Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The Winds of Change- Innovation Software facing the Innovators’ Dilemma In my research, I am getting a real sense that the current Innovation Management Software model is about to be upended and disrupted as per Clayton Christensens’ “Innovators Dilemma.”

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The BMI Lab Blog

MAY 26, 2021

Sometimes, companies approach us with requests like “I have developed a new technology but how do I build a business around it?” or “Our technology is superior to our competitors’ – why don’t our customers see that?”. Hence, it is not surprising that many of the world’s leading companies reportedly work on integrating this technology.

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eZassi

MARCH 25, 2021

A critical aspect of any innovation management program is thoroughly understanding your own technology portfolio and how it fits within the technology ecosystem of both known competitors and potential collaborators alike. Here’s how we at Ezassi think about these innovation management tools. Technology Scouting.

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Christensen Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The pandemic cast education technology (edtech) into a starring — and some might argue above-its-paygrade — role in education. Although by no means perfect, before the pandemic, technologies in education had been steadily improving for decades. Technology and virtual connections can help bridge that gap.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 19, 2022

Applying the three horizon framework to innovation and change. To explain the impacts of innovation and the change it creates, we’ll use an accepted framework ( the Three Horizons ) to consider the impact innovation has on change capabilities and business models. The Value of the Three Horizons of Seeing Beyond.

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HYPE Innovation

JULY 26, 2021

While product-oriented innovation is well-established as a business practice, innovation in service-oriented sectors, such as legal, accounting, and consulting, has had a slower progression – until now.

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Yet2

JULY 20, 2021

Changes in consumer buying patterns and increases in demand have substantially disrupted inventory forecasting. In times of economic uncertainty, yet2 continually sees large companies turn to technology scouting to help diversify supply chains in order to protect product supply, market share, and profit margins. yet2 Process.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 25, 2021

“Why do we always seem to have internal difficulties to self-disrupt?”. In most cases, organizations cannot self-disrupt, which is largely covered by this veritable list of constraints. Do you think these are the “prime” inhibitors to why your organization seems incapable of self-disrupting?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Why Innovation is a Critical Theme for Keynotes Innovation is a driving force in today’s business landscape, making it an essential theme for keynotes across industries. An innovation keynote speaker brings a forward-thinking perspective and stimulates a culture of creativity and progressive ideas within organizations.

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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. The ideal speaker should be capable of not only imparting wisdom but also igniting a passion for innovation among the audience.

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eZassi

AUGUST 22, 2022

Budget Planning for Innovation During Changing Economic Times. Their goals for success lie in the adaptability and strength of their resources across the Innovation Portfolio. For example, running the business (operations) versus changing the business (innovations)? Innovation Strategy Consulting. Let's Talk.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This venture arm operates at the intersection of corporations and the startup ecosystem , and has become a strategic tool for companies to foster innovation and growth. The core of CVC is to identify and harness external innovation that can contribute to the long-term success of the corporate investor.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 31, 2023

The increased interdependence has birthed countless collaboration opportunities, leading innovators to strategically weave a network of partnerships throughout their supply chain to continuously drive better, more sustainable results, especially when it comes to evaluating emerging technologies and engaging with startups.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Nurturing Innovative Team Collaboration In the rapidly evolving business landscape, innovative team collaboration has become a cornerstone for companies seeking to remain competitive and adaptive. When teams collaborate innovatively, they leverage individual strengths and compensate for weaknesses, leading to improved outcomes.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Introduction to Strategic Thinking in Business The Importance of Strategy in a Disruptive World In today’s business environment, disruption is the new norm. With technology advancing at breakneck speeds and market dynamics shifting unpredictably, it’s crucial for you as a business leader to embrace strategic thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change. One such collaboration was around the interplay of innovation with business models and change. It describes some important observations we often forget when innovating. We believe that the best innovators are the most adept at making and sustaining change.

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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. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

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Planview

MARCH 15, 2024

But while the increasing number of companies adopting VSM has changed how teams build from project to product, a new innovative approach hits the spotlight: generative AI (genAI). With text-based generation comes more multi-dimensional advanced technology that, as one can imagine, produces a multitude of content formats. What is genAI?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2019

Airbnb disrupted hotels. Now big travel and hospitality companies are going after the next disruptive innovation themselves before getting blindsided yet again. As part of a new series of articles I’m writing called Everything Transformed , I’m focusing on the widespread disruption of just about every industry on the planet.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

Developing the innovation stack takes the view that innovation is a series of building blocks stacked on top of each other with different layers to work through. Combining these “building blocks” modularly in innovation stacks creates a unique design that adapts to your specific needs and goals.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

When looking at radically different thinking and design in business, where Ecosystems become central, you need to ask yourself what industries would benefit from such an alternative design and thinking due to the changing complexities and challenges they are facing.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 15, 2024

I have published this pitch on both of my primary sites, discussing innovation, business, and ecosystems, as they both provide a combination effect for understanding this framework. The foundational layer focused on fostering open collaboration, co-creation and shared challenges to drive continuous innovation and creativity.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Intersection of Corporate Growth and Startup Innovation Defining Corporate Venture Capital Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) is the investment of corporate funds directly in external startup companies. Corporations can leverage this innovation to drive growth, remain competitive, and enter new markets.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Central to the ecosystem’s functionality are the startups themselves, which are typically characterized by their innovative approaches to solving problems and capitalizing on market opportunities. For a deeper dive into how startups can catalyze corporate innovation, explore our insights on startup innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 26, 2015

There is a growing, perhaps even an overwhelming business case, for transforming the innovation management structure. The new combination is the new connections through people and things (IoT) that we can achieve a new innovation potential. Our innovation systems are lagging significantly behind.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 23, 2018

Similarly, Blockbuster experienced almost the exact same disruption. What these two examples have in common is a rapid, sudden change brought about by innovation. In one case the innovation was in media, and in the other case the innovation was in business models and channels. What does this mean for innovators?

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eZassi

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Announcing Technology Scouting Excellence Speakers. Today we are excited to announce the speaker lineup for the Technology Scouting 2017 conference. The speaker lineup includes: Denise Fletcher , Chief Innovation Officer. Ezassi (former Chief Innovation Officer, Xerox). Manager / Principal Scientist, Open Innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

So often innovation struggles to be recognized for what it is. Innovation is a critical source of future competitive advantage. To get to a consistent performance of innovation and creativity within organizations you do need to rely on a process, structure and the consistent ability to foster a culture of innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Intersection of AI and Innovation Management My journey into the realm of innovation management began as I witnessed many clients wrestling with the increasing complexity of developing new products and services. The Rise of AI in Innovation Management What is Artificial Intelligence?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2023

Construction is often maligned as the industry that technology left behind. Industry observers routinely deride the lack of technological sophistication in the construction industry, and have pigeon-holed it as old-fashioned and lagging behind more forward-looking and purposeful industries such as manufacturing.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The Age of AI and Business Strategy Understanding AI-Driven Rapid Change In the current landscape, AI-driven technologies are reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. Embracing AI means more than just implementing new technologies; it involves rethinking entire business operations from the ground up.

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Linda Bernardi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Formerly an open-source company, but once Microsoft pumped $10B into OpenAI, it became a commercial company like all the other tech players. Always great to see competition among the known tech giants that we know. It is touted as the Meta “Llama 2 killer” (serious claim) due to its higher performance as a pretrained-only model.

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hackerearth

MARCH 28, 2018

Innovation is never easy, and in today’s world where everything is becoming digital, innovation is technology first and quite complex. Over the years, the linear model of innovation has been tweaked to include these variations—the phase gate model (e.g. photo editing software), and technology push (e.g.

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Yet2

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The Innovation & Strategy Conference , held November 14 th in the hip-while-retro Innovation and Design Building in the Seaport area of Boston, offered attendees insights to corporate innovation from a wide variety of perspectives. Innovation groups need to show the rest of company that they are making progress.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 29, 2024

In the suggested Hierarchy of Business Ecosystems , recognizing the value of an interconnected series of (dedicated) Ecosystems that build out innovation, business, dynamic flexibility, and connected enterprise layers does need to address the natural instincts to resist. first appeared on Paul4innovating Innovation Views.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

We are witnessing a very radical change, driven by technology, increasingly disrupting and breaking down past traditional boundaries, partly built to defend positions so as to achieve economic scale. The innovative design has become paramount to these new offerings. The need for radical innovation changes the present position.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 2, 2016

This past weekend I had an extended period of re-reading about the effects of disruption that seems to be occurring across all points of business, our politics, our governments, it seems across our lives. All good plans sometime get disrupted. Everything invented seems to have been disrupted or seems about too.

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