Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Shaping Innovation for a Meaningful Change Following on from my initial post, “ Our Need is to Shape Innovation Dynamically, ” this post outlines the eight value-adding points that I can help build out and deliver alongside you in different delivery modules to fit your circumstances and budgets.

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Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Agile 173

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Exploring the interplay between Humans, Technology and AI for design thinking Why is design thinking regarded as so crucial to the future of innovation in a world of accelerating interplays between humans, technology and generative AI? Moving to the edge : Organizations are becoming more agile by adopting an “edge” approach.

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Design Thinking Technical Review Design Technology 147

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Finding the new building blocks of innovation ecosystem design and thinking. Why change our thinking and designing around innovation ecosystems?“. For me, ecosystem thinking and design offer fresh ways for accelerating mutual learning, and through this innovation, outcome potential for sharing and knowledge building.

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Design Artificial Inteligence Innovation Collaboration 208

Innovating4Energy

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Engagement in the Energy Transition Movement How do you encourage engagement? ” My fifth encouragement point was during the launch of the Innovation Center event, Dietmar Siersdorfer – the Middle East Managing Director at Siemens Energy, added a further important aspect of collaborations, engagement and celebration.

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Engagement Collaboration Creativity Industry 64

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 23, 2018

There has been an awful lot to absorb when it comes to skills and how organizations need to be designed for the future. This report has been part of a broader ‘agile’ series from them but this one specifically gave me my necessary anchor point, to move forward with my own design thinking for agility and innovation.

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Agile Report Design Technical Review 133

Planview

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Effectively selling Agile to executives is more than just getting the go-ahead for an Agile transformation. Because Agile includes a culture shift and a mindset change, as well as funding, you need executives to truly buy in to the approach. To buy in to Agile, leaders need to understand what’s in it for them.

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Agile Handbook Leadership Engagement 111

Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Transforming Your Business with Bottom-Up Management: The Design Thinking Way In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, a significant shift is occurring from traditional top-down management to a more inclusive and innovative strategy: bottom-up management. Benefits This approach leads to increased engagement and motivation.

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Design Thinking Design Management Agile 62

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To delve further into the developmental aspects of organizational culture and how it can be shaped, explore our article on develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change. Furthermore, in the rapidly changing business landscape, the agility and resilience provided by a strong culture are invaluable.

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Culture Underperforming Technical Team Agile Leadership 100

Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking has become a cornerstone methodology in the worlds of innovation, business strategy, and product development. Design thinking involves five key phases: Empathize : Understanding the human needs involved. It helps teams to observe and develop empathy with the target user.

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Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Tools Design 100

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? Does it make sense to you?

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Engagement System Innovation Design 205

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Hierarchy Of Ecosystem Needs- A Blueprint View Several vital considerations come into play in developing a blueprint to thrive and find solutions amidst growing complexity and uncertainty that argues for a different business approach, with Ecosystem thinking and design being central. Actionable Steps: Conduct regular risk assessments.

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Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Agile Culture 147

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The building blocks of open innovation building towards Business Ecosystem design. Crowdsourced Innovation Challenges: Description: Design and launch innovation challenges that involve a broader network, inviting external contributors to solve specific business problems or contribute novel ideas.

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Open Innovation Collaboration Innovation Design 147

Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 7, 2022

Design Thinking Applied to M&A Integration. The failure rate increases due to insufficient integration design and planning or faulty integration planning. Most of the failures point to a lack of design and alignment with people’s needs. This is where Design Thinking can be of tremendous value. There is a better way.

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Design Thinking Design Culture Project 156

Tullio Siragusa

JULY 24, 2023

The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking In the competitive landscape of modern business, the approach we take to leadership can make or break an organization. Employees become mere executors of orders, leading to a lack of engagement and motivation.

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Design Thinking Culture Design Underperforming Technical Team 108

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the fourth conversation between Jeffrey Phillips and myself around parts of the Executive Innovation Work Mat, we took on several different issues around the design, function, structure and process needs for innovation. The ability to manage innovation design, function, structure and process.

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Design Creativity Agile Resources 130

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. I’d like to offer some views, partly looking out to the future, partly considering what is potentially within our grasp, if we step back and rethink innovation design.

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Design Technical Review Innovation System 232

InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 22, 2021

These top agile and scrum sprint retrospective templates can be used during remote meetings with your team. Facilitating Agile Retrospectives Workshop. This board is directly from a Miro team member and is designed to help facilitators of retrospective sessions to guide their agile team effectively through the process.

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Agile Software Review Design Thinking Training 96

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

This is approaching innovation and its management in more of a holistic, technology-enabled way based on the use of a cloud-enabled Platform and Ecosystem thinking and design. They are very short synopsis to get this base for my thinking and understanding, of why innovation processes and its management needs to change and how.

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Agile Collaboration Innovation Competition 182

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 11, 2024

Environmental Factor: The ability to adapt quickly is often facilitated by open communication channels, collaborative decision-making, and agile organizational structures. Environmental Factor: The ability to adapt quickly is often facilitated by open communication channels, collaborative decision-making, and agile organizational structures.

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Agile Collaboration ChatGPT Technical Review 130

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

” 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. 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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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Agile Innovation 182

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. The ability to build the context and show its (ongoing) value makes the difference.

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Agile Design Innovation System 130

InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

Agile” and “Waterfall” offer us very different approaches to project management. These processes can each guide us, depending upon our goals, knowledge, and values surrounding stakeholder engagement. Step 2 – Design : Build a system that responds to these requirements. Core Elements of Agile.

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Agile Culture Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 74

Planview

JANUARY 30, 2024

Pulling from the survey responses of 600 executives, the report uncovers five areas of concern — alignment, accountability, resources, agility, and culture — and a recommended action for each area. A startling 85% of executives say their organization’s ability to adapt to change falls short.

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Change Report Survey Culture 52

Ecosystems4Innovating

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Design Thinking is seen as the essential element that will combine with technology and AI in the future yet it is still the need for the human touch will still be essential. As we form more around ecosystem thinking and design, design thinking will be essential as the significant enabler to creative input.

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Design Thinking Technical Review Design Technology 97

ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Transformation and change initiatives are usually designed as strategic interventions, intending to advance an organisation’s growth, deliver increased shareholder value, build competitive advantage, or improve its speed and agility to respond to fast-changing industries, in a disruptive business environment.

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Change Technical Review Agile Creativity 52

InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. The top innovative companies in the world know that hosting effective, engaging meetings makes all the difference.

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Meeting Design Examples Brainstorming 106

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 27, 2017

This ‘knowledge is becoming out of date before we can learn from it and sometimes highly dangerous to follow or believe in some rapidly changing times. We need to change our thinking and design in the digital insight part more specifically within and along the innovation process.

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Technology Change Agile Innovation 178

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 13, 2024

Ecosystems have emerged as powerful catalysts for driving transformative change and fostering collaborative solutions in today’s complex and interconnected business landscape. Managing the relationships and dynamics within an ecosystem demands a different approach as it becomes more evolutionary in nature.

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ChatGPT Collaboration Design Resources 147

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

We need to approach innovation differently through connected agility, have speed and automation more central, and provide roles for a great diverse set of participants. 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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Software Review Software Innovation Design 246

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 5, 2020

I was pondering some thoughts around the quest for growth, the demands for change, and the need to become nimble, agile, and more dynamic in what we do. We continuously want to change what we have, even when it patently does the jobs we need ‘it’ doing. Much of our quest for change is caught up in the search for new products.

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Change Agile System Innovation 265

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

What has been changing in how we approach innovation, and have we taken the opportunity to radically revise the innovation system and process accordingly? We are at the cusp or already into significant changes to how the world, society and we as individuals will manage or engage going into the future.

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Innovation Design Collaboration Engagement 189

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, the ability to build a strong case, stay informed, and think critically is the key to unlocking success and driving innovation. In this environment, success isn’t just about being prepared for change; it’s about actively shaping it. My 1st offer point in delivery.

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Agile Innovation Creative Thinking Culture 182

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2023

Here, I want to briefly talk about the importance of the learning components that support the innovation design and especially the different innovation stacks. Create: Forming connections and maturing the association’s system dimension needs, network engagements, deepening understanding, architecture framing, impact, and implication.

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Learning Innovation System Design 130

Innovating4Energy

DECEMBER 26, 2023

We need to engage more broadly in community approaches related to energy. We must infuse and interact with the community’s thinking to accelerate the energy transition to gain identification, adoption, and change. How can we engage with communities earlier in any energy change?

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Change Entrepreneurship Policies Collaboration 52

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 21, 2024

We increasingly need to consider ecosystems in our thinking and design. Yet the real potential when each layer is strategically integrated brings a more interconnected vision and value, building the impact and effect of Ecosystem design for collaboration and co-creation. Agile Responses: Why Ecosystems?

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ChatGPT Collaboration Agile Design 162

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I see many comments on the failure of innovation, in its inability to be at the core of an organization’s ambitions for growing and changing. For me, ecosystem thinking and design are accelerating mutual learning, and through this innovation, outcome potential for sharing and knowledge building. ” constrained them.

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Technical Review Innovation Software Review Engagement 208

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 22, 2024

Deploying a design that recognizes the layers of an Innovation Ecosystem feeds the Business Ecosystem, and these provide the Dynamic Ecosystem to adjust and respond and, when combined, allow the Enterprise Ecosystem to generate collective prosperity, dynamism and a sustaining environment that thrives on its interdependence and interconnectedness.”

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Case Study Design Collaboration Study 130