruptions.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 12, 2019

As I noted yesterday, I'm writing a series of posts about what I've learned over the last 15 years of corporate innovation work. Yesterday I wrote about needing a "why and a how" rather than a "what" for innovation. Sometimes "pet" ideas or concepts that aren't really interesting or innovative have sponsors.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation?

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Depending on the scope of their ideas, innovators’ careers can be significantly shaped by this journey. A mentor enables innovators to focus on their project results while also learning about themselves along the way. Learning how best to communicate and pitch their potential projects; and. Gaining customer insights.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It begins by defining innovation as a departure from the norm and highlights the importance of tying innovation to specific outcomes. The discussion then delves into different types of innovation, including incremental, sustaining, and disruptive, with real-world examples illustrating their significance.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

“We need to seek the opportunity to learn and grow, the possibilities of things to be discovered, not the certainties to be recovered.” So let’s explore these four primary levels of growth-lead innovators to develop and maintain such an innovation narrative. The constant asking of “what do they need?”

Innovation 130

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

“We need to seek the opportunity to learn and grow, the possibilities of things to be discovered, not the certainties to be recovered.” So let’s explore these four primary levels of growth-lead innovators to develop and maintain such an innovation narrative. The constant asking of “what do they need?”

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Some will be short and focused on incremental change, while others are longer and focus on more disruptive ideas. All of these ideas need to operate under and within the umbrella of innovation competencies, and you will need to do more innovation in the future than you do now.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 27, 2017

The cost of conducting business is a function of its complexity and grows with scale, its size and the resources that need to be managed, including intermediaries. Business transactions that take days and are costly to manage via intermediaries are prime for disruption by nimbler competitors. Transaction costs. Invisible threats.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 16, 2021

This is, of course, just a rule of thumb, and in reality a 20% resource investment in next and new products and services will seem rather large to most corporations. So, in a few years maybe a resource allocation of 90% core and 10% next and new won't look quite so strange. Just focusing on product innovation is too limited.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 13, 2019

People need to be Educated ; learn new skills and establish a new mindset. Tools, resources, processes need to be established in order to Enable the new mindset to flourish. When leadership is not aligned, they will fail to make needed resource allocation decisions, the company will be rudderless, morale will suffer.

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ITONICS

JULY 26, 2019

One of the challenges that companies face is understanding how to manage their innovation resources. Should they go after the disruptive and risky idea? Or concentrate more on incremental innovation, improving their current products that already have generated customer interest? 20% | Adjacent Innovation.

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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 10, 2022

Building an innovation management system, on the other hand, helps drive the thinking for the right process to develop as well as the many other critical considerations that normally come into play, such as focusing on the right problems to solve, identifying the grand challenges the company should focus on, and building an innovation ecosystem.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Often today I am constantly hearing it is all about “innovation theater”, those activities that make us feel good are enjoyed until the harsh reality of working in corporations kick back in. Innovation is hard work yet we seem to make it harder because we “freeze” our understanding of it.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

The 3H informs the decisions to be taken, by recognizing their importance to the future and ‘frame’ resource allocation, identify current capability gaps to resolve. I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design.

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ITONICS

JULY 25, 2019

One of the challenges that companies face is understanding how to manage their innovation resources. Should they go after the disruptive and risky idea? Or concentrate more on incremental innovation, improving their current products that already have generated customer interest? 20% | Adjacent Innovation.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. Addressing Agile-Stage-Gate PPM Implementation Challenges Resource Allocation, Capacity, Planning Best Practices.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

The importance of big data, the speed of technology adoption, mobile products, digital design, and technology platforms are at the heart of innovation. It will fundamentally change the type of resources innovation requires. This agility needs the tools of testing, feedback, and adaptation to accelerate the innovation process.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Reinvention through business model innovation. 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. Platform business models tend to affect, oftentimes disrupt, multiple industries over time.

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eZassi

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Provide your team an innovation platform- a dedicated, secure solution for ideation, collaboration, and technology discovery, empowering quicker, better educated decisions and project workflow monitoring. Explore innovation white space and launch your innovation plan, navigating the journey with Ezassi software. Talk to Ezassi.

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Qmarkets

JULY 28, 2017

How Kodak Failed To Navigate Digital Disruption In Spite Of Investing In It. When thinking about the challenges of disruptive innovation - one of the most commonly cited examples is Kodak’s failure to capitalize on it’s dominance during the shift from analogue to digital. Kodak Learned A Lot, But Didn't Unlearn.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Yet they are the businesses that that will disrupt and drive transformational future growth. Transformational excellence is what allows an enterprise to be the disruptor rather than the disrupted. To be effective there must be corporate level resources that are not within the core businesses. It’s their choice.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 29, 2016

In many corporate settings where we've done innovation consulting we see this play out over and over. They want the outcomes of exciting, disruptive innovation without the variability and costs associated with what happens in the wild. Managers and executives want and need stability, repeatability, predictability.

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IdeaConnection

MARCH 30, 2018

The American multinational corporation solicited ideas from its workforce via surveys and mobile “ideas stations” Open innovation is not just for attracting external smarts and ideas. It can also provide ways for companies to engage their employees in the innovation process or in making important decisions.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 18, 2016

Not long ago our innovation team was asked by a client to lead an innovation project to create a new product. It's important to understand what the client knows about innovation, what they have learned or attempted previously. Do they have innovation processes or methodologies?

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eZassi

AUGUST 27, 2020

During stressful times, leaders learn what the people in their organizations are made of – but also whether the systems, functions, and processes they have put in place are resilient to withstand the crises that inevitably come up. ” In fact, resilient organizations and innovative organizations share essential core competencies.

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