Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

To support you in building out your innovation competencies, capabilities and capacity that requires a deeper investment in skill development in a culture of continual learning. It is a journey of building innovation, fitness and dynamics drawn out in a new way of thinking and design within innovation ecosystems.

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The Human Factor

MARCH 2, 2023

image source Introduction Companies rely heavily on hiring talented tech professionals to gain a competitive edge in today’s rapidly evolving technology-driven world. However, finding and hiring the right tech talent can be daunting. A company’s success often hinges on the quality of its tech talent.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

I am suggesting a vertical and horizontal design applying innovation stack and building block approaches, all “housed” on a technology platform. Are we leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning enough from the explosion of data to identify patterns and insights leading to emerging concept creation?

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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence 148

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Leaders with high emotional intelligence are adept at navigating the social complexities of the workplace, leading and motivating teams, and fostering an environment that is conducive to high performance. This inner drive can inspire others and drive a team toward excellence.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Unpacking Organizational Culture Defining Organizational Culture Organizational culture embodies the collective values, beliefs, and principles of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, strategy, type of employees, management style, and national culture.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We used AI to identify the most frequently asked questions about design thinking. We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers. You can also see our “human” responses to the big question: what is design thinking ? What is design thinking?

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Design Thinking Design Underperforming Technical Team Ideation 74

Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By facilitating strategic planning offsites, executives can harness the collective expertise of their team to forge a path toward sustained success. Benefits of Facilitating Strategic Planning Offsites Facilitating strategic planning offsites offers a multitude of benefits, from enhancing team cohesion to driving organizational alignment.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 12, 2024

Introduction to Emotional Intelligence in Leadership Emotional intelligence has become a cornerstone in the realm of leadership development, recognized for its pivotal role in enhancing a leader’s effectiveness. Change Adaptation Leaders with strong EQ can smoothly guide teams through transitions.

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2024

A Shifting Reality for the Auto Industry Automotive companies are increasingly confronted with the intricate task of synchronizing software development timelines with deadlines for vehicle launches. This divergence between software and hardware cycles poses significant challenges, particularly for OEMs typically focused on manufacturing.

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Software Review Software Developers Software Development Underperforming Technical Team 59

CMOE

JUNE 14, 2023

Performance management aligns team members and resources while flagging potential issues. McKinsey cites poor metrics, poor targets, and a lack of transparency as common issues. McKinsey cites poor metrics, poor targets, and a lack of transparency as common issues.

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System Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Management 52

CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

Meeting facilitators and Learning & Development professionals must evaluate these challenges and identify the best practices to overcome them to create the most valuable experience for the participants. The guide below is designed to help you overcome challenges that arise in virtual facilitation and elevate your capabilities.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Meeting Groups 52

CMOE

AUGUST 19, 2021

Successful organizations are those that foster a collaborative work culture, but fully 86 percent of leaders and team members believe a lack of teamwork leads to project failure and team conflict. Collaboration is crucial to your team’s success but how can you increase collaboration at work? percent greater productivity.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I dutifully ordered it and once I had the chance, diligently read it. It is described as the “blueprint for forward-thinking business leaders and managers that will help them create high-performing and faster-moving teams and companies”. What are the key learnings towards creating high-performing and faster-moving teams?

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Collaboration Leadership 45

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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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

…Accelerating Teams Through Assessment and Training. It’s a sad fact of organizational life that only a small percentage of teams achieve high function. Most teams muddle along, and get the essential things done — or not. And, all teams can improve, with training. Teams Improve With Momentum Training.

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Underperforming Technical Team Training Software Review Collaboration 40

Cris Beswick

MAY 8, 2024

Organisations can establish a clear connection between culture, behaviours, actions, and outcomes by articulating desired behaviours within targeted contexts, such as a specific function, team, or business unit. It empowers teams to take ownership of the transformation process.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

Dealing with the loss of family and friends due to the pandemic and the mental health impact of the health crisis forced many workers to rethink their whole life vis-à-vis “work.”. This is evident in a recent report from MIT Sloan Management Review , which found more employees quitting their jobs to run away from toxic workplace culture.

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Policies Technical Review Culture Underperforming Technical Team 246

Planview

APRIL 6, 2023

My Thoughts Based on 25 Years Working With Transformations Having worked on enterprise transformations for the past 25 years, it’s not surprising to me that the majority of enterprises have not yet transformed to a product model within the last five years and achieved value delivery at a speed we’d associate with digital natives and tech giants.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 4, 2021

” Whoever works in the area must develop skills to face the critical moments of the project. This is why management emerges to support teams to achieve the desired goals through a series of tools and knowledge. Managing a project is not just about leading and distributing activities to the team. Integration management.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Innovation is struggling to really perform and unleash breakthrough products due to many ‘inbuilt’ inhibitors. Applying technology application to innovation opportunities needs a platform thinking approach. software and mechanical, electrical, and all component parts of a finished product design.

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Software Review Software Innovation Underperforming Technical Team 222

InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

is the guiding question, and we develop solutions based upon our understanding of the answer. If we can understand this set of desired outcomes, we can plan backwards from that endpoint to determine a series of steps in product or service design. Step 2 – Design : Build a system that responds to these requirements.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Elizabeth Francisco, president of ResMan, offers expansive insights from being a woman in business to the rapid advancement of property management technology. Bias showed itself as I came up through the multifamily industry and then in technology with investors, peers, competitors, and prospective customers.

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Technical Review Technology Management Underperforming Technical Team 246

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Mentors see themselves as people developers. A mentor enables innovators to focus on their project results while also learning about themselves along the way. Learning how best to communicate and pitch their potential projects; and. A manager would work with them to develop the business case. Gaining customer insights.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Project Technical Review 189

Stephen Shapiro

APRIL 21, 2020

Michael Hammer, the father of business process reengineering, wrote a seminal Harvard Business Review article titled “ Reengineering Work: Don’t Automate, Obliterate.”. Back then, companies would use software to automate bad processes, speeding up bad results. This is the modern-day version of automating bad processes.

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Conference Meeting Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 80

IdeaScale

JANUARY 3, 2018

Alternatively, if your brain makes the call that it’s a really bad situation, it pumps blood away from your brain and legs so you can run jolly fast,” Millar said. That’s the most effective way to embed real learning and growth. Academia Provides a Wealth of Research on Effective Leadership. So Millar decided to put it to use.

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Leadership Technical Review Technical Cofounder Underperforming Technical Team 113

mjvinnovation

JANUARY 3, 2019

The combinatorial approach to Business Intelligence with Design Thinking achieves an unprecedented level of comprehension of corporate realities, and it does so in a concrete way, incorporating the subjective factors of the human relationships involved. Learn how to combine these forms of analysis and apply it in your business.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 3, 2019

The combinatorial approach to Business Intelligence with Design Thinking achieves an unprecedented level of comprehension of corporate realities, and it does so in a concrete way, incorporating the subjective factors of the human relationships involved. Learn how to combine these forms of analysis and apply it in your business.

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Design Thinking Design Case Study Analysis 40

The BMI Lab Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Learnings from sports competitions Competition in business is similar to sports competitions – there are winners and losers. Furthermore, companies can find themselves in limited growth areas due to market saturation and are therefore forced to leave their core business with a new business model.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Or in taking smart risks, that help you connect, explore and discover and design opportunities for making important and necessary, personal and professional changes. This confidence can be developed by re-thinking how we approach and digest failure, to scale and leverage it as a 21st-century superpower.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

From start-ups to banks, design has never been more central to business. Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. Why is that fabled “seat at the table” so hard to find, and how can designers get a chair? Is design just a service, or can designers* lead?

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

Research confirms: development of exploration in parallel to exploitation capabilities proves to be mandatory for established companies in order to compete successfully and sustainably. One way for established organizations to strengthen exploration is by developing internal capabilities in order to overcome their inherent inertia.

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Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team Big Data 100

mjvinnovation

JUNE 23, 2020

The teams are all already distributed – some were already, but most were still sharing the same table in some office out there. Why transform distributed teams into a motivated community? Managing distributed teams is not about a geographic issue – this is just a small component. Optimism saves teams.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Culture Engagement 40

Boxes and Arrows

MAY 5, 2015

In the following article, I will give three areas in which we can focus our efforts: mentoring, client education, and our own team members. On a recent project, I was the designer paired with a recently-hired UX director, who was a little bewildered still by the new gig. Client mentoring as an investment.

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Technical Review Design 86

Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 26, 2010

The good news is that despite the complexity involved in understanding human relationships, we can study offline and online communication and create design principles to support what we find. In his presentation, Paul Adams speaks about what he has learned from over two years of research into people’s online and offline relationships.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Design Project 77

Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

This is an excerpt from from Kim Goodwin’s excellent Designing for the Digital Age. Try to speak with engineering management as well as the design engineer(s), if such a role exists; it’s seldom a good idea to involve the entire engineering team at this point. Programmers and engineers may initially be wary of designers.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Design 47

etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

I complimented the team on how calm the assembly line seemed to run – and how clean the workshop looked. The company was losing its technology leadership. Now the Board of Directors was getting nervous – and the CEO felt rising pressure to prove his team is able to deal with digitization. An Expensive Blind Spot.

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LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Project Technical Review 56

hackerearth

AUGUST 2, 2017

If you don’t innovate, your company is likely to take this route: development → introduction → growth → maturity → decline. Internal innovation can happen through R&D teams, innovation management teams, business development teams, and employees. “Innovate or die” has become the catchphrase of the decade.

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