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Recognizing it is all about Value Creation
Paul Hobcraft
MAY 19, 2019
I am reading a lot about the concept of value creation recently, it answers everything but tells us so often nothing about how it is made up or it is truly present.
Paul Hobcraft
Innovation Capital Lies Within Organizational Learning
Paul Hobcraft
MAY 11, 2019
We need to know how to unlock the real value of innovation both personally and within the organization, we work for. If we do not fully understand where the innovation capital comes from, how new capital and stock can be provided, innovation will remain tentative, always stuttering along.
Building the Coordinates into your Innovation World
Paul Hobcraft
MAY 16, 2019
Innovation can be fairly complex in what needs to be pulled together, as often it ‘flies’ in contradiction to the normal organization’s ways and wishes, especially the emphasis on working in structured, efficient and productive ways.
Extending innovations value- appreciating the whole system.
Paul Hobcraft
APRIL 19, 2019
There is always a time to reflect. It is when you have those spaces within your daily work you must take a view, a break, consider something that builds your energy up some more, to make it more resilient.
Innovation: Five Signs You Might Be Faking It
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I would recommend applying the Innovation Value Proposition
Paul Hobcraft
JANUARY 18, 2019
Adapted from original source [link]. An innovation value proposition (IVP) is not the easiest place to go. It must build meaning and purpose and provide that unique identity that enables innovation to flow.
Nesta’s Landscape of Innovation Approaches
Paul Hobcraft
APRIL 26, 2019
You sometimes need to kick yourself. Well in my case that seems to be increasing by the day. I have to confess I have drifted in and out of checking on Nesta , based in the UK. Different reasons, different focus areas partly although innovation keeps us together, well me checking in on them, I’m not so sure it is the same their end. Nesta is an innovation foundation. They state: “For us, innovation means turning bold ideas into reality. It also means changing lives for the better.
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We Require A Shift of Innovation Management Solution Providers
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 23, 2019
There is still a real reluctance that the supplier of innovation software solutions has to change. They have had a model of a constant growth success for years but it is getting harder as the market is fragmenting and looking for greater flexibility within the range of solutions.
How do we measure success in our digital transformation? A journey of discovery
Paul Hobcraft
OCTOBER 22, 2018
How do we find answers to knowing what measures give us for success in any digital transformation? Are today’s measures relevant to tomorrow, are they still based on our legacy system of measurement, when a business was operating in a stable, predictable environment?
The Need for Digital Innovation Platforms
Paul Hobcraft
DECEMBER 12, 2018
I want to offer some thoughts that need us all involved in innovation to think about as we finish out 2018. If you are frustrated with your current innovation process then read on.
Optimism in Innovation, Thinking About Risk Differently
Paul Hobcraft
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
For me, there is never enough talked about innovation risk. Innovation is held back so often because the quantification of risk cannot fit into an organization’s current assessment and measurements of risk. It is often too intangible, full of unknowns as the very nature of anything new and different.
Assessing the Five Styles of Enterprise Business Intelligence
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Overwhelmed, underwhelmed at the Web Summit, Lisbon
Paul Hobcraft
NOVEMBER 12, 2018
I am taking the opportunity to review the Web Summit, held in Lisbon last week of 5th (evening) to 8th November 2018. The Web Summit, originally Dublin Web Summit, is a technology conference held annually since 2009. The company was founded by Paddy Cosgrave, David Kelly, and Daire Hickey.
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Why Are We Making Innovation So Complex?
Paul Hobcraft
OCTOBER 29, 2018
It always amazes me how we limit growth by not investing fully in innovation. While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality.
Facing The Innovators Salmon Run
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 3, 2019
I was reading about one of natures wonders about the famous salmon run. Have you ever actually witnessed one or watch the documentary on this incredible journey and all its obstacles? it is an amazing story of determination to overcome odds to bring new life into the world.
The Arrival and Potential of Knowledge Graphs into Our World
Paul Hobcraft
MAY 15, 2018
Knowledge Graphs have a real potential to become highly valuable, topical and relevant. If only we can get them prised out of the engineer, data scientists, or software experts hands.
Can We Have One of These? A Product Innovation Platform
Paul Hobcraft
OCTOBER 11, 2018
Recently I was exploring the world of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and read an excellent Whitepaper from Aras Corp , one of the leading PLM solution providers.
11 Proven Ways to Turn Your Culture into a Culture of Innovation
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Entering 2019 – What Do Each of Us Need to Focus Upon?
Paul Hobcraft
DECEMBER 27, 2018
As we enter 2019 I always like to take a day or so, to reflect and think about what I should be focusing upon in the next year, around innovation. What has influenced me in 2018 and what I feel is shaping my thinking going into 2019?
A really worthwhile report on Innovation not to be missed from Innovation Leader.
Paul Hobcraft
JUNE 21, 2018
The problem of scaling can confuse those innovating.
Paul Hobcraft
DECEMBER 3, 2018
The problem of scaling can confuse those innovating and can this be changed? I have been often returning to scaling struggling with finding the best answers. Many organizations struggle with scaling.
How do you apply the three horizon framework in your thinking? Steve Blank you are limiting your thinking.
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 20, 2019
Presently the three horizon model for innovation is argued as no longer applying to innovation as it has been suggested, or I feel so, in a recent article written by Steve Blank.
Spigit's 2018 State of Crowdsourced Innovation Report
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A rigorous analysis of how the world’s largest brands – representing 21 different industry verticals – leverage their innovation programs to solve problems and surface opportunities, and the key role crowdsourcing plays in their success.
Connecting Innovation is the New Order of Play
Paul Hobcraft
DECEMBER 12, 2017
There is a lot of change occurring in our innovation abilities. There is this constant shift to more open-sourcing and collaborating. We are seeing profound shifts that technology and digital transformation are bringing us to deliver innovate differently.
Legacy is all around us. Innovation and insights suffer greatly
Paul Hobcraft
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Can we continue to battle with legacy? When you think we are on a roll, we are making that transformation in technology, systems, new organizational designs, you are suddenly stopped in your tracks. Legacy fights back, it holds you up, it stops you from advancing.
What do we expect from Innovation? Mostly disappointment
Paul Hobcraft
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Good innovation is notoriously hard to achieve. There are so many obstacles and uncertainties as you take an idea or concept through to eventual release. Often, we are dealing in the unknowns and uncertainties. We continually lack facts, we keep seeking validation. We are pressured for results.
Innovation cannot expand without the 4th Industrial Revolution
Paul Hobcraft
SEPTEMBER 2, 2018
We are a long way away from fully capturing the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4I)R in an inclusive and holistic way. To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically.
Quantifying a Culture of Innovation
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My 5 S for future Innovation: Smart, Stacks, Scale, Storage, and Software
Paul Hobcraft
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Technology is radically altering our need for innovation. We see increasingly innovation is feeding off the “ digital response rate ” Connecting technology and innovation is altering how we should re-access organizations ability to build out.
Defending Europe, including the Brits, on innovation
Paul Hobcraft
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
Europe does seem to be always lagging. You get the impression those in Europe’s leadership are beating back the waves of progress, not embracing them- it is all self-serving. They also seem to operate in a fortress mentality.
Adopting a Rapid Digital Innovation Process
Paul Hobcraft
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
As we start to think about the next year, (is it here already?) it is a time of reflection and some forward thinking. We do need to make some real changes. From my standpoint, I am simply amazed at how the world seems to be spinning faster and faster.
Building the Single Innovation Digital Platform Environment
Paul Hobcraft
JANUARY 9, 2019
Aras PLM Platform Image courtesy of Aras. Throughout the past couple of years, I have been constantly arguing about the need to put innovation management on a digital platform.
Data From 3.5 Million Employees Shows How Innovation Really Works
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Analysis of how 3.5 million employees using Spigit ideate proves innovation is a science, and can be measured.
So the value we can derive from using Knowledge Graphs
Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 14, 2018
How does Knowledge Graphs fit within our need to communicate in new, visually exciting ways? Let me provide a short narrative to give this a meaning and why it is becoming so important. Today we deliver content- It has become far too easy. We are drowning in it on a daily basis.
Innovating in the digital age- a terrific report
Paul Hobcraft
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
The report from Arthur D Little “ Innovating in the digital age- a cross-industry exploration ” has to be the one report that really stands out for me from this year. I highly recommend it.
The chance to think differently about Ecosystems for Innovation
Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 1, 2018
Thinking about ecosystems certainly allows us to go out of our normal scope of invention, innovation and being creative.
Shifting our thinking within the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Paul Hobcraft
JANUARY 27, 2018
I always enjoy selected parts of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos and in this year’s #WEF18 agenda , it certainly had its good points.
5 Product Traps - And Better Paths
Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group
Is your agile team overloaded with feature requests, with no time for discovery? Do your roadmaps read like impossible wish lists? Well, you’re not alone. It may seem impossible now, but what if we said that with a few changes, you could be meeting deadlines with the ability to predict progress with accuracy, be happy with your progress against the roadmap, and be making time for near-continuous discovery? Johanna Rothman has seen this all too often across many different organizations. She will take us through five common traps that agile product teams fall into – and likely you are in several of those traps right now. And good news - she has ways to avoid them!
The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators
Paul Hobcraft
OCTOBER 3, 2016
We are facing tough challenges within the business world. To work through these we are all being asked to transform but there has to be a clear end, a return for all this energy and resources it requires, that we are being asked to spend?
The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators
Paul Hobcraft
OCTOBER 3, 2016
We are facing tough challenges within the business world. To work through these we are all being asked to transform but there has to be a clear end, a return for all this energy and resources it requires, that we are being asked to spend?
So I keep asking myself “What is the role of social media in innovation?”
Paul Hobcraft
JUNE 14, 2018
Social media haunts us all. For many years you first become aware, then very aware and then fully aware that social media is changing our lives. Let me confess: I am not alone I am sure but I seem to be presently suffering from Social Media Return Dilemma.
A New Integrated Innovation Engagement System
Paul Hobcraft
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
I have written extensively, certainly over the past eighteen months, about our need to take innovation into a new era, designed for today and tomorrow’s “fit for purpose” Below you will see my view of how I see this sketched out, as my suggested concept outline. Does it make sense?
What Users Want: How and Why to Build Knowledge into Your Product
Speaker: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates
Usage data allows PMs, the product team, and the whole organization to make better decisions. Good usage intelligence gives you the ability to be smarter, more active, more decisive, nimbler, and to minimize risk. But what if you don't have that data - such as before you have users? Or, what if the right decision seems to fly in the face of the data you have? Or, what if your product offers more than just the standard features? To get deeper into these questions, Nils Davis asks, "What is the most interesting thing about Instagram?" (Because who doesn't like a product that Facebook paid $1 billion for when it had fewer than 50 employees and no revenue?) Nils will use the example of Instagram’s Filters to talk about how putting prebuilt knowledge in your product can change the way your product is used for the better - putting you in the company of most market-leading products. Finally, he’ll tie it all together by explaining how the way you interpret and use usage data can impact the way your tell your product’s story, and ultimately, how your users use your product.
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