Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. I’d like to offer some views, partly looking out to the future, partly considering what is potentially within our grasp, if we step back and rethink innovation design.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As AI and sophisticated systems become the norm, it’s essential for organizations to retain their creative spirit, agility, and grit. Companies should invest in design thinking, ethnographic research and other human-centric innovation methods. Large enterprises often lose their agility due to organizational inertia and bureaucracy.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I am working through what I think this should become in design and application, involving providing the key innovation building blocks as components of the innovation stack, using the innovation stack to guide platform development and the platform to support this innovation stack.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We used AI to identify the most frequently asked questions about design thinking. Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers. You can also see our “human” responses to the big question: what is design thinking ? Design Thinking Frequently Asked Questions 1. Design Thinking Frequently Asked Questions 1.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Dear reader, let me share with you a conversation I had with the Chief Engineer Digitization & Software Development of a large company that produces complex electronic devices with many software elements in and around them. The best software is created by dedicated teams, in a condensed period of time, with Agile ways of working.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Dear reader, let me share with you a conversation I had with the Chief Engineer Digitization & Software Development of a large company that produces complex electronic devices with many software elements in and around them. The best software is created by dedicated teams, in a condensed period of time, with Agile ways of working.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Dear reader, let me share with you a conversation I had with the Chief Engineer Digitization & Software Development of a large company that produces complex electronic devices with many software elements in and around them. The best software is created by dedicated teams, in a condensed period of time, with Agile ways of working.

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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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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A well-designed organization attracts and retains top talent, just as better-designed products and services attract customers. Yet organizations resist change and lack the courage to re-design themselves and adapt to uncertain socio-economic conditions. What Is Business Design? Why Business Design?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2020

When we reflect on the remote work, rapid response and agility have all been tested in recent months. The shifts from the predictable to managing in (total) uncertainty required a factory of significant flexibility in design understanding, digitally prepared and physically able to be reconfigured.

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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. This required the design team to work a “Sprint&# (month long iteration) ahead of the development team. Where did Agile come from?

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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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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Design Thinking for Startup Sales Success: A Step-by-Step Guide. By following these steps, you can create a successful sales environment that will help your start-up grow, but you can go deeper and truly differentiate yourself by applying Design Thinking to key steps to help your startup thrive.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It plays a pivotal role in shaping the overall ecosystem; I would argue it is the unique essence of this design. It sets the stage for an ecosystem that operates with responsiveness, innovation agility, and risk-sharing mechanisms. Innovation Agility: Processes that allow for rapid prototyping and iteration.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The product management function is the right group to design, test, and iterate upon those systems. To succeed, companies must at some level be digital ready: Development team is agile, with an eye toward making the whole company agile. The PMs will be a conduit for expanding agile beyond Engineering.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

where technology, digital solutions, greater customer insights, where a new breed of designers, engineers, scientists, and software talent are combining built through a platform and new innovation ecosystems thinking, are all emerging. We have to recognize the days of simple product innovation are dwindling. coming from industry 4.0

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PlanBox Innovation

JUNE 26, 2020

A proven way to do this is through the agile process. First created in the software industry around 20 years ago, the agile methodology is widely seen as the innovation engine that drives Silicon Valley’s success, and it has now been adopted by many companies beyond the tech sector. Be Bold and Experiment.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

” The program manager was part of the Engineering department. The primary function was to serve as the bridge between Engineering and Marketing. It was not unusual to find PM’s who reported into Engineering at the time, the two cases perhaps reflecting the above origin stories. I had never heard of Agile.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 29, 2019

Agile Frameworks help the business team experience an Agile mindset in practice. With Agile Frameworks, business processes become more dynamic, staggering business values and productivity. 5 Most used Agile Frameworks. Engineering companies with HR and PD management process XP well on their payroll, for example.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

I don’t buy into all the innovation hype jargon unless we begin to recognize the changes we are undergoing in our business landscape today need a comprehensive and robust innovation structure and design. Innovation will be central to this; it will be based more on agility, being highly adaptable, flexible and acting at speed.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 7, 2020

From building safe spaces for ideation in the training room, keeping your L&D function agile, and taking advantage of innovation expertise from beyond your organization, read on to discover the innovative potential of L&D! Agile Training Breeds Innovation. Build Safe Spaces To Let Ideation Flourish.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

These stacks follow an established logic, such as working through idea discovery, relating to given problems, exploring solutions, and determining the final model or design and the execution delivery to achieve this. We stack them and they interlink. Different innovation thinking needs always require different adaption.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

into future ones built far more around innovation ecosystems in thinking and design that are integrated and connected, to open up conversations and exchanges, seeking common points of value in a broader network of solution providers. This “work mat” gives a solid design for discussions and recognition.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

MAY 23, 2024

When thinking about and designing business ecosystems, you must recognize that different ecosystems contribute, evolve, and determine their part in a “bigger” scheme of things. ” (finish) The influencing of the entire ecosystem design is the dynamics within the system.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2017

We need to do better, we need to design a completely new innovation process that takes into account all that has evolved in our understanding and experiment in recent years. We design the innovation system we need after we know what we are trying to achieve in the challenge or idea. A new cycle of innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Less than 30% of manufacturing companies are actively rolling out Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies at scale” No wonder we presently have trouble attracting many businesses onto platforms when they are still very much behind in deciding or deploying a strategically thought-through IIoT digital design, that is connecting everything up.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

Although I was attending as a sponsor/exhibitor for Indigo Studio, I did manage to break away to go to the “There’s more than one way to skin a cat: Integrating UX into an Agile environment” session. Clearly, the problems of integrating UX practice into Agile are a common source of pain for UX people. Enter the book.

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eZassi

MAY 13, 2024

Companies that fail to embrace emerging technologies risk being eclipsed by more agile, proactive competitors. Learn more about these implication s and potential limitations in their article on NextGen-AI for Engineering Design and Manufacturing.

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Cris Beswick

MAY 1, 2024

As an ex-designer, I think the pioneering “form follows function” principle, first articulated by architect Louis Sullivan around 120 years ago, holds the key to unlocking an organisation’s full potential to drive innovation-led growth.

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Acuvate

MAY 27, 2024

In the early 19th Century, the steam engine began the first industrial revolution. Unlike generic data management systems, these platforms are engineered to cater to the intricate requirements of specific industries. Set up for scale They are engineered to sync with and grow with the organization.

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Business and Tech

AUGUST 26, 2021

Hospitality organizations must be nimble and agile to respond to multiple changes the industry faces. At MSU, for example, we have world-class engineering, design, technology, and hospitality schools, so we can bring different pieces of knowledge together to provide the best solutions. Change is the only constant in business.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 15, 2023

Agile Methodology and Transparency The OKR system naturally aligns with agile methodology, a business approach characterized by iterative, incremental work cadences known as sprints. In this context, agility is not merely relegated to tech development but permeates the entire business.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

how can we reverse engineer scaling up? Those of dealing with greater ambiguity, of building in the needs of agility, higher levels of flexibility, curiosity and the willingness to explore and experiment and take increasing risk. It needs to be more agile and flexible. This is where innovation comes into play.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

There are so many layers between the Board room and for example a software developer or an industrial designer. How can the CEO be sure that these people contribute their ideas, designs, work, to the company strategies? Note: this risk is per definition embedded in several Agile methodologies. The same is true for Engineering.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

There are so many layers between the Board room and for example a software developer or an industrial designer. How can the CEO be sure that these people contribute their ideas, designs, work, to the company strategies? Note: this risk is per definition embedded in several Agile methodologies. The same is true for Engineering.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

There are so many layers between the Board room and for example a software developer or an industrial designer. How can the CEO be sure that these people contribute their ideas, designs, work, to the company strategies? Note: this risk is per definition embedded in several Agile methodologies. The same is true for Engineering.

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