Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

Innovation management software is expected to continue to evolve and improve in the coming years. 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.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 22, 2017

They are looking to complement and reinforce existing capabilities through more open innovation thinking and approaches. There is a significant transformation of the value lying within this extended system of collaborators and organization design. The lifecycle becomes part of the design needs by all the partners within this ecosystem.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2023

The elements of the innovation stack are designed to support innovation’s core tasks, including learning, absorbing, assessing knowledge management, creativity, design, experimentation, and testing. We need to build our absorptive capacities into scalable learning.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

From its inception to the current state, the processes governing the development of new products and services have continuously evolved to incorporate new methodologies and technologies. Traditional Phases and Gates Processes Traditionally, the phases and gates model has been a cornerstone in structuring innovation management.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

From linear to systemic : Innovation used to be seen as a linear process where ideas were generated, tested, and implemented in a sequential manner. Today, innovation is recognized as a systemic phenomenon, where multiple actors interact and collaborate across different domains and levels 1.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

So, how do we undertake this need to think through and recognize a new innovative way of discovery. Thinking through any engagement process, one that is required to break through traditional innovation processes needs to break down the new areas of discovery.

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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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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. Energy innovation systems need a really much stronger and more effective push to deliver a broad range of technologies and solutions to the market faster than what is happening today.

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Technical Review Innovation System Collaboration 200

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. The deployment of AI-driven thinking utterly alters my perspective of “delivering” innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

It is not just an enabler but a catalyst for innovation that can significantly shorten the time-to-market for new products and services. AI systems are adept at sifting through vast amounts of data to uncover insights that can inform every stage of the development process, from ideation to launch.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

You also need your internal champions for innovation - the coaches - to educate and guide teams on how to work in this new way, and the systems in place to support their continuous development. What is an Internal Innovation Coaching System? Why Build an Internal Innovation Coaching System?

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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

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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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Indeed, in this age of relentless change, the last thing any enterprise wants is a free-falling portfolio of innovative projects. 52% of projects veer off course —either going over budget, missing deadlines, or not meeting the set expectations. And, 19% crash land —either abandoned halfway or completed but left unused.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 8, 2024

Michael's journey through academia and his role in teaching an MBA course offered him insights into the innovation processes of over fifty global companies. Michael's journey through academia and his role in teaching an MBA course offered him insights into the innovation processes of over fifty global companies.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

It needs increased agility, looks to have innovation consistently redesigned to meet different challenges and needs, it needs a better set of flexible design elements and system thinking to gain from reuse and redesign rapidly. Indeed our existing innovation processes are doing an (adequate) job. Why change?

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. What most companies get wrong about innovation processes. So what can we do about it?

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PlanBox Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2024

This long-anticipated standard is set to revolutionize how organizations conceive and bring innovations to market. ISO 56001 serves as the blueprint for constructing a robust Innovation Management System (IMS), promising consistent and sustainable innovation results. Is Software Necessary for ISO 56001 Compliance?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 26, 2022

Much like an animal’s immune system cells which tries to kill foreign invaders, these individuals will try to kill your ideas. While some antibodies will just voice their disagreement with an innovation project, they will not have the ability to stop the project. Most innovation projects require a change.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

It consists of a series of phases (stages) where specific tasks are performed and milestones (gates) where decisions are made about whether to proceed to the next stage, halt, or redirect the project. However, with the advent of artificial intelligence in innovation management , these stages and gates are being reimagined.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 25, 2019

This is not to say that with open innovation, political and cultural barriers magically go away. Just like innovations that take place completely within an organization, innovations and ideas gathered from open innovation processes will bump up against turf wars, self-appointed “gatekeepers” and the like.

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IdeaScale

JULY 28, 2021

A careful consideration of how politics play into how an innovation might be received can help maintain momentum. Diffuse Sources of Innovation: Any government has a wide variety of sources for innovation , from a state’s university system to national think-tanks offering white papers on abstract policy concerns.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 7, 2017

There are five key elements of a repeatable innovation portfolio: Opportunity Identification and Campaign Creation. When these components are in place, your innovation process becomes predictable and encourages participation across the spectrum. These questions will show you opportunities for innovation. Implementation.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Project Leadership 215

Qmarkets

APRIL 9, 2024

Read on to discover how Qmarkets is revolutionizing the way you innovate in 2024 and beyond. Unveiling Enhanced Campaign Moderation Functionality If you want to scale your impact across the company you need not only strong system-admin functionality, you also need to distribute power to your campaign managers in a targeted way.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 25, 2024

It’s natural to consider education and innovation as mutually compatible. It’s surprising, then, that many academic institutions still lag when it comes to implementing well-structured innovation processes. Innovation in Education: A Proud History DNA, Genetic Fingerprinting, CDs, Computers, and the Internet.

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Innovation 360 Group

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Wanting to add strategy and structure to your innovation initiative without killing it with administration? HBR published an interesting article a year ago ([link] describing an innovation governance system that go hand in hand with our experience at Innovation 360 group. zeroing in on strategic opportunity areas.

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Innovation 360

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Wanting to add strategy and structure to your innovation initiative without killing it with administration? HBR published an interesting article a year ago ([link] describing an innovation governance system that go hand in hand with our experience at Innovation 360 group. zeroing in on strategic opportunity areas.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 9, 2024

At Qmarkets we’ve always believed in the power of the crowd, and the importance of harnessing that power through a structured innovation process. With the flick of a switch you can allow all users across your system to generate a featured image automatically, based on the content of the idea or the campaign.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 27, 2019

Therefore, you may implement an online or computerized order processing system — a process innovation — that is faster, shows ROI quickly, and allows your business to grow without growing pains. A Step-by-Step Plan to Process Innovation. Designing a prototype system for solving the problem.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Note that what my clients are asking for is to create an innovation capacity that outlasts a product need, or market gap, or executive team member. After all, most (probably 90%) of all innovation projects undertaken in large corporations are reactive projects trying to respond to a market threat or competitive move.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 14, 2018

The purpose of the IJM is to realistically assess what is happening with innovative ideas within your organisation, to identify impediments and delays and to significantly improve the innovation process. The IJM would typically include: A flowchart or diagrammatic representation of the journey which the innovation takes.

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eZassi

AUGUST 29, 2023

However, new robotics, improved data management systems, and impressive automation in a smart factory does not happen instantly, and substantial change management is required to prepare the workforce. We then help evaluate, facilitate, and incentivize the key ideas formed by your solver ecosystem as part of the overall innovation process.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Not all innovation management software meets client needs – including needs that clients may not know they have. When evaluating innovation management software, it’s important to look for these four essential components. Always ask about innovation management software security and be certain it meets your current and future needs.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

It’s the execution and refinement of the initial idea that dooms the project. Many innovators take on a project without a plan to measure and revise the return on investment projection (and course-correct) as the product evolves. About 70 percent of software projects fail because of user adoption.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Design Thinking Projects : Individuals or teams work on projects that require empathy, ideation, prototyping, and testing – all key components of the design thinking methodology. Innovation Labs : A space where leaders can experiment with new technologies and methodologies, learning through hands-on experience.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In our last blog for Qmarkets we introduced you to the concept of Three Horizons and explained how this methodology can help you create a balanced long-term innovation portfolio. At the same time, new ideas are already being launched and following the new innovation process.

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