Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

By adopting a composable approach, organizations can achieve greater agility, adaptability, and scalability in their innovation efforts. Developing any new concept requires recognizing its specific elements of required knowledge, operational requirements, and our future world, plugging into the human-AI collaboration.

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CMOE

MAY 7, 2021

When a team leader delegates responsibilities to individual contributors, it illustrates the leader’s belief in their potential—this can save nearly 79 percent of team members from quitting. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

The TRIZ acronym comes from it’s original Russian name, and in English it is often referred to as a “theory of inventive problem solving” or TIPS. What it is: One of the most challenging aspects of innovation for most companies is not the generating of ideas, or the development of new innovations.

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CMOE

JULY 23, 2021

Unfortunately, there aren’t enough executive leaders who invest time into strategy— 85 percent of executive leadership teams invest less than one hour each month on strategy, while 50 percent do not spend any time on strategy at all. Strategy Compels Leaders to Stay Focused on Short-Term & Long-Term Growth.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

Would that be so bad? And Agility For All. The first thing that you would notice about them is that people’s work revolves around a key concept, agility. Say, you are not an agile organization. If agility is, indeed, the oxygen to survive overtime, how can we inject more and more of it into your company?

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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. What is Loss Aversion?

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CMOE

APRIL 26, 2021

When a team leader delegates responsibilities to individual contributors, it illustrates the leader’s belief in their potential—this can save nearly 79 percent of team members from quitting. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Still I came away with a 50% achievement mark which was not so bad on the overall innovation intent I had set myself but one area was very frustrating to move forward upon- the subject of risk and how it is treated in innovation management. Blood pressure pills came in handy here also. As a result, promising ideas are often smothered.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. The article I reference is in Inc. In innovation work, ideally, a facilitator guides a team beyond its current knowledge zone and into a new place of greater understanding. The reason? A framework is a scaffold.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality. We fail to invest in foresight and insight, continually not adapting and adjusting our organizational skill set around a more agile, adaptive, highly responsive innovating and creative organization.

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Moves the Needle

JULY 31, 2018

If you answered yes, you know exactly the type of occurrence we are referring to. This is commonly referred to as Product-Market fit. The business understands the market and has developed a proven, scalable blueprint to winning the market. Those in Expand have found some traction and are, therefore, “emerging” H2 projects.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

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. Where is innovation within this? These help us to figure out what is changing.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

The digitization might be specific internal processes, tools, or operational components, or can refer to a complete revamp of a company’s products and services. They are not agile. But enterprise organizations have been known to exhibit “not built here” syndrome, meaning, they don’t trust solutions that weren’t developed in-house.

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eZassi

MARCH 28, 2019

Innovation solutions can also be particular to the innovation industry, which is tasked with partnering with companies to create a culture of innovation and help develop meaningful innovations. In this case, the term can refer to a whole suite of tools that are used to drive innovation within companies. And much more!

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

A major change for the industry was the move to the software as a service (SaaS) model, often referred to as “the cloud.” Intuit had developed its mobile platform late in the game, creating an inconsistent experience. A different company wouldn’t have tried to pull off a project as risky as Harmony.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 19, 2018

In contrast, strategies based on Technology Drivers investigate problems, many of them unarticulated, and explore how the latest developments are reshaping various sectors. Every decision has implications that ripple across the project timeline, many of which can be predicted. This aligns well with H2 innovation projects.

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Innovation 360

JUNE 20, 2018

In contrast, strategies based on Technology Drivers investigate problems, many of them unarticulated, and explore how the latest developments are reshaping various sectors. Every decision has implications that ripple across the project timeline, many of which can be predicted. This aligns well with H2 innovation projects.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 23, 2017

“This new mode of organization—a ‘network of teams’ with a high degree of empowerment, strong communication, and rapid information flow—is now sweeping businesses and governments around the world.” – Gen. Work is organized by programs and projects and done by purpose-built teams. Sense and sort signals – strong and weak.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

Too often the team gets all the way through building the product to find out they can’t explain the product. Because digital projects don’t generally have packaging, videos are a good linear storytelling format. This is not a distraction; it forces a team to explain the value proposition and iterate on it.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

The platform environment is mostly characterized by a tension between collboration and competition of the participating companies, often referred to as coopetition. But even participating in other firms’ ecosystems can be highly attractive, as demonstrated by e.g. several app developers.

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 10, 2008

However, there still remains much to discuss about what makes a UX team dreamy. We’ll also touch on the quality of an individual’s personality that may or may not complement the others on your team. Remember, a toxic person is often manipulative and they may seem great on the surface, so check references.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 31, 2008

first creating wireframes, which are handed off to creative, who hand off comps to tech, and so forth), and you want to explore more contemporary methodologies, such as agile and iterative development. The way that look and feel is developed and applied will vary widely from team to team.

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