Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 30, 2022

No energy transition will be achieved without invention and innovation, yet we are currently failing badly to fund research, development and deployment. The sheer scope of the energy transition often pulls me in so many different directions.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Without a doubt, some innovators are high-energy extroverts. However, most disrupters and innovators are everyday team members. Innovation has become a buzzword that’s associated with a variety of misconceptions. One of which is that innovation is a personality type. There needs to [.].

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Braden Kelley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Water, water, everywhere… Is water the solution to one of the biggest shortcomings of renewable energy? When the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine, these renewable energy sources don’t source much energy, so during those times home owners … Continue reading →

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Innovating4Energy

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

How do we accelerate the Energy transition? Simply put, the Energy solutions will not scale or resolve the changes and complexities we have in designing a new Energy Structure with radically different designs and capabilities. The post We need fresh perspectives in our thinking towards the Energy Transition.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It is a very disrupting, disturbing world. We have to push this into more of the cross-sector cascading effects of disruptions. This becomes a critical point of any dynamics of future disruption. Technological disruption is altering all we do. This was the most disruptive space for innovation and technology to be applied.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 15, 2022

Disruptive innovation coming from the 2nd Horizon and 3. If we apply these to the prevalence of each horizon and group the type of application and the different maturity levels of energy technologies we are grouping these into three types: 1. Building out Energy Technologies by time horizon. Sustaining innovation, 2.

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Innovating4Energy

MARCH 17, 2024

The importance of innovation at the front end of the Energy Transition For me, the front end of the Energy Transition is vital. Innovating4Energy.com advocates for a systematic, innovative, and flexible approach to transforming the energy system.

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Innovating4Energy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In this second post of a mini-series of three, I want to explain this decentralized community energy concept further: “This radical concept envisions the energy transition as a living, evolving entity that bridges technology and nature, sparking profound shifts in how communities generate, consume, and perceive energy.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 9, 2021

The growing fears are that we are falling behind the need to meet the Energy Transition required goals to the World has agreed to by 2050, set to meet the Paris Climate Agreement. The climate is about to get really difficult to predict. This current decade is essential. To nature, to where and how we live. I want to give a short summary here.

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Innovating4Energy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In this first post of a mini-series of three, I want to introduce a radical concept that envisions the energy transition as a living, evolving entity that bridges technology and nature, sparking profound shifts in how communities generate, consume, and perceive energy. It focuses on the community in a decentralized way for its energy.

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Digital Tonto

MARCH 5, 2023

Technologies like synthetic biology, mRNA vaccines and materials science depend on computation to power clean energy, medicine and advanced manufacturing. Most of all, we need to shift from disruption to resilience and be clear-eyed about the fact that the future will not look like the past.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Dyson disrupted the vacuum cleaner market by creating bagless vacuum cleaners, a concept that challenged the traditional vacuum design and improved performance. This approach was creative and unexpected, setting Nintendo apart from its competitors Sony and Microsoft. Dyson’s Bagless Vacuum Cleaners : What can we remove?

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 21, 2020

In the past two-plus years, the whole Energy Transition has been my vehicle to apply my innovation learning and ecosystem thinking. We are entering a position of significant disruption. Thus, we have no pre-existing defenses or experience against this level of astonishing disruption.

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Innovating4Energy

JANUARY 3, 2024

Questioning the need to change how we approach the Energy transition. I always determine the end of a year to be a highly reflective one to build out the future rationale, passion, and beliefs in what I do within the Energy transition. We need to engage more broadly in community approaches related to energy.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Now is the time to engage with the disruptive forces reshaping virtually every industry by turning radically disruptive signals into strategy, and strategy into action. How can we create energy positive office/homes (for wfh), zero one-use silverware/cups in office, plant guerilla gardens, encourage plant based diets.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 3, 2021

A clarification that the materials were sourced from green energy or sustainable sources to build, deliver and dispose of the product in this new truly sustainable economy approach is needed. There will be constant disruption along the way. We need to map the sustainability pathway across the three horizons. Agility Innovation.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Extraversion: to what degree external stimulation gives you positive energy. It seems like the disruption caused by the pandemic, and the way it forced us all to simultaneously change the way we work, live and interact, could have a profound impact on the innovations generated by the upcoming generations.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 12, 2018

On the other hand, disruptive innovation by its very nature and name threatens a bureaucracy. Disruptive innovation may break apart long-lasting processes, structures, business models and channels that the bureaucracy has spent decades building and perfecting.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 22, 2021

However, I am not sure many of you feel the same; it seems disruption is in everything we need to undertake in what is coming towards us in change. To deconstruct and then reconstruct the Energy System is a massive complexity challenge. Energy needs to “perform” as we “transform” it.

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Innovating4Energy

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

We are about to have the CoP28 event in the UAE from 30 November 2023 to 12 December 2023, which is crucial for the energy transition. Here, I want to provide a view summarising the Energy Ecosystem, offering some strategic steps of underlying approaches to change and where I attempt to fit into contributions supporting solutions.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 9, 2021

The growing fears are that we are falling behind the need to meet the Energy Transition required goals to the World has agreed to by 2050, set to meet the Paris Climate Agreement. The climate is about to get really difficult to predict. This current decade is essential. To nature, to where and how we live. I want to give a short summary here.

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Innovating4Energy

AUGUST 31, 2023

For me, the Energy Transition is a complex, multi-headed beast that always provides more challenge rather than less. I worry in the energy world, that just might be fossil fuel. I take and leverage the use of Ecosystem thinking and design for promoting innovation within the Energy Transition?”

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 22, 2021

However, I am not sure many of you feel the same; it seems disruption is in everything we need to undertake in what is coming towards us in change. To deconstruct and then reconstruct the Energy System is a massive complexity challenge. Energy needs to “perform” as we “transform” it.

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Collaboration Learning Change Industry 130

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 22, 2021

However, I am not sure many of you feel the same; it seems disruption is in everything we need to undertake in what is coming towards us in change. To deconstruct and then reconstruct the Energy System is a massive complexity challenge. Energy needs to “perform” as we “transform” it.

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Collaboration Learning Change Industry 130

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 9, 2021

The growing fears are that we are falling behind the need to meet the Energy Transition required goals to the World has agreed to by 2050, set to meet the Paris Climate Agreement. The climate is about to get really difficult to predict. This current decade is essential. To nature, to where and how we live. I want to give a short summary here.

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Policies Technical Review Innovation Report 130

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Disruption is everywhere. Emerging technologies catalyze disruption. Emerging technologies catalyze disruption. Last year, I described the disruptions facing a variety of industries, including healthcare , packaging , travel and hospitality , software , real estate and construction , retail shopping , and manufacturing.

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Kainexus

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It is imperative during times of growth or disruption. Instead, they put their energy into protecting assets and maximizing efficiency. In a high-performance organization , disruption becomes fuel for long-term growth. An organization's culture is the foundation upon which success, stagnation, or failure is built.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We are on the cusp of a new digital era in energy. Digital technology has been involved in the energy system for decades. What is new, is the pace of digitalization occurring through technological innovation, providing solutions that enable the energy system to be transformed?

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Christensen Institute

JULY 27, 2023

For example, Toyota’s smaller Corona car was a low end disruption in 1957 therefore its target and best customers were people who weren’t interested in luxury cars and would instead purchase a “good enough” reasonably priced vehicle that would get them from point A to point B.

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Michael Michalko

JANUARY 27, 2022

Disruptive Thinking is a concept that is based upon doing the opposite of what is expected/what convention tells you will be successful. One of the best examples I have heard of comes from a talk given by Luke Williams, which illustrates the potential of Disruptive Thinking. Disruptive technology is important to education.

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Digital Tonto

JULY 16, 2023

However, in an era of disruption it’s only a matter of time until we need to adapt and drive transformation. We start not by trying to convince skeptics, but by going to where there is already energy in favor of change. Most of the time, we operate with a manager mindset and that works fine. That’s never easy.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Apple: Approach: Apple is recognized for its ability to innovate and disrupt industries. The company focuses on electric vehicles, renewable energy solutions, and autonomous driving technology, showcasing a commitment to sustainability and innovation. Tesla: Approach: Tesla, led by Elon Musk, is revolutionizing the automotive industry.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2020

In this period of such disruption, we do need to hang onto our beliefs, objectives, and goals, both short and long term. Stopping CO2 emissions needs us, collectively, to look at our current energy services, our industrial production methods but also our land use and agricultural practices.

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Innovating4Energy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This radical concept envisions the energy transition as a living, evolving entity that bridges technology and nature, sparking profound shifts in how communities generate, consume, and perceive energy. It challenges established norms and prompts a complete reimagining of our relationship with energy and the environment.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2020

When we reflect on the recent events of the last twelve months, this has been highly disruptive but those industrial companies that had already started their Industry 4.0 I got a (massive) dose of that Siemens Energy from this event. Within my business, I attempt to combine Innovation, Ecosystems, IIoT and Energy as my core focus.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Disruption is everywhere. Emerging technologies catalyze disruption. Emerging technologies catalyze disruption. Last year, I described the disruptions facing a variety of industries, including healthcare , packaging , travel and hospitality , software , real estate and construction , retail shopping , and manufacturing.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2019

This week I have had one of those most intense periods of researching and then absorbing the material around different energy issues. Everywhere you turn, you stumble across reports on one aspect or another of the energy transformation we are undertaking. My second area of focus was on the contribution digitalization is giving energy.

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