Constructing the innovation mandate
Paul Hobcraft
APRIL 24, 2023
The post Constructing the innovation mandate first appeared on Paul4innovating Innovation Views.
Construction Careers Just Got More Interesting – And Most Likely, Less Backbreaking
Daniel Burrus
APRIL 7, 2021
Whether it is a global pandemic or everyday disruptions, most of us default to reaction and agility when faced with a crisis. However, in our current COVID-19 world, agility and reactionary behavior is even less productive than it was before. Construction Has Gone Digital. Should We Fear Automation in Construction?
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Integrating ‘Agile’ Approaches into ‘Waterfall’ Cultures
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JANUARY 26, 2022
Agile” and “Waterfall” offer us very different approaches to project management. Agile design, on the other hand, begins without a clear endpoint, assuming that any presumptions about results may bias or limit our opportunities and options. Core Elements of Agile. Integrating Agile Approaches into Waterfall Cultures.
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Innovative Team Collaboration: Igniting Creativity for Extraordinary Results
Leapfrogging
APRIL 15, 2024
Managers and leaders are recognizing that fostering team collaboration practices can yield a more agile and responsive organization. Increased Agility: Teams that collaborate well can adapt more quickly to changes in the business environment, maintaining a competitive edge. Encourage reflection on setbacks to derive valuable lessons.
5 steps to have an agile HR in your company
mjvinnovation
MAY 24, 2021
In times of exponential change, the agile approach is dominating the market. Have you heard of agile HR? The term Agile is no longer used only in the area of ??Technology. Today, Agile Methods are transforming the way companies hire, develop and manage their employees. What is Agile HR. And HR can not be left out.
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Experiment, Experiment, Experiment
Destination Innovation
DECEMBER 20, 2020
They would like to see more experimentation in order to increase business agility and entrepreneurial activity. How can you foster a climate of constructive experimentation? If you want an agile, creative and innovative business then the motto is experiment, experiment, experiment. Most CEOs get this. Microwave oven. Saccharine.
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Our Need Is To Shape Innovation Dynamically.
Paul Hobcraft
OCTOBER 30, 2023
I have been building a stronger, more robust narrative that is built around what I continue to refine and offer as my advisory and coaching practice at Agility Innovation, my eight skill development and creative thinking steps , which will be discussed in depth in a subsequent post or two.
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The Path to Innovation: Implementing Effective Team Collaboration Practices
Leapfrogging
APRIL 15, 2024
Organizations with strong collaborative practices often see improvements in productivity, efficiency, and agility. Responding to Modern Work Trends The modern workplace is characterized by rapid technological advancements, distributed teams, and a shift towards more agile and dynamic work structures.
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From end to end: why the union of Design Thinking and Agile has been so successful
mjvinnovation
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Where DT can’t reach, Agile can compensate and vice versa. Agile: Make Tangible and build. Since you have a well-defined idea (through Design Thinking), Agile will clear a path towards your idea by removing obstacles that stand in your way. Agile: you do not make Agile; you become Agile.
Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation
Paul Hobcraft
MAY 9, 2023
Over the years, so much has improved and understood by the explanations, case examples, suggestions, clarifications and ways they were “built into” the individual innovation processes that each company chose to construct their innovation process. These tools and techniques enable ideation, validation, design-build and scaling.
Strategic Agility – 3 keys to getting clear in ambiguity
The Human Factor
MAY 4, 2020
I call this strategic agility. – Developing strategic agility starts with getting clear on winning even if it is for very short term timeframes. If getting clear on winning represents the starting point for strategic agility, keeping people focused on the goal is the driving force behind getting there.
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New Business Designs can be delivered through a Business Ecosystem Approach.
Paul Hobcraft
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
The main framework around the Hierarchy of Business Ecosystems Needs is over on www.ecosystems4innovating.com; in a series of detailed posts on each layer of the Ecosystem construct, take a look at each part in explanations of why each Ecosystem is interconnected and feeds the others. Manufacturing: Challenges: Industry 4.0
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Those that learn to frame the Strategic Innovation discussion are the big winners
Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 10, 2020
Constructing an innovation conversation framework is never easy, we all come at it in different ways and when it comes to those strategic conversations, we feel a sense of panic and growing tension as our messages begin to fray at the edges and slip more into tactical, the more we talk.
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Unleash the Power: Driving Innovation in Executive Teams with Experiential Intelligence
Leapfrogging
MARCH 6, 2024
By doing so, teams can navigate challenges with agility and confidence, leading to transformative business results. Conflict Resolution Protocols : Developing clear processes for addressing and resolving conflicts constructively, without letting them hinder team progress.
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WHY IS IT MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER TO INNOVATE?
ImagineNation
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
We also know exactly what transformative innovation involves, and how to enable and equip people to connect and collaborate in new ways to effect constructive and sustainable change in a world of unknowns. As well as to be resilient and adaptive to grow and flow in today’s chaotic BANI environment. Shaping the next normal.
Why Are We Navigating to the New: A Summary of the Hierarchy of Business Ecosystem Needs
Ecosystems4Innovating
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Introduction to the Hierarchy: The Hierarchy of Business Ecosystem Needs is a construct of collaborative ecosystems, navigating complexity with agility, openness, and shared vision. So, this series has introduced each ecosystem’s design regarding thinking and construction principles.
Six Things I wish I had known before I accepted the position of Chief Innovation Officer
Destination Innovation
MARCH 9, 2020
Maybe I deserved some of it for being too optimistic, but I expected constructive support not finger-pointing. The CEO gave a rousing and inspiring speech about our vision for innovation and agility. But after the first two major initiatives failed to achieve their objectives a blame game ensued. And a lot of the blame came my way.
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Strategic Agility –The Next Big Thing is Here
The Human Factor
DECEMBER 13, 2016
I call this strategic agility. Strategic agility is the ability to quickly and appropriately respond to or drive change while maintaining flexibility and focus. Developing strategic agility starts with getting clear on winning. The post Strategic Agility –The Next Big Thing is Here appeared first on The Human Factor.
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Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment
Boxes and Arrows
JANUARY 31, 2010
I had worked with SCRUM before, done training with Ken Schwaber (author 1 and co-founder of the Agile Alliance) and knew a few things from experience about how to achieve some success integrating a design team within SCRUM. Where did Agile come from? Agile can be thought of as a risk-management strategy.
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The Importance of Innovation at the Front End of the Energy Transition.
Innovating4Energy
MARCH 17, 2024
Showing leading practices and examples of how challenges were overcome in imaginative and constructive ways is a great way to accelerate adoption and increase investment confidence. Agile and Adaptive Ecosystems: Energy changes face significant obstacles in time, risk and the level of change needed to occur.
Innovate like a Software Start-up
Destination Innovation
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Construct a model, a screen shot, a story board or a picture and show it to real customers who have the problem. Agility, fast feedback and risk mitigation are the watchwords. Many senior executives in big companies find this difficult and so they cling on but the start-up entrepreneur cannot afford a big ego. Build and show.
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10 Disruptive Trends for 2020
Leapfrogging
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Last year, I described the disruptions facing a variety of industries, including healthcare , packaging , travel and hospitality , software , real estate and construction , retail shopping , and manufacturing.
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DANCING ON THE EDGE OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE
ImagineNation
NOVEMBER 8, 2020
Developing innovation agility, being adaptative, and cultivating mental toughness, emotional agility, to build resilience and trust in times of extreme uncertainty. According to an article in Psychology Today a comfort zone is a psychological/emotional/behavioural construct that surrounds and defines the routine of our daily lives.
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Needing To Think Applied Innovation Services
Paul Hobcraft
MAY 26, 2017
Creating a fluid, adaptive, agile innovation system unique each time. Can we find ways to be highly adaptable, agile and fluid in grabbing and taking the parts of the innovation system and constructing them into that design and process that works for that specific challenge? A constant redesign to meet the circumstances.
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The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators
Paul Hobcraft
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Ecosystems that produce ultimately new business models often rest on a large capacity for agility, openness, and mutual dependency, sharing and appreciating the values amongst a peer group that all relate to this ‘need for change’ and buys into that collective vision outlined.
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10 Disruptive Trends for 2020
Leapfrogging
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Last year, I described the disruptions facing a variety of industries, including healthcare , packaging , travel and hospitality , software , real estate and construction , retail shopping , and manufacturing.
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The Root Word of Contemporary Is Temporary
CorporateIntel
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
I don’t think a bit of traditional thinking about the nature of workplace relationships is incompatible with rapid innovation, agile thinking, evolving workplace paradigms, and aspiring to more meaningful jobs. It was bosses and colleagues advancing in age and leaning toward old-fashioned values.
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Relating to the New Innovation Era
Paul Hobcraft
JULY 5, 2017
It is often an environment that we must encourage to become a ‘feeding frenzy’ of experimentation, learning and being adaptive, fluid and agile. We need to be more agile, iterative , to be encouraged to be experimenting and exploring. We are seeing much that was seemingly enduring is being challenged, even ripped out and replaced.
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The Best Innovation Keynote Speakers Talking Points & Presentations
Leapfrogging
APRIL 10, 2024
Keynote speakers in this niche illuminate the significance of constructing prototypes and the iterative process of testing, learning, and refining. They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes.
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Innovation thinking in Ecosystem and Generative AI design.
Paul Hobcraft
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Innovation thinking in Ecosystem and Gen AI design I believe there is a real need to construct a different innovation process. I do believe the principles of design thinking, agile development, ecosystem thinking and design coupled with AI integration offer a radically exciting new innovation approach.
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Building the Core Competencies for Innovation
Paul Hobcraft
DECEMBER 28, 2016
The net effect, is it does prompt a greater desire, clarity of purpose, identification, and fit required at the senior management level and in general for innovation management construction. These need to be recognized as constantly fluid, adaptive and agile. Gaining Alignment. Seeking out the motivators.
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Disruption is the new constant; forget the Status Quo
Ecosystems4Innovating
DECEMBER 1, 2022
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. One that recognizes it has to be part of a growing collaborating network to thrive in this highly connected, rapidly changing and challenging world.
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Implementing Open Innovation: Insights from Ariana Smetana of AccelIQ Digital
Qmarkets
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
That exposure to the tech world drew my interest in 2018 to look at how the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) industry is affected by digital automation and hardware solutions like AR/VR, which can help process vast amounts of 2D/3D data and improve project visualization capabilities.
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105 Harnessing the Power: Proven Team Collaboration Best Practices
Leapfrogging
APRIL 15, 2024
It’s crucial to establish a culture where feedback is seen as a constructive tool for growth, rather than as criticism. They ensure that teams remain agile, informed, and aligned with best practices, thereby driving high performance, innovation, and superior business results.
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It’s Time To Upgrade Your Innovation Management System
Innov8rs
MARCH 17, 2024
Their systems work effectively and efficiently, but they are also agile enough to seize short-term opportunities. How To Upgrade Your Innovation Management System Attempting to construct a new, best-in-class innovation management system from scratch is not a feasible solution.
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INNOVATION TEAMS DONT INNOVATE!
ImagineNation
MARCH 10, 2021
Delivering these, as smart and multi-disciplinary teams in ways that are timely, agile, and disciplined that potentially support and bring significant value to customers, the market, and to the organisation. Unconventional stretch collaboration requires connection, cognitive dissonance, and conflict.
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Open-Source Innovation: Insights from Ariana Smetana of AccelIQ Digital
Qmarkets
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
That exposure to the tech world drew my interest in 2018 to look at how the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) industry is affected by digital automation and hardware solutions like AR/VR, which can help process vast amounts of 2D/3D data and improve project visualization capabilities.
Jumping to a fresh cycle of innovation design
Paul Hobcraft
SEPTEMBER 15, 2017
Can we find ways to be highly adaptable, agile and fluid in grabbing and taking the parts of the innovation system and constructing them into that design and process that works for that specific challenge? We need to design our systems to be highly agile. It adjusts and you learn.
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The legend of the Gordian Knot and today’s oganizations “knotty” problems
Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 24, 2018
We need to be agile, fluid and adaptive in allowing design, systems, and processes to continually adjust, to reflect the constant challenge of change going on continuously. Firstly we need to revisit any work we are thinking about changing more on an “adaptive enterprises and systems” way of thinking.
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Leapfrogging
APRIL 10, 2024
These real-world examples provide you with a glimpse into the strategies and processes that have led to breakthrough successes in various industries.
The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators
Paul Hobcraft
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Ecosystems that produce ultimately new business models often rest on a large capacity for agility, openness, and mutual dependency, sharing and appreciating the values amongst a peer group that all relate to this ‘need for change’ and buys into that collective vision outlined.
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Guresh Ahuja
Innovation 360 Group
APRIL 30, 2017
My experience spans as a client-side program manager delivering capital infrastructure (EPCM), design management, business transformation, strategic procurement, construction management and IT system projects for health, sustainable utilities, smart cities, and NSW government. PMBOK, Agile, ADKAR & MSP.
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HR, from corporate police to champions of LOVE
Cris Beswick
DECEMBER 21, 2022
The modern construct of HR as we know it today was largely born post World War 2 so circa 1945 but it had already emerged earlier on in the 20 th century, pioneered by Frederick Winslow Taylor who explored what he termed ‘scientific management’ as a way to improve economic efficiency in manufacturing jobs. It’s middle-out!
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Paul Hobcraft
JUNE 30, 2016
Future leaders need to emerge not from managing existing assets well but in managing in increased uncertainties, being more adaptive, agile and responsive to changing needs. HR can become a powerful connector, platform provider for building networks, relationships and being a key component to building the learning that innovation requires.
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