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. We are rapidly seeing the past of innovating simply in terms of operating on our own. Adopting ecosystem thinking combined with Generative AI will augment, automate and rapidly scale innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Keynote speakers also serve as catalysts for change, motivating teams to embrace new methodologies and collaborate more effectively. They often share stories of successful team dynamics, which can serve as a blueprint for teams seeking to revamp their approach to innovation. Engagement Keeps the audience interested and involved.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

The thrust of the framework is “ Organizations can create a more comprehensive and effective innovation ecosystem by utilizing building blocks as components of the innovation stack, guiding platform development using the innovation stack, and supporting the innovation stack with a platform.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable. Their talks can be a catalyst for change, encouraging your team to pursue innovation with renewed vigor. Highlighting the importance of collaboration and diversity in driving innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2023

By modularizing these tasks and their interfaces, organizations can assess their innovation progress by having a complete innovation system available to them, designed on specific stack elements to address knowledge operation requirements in the stage of development to commercialization.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

A dynamic speaker can transform the atmosphere, creating an engaging and thought-provoking experience for all attendees. When you invite an innovation keynote speaker to your event, you’re not just getting a presentation; you’re accessing a wealth of knowledge shaped by real-world experience and success.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I finished my last post, “ Are we EVER going to embrace innovation? ” With the argument, we need to change the innovation narrative and significantly update the innovation approach and processes to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business challenges.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 26, 2023

I have followed a number of great innovation thinkers and read different books on the areas of innovation. Reading and even contributing to different innovation books that have come out has added experience and contribution, but I do so often wonder that innovation seems not to have changed as much as I would have expected.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 8, 2023

Innovation is a complex process that requires effective connections and collaborations among individuals and teams. My fun has been piecing these together to lead me to my suggested Vertical and Horizontal Framework for achieving a different innovation management design.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 27, 2017

This ‘knowledge is becoming out of date before we can learn from it and sometimes highly dangerous to follow or believe in some rapidly changing times. We need to change our thinking and design in the digital insight part more specifically within and along the innovation process.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

A system that encourages forming strategic alliances, partnerships, and knowledge sharing to drive innovation and create shared value in open, thoughtful, and collaborative ways. The shift to platform thinking gives the potential for scalable and flexible foundations for collaboration, integration, and value creation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

In my view any new approach to innovation needs to aim to achieve interdependent and interlocking innovation, solving problems that have not been addressed before and offering sustainable value, impact, and returns to all involved or significantly improving on the existing solutions.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 24, 2022

The platform’s ability to offer multiple values will influence many of the client’s adoption decisions over the choices their business will engage with. ” I suggested in this post, “ Platforms allow you the opportunity to innovate in very different ways.

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Technical Review Innovation Engagement Collaboration 182

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I see many comments on the failure of innovation, in its inability to be at the core of an organization’s ambitions for growing and changing. Our innovation processes stay islands of knowledge stubbornly not flowing across organizations, informing others and giving the right levels of insights, support, or collaboration needed.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This shapes what we do and how we can respond to navigate an increasingly dynamic and ever-changing world. The recognized simpler view of innovators having essential cognitive skills is made up of generally needing to associate, question, observe, network and experiment and should be part of the innovator’s DNA.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2021

In any collaborative meeting, you, as a leader, have an opportunity to foster innovative thinking. Moving to an anonymous, text-based online collaborative environment, though, offers multiple new, intriguing possibilities for leaders to cultivate innovation. 6 Innovative Leadership Possibilities that Anonymity Enables.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 21, 2023

The potential returns, including increased agility, improved innovation outcomes, enhanced collaboration, and long-term competitiveness, make this radical change worthwhile for organizations aspiring to thrive in today’s dynamic business environment. You need a systematic approach and project staging plan.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

Increased integration with other business tools, such as project management and collaboration software. More emphasis on data analytics and reporting to help companies better understand and track their innovation efforts. More use of gamification techniques to encourage participation and engagement among employees.

Software 182

Software Innovation Management Management Artificial Inteligence 182

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

I wonder if that is the current incumbents, be these current innovation management software providers or individuals inside the organizations resisting change, as it brings significant uncertainty of change and disruption to the (inadequate) process, one that I feel is not fit for today’s and tomorrow’s innovation purpose.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 26, 2023

Resource allocation: The innovation mandate should outline how resources, including funding, personnel, and technology, will be allocated to support innovation initiatives and where these will be drawn down from and the “equity of resources” shared so this is a collaborative endeavour. Addressing both makes good sense.

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IdeaScale

MAY 26, 2021

It can come in many different forms and styles, but regardless of the methods you use, innovation cannot be ignored. However, when working in a digital workspace, creating lasting innovative solutions is much more difficult than usual. This directs contributions and collaboration towards the goals you’re trying to meet.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2023

Organizations in today’s business environment need to adapt rapidly and dynamically, have the need to bring the innovation management process into a constant technological advancement, and be more tailored in its design by their own specific needs and not “offered” as a rigid set of solutions.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

I am on a personal mission to convince innovation software providers, corporations and innovators to change how they undertake innovation. In some recent posts, I argued that we need to adopt a broader innovation ecosystem thinking and design. Seeing the barriers, the causes and effects.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 22, 2023

Any energy transition takes a long time, requiring a highly collaborative and multidisciplinary approach. Innovation inspires action; it can focus efforts and drive synergies if set up correctly. It is having a well-established innovation process or a clear, transparent one that can engage, communicate and build shared understanding.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was from a white paper “ Accelerating Sustainable Energy Innovation , released in May 2018 and prepared in collaboration with KPMG. Having a robust, sustainable innovation system to install and then follow is essential. Innovation drives the changes in the Energy transition.

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Technical Review Innovation System Collaboration 200

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 14, 2023

The post was my “ The Final Perspective: A Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework “ This recommendation had been built out over the past three months toward this final conclusion. The challenge faced by innovation software : The post “ Innovation Software, is it Facing the Innovators Dilemma?

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We have to recognize the days of simple product innovation are dwindling. 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. coming from industry 4.0

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

To help you in your search for the right innovation management platform, we have compiled a checklist of what to look for in an innovation management platform, complete with project collaboration and project delivery capabilities. Crowd endorsements : Recognize others as a Citizen, Maker, Connector, and All-Star.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I want to offer some thoughts that need us all involved in innovation to think about as we finish out 2018. If you are frustrated with your current innovation process then read on. Much of the current innovation process you are currently working with is a Dinosaur, it should have disappeared long ago. I think not.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For me, the last six months or so I have been spending increasing time working with ChatGPT to gain different ways to look at focus areas I spend in advising and mentoring and where innovation links into my different work. Recently, I have been looking specifically at the way the (traditional) innovation management process will change.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

During our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Startup Collaboration & Ecosystem Engagement, Manuel Hellendorff (Head of Customer Success at Novable ) provided an overview of the main AI tools currently in use and shared practical advice on how to incorporate these tools into your work to enhance productivity and success.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Role of a Keynote Speaker in Corporate Innovation A keynote speaker can be a powerful catalyst in corporate settings, sparking innovation and inspiring change within an organization. A focus on innovation helps companies to adapt to rapidly changing markets, embrace new technologies, and stay ahead of the competition.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In my opinion, it needs to be based on the thinking around the shift from products to solutions, from transactions to building far more value-adding ongoing relationships, from a supplier of product services into highly valued network partnerships, exploring innovation across all options. We “pull down” what is needed.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 9, 2021

Whiteboarding is a critical part of the brainstorming and innovation process. Whether you are using Fresco , Mural, or some other virtual whiteboard, these practices should help engage your team. Virtual whiteboards are shared workspaces that people operate through in order to collaborate from anywhere. Exercise #1 ?

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Having been able to see both needs and opportunities before they happen, manufacturers then were able to innovate around their core competencies , and more frequently. Any problems that arose during innovation were pre-solved by again using those same Hard Trends to determine what was solvable before it became a bigger issue.

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Artificial Inteligence Collaboration Internet of things Trends 56

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design. Often this era of change is not as well-recognized or being faced up to, as you would expect. So the need to innovate comes from digital as the source.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

How much does a business organization spend on its ERP system compared to its innovation system? The efforts to extract efficiency and effectiveness from operations, supporting services and customer engagements to track productivity, do the same efforts and management focus go into innovation?

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