Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

From my perspective I’ve been looking at a real challenge today, that many consultants offering innovation services are not providing real sustaining consulting value to clients, only ad-hoc services. In many ways, the consulting industry specializing in innovation is its own worst enemy.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

In the intervening time, I have gotten to know dozens of smart, strong female leaders and innovation experts, as part of my consulting and speaking work, as well as by interviewing them for the Idea to Value Podcast. One of the top ten business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50, Whitney is an expert at smart growth leadership.

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Braden Kelley

AUGUST 14, 2016

The worlds of employment and business are becoming increasingly turbulent as the stability of the enterprise grows ever shorter, the loyalty of the enterprise to its people faces extinction, and the wealthy countries of the world stand at a precipice … Continue reading →

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Planview

JUNE 16, 2022

To help drive change and advance strategic objectives, organizations turn to enterprise-wide portfolio planning and delivery solutions such as Planview Enterprise One ® , which enables strategy execution, project portfolio management, lean portfolio management, product portfolio management, and enterprise architecture. Lavanya J.,

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Indeed, in this age of relentless change, the last thing any enterprise wants is a free-falling portfolio of innovative projects. 52% of projects veer off course —either going over budget, missing deadlines, or not meeting the set expectations. And, 19% crash land —either abandoned halfway or completed but left unused. Their skill set?

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The era of the “data economy” is well and truly upon us, meaning that companies must be more agile than ever before. Many technology companies are hiring outside consultants to lead massive organizational shifts and drive change. Innovation is a concept often tossed around in business strategy as an instrument of change.

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Innovation 360 Group

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Background: Marc Dellaert is a global senior leader, inspirational speaker, author, board advisor and practitioner in Leadership, Innovation and Transformation. Marc has more than 25 years of experience in financial services, consumer goods, telecom, consulting and executive education in Europe, the Middle East and the CIS Region.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 3, 2021

I was privileged to attend one of the first Theory U; Presencing Leadership for Profound Innovation and Change Workshops presented by the Sloane School of Management, in Boston in 2008. Forward looking leadership. Change and learning today involve people, developing their knowledge, mindsets, and behaviours, skills and habits.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When it comes to innovation, building capabilities and applying the right leadership style give top performing manufacturers the edge over skills-focused peers. Most importantly, they will need the right cultural matrix to support agile operations and flexible work. The Relationship of Capabilities to Leadership.

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Acuvate

AUGUST 2, 2019

A culture of data in the organization can only be brought about with prompt decision-making strategies and good directional leadership to drive the initiative. According to an IDG survey report , 75 percent of business enterprises today are undertaking big data projects. Adopting a ‘Culture’ of Analytics. is predicted to swell to $9.4

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

This allows managers, executives, and consultants to focus on more strategic elements of innovation. Teams can iterate designs with agility, supported by AI’s predictive analytics to forecast the success of design choices. Test AI systems simulate user interactions for immediate feedback.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Susie shares what good leadership behaviour looks like, the problems with short-term thinking and how to carve out the necessary space for a strategic approach to innovation. Co-Founder of Yellow Cat – an innovation coaching, consulting and training company. Founder of Mulberry Retreats – focusing on leadership development.

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eZassi

AUGUST 22, 2022

From the Harvard Business Review article “ An Agile Approach to Budgeting for Uncertain Times ,” here are the curated questions your team should ask while planning for projects in the year ahead: What are the outcomes that will be most important for strategic success? Innovation Strategy Consulting. Where should resources go?

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Planview

JANUARY 10, 2022

In 2021, we further extended our expertise and leadership in the PSA market by announcing that Planview’s Chief Product Officer and PSA industry veteran Louise K. Webinar: Is Your PSA Accelerating Project Maturity? In a timely and insightful webinar “ Is Your PSA Accelerating Project Maturity? Conclusion.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

However, in every case, it is beneficial for a company to look inwards and see whether their people, processes and leadership are acting more as innovation enablers, or bottlenecks. bringing to light inefficiencies which leadership would not be aware of). 9 – Understanding the science of creativity.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 12, 2021

Leverage the innate agility. A Fractional CINO addresses these missing skill sets: The MisFortune 10,000 Tend to Lack These Innovation Skills: Process and Innovation Project Management Skills — including: team building, culture leadership, innovation project roadmapping, and more. Here’s why.

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The Human Factor

MAY 2, 2018

Running a successful business, no matter how big or small, starts and ends with effective leadership. These leadership principles apply to all types and sizes of businesses. From my perspective, here’s what effective leadership looks like in a small business. Get clear on winning. Teach employees the business of the business.

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Be-novative

JUNE 16, 2021

Creating a Circle of Leadership Development professionals in HR to work together more efficiently and create more value means you can bring together the best knowledge and experience inside the company spread across different units and countries. In good agile practices, the client and the team define together the deliverables of each sprint.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Projects are what drive innovation and change cultures. Getting projects going can help you trump all the other pitfalls. Team conflict sinks valiant efforts, motivation, mandates, projects, and training. Leadership is how this is overcome, another missing bubble. You can innovate without one, it just entails more risk.

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Innovation 360 Group

APRIL 30, 2017

Michel Wils is a business consultant, trainer and coach. As a facilitator, he helps companies transform and become more agile by innovating with a constant focus on human development (empowerment) & collaboration. Being agile means being able to adapt, to change, to bounce back rapidly in any circumstances. Background.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

I have been spending some significant time on questioning the current innovation business model, from both the customers (clients) perspective and the innovation consultants’ one. In my research I certainly felt also the innovation consultant is struggling. The innovation consultants’ dilemma. It simply pisses the employee off.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile. refers to the third generation of project management models, considered more suited to current business requirements in the context of Digital Transformation – toting more agile, lean, and modern management values. to work so well in agile.

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Innovation 360 Group

JULY 10, 2018

Background: Dagmar has worked in Strategic HR Management for BASF in Europe and Asia triggering mainly the question: how to translate strategic goals into people-related leadership concepts and HR policies. She therefore mainly worked in Learning and Development, Performance Management and in change management projects.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 21, 2017

These build into increasing frictions where the eventual performance of innovation seemingly disappoints the leadership of organizations. Organizations continue to struggle with obtaining that higher level of agility and flexibility required for innovation speed of response and delivery. So why is that?

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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. Yet sporadic innovation is not enough to keep up with changing markets and evolving demanding customer needs.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. Innovation Intensive will help you improve the effectiveness of innovation projects. Streamlined management of innovation projects. This is a one day deep-dive, hands-on workshop in facilitation of innovation projects.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Rapidly changing customer behaviours, disruptive digital technologies, and the emergence of agile fintech start-ups means that disruption is an ever-present danger. The resounding success of TSYS’ Project WOW provides invaluable lessons for leaders in the financial sector looking to drive continuous improvement across all fronts.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 17, 2016

The worlds of employment and business are becoming increasingly turbulent as the stability of the enterprise grows ever shorter, the loyalty of the enterprise to its people faces extinction, and the wealthy countries of the world stand at a precipice of overhanging debt.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2018

In this article, you are going to learn exactly what Loss Aversion is, why is creates crippling fear in middle managers and decision-makers, and a simple model for how you can reframe your company’s thinking which encourages more innovation projects to thrive.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

He’d asked me what I did and when I told him I was an innovation consultant, his eyebrows raised. I replied “you need to be thinking about project cycles and measures.” I added my punchline, “because if you’re not doing projects you’re not doing innovation.” Are you doing continuous projects?

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Be-novative

APRIL 21, 2021

Connecting people virtually to co-create in a purpose-driven way accelerates positive business outcomes and unites people in finding meaning in transformative change, that is why Purpose & Co-creation projects are trending in 2021. The next 5-year outlook on the way we work and manage projects ??

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hackerearth

AUGUST 17, 2018

It is often not feasible for a project team to manage change on a person-to-person basis. Organizational change management provides support at the project level by outlining steps and actions to be taken that affect the many individuals impacted by the project. In the design phase, a clear project plan is developed.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In this origin story, the beakers would be labeled “agile” and “user experience (UX)” because the user champion borrows some of the best ideas from both disciplines. From agile, it takes the idea of the product owner (or in this case, product champion). From UX, it takes a conviction in the value of user feedback. The product owner

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Building these is the core of my innovation offering in consulting, in advising, mentoring and coaching. The well-structured part is the decision-making process, the level of (dedicated) project management, how much is self-managed in learning, what level of supervisory skills and the design of a talent management approach.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

That’s why we see a growing number of coworking spaces and accelerator programs, as part of a collective effort to figure out what we’ve all been wondering when it comes to 21 st century business: Can companies be both large-scale and agile? We call it Project WOW. Project WOW. Let them lead a new project.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

Senior leadership must establish the mindset of, “We need to be entrepreneurial. We need to be agile.” If people are acting entrepreneurial in a grassroots way and leadership sees that this can be done, that's how momentum for change happens. Killing failed projects is a success. We need to move faster.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Jael has recently stepped down from a full-time corporate innovator leadership role in a leading FMCG company and started her own consultancy LevelUPPP to dedicate more time to supporting teams, leaders, and individuals to better achieve their goals in a sustained manner. Pitch Projects & Manage Stakeholders. learn more.

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