Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

We are witnessing a very radical change, driven by technology, increasingly disrupting and breaking down past traditional boundaries, partly built to defend positions so as to achieve economic scale. These are: The constant exponential of technology and its power to change is forcing up to change. We have built-in constraints.

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Yet2

APRIL 18, 2022

As providers of both Proactive Technology Scouting services and Open Innovation Portals, we often get asked when to use each approach. They serve different purposes, but you might be surprised to learn they’re also complementary: ~80% of our portal clients also hire yet2 for proactive technology scouting work.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Importance of Team Collaboration in Today’s Business Landscape The business world today is characterized by constant technological disruptions, the rise of virtual workplaces, and the globalization of talent. For insights on fostering team collaboration using technology, explore our guide on fostering team collaboration.

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Yet2

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Karen Madden , VP Technology and Innovation of PerkinElmer, provided first-hand experience and advice on how big corporations can drive impact by cooperating with startups: “It’s not an option anymore, if you don’t team up with the disruptive, you’re going to get disrupted.” Innovation Focused on Purpose-Driven Purchases.

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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. Connected technology needs to be central to responding rapidly and enabling this more volatile world we are facing. It is highly disruptive to the existing organization’s design.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Intersection of AI and Innovation Management Defining Innovation Management with AI Innovation management refers to the process and activities that organizations use to manage and nurture new ideas into marketable products and services. Market Analysis Predictive analytics forecast market acceptance and potential success.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. Lean Startup: This approach was about creating a minimum viable product (MVP) and testing it in the market to get customer feedback. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The corporate landscape is changing drastically, and for a corporate brand to stay relevant, they must innovate in order to change with the market. Such innovations can come in the form of adopting new technologies, but also by adapting the business practices typically associated with startup culture.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 9, 2020

A growing reality might be that many people will be forced to stay at home until a vaccine is found, due to their risk of infection. As we come out of the present crisis, we need to look at our social engagement and influencer profiles as we need to engage with the world differently. Travel might become off-limits for many.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Technology innovation, suggested new business models, outline proposals for changing policies, processes, and market design all are being “sketched out.” It is evident innovation must be way broader than just technological RD&D. Firstly , I have been looking a little more at the emerging focal point of Grid Edge.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 1, 2023

In a recent episode of the Tech Leaders Unplugged podcast, guests Rameshwar Balanagu, Chief Digital Officer at Intangles.ai, an expert in enterprise architecture, discussed the role of enterprise architecture in enabling the circular economy.

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2024

Unlike traditional manufacturing processes characterized by tangible endpoints, software development for vehicles is inherently iterative and demands agility to keep pace with evolving technological requirements. Acquiring such comprehensive skills presents a formidable and resource-intensive endeavor.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

There are many outside our existing organizations, standing impatiently at the gates, waiting to come in and take over with market breaking concepts through different business models. We need to transform, be disrupted or certainly re-imagine and this is where knowing your ecosystem comes in. Either they adapt or die.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 26, 2015

We will obtain increasing more powerful insights that have the real potential of being turned into new innovation outcomes, through the connected businesses we are presently needing to build. The dizzy array of strategic choices will totally disrupt existing business models if they are right in their design.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 15, 2023

Supply chains that once seemed so efficient now seem easily disrupted. Others will look to their education and the frameworks and tools they learned in college or graduate school, to help them understand the markets and their shifting demands. Costs, for people and equipment are rising. In some regards, history will repeat itself now.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 17, 2024

Innov8rs | Whilst innovation remains a top priority for every CEO, we have again witnessed recently that when markets are uncertain and costs need to be cut, the innovation function is also amongst the first to be impacted. Here's what they shared. Here's what they shared. Here's what they shared.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 30, 2019

The author presents a clear three-part framework consisting of Innovation Strategy, System and Culture that a large company needs to use to be an innovative organization. This book presents a refutation of this belief. To do so, the author presents the following framework for creating and sustaining a capacity for innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 21, 2020

We are all undergoing such a paradigm shift at present, not just in the present “lockdowns” or social distancing rules imposed but how these will increasingly have an impact on our health, social and economic well-being. We are entering a position of significant disruption. The world just might never be the same.

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mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

What is Product Market Fit? The source of competitive advantage is disruption, and whoever manages to survive it will differentiate themselves within the invisible hand of the market. And how to survive the disruption? That’s where Product Market Fit comes in. How to identify the Product Market Fit?

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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. had a chance to gauge the American consumer’s interest in high-end gems before they entered the market. Because Tiffany & Co.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically. Legacy systems plague the ability to break out of our present traps of silo’s and we are still struggling to solve these issues, machine by machine, a process by process, incompatible software and hardware, piece by piece.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

Organizations have been plagued in the last two years by major shifts that have disrupted business and threatened their profitability. But no sooner had business begun to slowly recover from the pandemic than the job market began to experience an unprecedented evolution: the Great Resignation. million people walked off their jobs.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

These programs can be a pathway for corporations to tap into the startup ecosystem , identify cutting-edge technologies, and integrate startup innovation into their existing lines of business. Accelerators often culminate in a demo day, where startups present their progress and products to potential investors and industry leaders.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

There are many outside our existing organizations, standing impatiently at the gates, waiting to come in and take over with market breaking concepts through different business models. We need to transform, be disrupted or certainly re-imagine and this is where knowing your ecosystem comes in. Either they adapt or die.

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Collaboration Disruption Innovation Technical Review 273

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2023

Change is accelerating, with uncertainty and threat of disruption in every industry segment. The pace of change and rise of global winner-take-all competition means that conventional product-market-structure approaches to strategy, as well as core competencies thinking, are difficult to implement in practice and may yield misleading answers.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The companies that do make the bet, and that do focus on innovation, often show the benefits in terms of higher profits, greater market share and higher stock prices. We don't have to look far in the corporate scrap heap to find firms that were leaders (Nokia, Kodak) but became obsolete due to a failure to notice changes in the market.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Then disruption suddenly hits. I mean anyway “we really don’t believe in innovation, it all is full of risk, uncertainty and those unknowns and that is the last place to go when you are fighting in a different set of market conditions, isn’t it?”. A good lesson in presentation, certainly for me! Two reports recently came out.

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Daniel Burrus

JUNE 15, 2016

The financial services industry has been notoriously slow to adapt to the evolving technology landscape and its customers’ digital demands. In yet another twist to a modern tale, it was recently revealed that it was consumers who were leading yet another round of disruption in the banking and insurance sectors.

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Technical Review Industry Technology Change 40

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 25, 2015

With the dizzy array of choices, combined with technology prowess and ‘plugging’ these into ‘seen’ customer needs, they are setting about disrupting existing businesses and establishing new ones, on an ever-increasing global scale. So what and how is the incumbent meant to react if it is an existing market?

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 21, 2022

As a result, dermatologists presented with skin issues treat the skin, not hormones. Given its focus on the underlying causes of skin health, in this analysis, I’ll assess Veracity’s disruptive potential compared to seeing a dermatologist for aesthetic skin problems. Dermatologists don’t generally cross-specialize in endocrinology.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 15, 2016

Following on the heels of reading and then reviewing reports from Accenture on how US big business was treating their innovation as left to chance in cloudy execution, it felt not so good for my beliefs that we were actually not making progress. Both reports, as I was reviewing them, left me a little depressed to say the least.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

To do it for real requires ideation, of course, but then incubation (going from an idea to something you could get customer feedback from) to acceleration (bringing the new thing to market). As one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth, Rita’s work is regularly published in the Harvard Business Review. Twitter: rgmcgrath.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Leaders can mentor innovators through any of the practical business steps in the value creation process itself: Connecting to emerging market trends and identifying the most significant opportunities. Many of the company’s engineers were not comfortable presenting their big ideas to the senior staff. Gaining customer insights.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 28, 2016

Due to this has become a much longer post than I would like and I apologize for that but I wanted to get the mentality issue well ‘aired’ and I needed to cover off a number of bases to frame this. Shifting the innovation mindset, resolving a present day dilemma. New wine calls for new wineskins.”

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 6, 2015

Is a major innovation in a technical setting all that different from a major societal change? Now Gandhi was talking about social or societal change, but all of these ideas apply directly to innovation in a technical or corporate sense as well. Gandhi made it, but just barely. But the old model is slowly getting turned on its head.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. It is this ‘raw’ power of technology that is transforming much. This often needs different perspectives to form the final position.

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