Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

I am suggesting a vertical and horizontal design applying innovation stack and building block approaches, all “housed” on a technology platform. We need an Innovation Mandate calling for a Radical Re-design of how we undertake innovation management, it is needed to bring innovation management into the 21st century in design and approaches.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

As you lead your distributed teams, understanding the nuances of virtual collaboration is crucial for driving innovation, productivity, and engagement. When you prioritize robust management practices, you pave the way for seamless collaboration and ensure that your virtual teams can meet and exceed their objectives.

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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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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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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 8, 2019

Agile Design Tip 1—Clear Goals Supported by Design Research. In Some Thoughts on Design Research, Agile, and Traps Charles Lambdin stresses the importance of clearly defined goals. Design Innovative software” is not a concrete goal; it’s a vague directive. Agile Design Tip 2—Leading with UX Design.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

Agile” and “Waterfall” offer us very different approaches to project management. If we can understand this set of desired outcomes, we can plan backwards from that endpoint to determine a series of steps in product or service design. Step 2 – Design : Build a system that responds to these requirements.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We used AI to identify the most frequently asked questions about design thinking. We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers. You can also see our “human” responses to the big question: what is design thinking ? What is design thinking?

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 21, 2021

Next up in our list of digital collaboration tools and resources is Lucidspark, another digital whiteboard option for design thinking and innovation focused teams. Lucidspark is another virtual collaboration tool that offers some of the same features as products like Miro or Mural. Built-in timer for agile meetings.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Our innovation processes stay islands of knowledge stubbornly not flowing across organizations, informing others and giving the right levels of insights, support, or collaboration needed. Innovation software management continues to be sold piecemeal, so often just bolted onto the other parts already in place, not being optimized.

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Planview

JANUARY 17, 2024

In today’s fast-paced and dynamic world of technology, the adoption of Agile methodologies has undoubtedly transformed the landscape of how technology teams function. Efficiently handling WIP and promptly addressing bottlenecks are not mere options, but imperatives, for agile teams. Regularly review and update risk assessments.

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2024

The traditional paradigms of automotive manufacturing are evolving, driven by the imperative to integrate cutting-edge software solutions seamlessly with hardware production. This divergence between software and hardware cycles poses significant challenges, particularly for OEMs typically focused on manufacturing.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

Moreover, AI’s role in product development is becoming increasingly important due to the growing complexity of consumer needs and the fast-paced nature of technology. Enhance cross-functional collaboration through shared insights and decision-making platforms. Tailor products and services to specific market segments.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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InnovationTraining.org

MAY 27, 2021

Discover another digital collaboration tool for UX, design thinking, and innovation teams. Klaxoon is another cloud-based all-in-one tool to add to our list of digital collaboration tools and resources that your team be may interested in trying for brainstorming sessions, hosting meetings, project management, and agile teamwork.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Keep reading to see how successful executives are achieving results in their everyday business through incorporating agile methodologies like SCRUM! The agile mindset. Before we get into the agile mindset, we need to remember that it is linked to Agile Philosophy. Software that works with broader range of documentations.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 12, 2021

These stand up meeting templates can help you make your next meeting more agile. Stand-up meetings and huddles have become popular formats in agile culture and design thinking -centered spaces, and with good reason. Conclusion: Create More Agile and Innovative Meetings with a Stand Up or Huddle Template.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The marketplace actually becomes the most valuable part of any newly designed value proposition. Add in software to direct and help facilitate discovering, buying and selling, payments, service fulliment and final delivery. So do Marketplace designs drive the adoption of platforms and ecosystems?

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A new partnership between Qmarkets and boutique management consultancy SteepConsult will enable enterprise companies across Europe to benefit from a 360-degree service combining SteepConsult’s extensive innovation expertise with our own innovation management software solutions. At Management level, give it the right mandate!

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Less than 30% of manufacturing companies are actively rolling out Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies at scale” No wonder we presently have trouble attracting many businesses onto platforms when they are still very much behind in deciding or deploying a strategically thought-through IIoT digital design, that is connecting everything up.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

Although I was attending as a sponsor/exhibitor for Indigo Studio, I did manage to break away to go to the “There’s more than one way to skin a cat: Integrating UX into an Agile environment” session. It tied in quite nicely with the book I’m reviewing here. Sadly, none of them really had solutions to that problem. Enter the book.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 16, 2019

Agile practices transform business in multiple directions, providing powerful models of product and service creation, project management, and much more. In this article, you will understand what agile practices are, what benefits this approach offers to your company. What are Agile Practices. Check it out! How Sprint Works.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 9, 2020

In this article, you will reflect on the challenges of remote team management and how agile practices can help you make the transition efficiently. Understanding productivity is more complex in this transition period, more so due to the fact that people aren’t within reach… and that’s is only at the beginning. Follow this!

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mjvinnovation

MAY 29, 2019

Agile Frameworks help the business team experience an Agile mindset in practice. With Agile Frameworks, business processes become more dynamic, staggering business values and productivity. 5 Most used Agile Frameworks. This is still the picture of many companies, that even when successful, do not move with promptness.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 1, 2023

The circular economy seeks to address these challenges by reimagining how we design, produce, and consume goods. The Role of Enterprise Architecture in the Circular Economy Enterprise architecture (EA) refers to the practice of designing, planning, and implementing IT infrastructure and systems to support an organization’s goals and strategy.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 28, 2018

I was catching up with my collaborate and sparring partner on “all things innovating”, Jeffrey Phillips and within our recent conversation, some of our discussions sort of triggered a reflection back to some fundamental work we undertook some years back. Reviewing where we are and recognizing innovation can be approached very differently.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Innovation 166

Boxes and Arrows

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Teams moving to agile often struggle to integrate agile with best practices in user-centered design (UCD) and user experience (UX) in general. Fortunately, using a UX Integration Matrix helps integrate UX and agile by including UX information and requirements right in the product backlog. The feedback loop is broken.

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Software Review Agile Software Design 107

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Those of dealing with greater ambiguity, of building in the needs of agility, higher levels of flexibility, curiosity and the willingness to explore and experiment and take increasing risk. It needs to be more agile and flexible. The changes we are undergoing around a new strategy design play towards innovation outcomes.

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The Human Factor

MARCH 2, 2023

Traditional screening methods, such as reviewing resumes, conducting interviews, and administering technical assessments, may not be enough to identify top talent, especially as the demand for tech professionals increases. Effective tech talent screening is crucial for companies looking to build a strong, innovative, and agile workforce.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

To overcome it, we must be agile, collaborative, and remote. The challenge is that this needs to happen quickly, reactively, and collaboratively. According to the Harvard Business Review, only 30% of companies train their employees to interact with digital tools. The key here is agility. The new normal.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Get your teams trained to collaborate on complex problem solving and work smarter. Listening skills are built and teams learn to collaborate. Awareness of how others think leads to better understanding, appreciation of unique contributions, and improved collaboration. It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To get the outcomes the executives are expecting from innovation, they’d need to build an agile organization where innovation happens at scale. As so many organizations are embarking on this journey towards becoming more innovative and agile, there’s unfortunately a lot of fake agile and innovation theater out there.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Companies across multiple sectors have launched collaborative efforts to gather disruptive new ideas, harness new technologies, and achieve greater sustainability. Amplifying Agility via Corporate-Startup Collaboration. Companies are beginning to realise the enormous potential of mobile-focused ideation software.

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Trends Disruption Software Review Technical Review 74

Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

From start-ups to banks, design has never been more central to business. Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. Why is that fabled “seat at the table” so hard to find, and how can designers get a chair? Is design just a service, or can designers* lead?

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This special team needs to be strategic, tactical, agile and fast. In case of gaps or ‘surprises’, the team needs to quickly review the assumptions, the involved models, and processes, and make the right decisions in an agile manner- to ensure alignment with the overall strategic innovation plan. Measure, Assess, Adjust.

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Technical Review How To Software Review Ideation 68

Acuvate

APRIL 12, 2023

For example, changes in product design, market demands, or production volume are more difficult to accommodate in these rigid legacy solutions. They are improving the manufacturing landscape by facilitating data-driven decision-making, increasing productivity, and reducing costs through sensors, embedded software, and robotics.

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Acuvate

APRIL 12, 2023

For example, changes in product design, market demands, or production volume are more difficult to accommodate in these rigid legacy solutions. They are improving the manufacturing landscape by facilitating data-driven decision-making, increasing productivity, and reducing costs through sensors, embedded software, and robotics.

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Data Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Big Data 52

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

The platform environment is mostly characterized by a tension between collaboration and competition of the participating companies, often referred to as coopetition. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof.

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