Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

I am suggesting a vertical and horizontal design applying innovation stack and building block approaches, all “housed” on a technology platform. We need an Innovation Mandate calling for a Radical Re-design of how we undertake innovation management, it is needed to bring innovation management into the 21st century in design and approaches.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

You use the term “ScaleUp” …how is that different than startup and why does it deserve a special designation? Competition aside, both face opposing physical forces that must be overcome to win. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design. So the thinking intent of searching for a new innovation design had some framing assumptions that can leverage where we are to move towards a new future. This is a useful way to think about the initial 3H outcome.

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2024

A Shifting Reality for the Auto Industry Automotive companies are increasingly confronted with the intricate task of synchronizing software development timelines with deadlines for vehicle launches. This confluence of factors impedes their agility and responsiveness.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 10, 2024

I have gotten relatively excited about this strand of thinking and ecosystem design as it has been a reasonably extensive period of research building this out to a validation point. Agile Decision-Making: Foster an agile decision-making process that allows for rapid adjustments based on feedback from various ecosystem stakeholders.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 29, 2020

What makes us believe that developing digital products is not only a solution to overcome the crisis, but also to generate business value after it too. In uncertain scenarios, it is just technology that can promote the disruptions necessary for businesses to gain competitive value and even create new markets. What does that mean?

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Companies that successfully bring new products to market rapidly, benefit from having a leg up on their competition while diminishing the negative effects of shrinking product life cycles. Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. It does not include product development. What is Commercialization?

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

That is the case of Design Thinking , a structured approach to innovation. Keep reading to understand how you can implement an innovation culture into your company with Design Thinking! That’s because only the visible artifacts of organizational culture can be designed. Design Thinking applied to cultural transformation.

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Be-novative

APRIL 26, 2019

Truly innovative companies don’t just design for customer experience. They also design their own journey towards creating maximum impact. I loved the fact that they all used Design Thinking and said: The journey starts with Empathy. Why don’t we Design Think right here within our organization as well? As a Psychologist?—?I

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

It is described as the “blueprint for forward-thinking business leaders and managers that will help them create high-performing and faster-moving teams and companies”. By drawing on the wisdom of their coach to help them manage and lead their people to be more effective in their jobs, and to grow and develop.

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The Human Factor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Team building is hard. . This team-building drill becomes harder when you are recruiting your SaaS marketing team. This will ensure you have a comprehensive team that is equipped to support every facet of the marketing needs of your SaaS company. . 5 steps to structure a high-performance SaaS marketing team.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Amidst the relentless waves of innovation and competition, OEMs, suppliers, and manufacturers in the automotive industry navigate a sea of challenges and opportunities. The imperative for proactive tech debt management emerges as a linchpin for financial prudence, operational efficiency, market agility, and brand resilience.

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Be-novative

APRIL 26, 2019

Truly innovative companies don’t just design for customer experience. They also design their own journey towards creating maximum impact. I loved the fact that they all used Design Thinking and said: The journey starts with Empathy. Why don’t we Design Think right here within our organization as well? As a Psychologist?—?I

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. A teacher figures out where a student is, their “zone of proximal development” The teacher then scaffolds the students thinking, using various tools, to make new connections and learn. Why Innovation Sessions Have a Bad Reputation. And there is a lot of sitting.

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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

JUNE 20, 2016

This poor strategic understanding creates a lack of alignment and directing innovation. Top leadership in organisations need to shape innovation and be more involved in its strategic design. Agility Innovation / Ovo Innovation All rights reserved. We need to resolve this innovation leadership gap of misunderstanding.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

They'll become products and services when the product or service development process in their organization provides resources for the new ideas, and spend time developing, validating, testing the new products and finally launching them. And then I ask them to tell me their firm's average product development process timeframe.

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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.

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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. Where the focus was on enabling and empowering team members to metaphorically “sing from the same song sheet.” How do you know whether you are aligned, or not? Where does your organisation sit?

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mjvinnovation

MAY 4, 2021

” Whoever works in the area must develop skills to face the critical moments of the project. This is why management emerges to support teams to achieve the desired goals through a series of tools and knowledge. Managing a project is not just about leading and distributing activities to the team. Integration management.

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Matthew May

MAY 22, 2015

There is good news and bad news in this. The bad news is how many internal functions don’t think strategy applies to them. Meaning, focusing outwardly on customers and competition. Sam realizes his team is all over the map, essentially firefighting without focused priorities.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

From start-ups to banks, design has never been more central to business. Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. Why is that fabled “seat at the table” so hard to find, and how can designers get a chair? Is design just a service, or can designers* lead?

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

From Claude Montana to Thierry Mugler, from Giorgio Armani to Franco Moschino, from Jean Charles de Castelbajac to Christian Lacroix, there were many designers who shaped the aesthetics of the era with their creations and shows” – whose creativity, still impact us across the arts and other key industries today.

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

There is a sweet spot in the market where your organization, and only your organization, can outperform the competition thanks to your unique combination of capabilities. We’ve put together some advice on how to move past the blockers and turn on the amplifiers: The First Design Decision. Blocker # 2: Lack of Purpose.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. What they need in order to be more competitive may or may not require technical innovation. It’s our internal startups: that’s why we have an incubator.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 6, 2021

And if you want to start designing a future that is really aligned with the moment we live in, now is the time to tear up the old planning and start a new one, from scratch. Design Thinking can help a lot in this mission. This is why: it will be the basis for an internal environment capable of resisting the weaknesses of your company.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

I complimented the team on how calm the assembly line seemed to run – and how clean the workshop looked. Now the Board of Directors was getting nervous – and the CEO felt rising pressure to prove his team is able to deal with digitization. An Expensive Blind Spot. I thought a lot about what I saw and heard that day.

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The Human Factor

JANUARY 13, 2021

In a world of ongoing, unexpected change, it is harder than ever to not fall into the bad habit of just responding vs. slowing down enough to pause, think, focus , and then run. Discuss it with your team and uncover what they believe is clear. Some companies develop one over-arching destination statement. Update as necessary.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. What they need in order to be more competitive may or may not require technical innovation. It’s our internal startups: that’s why we have an incubator.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The Avengers teamed up with the squad from Guardians of the Galaxy to face down Thanos. With the steady increase in competition, large corporations are more preoccupied than ever with securing data relating to the successes and failures of rivals. Amplifying Agility via Corporate-Startup Collaboration. Let’s dive in!

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The Human Factor

MARCH 2, 2023

image source Introduction Companies rely heavily on hiring talented tech professionals to gain a competitive edge in today’s rapidly evolving technology-driven world. Identifying the right people for the job can be the difference between gaining a competitive edge or falling behind.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

This cycle should involve the following steps: implementation, connectivity development, ensuring a ‘first and foremost’ focus on innovation, ideation and brainstorming, and finally, implementing a formal innovation management system. Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 30, 2017

This cycle should involve the following steps: implementation, connectivity development, ensuring a ‘first and foremost’ focus on innovation, ideation and brainstorming, and finally, implementing a formal innovation management system. Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility.

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