Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

Where should innovation resources actually exist in an organisation? It might seem like a straightforward question, but it is fundamental to whether a company will end up succeeding at innovation or failing. After all, if innovation is so important, should it not get its own department? Positives: Simple.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

We cannot afford to avoid changing our innovation processes as we deal with a far more complex and challenging world. We seem to be keeping innovation as a disappointing and often frustrating outcome for many leaders of organizations. Indeed our existing innovation processes are doing an (adequate) job. Why change?

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Discover our guide to human-centered design books, articles, tools, and other resources. One up-and-coming innovation framework is human-centered design, an approach centered around the end user and their unique problems and needs. Implementation: bring your solution to life and – eventually – to market.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Innovation ecosystems are networks of organizations and individuals that co-create value through innovation 2. From closed to open : Innovation used to be seen as a closed process, where organizations relied on their own resources and capabilities to innovate.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In the past few months, I have been writing consistently on the need to change our innovating process, thinking and designs into Innovation Ecosystem ones. This will be my initial view of how this needs to be shaped as the overriding architecture of an Innovation Ecosystem. Source: tmforum.org.

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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. By discussing the innovation process, they can: Ignite the spark of ideation and creativity within your team.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

We need systems and processes that are flexible, adaptable, and can enable continuous improvements but are fully connected, transparent, and integrated across the entire business. The principles of this Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework are the recognition and value of having a building block and innovation stack design.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Intersection of AI and Innovation Management Defining Innovation Management with AI Innovation management refers to the process and activities that organizations use to manage and nurture new ideas into marketable products and services. Tailor products and services to specific market segments.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 26, 2023

This part of the document provides the guardrails and guidance and the essential encouragement to bring risk evaluations into all innovation conversations. I provide below a couple of post links where I have written on different aspects of Governance that have relevance to any strategic (integrated) design for Innovation.

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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. Earlier this year, I proposed a different framework for the innovation process and thinking.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

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. These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 8, 2023

(Larry Schmitt- The Innovation Stack) A comprehensive innovation ecosystem design offers several benefits, including fostering a culture of innovation, accelerating the innovation process, enhancing collaboration, leveraging diverse perspectives, and driving competitive advantage.

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Qmarkets

JULY 20, 2022

What is Open Innovation? In a nutshell, open innovation takes place within an ecosystem that extends far beyond the boundaries of a single organization. Mercedes A key advantage of open innovation is that the company can benefit from external resources when internal ones might be limited.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 12, 2019

During my first two weeks as a Marketing Intern for IdeaScale, I learned about how the business world operates, particularly how an organization uses crowdsourced innovation with tools such as IdeaScale. Every company says they want to be “innovative” and some of them use “crowdsourcing” to do so.

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PlanBox Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mark your calendar; 2024 is the year when Innovation Management takes a giant leap forward with the introduction of ISO 56001. This long-anticipated standard is set to revolutionize how organizations conceive and bring innovations to market. Instead, it’s a framework designed to enhance the innovation process.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 10, 2023

On January 15, 2019, I published The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty with the late Harvard Business School professor, Clayton Christensen and former Harvard Business Review editor, Karen Dillon. The sequel to The Prosperity Paradox will focus on the process of market-creation.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 8, 2021

During that time, I have come across numerous methodologies for coming up with ground breaking innovations , each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Description of the White Space Innovation Process . White Space Innovation areas must be clearly defined based on what customers value.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 21, 2019

Connecting internal organization resources with external ones to innovate produces many important benefits, including better products and services, lower research costs, better risk spread, and faster time-to-market. Open innovation makes such an endeavor both less expensive and less risky. Faster Time-to-Market.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In today’s world, nothing seemingly ‘stands still’, and organizations, business models and market approaches are in constant flux. Organizations are often too early or too late to market. Innovation is far too linear in its approach; it can be different. Enabling technology and processes.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 8, 2024

Michael McCathren, a senior innovation leader at Chick-fil-A, recently sat with Tommy Knoll, heading up Innov8rs CoLab, sharing his perspectives on cultivating an environment where innovation thrives. A common thread among these companies was the presence of an innovation process but a lack of a culture prepared to embrace it.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

However, with the advent of artificial intelligence in innovation management , these stages and gates are being reimagined. AI technologies offer unprecedented capabilities in data analysis, pattern recognition, and predictive modeling, which can significantly enhance the efficacy of the Stages and Gates process.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 13, 2023

Showcase successful collaborations : Share examples of successful cross-sector innovation collaborations in similar domains, and how they have created value for all parties involved. Emphasize how collaboration can create mutual benefit and value for all parties involved, and how it can help build long-term partnerships and relationships.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It propels companies forward, allowing them to adapt in rapidly changing markets and to respond effectively to evolving customer needs. The correlation between innovation and growth is evident in organizations that prioritize and nurture their innovation capabilities. Decision Making Making choices that drive business success.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

Moves the Needle facilitated a five-day Lean Innovation Sprint to help staff tackle current challenges in a new way, and a five-month Accelerator to help one team make dramatic progress on a promising product idea from the Sprint. The teams were managed via spreadsheets, making the process fairly painful.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

It’s the secret sauce that has transformed startups into tech giants and turned traditional businesses into market leaders. Innovation isn’t just about the next big idea; it’s a multifaceted strategy that businesses employ to navigate through the twists and turns of today’s dynamic markets.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In order to maintain integrity as part of your innovation process, you should look closely at the spoken and unspoken promises made by your innovation strategy and act on them to the fullest extent possible. Without it, innovation isn’t possible. Where Does Integrity Come Into Innovation? What Is Integrity?

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 23, 2020

With outstanding scores across a wide variety of criteria, Qmarkets was recently recognized as a ‘Market Leader’ by FeaturedCustomers – a top customer reference platform for B2B business software and services. Within this exclusive selection , Qmarkets attained a place of prominence as a ‘Market Leader.’

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 22, 2023

Innovation is a long, arduous task of iterative improvements and some rare breakthroughs, and this requires increasing collaborations between public, private, and research institutions to pursue together ideas and concepts, so their combined disciplines and understanding can push design and solutions in a continued way.

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Qmarkets

JULY 19, 2022

What is Open Innovation? In a nutshell, open innovation takes place within an ecosystem that extends far beyond the boundaries of a single organization. Mercedes A key advantage of open innovation is that the company can benefit from external resources when internal ones might be limited.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 28, 2022

The key is knowing what are the critical factors for your innovation activities and their dependencies for sustaining innovation success? The question is, which are critical, which naturally occur when others begin to be put into place, and which seem to have limited or no real effect on changing the dynamics of innovation?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 8, 2024

Embracing change and fostering innovation are essential for companies aiming to thrive in today’s market. The concept of ‘scaling innovation’ has become a crucial strategy for organizations looking to transform occasional successes into a consistent, organization-wide capability.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 17, 2019

A repeatable innovation process is a key driver for its business. “I However, she explains, it’s all about the process. Spotless uses a detailed, repeatable process with innovation to identify ideas and guide corporate culture toward innovation. What did innovation mean for the company?

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

Since innovation almost always pays off only in the longer run, and cost management can be controlled in the short run, the dilemma is obvious. When you get evaluated in 90 day increments by the stock market, cutting or controlling costs is always an easier decision than investing in innovation.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 23, 2023

I want to dive into incremental innovation with you to unpack how and why it should be front of mind for your innovation program. We’ll explore examples, discover the key benefits of this type of innovation, and identify the best way of developing your own incremental innovation process. It’s fast to market.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 12, 2019

Sponsors An idea sponsor is simply an individual with enough seniority to ensure that an idea receives the attention, funding and resources it needs to be carefully considered and promoted to a stage where it has a chance to enter new product or service development. What do sponsors do for ideas?

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

Overall the software will help companies to manage and improve their innovation process and to get insights from the data generated by it. From < [link] > What holds Innovation software back for companies to adopt more? There are a few factors that may hold companies back from adopting innovation management software.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

Business model innovation involves changing these aspects significantly to respond to shifts in the market, technology, or customer preferences. Lego’s adaptation to the digital age helped it to remain relevant and grow in a market where digital entertainment increasingly competes with physical toys.

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