Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

Collaborations form the essence of discovery, relationships, innovation and new knowledge exchange. Sharing in collaborative arrangements enables the potential for improved operational productivity, and shared application development, tapping into a wider ongoing customer engagement and skill enhancements for all involved to gain from.

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Collaboration Innovation Resources Industry 130

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 5, 2024

Exploring Complexities of Business Ecosystem Collaborations Why should “we” step into the realm of ecosystem collaborations? Collaborations are challenging but exciting and potentially rewarding, but they radically differ in how you conduct business. I offer here many distinct aspects and strategic advantages.

Collaboration 130

Collaboration Disruption Design Industry 130

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The building blocks of open innovation building towards Business Ecosystem design. By incorporating Open Innovation Strategies as the next building block, businesses can create a dynamic and expansive innovation ecosystem beyond internal and partnership and certain collaborative boundaries.

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Open Innovation Collaboration Innovation Design 148

Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

The Essence of Team Collaboration Team collaboration is the bedrock of modern organizational success, fostering an environment where ideas can flourish and goals can be achieved through collective effort. Benefits of Effective Team Collaboration The advantages of implementing team collaboration best practices are manifold.

Collaboration 100

Collaboration Software Review Technical Review Tools 100

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 7, 2024

25 years looking back at Innovation’s evolution I decided to hold a conversation with Google’s Gemini about how innovation had changed and hopefully progressed since I first became involved 25 years ago, when I lived in Singapore and was heavily involved in my MBA, which had innovation as an elective.

Artificial Inteligence 148

Artificial Inteligence Collaboration Ideation Innovation 148

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

The Power of Online Collaboration Tools In the dynamic landscape of modern business, the ability to adapt and thrive in a digital environment is essential. Online collaboration tools serve as the cornerstone for virtual teams, fostering communication, project management, and a sense of community among distributed colleagues.

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Collaboration Tools Guidelines Video 100

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 11, 2024

Innovation is evolving, the future will be different I have been asking Google’s Gemini a series of questions about innovation, how it has evolved in the past twenty-five years, and where it seems to be heading. I have shifted my thinking about innovation to Innovation and Business Ecosystem applications.

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Collaboration Trends Innovation Data 148

Innovating4Energy

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Engagement in the Energy Transition Movement How do you encourage engagement? How do you create the conditions that enable collaboration and cooperation to occur? This is Siemens Energy’s fourth hub for global collaboration, joining their other Innovation Centers in Berlin, Orlando, and Shenzhen.

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Engagement Collaboration Creativity Industry 64

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Intersection of Corporate Growth and Startup Innovation Defining Corporate Venture Capital Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) is the investment of corporate funds directly in external startup companies. This alignment can result in a myriad of collaborative opportunities, from product development to new market entry.

Collaboration 147

Collaboration Innovation Agile Technical Review 147

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

I proposed a new Framework for managing innovation this week, called the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework. 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. I highlight the key value points.

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Agile Collaboration Innovation Competition 183

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Imperative of Culture Change Understanding the Stakes: Innovation and Business Growth Culture change within an organization is not just about altering the workplace environment; it is a strategic imperative. Innovation is not simply about new ideas; it’s about transforming those ideas into value-creating strategies.

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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?

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Engagement System Innovation Design 206

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Innovation comes to businesses in many ways, yet one thing is for certain: It relies on a diversity of thought. After all, differing viewpoints have been known to encourage greater innovation. The collaborative process can also teach a seasoned team a lot about resiliency, agility, and dynamic thinking.

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Collaboration Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Innovation 174

Ecosystems4Innovating

JULY 26, 2023

I believe that innovation ecosystems transform how we approach and manage innovation. This document will explore the key aspects of innovation ecosystems and their value proposition. This document will explore the key aspects of innovation ecosystems and their value proposition.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Innovation Agile Design 52

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I finished my last post, “ Are we EVER going to embrace innovation? ” 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. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

Artificial Inteligence 183

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Agile Innovation 183

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 22, 2024

I have begun to outline the initial case for a new framework of ecosystem hierarchy within cooperation needed in business environments as they offer the potential for the transformative power of a collaborative and collective set of ecosystems coming together to offer new impact, value and growth.

Artificial Inteligence 148

Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Agile Culture 148

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 23, 2018

After working through a number the one that held my attention and has become central to my thinking to take organizational practices forward was provided by a recent report from McKinsey “ How to create an agile organization ”. Agility for me is vital, it allows us to increasingly be adaptive in an uncertain world.

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Agile Report Design Technical Review 133

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 174

Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 4, 2023

Collaborations form the essence of discovery, relationships, innovation and new knowledge exchange. Sharing in collaborative arrangements enables the potential for improved operational productivity, and shared application development, tapping into a wider ongoing customer engagement and skill enhancements for all involved to gain from.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Innovation Resources Industry 52

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. Continuous Learning and Innovation: Characteristics: Learning is not a one-time event but an ongoing process.

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Agile Collaboration ChatGPT Technical Review 130

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 21, 2023

Completing transitions through innovation, ecosystems and sustainability thinking Today, our innovation activity needs to transition through collaborating and co-creating, applying ecosystem thinking and platform designs for business.

Collaboration 196

Collaboration Design Innovation Agile 196

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

I have called this the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework – here is why and what went into this proposal that I feel should be adopted for managing innovation in the future. We need to shift our innovative thinking from static to dynamic.

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Software Review Software Innovation Design 246

Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 12, 2023

In a series exploring cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations, this is the third post discussing different aspects and the approach to this that needs to be taken as my suggested starting point. Social, environmental and climate challenges need greater collaborations for example.

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Collaboration Innovation Design Culture of Innovation 59

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

So often innovation struggles to be recognized for what it is. Innovation is a critical source of future competitive advantage. To get to a consistent performance of innovation and creativity within organizations you do need to rely on a process, structure and the consistent ability to foster a culture of innovation.

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Innovation Programs Technical Review Innovation Policies 190

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

How and where does innovation fit will clearly depend on this transforming effect. We are fairly clear that incremental innovation is just not cutting through to give the types of growth expected. Adapting to collaborating never fully in control can be unnerving. Today larger organizations are having to face the stark truth.

Collaboration 273

Collaboration Technical Review Disruption Innovation 273

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.

Design 209

Design Artificial Inteligence Innovation Collaboration 209

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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Agile Design Innovation System 130

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

It’s the DNA of your organization, influencing every aspect of the work environment, from communication and collaboration to decision-making and problem-solving. The Impact of Culture on Performance and Innovation Your organizational culture exerts a powerful influence on performance and innovation.

Culture 100

Culture Change Management Agile 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

A positive organizational culture can lead to improved employee engagement, higher levels of innovation, increased agility, and better adaptability to change. Furthermore, in the rapidly changing business landscape, the agility and resilience provided by a strong culture are invaluable.

Culture 100

Culture Underperforming Technical Team Agile Leadership 100

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2023

Within the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework lies the core, the different innovation stacks, and the learning components. Here, I want to briefly talk about the importance of the learning components that support the innovation design and especially the different innovation stacks.

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Learning Innovation System Design 130

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. Innovation needs reinventing. The building out of the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework.

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Generative AI Design Innovation Data 163

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Paul Hobcraft and Jeffrey Phillips in conversations around innovation. I have just finished the first of a planned series with one of my favourite long-term collaborators Jeffrey Phillips. In this series, planned to be only of 10 to 15-minute conversations, we are picking up on many of the fundamental building blocks of innovation.

Underperforming Technical Team 246

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Collaboration Agile 246

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 21, 2024

I have begun to outline the initial case for a new framework of ecosystem hierarchy within cooperation needed in business environments as they offer the potential for the transformative power of a collaborative and collective set of ecosystems coming together to offer new impact, value and growth. Collaborative Innovation: Why Ecosystems?

ChatGPT 163

ChatGPT Collaboration Agile Design 163

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

How and where does innovation fit will clearly depend on this transforming effect. We are fairly clear that incremental innovation is just not cutting through to give the types of growth expected. A tantalizing prospect, full of innovation. Adapting to collaborating never fully in control can be unnerving.

Collaboration 273

Collaboration Disruption Innovation Technical Review 273

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

Choosing new innovative approaches to counter the fear of Business Contagion. 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 need to put to use a different innovation model or approach. In my first post.”

Innovation 190

Innovation Design Collaboration Engagement 190

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I have been struggling for quite some time with innovation’s increasing difficulties in influencing growth and achieving real impact. 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. ” constrained them.

Technical Review 209

Technical Review Innovation Software Review Engagement 209

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Central to the ecosystem’s functionality are the startups themselves, which are typically characterized by their innovative approaches to solving problems and capitalizing on market opportunities. The ecosystem offers corporate entities various avenues for engagement, such as startup investment , partnerships, and acquisitions.

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Technical Review Agile Collaboration Engagement 113